Open Source Hardware Association

Encourage collaborative learning, knowledge exchange, and social cohesion through conferences and other events focused on open source hardware:open hardware summit (ohs) is a conference to learn about open hardware, manufacturing, and policy. Oshwa had an in-person summit in 2024, and had 350 people in our audience and approximately 950 viewers on our video feed.

Organize the open source hardware movement around shared values and principles:oshwa certification program + apioshwa certifies open source hardware based on requirements that follow the community-based open hardware definition. Compliance with our certification grants you license to use our trademark and a unique identifier. The certification produces a database of all certified open source hardware projects. At the end of 2024 there were approximately 2,941 certified open source hardware projects in our database.