We have launched fablabs.io!
The online platform designed by Tomas Diez and John Rees (master coder) in collaboration with the Fab Foundation is live! Demonstrated at FAB9, it enables existing, new and planned Fab Labs to be easily found within the global community.
It is planned to grow into an information and knowledge exchange for:
- Projects: documentation, market place, sharing objects and inventions through the network.
- Spaces: Fab Labs, MakerSpaces, HackerSpaces and other making spaces in the world to get connected and located.
- Machines: discussions, tutorials, inventory and state of the art technologies in labs right now.
- People: connecting the network for discussions, news and more.
- Events: when, where and how you can access to the closest lab for workshops, talks, classes.
You can find Labs listed on fablabs.io in two ways- either via the Fab Foundation website: http://www.fabfoundation.org/fab-labs/, or by going directly to https://www.fablabs.io/labs It’s easy, it’s free and we know it will provide a new level of connectivity between us all.
How it works?
People can register as individuals or as Fab Lab members (now developing different levels: workers, fab academy students/alumni, fab academy tutors, users) and use the platform. Labs can be added by people, once the lab is added it is sent for review for other labs and the admin team of the platform, who finally approve the lab to be live. Once people is listed as workers in any lab they gain full admin rights for their pages, and then can upload information about people, machines and location details; further functionalities to come soon.
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Try it: https://www.fablabs.io/labs
