Open Sauce

Summary

Open Sauce is an upcoming maker and tech community event that serves as a gathering place for creators, viewers, and enthusiasts to meet in person and share projects. In the episode "GPS Has a Secret Job", Sean Hodgins promotes the event as a venue where he and Jeff Geerling plan to attend, and encourages his audience to get tickets. The event represents an opportunity for the community to transform digital projects into physical, shared experiences, with Sean Hodgins specifically suggesting that viewers could bring their own GPS PPS Watch builds to synchronize with his at the gathering.

Details

Open Sauce is positioned as a hands-on community event where makers can demonstrate their projects and interact with content creators. During "GPS Has a Secret Job," Sean Hodgins explicitly promotes ticket sales for the event and frames it as a natural meeting point for his community. The discussion around Open Sauce takes on a collaborative tone when Sean Hodgins proposes turning the GPS PPS Watch project—which he and Jeff Geerling work on during the episode—into a group activity at the event.

The specific suggestion made is that viewers who build their own GPS PPS watches could bring them to Open Sauce to synchronize with Sean Hodgins's watch. As Sean Hodgins puts it: "Hey, open source. Someone wants to build one of these, bring it to open source." Sean Hodgins commits to bringing his own watch, stating "I'll bring mine," with the goal that attendees "can sync up." This proposal transforms the watch project from an individual build into a potential communal experience, turning precise time synchronization into a shared moment among makers.

The event is presented as important enough that Sean Hodgins includes a direct call-to-action link in the episode description, encouraging immediate ticket purchases. Both Sean Hodgins and Jeff Geerling confirm their attendance, suggesting the event attracts established creators in the maker and electronics space.

History

GPS Has a Secret Job

Open Sauce first appears in "GPS Has a Secret Job" during a collaboration between Sean Hodgins and Jeff Geerling on building a GPS PPS Watch. Sean Hodgins promotes the event to his viewers, explicitly encouraging them to get tickets and noting that he will be attending.

The event becomes more than just a promotional mention when Sean Hodgins suggests using Open Sauce as a venue for community participation in the GPS watch project. He proposes that anyone who builds one of the watches should bring it to the event, where they can all synchronize their timepieces together. Both Sean Hodgins and Jeff Geerling confirm they plan to attend, establishing Open Sauce as a meeting point for the maker community where digital projects can become shared physical experiences.