I have always loved the idea of open source. As a maker and tinkerer one of the things I most appreciate is when people make their work and projects easily available for others so that others can repeat their projects, make them their own, and learn in the process. Because of this I plan to make my entire project open source and available to others who wish to make a replica or change my design to fit their own tastes and needs.

     After doing some research on the internet and looking at the Creative Commons website I made the decision that my project should have a Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike License. Basically what this means is that people can copy my work as long as it is not for commercial purposes, and that whatever they create based on my project has to have the same creative commons license as the one I am using so all itterations of my project stay open source and available to others.

     By doing this I hope to keep this project open and available to others as well as encourage others to take the same path and make their work and projects available to the maker community so that everyone can build on each others work.

     Another option that I could have choosen is the Attribution 4.0 License as seen above. This license would allow for others to modify my work for their own purposes just like the other licenses, only, with this license they could manufactur it for profit and would not be required to put the same license as I used on their product. I did not choose this license because I feel that keeping my design out of commercial production will allow makers to have complete access to it and by requiring others to use the same license as I am the project will stay available to makers.

      In the future I would like this desk to be the go to desk for makers. I would like to expand it into a modular system to which makers and hobbiests can add their own personilizations and ideas. These modules or addons will hopefully be shared so that one could piece together their own unique desk from the modules created by others. This would create a unique and usefull project available to all with endless adaptablility and an community to back it. That is my dream for the future possibilities of the desk.

      Finally, just to clarify, this project was developed to suit my personal needs, though the design is available online, I would not be interested in moving to commerical sales or product in the future.