FAB6 community fabfoo

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

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

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!)

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