Open Know-How Adoption Working Group meeting: April, 12 2022 minutes

Glossary:
OKH – Open Know- How

WG – Working group

Attendees:

  • Working Group (WG):
  • André Lehmann

Excused:
Emilio Velis

Team:
Max Wardeh
Ronald Tumuhairwe
Barbara Schack

Agenda:

  1. Introductions
  2. Reminder of previous working group’s scope and progress
    3.Brainstorm on renewed scope

**Action point by next meeting:

  1. Within the DAPSI research plan, interview initial adoption WG members – Sarah Hutton
  2. Create research plan – Sarah Hutton, Barbara Schack
  3. Review guides: make an editable version, send to the OKH group with one month to edit.
    (Ronald, Max)

Minutes

  1. Introductions
  2. Reminder of the scope and progress of the initial working group:
  • The initial OKH WG focused on: getting the first set of users and designs from within the
    working group community

  • Main questions were around:

    i. Tooling and motivations for people to use OKH
    ii. The 2 options for manifest creation: in built in a platform vs. manual

  1. Brainstorm on the renewed scope of Adoption WG An analysis of the previous metrics
    was made:

Workstreams:

Tooling that makes OKH directly useful

  • Where to put the manifests, can repositories and libraries be compiled What metrics for
    adoption?
  • Number of manifests
  • Segmentation (linked to the work on the search engine?)
    o Segmentation of those numbers: theme, academic, open hardware…
    o Segmentation by creation: manual vs. platform generated
  • Tracking the search engine (key words, where from, increase in use (growth over time)
  • Use of search engine as first tool that makes use of the OKH manifests
  • #platforms that have the/a search engine using OKH

Market research: State of OKH to date
o Number of manifests
o Who uses is
o Who doesn’t use it yet and why - Review of the platforms of interest and renew
partnership building

Creating adoption support documents:

  • Video 3 minutes on how
  • to/what is OKH - Review user guides: ensure the process is smooth and up to date

Next meeting: May 10th, 14:00 UTC