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Sprint Day 0: An Open Source ventilator project you can believe in.
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Enginerding:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on March 31, 2020, 06:57:50 am ---
--- Quote from: Enginerding on March 31, 2020, 05:32:46 am ---What I'd like to do is wait until there is ~20 upvotes.  At that point, it's more likely that if someone has "hot lead" they cite it, rather than "proving a negative".  The people in this community have a nose for what'll work.
Sound good?
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Nope, 20 "upvotes" means nothing. You have no idea of the capabilities of the 20 people who have "signed up", let alone assessing they are for real.
Wouldn't want to spend the next 3-7 days doing that and then come up empty handed... Technically, that search could go on continuously even after that, as new people come on board...  ;D

Look, I don't want to be deliberately non-contributory here, nor disparage anyone's efforts, but I honestly can't help but find the approach you are taking here to be rather humorous.

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Incidentally, I plan on this project being this entertaining and humorous, always.  :)

My first intent, is of course to see if the community exists for the project.

I'm a big believer in the Socratic method.  How would you find volunteers for a project?

-Dan
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Enginerding on March 31, 2020, 05:36:32 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on March 31, 2020, 05:21:15 am ---You are the one who has claimed they don't have promise, please explain why they don't.

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Agree.
Here's the Github for the project University of Florida Medical School Project I linked before.  I read the files, not much more than a theory of operation.  No BOM. 
https://github.com/CSSALTlab/Open_Source_Ventilator

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Ok. But at least I see spec documents for what seems like all the main modules, and some source code. Lats commit a weeks ago, so maybe they have more and just haven't checked it in yet because they too busy working on stuff?
You'd have to check whatever chat/forum type system they are likely using to coordinate to get the latest stuff.
At least they have something.
Again, why does it not seem "promising"? they are more advanced than what you have. Is there something fundamentally wrong with their approach?
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Enginerding on March 31, 2020, 07:06:46 am ---I'm a big believer in the Socratic method.  How would you find volunteers for a project?
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There are three ways to find and woo technical talent:
1) Money

2) Come up with a cool concept and base platform that people want to work on. And no, an open source ventilator to save the world idea is not enough, as there are a dozen other people competing for the same talent. So you need to show up-front that have something tangible and you know what you are doing. A boast about being a great organiser is not enough.

3) They want to work with other talent. This is how big startups with even dumb ideas like uBeam get world class people to work for them. Talent comes because they want to work with other talent. It's kinda a chicken and egg thing though.
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Enginerding on March 31, 2020, 06:44:43 am ---
--- Quote from: Simon on March 31, 2020, 06:40:51 am ---someone that knows how a ventilator works?

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Would you like to join the steering committee?

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I suspect he can't, he's too busy perfecting his sarcasm generator.
Enginerding:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on March 31, 2020, 07:07:03 am ---
--- Quote from: Enginerding on March 31, 2020, 05:36:32 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on March 31, 2020, 05:21:15 am ---You are the one who has claimed they don't have promise, please explain why they don't.

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Agree.
Here's the Github for the project University of Florida Medical School Project I linked before.  I read the files, not much more than a theory of operation.  No BOM. 
https://github.com/CSSALTlab/Open_Source_Ventilator

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Ok. But at least I see spec documents for what seems like all the main modules, and some source code. Lats commit a weeks ago, so maybe they have more and just haven't checked it in yet because they too busy working on stuff?
You'd have to check whatever chat/forum type system they are likely using to coordinate to get the latest stuff.
At least they have something.
Again, why does it not seem "promising"? they are more advanced than what you have. Is there something fundamentally wrong with their approach?

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This is their forum.  https://simulation.health.ufl.edu/forums/forum/open-source-ventilator-project/

Fewer unique posts than this thread.  It's marketing wank.  Maybe this is a uniquely American thing, but in the US universities do projects like this to generate media, not for completion.

Also, I've proposed the first step be to identify existing projects.  As you can see, it's quite arduous and no single person could effectively do it.  Hence, community.

-Dan
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