Good Labs

BACKGROUND

People have shown a tremendous willingness to invest their free time and energy contributing to projects that don’t benefit them financially. This “cognitive surplus”–the free time that people have on their hands to engage in collaborative activities–has the potential to realize vast stores of social value that the traditional marketplace tends to neglect.

Modern technologies like the internet, along with more recent innovations like distributed version control, have opened a pathway to more fully realize this value, but dependence on a still ad hoc, fragmented infrastructure means we’re not being as efficient or effective with this resource as we could be.

This project is about removing the barriers that keep social production flowing at a trickle instead of a stream and providing a more robust, integrated core infrastructure to service this growing community of amateur creators and contributors.

ABOUT THE COMMUNITY

This community explores the application of the Open Value Network (OVN) model to causes and other charitable purposes.

ABOUT GOODLABS

GoodLabs a hub for commons-based peer production providing creators and contributors with a community, personalized online workspaces, and data-driven insights to help them better understand and improve upon their operations.

Leveraging human-centered design principles, the GoodLabs platform aims to popularize the collaborative enterprise approach among a variety of loosely related non-technical users, including NGOs, activists, social enterprises, and more.

Messaging on Slack

Weekly meetings Fridays 9 am EST - see Meeting Minutes

All project-related planning and tasks are managed through GitHub's Kanban board feature or in the project's main working document, accessible via the links below.

Join the discussion here to help decide on early-phase tasks and actions to move this initiative forward.

DRAFT PROJECTS

Any proposed project or initiative that advances to a Draft stage of development will be added here and opened for contributions. (Click here to access our Project Development Protocol.)

To view past projects, browse the Project Archive below.

Inventory of our past projects.

Projects within this Community are open to contributions from any Sensorica Affiliate. To better support collaboration across the Community, however, we ask that all Community Members enter some basic personal information in our Human Resources spreadsheet.