Labs Resources

Labs has various resources available for supporting its activities and those of Members and Contributors. Some of these are reserved for Contributors but may be requested by members. If you have any questions please get in touch (mailing list recommended).

Infrastructure

Git repos

Labs Contirbutors may create Github git repos within the okfn organization and deploy associated pages at http://okfnlabs.org/{repo}

Storage

Labs operates long-term storage service using S3 at http://assets.okfnlabs.org/

We also have significant amounts of less permanent storage associated to specific servers.

At present access to this storage is generally reserved to Contributors but if you have material you would like us to host let us know.

Servers and Hosting

Dedicated

We currently operate 1 large dedicated server for use in hosting, processing etc.

  • hydrogen.okfnlabs.org

By default these are only accessible for Contributors.

Heroku

We have a Heroku account. In general we tend to only use Heroku in its free tier as it gets quite expensive.

AWS

AWS usage has been common among Labs members and it may be possible to access AWS hosting services via Labs.

As these cost money this option is only accessible to Contributors.

Jenkins

We operate a Jenkins instance for supervising and monitoring regular jobs.

Other Tools

Communications

Website and blog

Labs members can contribute to the website and blog. Contributions may need to be reviewed by an Official Labs Contributor.

Contributors have full access to the website and the associated blog.

Messaging

Mailing lists, Twitter, chat etc. See the contact page.

Coordination and Organizing

Google Drive

We have public Google Drive Folder.

If you want write access please mail us or contact us on irc.

Get Involved

Join our discussion list. Here, we exchange datasets and ideas and plan our projects.

Many of us also hang out and chat on Gitter:

https://gitter.im/okfn/chat

Get Hacking

Check out the projects list or the ideas page. Contribute and earn a badge!