Fablabs.io and Wikifactory

Fablabs.io is the online social network of the international Fab Lab community. Here we share and collaboratively develop products. Our recent collaborative partnership with Wikifactory that now brings powerful new collaboration tools for projects on Fablabs.io!
Projects now get version-controlled repositories, a flexible documentation editor and an issue tracker so that you can engage your team and community from the fab community and beyond! See below for more information about the new features.

Sign in to projects.fablabs.io using your original fablabs.io account! If you need help, you can use this helpful Guide.

Wikifactory is a social platform for collaborative product development, offering the tools for teams and communities to share and work together on Projects through the web. It’s inspired by the best practices of open source software development but built for the needs of product development from the ground up.

Our goal is to promote a successful way to collaborate and network among our great community of Fabbers and Makers. With the launch of projects.fablabs.io, Projects can now:

• Securely host files in a cloud Drive that has version control

• Visualize 3D files through the web (even on mobile) for over 30 professional CAD and CAE formats without the need for plugins or expensive licenses

• Help others understand, replicate and contribute to your projects through a flexible Readme editor for you and your team to share Documentation

• Give and get feedback and suggestions for enhancements, tasks, or bugs to Projects through Issues. Need help to advance your Project, let the community know how they can help!

• Review other’s work and manage tasks by assigning Issues to others to accelerate the development of your Projects

• Assign different roles and permissions in Settings as your team of collaborators grows

These new capabilities will help Fabbers worldwide to contribute to each other’s projects and well as make all the great projects available for any Fabber to deploy for increased global impact.