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Dr. Joshua Pearce discusses how to accelerate knowledge transfer with open hardware with examples from his FAST lab at Western University, London, Ontario, Canada - as well as business models the open source scientific hardware companies can use. https://www.appropedia.org/FAST

OSE is teaming up with FAST to accelerate open hardware development. I (Marcin) am applying to be a visiting Thompson Fellow at Western. In this collaboration - my main duties would be to give guest lectures and mini-seminars on OSE primarily through TCELI (https://www.eng.uwo.ca/tc/); establish research collaborations between UWO and OSE starting to focus on open source scaling - set up a path to get more of OSE work in the scientific literature so we can create more career paths of open hardware ; make a path for OSE to leverage Canadian government funding through FAST - set up OSE Canada, and plan an something like a big showcase of OSE awesomeness in the Winter term.

This would contribute to a student pipeline from Western University feeding into the OSE Apprenticeship and Fellowship programs, and is a win-win for open source acceleration towards the open source economy. This will also contribute to OSE College Tour 2025, where we visit top universities in search for open source opt-outs. Ripe territory, for example as 1 in 8 students at Western do not fit and do not finish. This means that there is a significant population of people for whom the integrated, convergent collaboration of the OSE program is potentially a good fit.