You will find here both the Internet of Production Alliance membership meetings and events we host or participate in. We organize and attend events and conferences all around the world. We are always excited to meet and talk to old friends or meet new people that are interested in what we do. Take a look where we were or where we are heading to.
The People and Skills Standard provides a framework for creating an individual record of experiences, skills, and relevant training and certificates that makers can use to showcase accomplishments and relevant knowledge to potential employers, peers, and collaborators across global networks. Join us for this month's community call, where Research and Community Engagement Lead Sarah Hutton will discuss the People and Skills Standard. You will hear from Sarah, joined by community experts, how the standard is being tested in the Innovative Manufacturing in Africa program, the mAkE Consortium project, and how community members can get involved in contributing to a community-led initiative to further develop this standard and accompanying outreach.
REGISTRATIONREGISTRATIONJoin us to engage in thought-provoking discussions, connect with industry leaders, and expand your knowledge in Open Know-How, materials, components, and the Internet of Production.
Register hereRegister hereJoin the Open Council and Community Call on April 20th at 5pm CET to give your feedback and inputs on proposals to redesign the governance of the IOPA. The Governance task force will present their proposals during an interactive call where they will be discussed and adjusted live via a miro board. The call will also outline the process to engage in the review phase beyond the call. If you cannot attend the call, you can still participate asynchronously through the forum. Don't miss out on this opportunity to have your say in shaping the future of the IOPA's governance.
Register hereRegister hereKicking off the Innovative Manufacturing in Africa (IMA) Project with a bang! Congratulations to the 9 makerspaces selected for the $19,200 Award. We are excited to embark on this one-year project, funded by UKAID through the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, to support research and innovation capabilities in the hardware maker innovation ecosystem in Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa.
Watch hereWatch hereJoin the IoPA April Community Call on April 13th to learn more about Open Know-Where (OKW). The call will showcase the successes and lessons learned by the OKW community, including their experience with the first round of OKW Data Award, efforts to clean up data through heat maps and dataset maps, and the upcoming reboot of the OKW Working Group. Attendees will also meet the OKW Round two Awardees and participate in a collaborative ideation session. The call will also provide updates on the mAkE project, which focuses on African and EU makerspaces. All are welcome to attend and learn more about OKW's mission to improve data quality and accessibility.
Watch hereWatch hereJoin our upcoming community call to participate in the research and development on "contracting in an Internet of Production". Led by Tiberius, this work aims to explore reliable and robust contracting in the context of decentralized or distributed material production. During the call, Tiberius will present the research plan and progress to date, and we'll explore new methods and specifications for contracting. This work is essential to enable decentralized or distributed material production, and we're excited to hear your thoughts and perspectives on this topic. Join us to learn more, contribute your ideas, and connect with others interested in this area.
Watch hereWatch hereSave the date! IOPA Gathering March 5th 2023, Hamburg, Germany. The Internet of Production Alliance (IOPA) community is invited to join the IoP gathering. This will be the first in-person community event since we came together in Warsaw in 2019! We will discuss the future of the Internet of Production, of the Alliance, and the Task Forces and Working Group findings. The agenda is open, contact us or join the conversation on the forum if you are interested in speaking or hosting a workshop!
More infoMore infoThe community call will discuss knowledge frameworks and vocabularies that support the exchange of resources in networks that assist distributed manufacturing. The guest speakers, Lynn Foster and James Butler will share their work on initiatives that promote open supply chain ecosystems. Lynn Foster will discuss Valueflows, a vocabulary that helps coordinate the creation, distribution, and exchange of economic resources in economic networks. James Butler will discuss the Open Knowledge Framework (OKF) Visual Vocabulary and demonstrate how it can help articulate a dynamic supply chain request. The community call is open to everyone interested, but registration is required.
Register hereRegister hereThis month's first community call spotlights the work done on Electronic Components. Join to participate in building an electronics component community, and hear from the research to create a new standard for open electronics design-data, focusing on design information and documentation of electronic components, assemblies, and sub-assemblies.
Register hereRegister hereNext year we will be running a series of webinars on business models as part of the MAKE project, in partnership with GIG and Manufacturing Change. The first one will take place on Wednesday 18th January at 13.00 UTC and will focus on consultancy as an element of the business model for makerspaces. You can register here to receive the invitation and more information.
Register hereRegister hereThis community call will focus on the research moving toward the development of a maker passport in support of the pan-African maker innovation system (mAkE). In addition we will also look at "Are People and Skills Standard is necessary for individual makers to participate in and easily navigate a distributed manufacturing ecosystem?" An immediate use case for this work is application to the open system infrastructure developed as part of the pan-African mAKe project.
Register here Register hereThe Africa Makerspace Gathering is taking place in Cape Town! Makers, innovators, STEM enthusiasts, and makerspaces across Africa will convene at the 4th Edition of the Africa Makerspace Gathering to discuss the future of makerspaces in Africa. The three-day program will include interesting hardware workshops, panel talks, co-creation sessions, and several morse code sessions.
More informationMore informationOn November 9th, 12:30 - 1:30UTC, Technical Lead Max Wardeh and Research and Community Engagement Lead Sarah Hutton will hold an IOPA Community Call to share the research findings and tooling development work from DAPSI Phase 2.
Watch here Watch hereJoin us on October 26th at 13:00UTC to hear more from the awardees of round 1 during our October IOPA Community call. David and Ronald will be interviewed by the community and tell us more about their work testing the OKW data standard.
Watch hereWatch hereThe annual Fab City Summit brings together city leaders, enthusiasts, industry and policy-makers to debate and explore innovations in 21st century cities. It is a chance for new Network members to pledge to join, and existing members to exchange learnings.
Read moreRead moreThe Maintenance WG was held on the 9th June. The discussion centered around the review of change of proposals, updates from the DAPSI accelerator program which Okay Know-How Maintenance is a part of, standard documentation conversation, change of request options.
Read more Read moreThe Global Digital Development Forum returns on May5th. Join us there for a conversation with innovators and researchers who are flipping the globalized manufacturing paradigm: building local or regional platforms linking designers, buyers, and manufacturers.
More informationMore informationThe key objective of the meeting was sharing status updates and developing a roadmap for the standard.
View Minutes View MinutesThis meeting covered: Milestones achieved thus far, brainstormed on the renewed scope for the Working Group and set the next steps for the group.
View minutes View minutesThis meeting focussed on the overall processes of the IOPA Standard including the processes of agreeing on the release of the new standards.
View Minutes View MinutesThe theme of the first community call is: Meet the new IOP Alliance members Each month, the community call will be the opportunity for the IOP Alliance (IOPA) members to come together to discuss topics of interest to the Internet of Production, to meet or reconnect with each other, to share updates about your work and projects, and for the IOPA team to present initiatives of the Alliance. For our first edition, we will be opening the stage for two of the newest members of the alliance. Please sign-up below to receive the meeting link.
Community CallCommunity CallThe first Open Know-How working group meeting of 2022 was held on February 25th. The meeting brought together the community involved in drafting and supporting the open standard for 'Discoverability' in the 'Designs & Documentation' family of the Internet of Production Alliance standards, which is referred to as 'Open Know-How'.
View the minutes. View the minutes.Announcing the Open Know-Where Data awards: Do you know a person or organisation that has mapped or wants to map manufacturing capabilities and could use some financial support to adapt their data to the Open Know-Where standard? Nominate them today!
View moreView moreIntroducing Internet of Production Alliance office hours! Please join the IOP Alliance team for an open chat, to get to know us, to introduce yourself, to get updates on the workplan, to pitch an idea... Bring a cup of something warm if it's that time of the day, we'll welcome the company! We will be live for an hour on Wednesday 15th: 09:30 UTC
Find out moreFind out morePresentation on the Internet of Production Alliance by Barbara Schack, followed by a discussion with community members. Presented at the December 2021 GOSH Community Call.
Watch recordingWatch recordingPanel Discussion: Stories of Open Hardware in an Internet of Production - Barbara Schack, Internet of Production Alliance; Rawaa K. Abdulwahhab, Field Ready; Christina Rebel, Wikifactory; Emilio Velis, Appropedia foundation
Watch recordingWatch recordingEn la SIDI* 2021, IOPA participó en el panel: Diseño y producción abiertos y distribuidos: ecosistemas de innovación que conectan industria, academia y sociedad civil y su impacto. Hablemos de construcción colaborativa de estándares para la manufactura distribuida. La Semana de la Investigación, el Desarrollo y la Innovación de la UNSAM
Watch recordingWatch recordingAt FabCity Montreal, Internet of Production Alliance, presented the newly published OKW standard. The panel told use-cases of the standard already in use in Uganda and Iraq, and the ideas it has sparked for mapping in Somalia/Somaliland, and preparing for manufacturing leaps in France.
Watch recordingWatch recordingThis workshop was hosted at Fab16 Montreal. It presented the alliance and the data standards it has released so far, then moved to a hands-on workshop digging into one of these initiatives: the Open Know-How (openknowhow.org/) documentation standard. During the workshop, we learnt how to make OKH Manifest files and use them to document and evaluate medical designs for COVID-19 around the web. We used this information to learn how to effectively discover, compare and select the best projects from a list of devices. We explore the possibility to apply Open Know-How within the maker community. Event link at Fab16: https://live.fablabs.io/posts/16045423
Watch recordingWatch recordingThe Internet of Production Alliance is pleased to invite you to the launch webinar of Open Know-Where, a new open data model to help share data about manufacturing capabilities online. We are starting at 4 pm BST (GMT+1)
View invitationView invitationThis workshop focused on how to effectively document and evaluate redundant projects. We will focus on projects created during the COVID-19 pandemic over the past 3-4 months.
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