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Outline 
 Open Source: What is it? 
 Benefits for Sex Toys 
 Open Source and Sex Specific Issues 
 How To Open 
 Questions for Audience
Open Source - 
Open Hardware
Intro to Open Source 
 Code 
 Media 
 Hardware
Open Source Hardware vs. Software 
 Licenses vs. Patents 
 Distribution - downloads vs. self production
Factors of Licenses 
 Sharing (The big one) 
 Attribution 
 Commercial Use 
 Liability
Licenses 
 Public Domain 
 Do What the Fuck You Want 
 Creative Commons 0 
 MIT License 
 Creative Commons Attribution 
 GPL 
 Creative Commons Share- 
Alike 
 http://choosealicense.com/
Open Source Sex
Why Open Source for Sex Toys 
 Safety 
 Accessibility - Modding 
 Time 
 Non-Competition 
 Innovations 
 Literacy 
 Connects Communities 
 Sexual Activism
Safety 
 Publish 
Materials
Accessibility 
 Hackability 
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Time and Speed
Non-Competition
Innovation
Literacy 
 Take charge of ones technological sexuality
Community Connections 
 Horny Hackers 
 Hacky Hornsters
Activism 
 Putin Butt Plug 
o Couldve been opened up!
Issues 
Open Source Hardware and Sex
Issues 
 Legality Restricting Open-ness 
 Material Barriers 
 Sexual Drives 
 Audience 
 Body Politics
Laws 
 Guns
Sex Laws 
 Regions 
 Ages
Material Barriers 
 Multivibe 
 Zildo
Sex Drives + Tinkering 
 Help? 
o Tinker until dreams are complete 
 Hinder? 
o I wanna get off now! 
o Traditional Consumption
Audience 
 Typical Maker Audience:
Body Assumptions
Business Issues 
 Design tools 
 Expectation of free as in beer
How to Open
Share and Document 
 Share 
o Code 
o Design Files 
 Document 
o Process 
o Code 
o Use 
o Potential Alternatives
Expert Questions
Open Source Hardware vs. Software 
 Have you run into Intellectual property 
battles in the sex world? 
 Other issues particular to open-source and 
sex? 
 Comments and Critiques on our Opening 
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Editor's Notes

  • #2: I personally believe that everyone should have the freedom to create whatever they want.
  • #5: Somewhat started with Coding, because the redundancy and immutability of computer code brought coders face to face with the realization that locking up IP meant that coders would have to solve the same problems over and over again, inhibiting progress. This moved into other mechancially and digital reproducible objects like media, and things like creative commons came to help clear that up and finally in the age of reproducing physical objects and mechanisms
  • #7: Sharing Caring and Cash are the three main issues that come with
  • #10: Literacy Community connectison. -
  • #11: One of the coolest things about opening a sex toy, is that consumers can use your documentation to know exactly what is going into their intimate products this is especially concerning in an unregulated industry like sex toys where you could pop whatever weird chemicals you want in there I dont even know what at phalate is, but it sounds bad, and so we just use bodysafe silicone
  • #12: something something crafter community, motivated even more by disabled people
  • #13: Time- and this is really one of the main factors driving myself and our companys reasons for open-sourcing. If your goal is to make something new for the world and see how it works, open-sourcing is your best option to keep yourself making. If you want to sit around and file paperwork in the hopes that you will be able to lock down tons of money while paranoidadly hunting for anyone who might be ripping you off, then file some patents. Elon Musk receiving a patent really just meant that you bought a lottery ticket to a lawsuit
  • #14: Non-Competition- People are going to rip you off anyway. If you want to be an innovative new company, you arent going to have the cash to fight the big guys anyway. Innovations- This is a huge unexplored realm. Weird ass shit you can make to fuck is not a finite resource and does not abide by scarcity rules. Instead the more that things i make can help out other business, like Dr. Xtreme or Bad Dragon, the larger we all spread open this realm. The greatest threat is that some large corporation will try to use their money muscle to try to prevent you from being able to make what you created, and the best defense against this is creating as much prior art and putting it out into the world as possible
  • #17: As you move from a consumer product, to hackable ideas..intersections multiple different communitites
  • #20: Legality can kill openness - We make
  • #22: Georgia: cant buzz your junk (obscene devices) some places Can sell sex toys, but not fetish gear? Is something really considered open source, if it is cut off to a large part of the population because they are under a certain age?
  • #23: Whats the point of a peice of hardware being open, if material, or manufacturing costs are prohibitive to most of the world.
  • #24: Do peoples sexual drives help or hinder the tinkering process. Will groups of people be motivated more to play and struggle with getting something working, or does the power of these drives promote traditional consumption?
  • #25: A majority of open-source forums are targeted towards families (Maker Faires, Instructables) Do sex toys alienate the standard community? Are open-source sex toys more inclusive of less traditional communities of practice (cam girls, fetish workers, sexual hobbyists)?
  • #26: Can the gender of those creating devices inhibit or limit the sharing of a concepts creation? Do i make or build certain assumptions into my designs that inherently lock off others from building or modifiying a thing as they see fit b
  • #27: - most commercially available software and hardware use proprietary formats or have licenses that restrict the use of work produced using them. Eagle CAD vs. Fritzing and KaiCAD SolidWorks, Autodesk Products vs. FreeCAD, Blender Cost of development - time and money.
  • #28: These are new frontiers , and the laws and practices of communities are still wide open to say what constitutes an open-source peice of hardware, much less for Sexual purposes
  • #29: So we could suggest an early working draft of key practices for making sure your can be considered truly open ideas are open for the world. First and easiest and most obvious is the need to mk
  • #30: Here at Comingle, we come from technological, media, materials, and philosophical backgrounds, but are relatively new to the world of sex toys.