Open Lab Starter Kit

• 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
      • 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