How the Fastest Growing Open Hardware Project is Leveraging Visibility and Community Engagement...

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RISC-V claims 80 billion cores by 2025 and predicts a software market >$1B, and growth shows up in membership and product adoption rather than buzz. The team grows from two to a small marketing+community+engineering staff, documentation gets a dedicated writer and a wiki, and web traffic rises after publishing fewer but higher-quality blogs. Social engagement moves from 1.0% to 1.6%, short-form virtual events deliver >50% sponsor-qualified attendance, and an Open Hardware Diversity Alliance and ambassadors program expand outreach.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:35What is an instruction set architecture
3. 2:03The growth of RISCV
4. 3:14Setting the stage for expansion
5. 4:28Planning
6. 5:43Examples
7. 7:07Metrics
8. 7:35Messaging
9. 8:46Social Engagement
10. 9:40Community Content
11. 10:59Social
12. 11:59Persistence
13. 13:19Events
14. 15:28Community
15. 19:01Diversity Inclusion
16. 19:57Open Hardware Diversity Alliance
17. 20:32Summary

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