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Deneille Guiseppi: The GOSQAS Project and Creativity in Tech

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Public Inventor Deneille Guiseppi is a software developer working on the Global Open Source Quality Assurance (GOSQAS) website, a project headed by Invention Coaches Victoria Jaqua, Christina Cole, Robert Read, and Vincent Erdos. The GOSQAS system allows procurers of medical devices to record the received state of their devices before shipping them to the next […]

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Saicharan Vishwanatha: The Alarm Dialog Management (ADaM) Project

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The Alarm Dialog Management (ADaM) project team has expanded the capacity of Public Invention’s existing alarm devices, the Krake and GPAD, by creating a system that prioritizes alarms for a given user. This places some of the decision making on the design algorithm and off the user, thus helping them avoid alarm fatigue.  Public Invention

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Morena Andres: Moonrat and EcoPot Open-Source Projects

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Morena Andres is a former Public Invention volunteer who worked on the beginning stages of two key projects: the EcoPot and the Moonrat. As a recent chemical engineering graduate at the time of her application, Andres was interested in putting her new skills to the test in the world of open-source engineering. During her time

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The Public Invention Demo Day and Fundraiser

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On June 15th, Public Invention held its first in-real-life event since the pandemic in the Austin Public Library. We held a “demo day” demonstrating a lot of our physical inventions, and some software demos thrown in. Overall, it was a success, though the turnout was disappointing: we only met about 20 people that we had

Public Invention Continuity Plan (2024)

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Scenario: The Head Invention Coach is Incapacitated In 2024, the President is Robert L. Read, who is also the Founder and Head Invention Coach, and the only Public Inventor working full time (although he is unpaid). If he were incapacitated, it would seriously harm the viability of Public Invention. However, the board would still have

Recognition by RecognizedGood, Public Infrastructure, and Public Invention

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What is Public Infrastructure? Why is it important? Who is impacted by it or involved in it? All of these questions are valid and crucial to understanding the limitations of current supply chains and enterprise-based innovation. More specifically, a critical weakness of production, manufacture, or supply of commodities by corporations is the lack of modularization