Yes, we need to move back in that direction. FabLabs are entirely defined in that way ' as a mechanism for enriching your own life, giving you tools to make your life better, and stepping back tyo see what happens.
That is absolutely what I have in mind, I just am blocking on coming up with specific use cases to illustrate that. I spend a lot of time with wikipedians, who spend their 'pesonal enrichment' time doing things that help large arhives and others, so my instinctive use cases are skewed towards what I know they would do with such a lab... SJ 2011/7/8 Nate Hill <[email protected]>: > This looks great! > One thought: > Most of the activities listed here are somewhat work-like; they are efforts > to bolster or support other programs or organizations rather than enrich the > lives of participants. > Partnering with a public library means, at least in my mind, that you'll be > working with the public to accomplish some if not all of these listed tasks. > There's a great opportunity to frame some of these activities as > experiential learning opportunities, civic engagement, and co-creative > processes in which patrons work with LibLab staff or volunteers to enrich > their own lives through knowledge. > Nate > > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> A quick update on the LibLab project follows. For more detail, see >> (and edit!) our no-longer-stubby project page: >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LibLabs#July_update >> >> SJ >> >> == I. Location update, DCPL contacts == >> >> Katie and I just had a helpful call with Ginnie Cooper, head of the >> DCPL, and some of her technical and programs staff. >> Nate, thank you for making that *excellent* introduction; the whole >> team struck me as efficient, inspired by their work, and deeply >> knowledgable about the local community and history. I would be >> thrilled to work with them. >> >> They are looking into potential spaces for a lab, and have some ideas; >> one option would be prominently in the main library, which is right on >> the Metro. Volunteers are needed to man the lab make this happen; see >> below. >> >> I am still interested in hearing about other possible liblab spaces, >> in DC or elsewhere -- we will want a list of interested future labs to >> submit with the final results in September. >> >> >> == II. Timeline == >> >> Next steps: if someone is interested in taking a lead on the design >> work, a design meeting this month would be helpful. >> And we could start planning now for a 1- or 2-day hacking session with >> wikimedians and the library -- perhaps in line with the recent talk >> about having a national followup to the Wiknic, with libraries. :-) >> >> >> == III. Volunteers needed == >> >> WE NEED: tech / teacher / organizer volunteers! Available afternoons >> every day of the week. >> >> >> == IV. Design research needed == >> >> We are also looking for someone to lead the work on design options for >> the space. If you know interested architects or designers, please get >> them involved. >> >> Examples: >> >> [1] http://youmediachicago.org/10-philosophy/pages/37-youmedia-layout >> [2] https://as220.org/labs/blog/2008/09/announcing-the-providence-fab.html >> >> >> == V. use cases for a lab == >> >> Please share your own use cases on the wiki. I'd like to have 100 use >> cases, with example projects, by the end of the month. This more than >> anything helps line up partners because they understand what sort of >> desire there is among knowledge-lovers to *do* collection, curation, >> classification, digitization, and publishing work. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-DC mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-dc > > > > -- > Nate Hill > [email protected] > http://www.natehill.net > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-DC mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-dc > > -- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-boston mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-boston
