Hardware Freedom Day is an annual celebration organized by the
Digital Freedom Foundation. The goal of Hardware Freedom Day is to celebrate the spirit of
open hardware
Open-source hardware (OSH) consists of physical artifacts of technology designed and offered by the open-design movement. Both free and open-source software (FOSS) and open-source hardware are created by this open-source culture movement and a ...
and make more people aware of using and contributing to free and hardware projects. The first Hardware Freedom Day was held on April 20, 2013. The 2022 date is 4/16.
Goals
* To spread awareness about
free and open hardware
* To encourage user contribution
* To provide a common platform for people passionate about open hardware to share their ideas and interests
Schedule
Anybody can organize a Hardware Freedom Day event and there is no rigid schedule followed. Digital Freedom Foundation co-ordinates the event at a global level, providing support, giveaways and a centralized collaboration space. However, volunteer teams around the world organize the events by themselves.
Some common activities of Hardware Freedom Day events are
* Workshops on various kinds of open hardware
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Open hacking competitions
* Demonstrations of projects
* Introduction of new projects
* Talks
Open hardware
In the context of Hardware Freedom Day, the term ''open hardware'' encompasses physical devices whose design can be
shared in public without restriction and freely modified and re-distributed.
The design includes all information that a person would need to re-create the device.
2015-2016 issues
The Digital Freedom Foundation servers were hacked over Christmas 2015 (posted on their mailing list) and have struggled to come back up. HFD 2016 is planned for April 9, 2016 but no registration is available which will make this year celebration hard to follow.
See also
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Document Freedom Day
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Software Freedom Day
Software Freedom Day (SFD) is an annual worldwide celebration of Free Software organized by the Digital Freedom Foundation (DFF). SFD is a public education effort with the aim of increasing awareness of Free Software and its virtues, and enc ...
*
Culture Freedom Day
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Public Domain Day
Public Domain Day (PDD) is an observance of when copyrights expire and works enter into the public domain. This legal transition of copyright works into the public domain usually happens every year on January 1 based on the individual copyright ...
* The
Defective by Design
Defective by Design (DBD) is an anti-DRM initiative by the Free Software Foundation. Digital rights management (DRM) technology restricts users' ability to freely use their purchased movies, music, literature, software, and hardware in ways the ...
campaign holds
International Day Against DRM
References
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External links
Official websiteOfficial website of a different event with the same name held in January
Open-source hardware
April observances
Recurring events established in 2013
Intellectual property activism
Unofficial observances
International observances