Based on the Open Leaders program created by the Mozilla Foundation, this program will cover different aspects of leading open hardware projects.

We aim to guide participants through designing and building open hardware projects that empower others to collaborate within inclusive communities.

Over the course of the program you will:
- Receive ongoing 1:1 help from mentors to open up your project and bring it to the next level
- Learn about best practices for design, testing and production, tools for collaboration, communication and community building.
- Have access to a community of experts and a pool of educational resources, and interact with diverse open hardware communities worldwide.
- Join a community of open leaders that work together on standards and best practices.

Find more about roles descriptions in openhardware4.me

If you (or your team) are running or starting an open hardware project and you want to grow as an open leader(s), then this is for you.

Your project:
- Is in its initial design stage or is a more established project aiming to grow a community
- Allows and welcomes contributions by others (or aims to),
- Supports the principles stated in the open source hardware definition (or aims to)

- You're passionate and ready to learn and apply open hardware practices to your project or community, supporting the global open hardware movement

- You or your team can demonstrate experience in the area of implementation of the proposed project.

- Your application is complete

- Workload: 1st cohort starts February 2020, we expect participants to dedicate 2h/week for 14 weeks for attending weekly online meetings and completing open leadership assignments.

- Openness: We expect selected participants to document their projects and open them via any of the open licenses available.

- Community guidelines: We want to maintain a respectful space for everyone, please refer to our community guidelines at openhardware4.me