I am the admin of biohacklabs.org. It was setup about 2 years ago. At the time diybio.eu was down for already a while, and we wanted to revive some of the content I once posted on that page, so registered a new domain. Also, the mailinglist of diybio.eu was a valuable list, but had no website anymore, which ment no one could find instructions on how join it anymore. So that was merged into europe@biohacklabs.org. The mailinglist is still the most useful part of biohacklabs.org
On Saturday, 19 December 2015 17:55:56 UTC+1, Ilya Levantis wrote:
-- Wikimedia is archaic technology. After being flooded by thousands of spam accounts and trying numerous dodgy plugins to fight it, I just shut down the registration. Sorry about that. There was also very little interest in posted content too. And now that it's almost 2016 I guess most people don't use wiki's anymore for sharing information. At our space it is mostly direct communication that is used, Github repo's, Slack, WhatsApp, that kind of communication. It's a pity though that those platforms are not always as open.
I've seen many attempts at centralisation of hacker/maker/fabspaces but it is kind of against the whole notion of bottom up movements to centralise. The beauty of grass roots movements is that they always use what is most useful to them, and that is different in every context. It also fits the explorative attitude of DIYBio groups to keep switching platforms and channels. That makes total sense. Those who are new will just have to find their way, asking around at your local space probably will point you in the right direction. This google group is probably the most stable factor in the community, even though it is hosted by google which should give every hacker a bad taste in his/her mouth. But it works, so that's great.
On Saturday, 19 December 2015 17:55:56 UTC+1, Ilya Levantis wrote:
Hi all,
At some point in the past, at some DIYBio meeting or other, it was mooted that a general biohacker's wiki would be useful.
Thus, I believe, http://www.biohacklabs.org was set up.
I have some content that I would like to put up there since it is content that would benefit from edits and additions from anyone involved in DIYBio.
Is biohacklabs.org a good place to put this and are there others that would like to add content to the site?
It currently seems a bit dead - presumably because the signup is broken and you never get sent the password for an account you create.
If whoever is in charge of the site is able to fix this, should the community start putting information up there about protocols, projects etc that is useful outside each particular space's own wiki or should we just be putting things on openwetware?
I say this because lots of useful information about particular DIY protocols, equipment, etc seems to be spread across the internet with very little effort at collation. I think collation in the form of a community wide wiki (i.e. biohacklabs.org) could be a great asset, especially for those new to DIYBio.
Note: I'm not saying that everyone needs to use a centralised wiki for everything, but a page about different protocols for homemade/cheap growth media production which links to the various blog posts and instructables could be a valuable starting point for people.
Ilya
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