Here, Flo and Sigrid tell you all about their experiences at the Open Hardware Summit 2026.
Fairdevices
This is a guest post from Fairdevices. At Fairdevices, ‘fairness’ primarily refers to honesty towards the customer through open-source schematics, whereas other projects, such as the [Fair Mouse](https://blog.opensourceecology.de/de/2025/09/maker-faire-reunion-long-live-the-fair-mouse/), tend to associate fairness more with good production conditions than with open source. This difference stems from the different communities, but is also due to the varying […]
A new paradigm of objects
As someone new to OSH, I felt that spending two days at the Open Hardware Summit attuned my vision to a world of possibility I hadn’t noticed before. Products are no longer singular objects, but clusters of parts that can be reused, repaired, or modified. Suddenly, daily items are no longer opaque systems that I […]
10 years and three days
The days from 13 to 15 March were all about ten years of Open Source Ecology Germany e.V.. Day one, 13 March 2026, anniversary of the foundation The anniversary itself, 13 March, was celebrated in a relaxed atmosphere with drinks, food and conversations with friends. Members who hadn’t seen each other for a while travelled […]
10 years of OSE Germany e.V. – One association, one tool, one network
Open Source Ecology Germany e.V. was founded on 13 March 2016 and will have its 10th anniversary in 2026. We want to celebrate! The association acts as a legal body and networking platform for the development of standards and pilot projects for open source hardware in Germany. The original idea of establishing a non-profit structure […]
2026 – The Year of Open Source?
The course for open source will be set anew in 2026. We collect the most important initiatives and legal acts to keep an eye on. After a turbulent 2025, the idea that open source can contribute to technological sovereignty, innovation, real security and competitiveness is gaining momentum. Slowly it becomes clear: Open Source is not […]