Back to Colab

[uxte]

Hi 👋

This is a proposal to organize Colab's information and documentation and create the tools to develop it as a project in the most open way possible. At this stage we're starting with a small group of diehard contributors who are exploring Colab's value and usefulness and improvements in enabling more diverse contributions.

Colab has been many things since we have given it this name over 15 years ago. An online platform for collaborative projects, a replicable concept for spaces for collaboration, a network of open participation projects and groups, and in its latest iteration and what felt as an organic evolution, a framework for organizing for collaboration. It has had hundreds of contributors over its life and still today is used in its different forms, it has inspired the coworking and makerspace movements worldwide and been part of the rise of the decentralized self-managed organizing as well as striving to influence the role of design as a shared way for co-creation. When we started this story if you searched for "Colab" the closest you would get was a Hip-hop website promoting artist collaborations (colabs or collabs), today you'll find thousands of references from Google to government initiatives. Some of these we know have had a more direct or indirect motivation and I like to think that we helped making the term colab a synonym for collaboration 😊

This latest effort comes from a group - Komuhn - a team that has been the main beneficiary of this source and basing great part of their work on it. Together with a few other people that we are inviting or will openly join we are creating the base to be able to build more things on top of Colab.

We are trying GitHub as our project space to define and give form to Colab's latest iteration and eventually transition to a more accessible platform. So here's a little guide for now:

• Discussions is where we make proposals and decisions on the progress of the project.
• Projects is where we organize tasks and activities for what we want to achieve.
• Repositories is where the things we're making are, from website to documentation.

Let me know if something is confusing and what/how can we do better.
I'm feeling really excited with this. Thanks for joining the adventure.

[andreaadao]

Yay!! 🎉

I can't help but feel like I'm opening a new book, when maybe it's just another chapter in this long story of making and designing collaboration. But I can almost taste the fresh and vibrant scent anticipating all kinds of soon-to-be-lived episodes of Colab!

Maybe it's because I never really worked on it having an active dedicated space since I started using and playing with the framework a few years ago. Now, with all the needed features to make it thrive and evolve in the great wide open, and most certainly (and hopefully) influencing, challenging and upgrading its development, it feels like Colab is at home.

Thanks for the building the new headquarters, and for this great intro, @ayoreis and @uxte !
All aboard!

[anatitakomuhn]

Oh, here we go again! 🚀
It feels like Colab has gone through it's adolescence and is now coming out of the closet. 😆 It's so exciting to return to this project, specially with a space and place to discuss and develop it more openly and, oh so great, if with more participation.
And, love the diehard compliment. Can we make it into a t-shirt? 🤣

[uxte]

Here you have 😄

[anatitakomuhn]

Need to replace that gun with something else. 🤔

[Kako29-03]

I am so excited to finally be able to explore Colab as it should be, openly!

I fell in love with Colab without even knowing what it was! Not that I know now anyways. But after 4 years of interaction with it I feel confident enough to say that this is the best thing I have ever seen!
Thank you for tagging along on what's for sure an amazing adventure and let's Colab!

*Thank you @uxte and @ayoreis for creating Colab's space, you're awesome!

Let's gooooooooooooo!!! 🤪🤪🤪