Monitoring the trend towards open and distributed manufacturing
Some recommendations about using our P2P Foundation material for this:
* In the wiki, we have to sections, p2pfoundation.net/Category:Design (for the open/shared design cooperation aspect), and p2pfoundation.net/Category:Manufacturing for the ‘making’ aspect. There are mirrored by the two delicious tags, del.icio.us/mbauwens/P2P-Design and del.icio.us/mbauwens/P2P-Manufacturing, and also del.icio.us/mbauwens/P2P-Hardware .
I would recommend reading the recommended intro articles on the wiki sections for a first approach. Putting the 3 delicious tags in a feedreader would then keep you abreast of new developments.
Since going through the tags retrospectively would take up quite a bit of time and might be discouraring , the blog archive, blog.p2pfoundation.net/category/desktop-manufacturing, could be useful as it is where we report only on the most important developments …
The page p2pfoundation.net/Product_Hacking is a directory of sorts of open hardware projects and we try to update it on a ongoing basis.