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# Open Lab Starter Kit

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Mo was here
- **Starter Kit Documentation Taxonomy?**
  - machines
  - mechanics
  - framing
  - materials
  - electronics
  - software


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- **Fab City project current status**

    - when the project officially ends?
        - 31.12 of 2024
    - updates about timeline if any
        - starter kit deadline flexible, best before the 4 years
    - when the buildings of the Fab House will be delivered?
        - June/July
    - who are the current partners
        - some Partners are not in the payroll
        - German Makerspaces
        - other Fab cities
        - Fab Lab Networks
        - companies
    - there are other possible partners? 
       - yes, possibility to add them also for us
       - efficient partnering, or they can be slowing down
       - core team first
      -  we can also talk to partners directly
    - can we access Open Lab in HSU?
        - yes
    - are we together with the other Fab Labs in Hamburg?
      - if so who/where they are?
        - Yes, Fab City Hamburg, San Pauli, Wellcome Werkstatt, company run labs
      - could we eventually access?
        - yes
      - could they help/cooperate somehow?
        - yes
- **working together**
    - situation of Pieter and Daniele 
       - 3 hours for Pieter, takes weeks to reconsider job 
        - Daniele can work anytime I can
    - weekly meeting  ~ 1 hour
      - they are set Friday 16:00-17:00
    - public and open source work/result
       - yes
    - working methodology
        - based on decentralized version control (git+gitlab)
        - probably gitlab will be self-hosted
        - our documents are all in markdown + other open formats(HTML/Web/etc)
        - how the documents will be published
           - let's discuss this Robin can help? Moritz?
        - which license should we use for our documents
           - [Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution-ShareAlike](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
           - We will use different licenses: 
             - Single repo multi license
             - Multi repo multi license
        - weekly tasks
- **next steps**
    - research phase
      - not much time for it, maybe we can start iterating with our current experience
    - immediate focuses
      - workshops are starting soon for Fab City! as many workshops as possible
      - feedback from workshop
      - reproduction of existing machines
      - we really need documents and the hardware!
      - workshop schedule?
        - first 3 workshops, as corona allows it!
    - Mohammed + Pieter formation(?), in context, concrete scenarios
      - Daniele will try to teach the basics to start
      - Daniele will recommend activities/lecures/links etc
    - starter Kit:          
        - do we know the the procurement rules? (Who will procure what and how?)
          - we can be creative, because it is an highly bureaucratic process
          - subcontracting for chunks of purchasing
        - global index
          - we should make a the table of content of the starter kit
        - definition
          - we should formalize what the Starter Kit is
          - what are the goals
          - intended use
          - etc
        Mohammed did started it, let's make it together:
        - state of the art
        - commercial machines reference/benchmark
        - existing approaches
        - possible timeline
        - required tools and software
        - Open Lab + HSU fabrication lab available ro start playing


The documentation on this repository is licensed under the terms of the open source license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)).