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BOMfu is a collaborative writing tool for bill of materials (BOM).

Bomfu is a collaborative bill of materials (BOMs) web repository with open hardware projects in mind. The success of open hardware rests on peoples’ ability to reproduce published designs and this depends highly on the ease of use and quality of the BOM. However until now there has been no comprehensive repository for open source hardware and so, Bomfu was born. Sourcing all the constituent parts is the first hurdle in building an open design. Bomfu is the best way to collaborate with others on open hardware, allowing developers total ownership of their BOMS and projects.

Bomfu is about distribution, flexibility and openness. Creating open source hardware is a hugely creative endeavor. Hardware development and its community must be asynchronous, which is just another way of saying building globally not just locally. This means in order for an open hardware project to be successful it must be geographically distributed, attention aware, team oriented and have minimal overhead in its process. Bomfu makes this possible regardless of complexity. We want pull request to become discussions that improve project quality, this isn’t just about creating BOMs but its about creating a community controlled project repository which helps people build locally or globally in the most effective way possible.

BOMfu is made possible thanks to Mozilla Foundation and Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in NYC.

Will be at available in beta in July 2013 at www.BOMfu.com (no naked domains, yo)