Open Source Engineering

Open handed, freely sharing, publishing rather than patenting, empowering rather than controlling.

Based on the discovery that the Responding to the fact that current technologies for cleaning water have been locked up and are unavailable to the majority of those who needed the technologies moststill need clean, safe water.

Learning from the GNU open-source model for computer software and adapting that open source model for engineering hardwaredesign.

Open handed, shared freely, published rather than patented, empowering rather than controlling.

With the hope that by opening the gates of knowledge, fewer communities will resort to building untested technologies that all to too often become the white elephants that litter the landscape in the Global South.