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Welcome to The Open Source Solar Project
The sun is the ultimate open source - available to everyone to do what they would like with what it provides. OSSP is a collaborative, multi-lingual effort to improve small-scale off-grid solar PV system design, safety, and user experiences in areas of the world that lack well-developed standards, robust equipment markets, large budgets and appropriate training programs. This will be accomplished by providing information, resources and tools on the universal, basic aspects of off-grid system design that can be addressed in the developing world contexts given these constraints. OSSP hopes to serve as both a direct resource in these areas and as a readily-adaptable base for the development of low-cost training materials and programs that are tailored to the needs and standards of a particular area. OSSP is license-free running on the same platform as Wikipedia - please reach out to alex@opensourcesolar.org if you are interested in contributing or translating.
Goals of OSSP:
- Provide an appropriate level of detail for each topic in a way that is practical and accessible for an audience with a varying level of technology literacy.
- Present universal concepts in a way that is universal. Information or resources that are location specific should be added to a country page.
- Only utilize graphics or content added must be in the public domain.
- Utilize graphics should include text only as completely necessary to enable easy translation using captions.
Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.
Primary articles
All links with arrows next to them are categories, not articles. Click on the arrow to expand the category to show the pages in that category. Most categories will have a page that has the same name that will be the best place to start.
