Hardware Podcasts

Ep. 21 - Incorporating Community Feedback

Open Hardware Manufacturing Podcast · 30 May 2024 · 59m

What this episode covers

Steven Oz and Lucian Che Park of Opulo discuss strategies for managing community feedback in open source hardware projects, specifically focusing on the Opulo Lumen and Feeder. They emphasize the importance of creating accessible 'watering holes' like Discord and community mod pages to receive input, while maintaining strict design decisions to filter out impractical suggestions. The hosts detail how to handle 'nerd-sniped' engineering ideas by redirecting energy toward interoperable mods rather than mainline code, and stress the necessity of celebrating contributors to foster a healthy, symbiotic community.

Most relevant to

early-stage companies

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Opulo, Formlabs
Products
Lumen, Feeder, Voron
Tools
Discord

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