Sanli Faez
Physicist, Podcaster, FAIR-technologist. Allergic to hypocrisy.
for the common good
Open-source hardware
Sanli Faez
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Phenikaa Unviersity, 8 April 2025
Distributed under CC BY 4.0
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Common goods are the product of collective interactions and investment that require shared ownership and governance models.
project syndicate Jan 27, 2023
The University
Since 2017, in order to accelerate and improve the realisation of research results and their societal impact, Utrecht University decided to make the transition to Open Science.
By Steven Lek - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
University core activities
Research
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Education
Knowledge transfer
1. Research
Creating an Open-source Hardware Ecosystem for Research and Sustainable Development,
Sanli Faez, Jose Urra, Vittorio Saggiomo, Jerry de Vos, Santosh Illamparuthi, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8301859
- Reproducibility
- Collaboration
- Accessibility
- Innovation
- Customization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RepRap
the RepRap project
- using low cost and locally available material
- education alongside development and research
the FAIR battery challenge
www.FAIRbattery.dev
www.FBRC.dev
- Portable microscope for inside a glove-box
- equipped with potentiodynamic analysis
https://github.com/SanliFaez/elchemi
Standalone dark-field
2. Teaching
openimaging
Cutting edge science
Democratizing healthcare
Experiment Design
Challenged-based learning
Guide for Collaboration, https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/collaboration/collaboration
the Golden rule
“Selfishness beats altruism within groups.
Altruistic groups beat selfish groups.”
Does Altruism Exist? Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others, by David Sloan Wilson, Yale UP, 2015
Guide for Collaboration, https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/collaboration/collaboration
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Common goods are the product of collective interactions and investment that require shared ownership and governance models.
To produce common goods, invest in open infrastructure and training programs to use them
Bianca Kramer and Jeroen Bosman. “Innovations in scholarly communication - global survey on research tool usage.” (2016)
3. Knowledge Transfer
artist: Rita Greer
source: www.autm.net
A leaky pipeline
See also Julieta Arancia and Jenny Molloy, GOSH 2021 Policy briefs
MACARON
Vijja Wichitwechkarn, University of Cambridge, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2023.e00497
https://homegrownchallenge.ca/
The Open Science Handshake
Opennext.eu
Open Source Product Develpment
many many examples
Creating an Open-source Hardware Ecosystem for Research and Sustainable Development,
Sanli Faez, Jose Urra, Vittorio Saggiomo, Jerry de Vos, Santosh Illamparuthi, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8301859
University core activities
Research
1
2
3
Education
Knowledge transfer
something to take home
Research
No tools,
No reproducibility
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Teaching
How "science" works in the credibility network!
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Technology transfer
Diversity of services
and the Open Science handshake.
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Barriers
- Conservatism
- Cynicism
- Perfectionism
Photo by Nazarizal Mohammad
Thank You!
https://github.com/sanlifaez
Open Source Hardware for the Common Good
By Sanli Faez
Open Source Hardware for the Common Good
Keynote talk at the PSSOH conference, Belgrade 2023
