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Notes from the FAB6 community requirements fab foo session on 2010-08-18 in Amsterdam.

Abbreviations
SIG - Special Interest Group

Audience
* internal to lab
** users
** volunteers
** staff, interns
** local SIGs
** external groups coming in to use the labs in an organized fashion (e.g., schools)
* currently within fablab community
** SIGs that cross fablabs (e.g., lab managers, electronics gurus)
** lab managers
* External to community
** general public
** funding/government agencies
** press
** allied organizations (makerspace, hackerspace)

Locality
* local to lab
* regional
* global
* virtual presence (e.g., polycom)
* SIG

Type of communication
* One-way, static
** user profiles, user directories
** wiki
** syndication
*** curated (e.g., "fabdot")
*** non-curated streams
* static with limited feedback
** blogs with comments
** fabmoments with comments
** news
* two-way interactive
** 1 <-> 1
*** email
*** instant messaging
** 1 -> N
*** IRC chat
*** mailing lists
** N <-> N
*** forum discussions
*** video discussion
*** shared calendars
* re-sharing
** community sites (e.g., facebook)
** shared bookmarks
** distributed rating systems (e.g., digg)
** microblogging (e.g., twitter)

Dimensions of communication
* teacher to novice
* peer to peer
* async vs. sync





Concrete to-dos:
* Move fabhub forums to fabfolk
* pilot for sharing files/projects for sites that don't have web infrastructure (e.g., Fox Valley)
* Form fablab community special interest group (SIG)
** recruit members
** create spaces to communicate
*** SIG forum
*** mailing list for announcements
*** near-time messaging
*** workspace on fabwiki
* Make this (the notes written up here) available through our community tools (done!)





Notes were compiled from these three photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/quadshop/4920239584/in/set-72157624735690932/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/quadshop/4920239520/in/set-72157624735690932/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/quadshop/4919640703/in/set-72157624735690932/