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Definition of Open Source Hardware Wikipedia defines "open source hardware" as follows: Open source hardware refers to computer and electronic hardware that is designed in the same fashion as free and open-source software. In an article on the Open Collector website Graham Seaman suggests (...)

As explained in the article The Conviviality Project, this website is a work-in-progress. The goals is to develop a small Encyclopedia of Convivial Tools (see the article Is this website an Encyclopedia?. The list of contents automatically generated by Site Map is thus incomplete. The (...)

Other characteristics of Technical Conviviality include: 6 Ergonomics 7 Simplicity 8 Robustness 9 Open access 10 Modularity 11 Recyclability 12 Environmental friendliness 13 Social friendliness 14 Promotion of autonomy 15 Full service 16 Eutrapelia This article is a (...)

Lee Felsenstein, one of early developers of the personal computer, had read Ivan Illich and was influenced by his vision of convivial tools. As stated in the Wikipedia article on Felsenstein: Lee was influenced in his philosophy by the works of Ivan Illich, particularly "Tools for (...)