Plan for Dissemination for Final Project:

​EX-TERRA-DUR is an extruder that extrudes Terracotta clay. Terracotta is locally available in my country 'India'. As a material, terracotta has been used by craftspeople all over the world to fabricate cultural products. Also, it has different consistency and composition than ceramic clay and is sustainable too. My idea is to make an extruder using simple components and 'Fab-able' , so that the local craftspeople here can make it and use and this could make a "connection between digital fabrication and culture" by inviting craftspeople to use FabLab to produce cultural products.

 

 

I studied 2 licenses: MIT & CC before finding a suitable license for my project.

 

MIT License:

"The MIT License is a permissive free software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).As a permissive license, it puts only very limited restriction on reuse and has, therefore, an excellent license compatibility.The MIT license permits reuse within proprietary software provided that all copies of the licensed software include a copy of the MIT License terms and the copyright notice. The MIT license is also compatible with many copyleft licenses, such as the GNU General Public License (GPL); MIT licensed software can be integrated into GPL software, but not the other way around.

 

As of 2015, it is the most popular software license, ahead of any GPL variant and other Free and open-source software (FOSS) licenses.[better source needed][6][better source needed][7][not in citation given] Notable projects that use one of the versions of the MIT License include Ruby on Rails, Node.js, jQuery, and the X Window System."- wikipedia

 

Creative Commons License:

"A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work. A CC license is used when an author wants to give people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that he/she has created. CC provides an author flexibility (for example, he/she might choose to allow only non-commercial uses of his/her own work) and protects the people who use or redistribute an author's work from concerns of copyright infringement as long as they abide by the conditions that are specified in the license by which the author distributes the work."- wikipedia

 

I picked one of the above by looking at the following criteria for both the licenses:

Linking, Distribution, Modification,Patent Grant,Private Use & Sublicensing.

 

The Verdict:

By understanding both these licenses I found out, that  both these license allow linking, distribution and modification.

Creative commons allowed me to license my work under CC-BY-SA under which I can share my work with others but the person who uses it cannot use it without my acknowledgement. I felt one drawback with creative commons licesnse and that is of patenting my work. MIT license allows me to patent my work whereas Creative commons doesnt.

 

But since, my idea behind final project is to encourage such devices that allow fusion between technology and culture, I would like people to further modify my design as per their requirement and take it a level further.

 

Hence, I chose to go ahead with the Creative commons license. I chose the CC-BY-SA (share alike) license for my project. Creative commons is simple to use.

 

 

 

 

 

Project Showcase:

I would like to showcase it in MakerFest 2018 that is to be held in Ahmedabad. This would encourage people to work and develop products in the same field.

 

Ultilisation:

My idea is to make an extruder using simple components and 'Fab-able' , so that the local craftspeople here can make it and use and this could make a "connection between digital fabrication and culture" by inviting craftspeople to use FabLab to produce cultural products.

 

Development:

I intend to develop a bigger version of the extruder to allow professional use of it. Also, I plan to design a customised  3 axis machine in future to support the working of the extruder.

 

Funding:

I plan to get it funded by Venture Capital investment and further crowd funding.

 

Presentation slide & Video

 

 

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