New approval process

[francisco (Francisco Sanchez Arroyo)]

If what Neil and Sherry foresee is right and we are shifting from thousand to million we are going to need a different approach for approving a lab. Because obviously it is not going to be sustainable. Here is a proposal: Bye approval, hello endorsements. In this endorsement system trust is based on how many of the other labs have recognized that this is a real fab lab. And maybe to appear on the map you need to fill all the fields and be recognized by 3 existing labs. It is similar but the idea is that labs can add/remove endorsements continuosly. It is not a one time process anymore.

Does it make any sense?

[openp2pdesign (Massimo Menichinelli)]

The approval process has been discussed in several other threads, here are just some references (just to link all these discussions):

• Curating fablab.org
• FabLabs.io - Discussions on new features
• Organizations approval process

and some issues on GitHub:

• Make the process public: https://github.com/fablabbcn/fablabs/issues/188
• Improve the documentation of the process: https://github.com/fablabbcn/fablabs/issues/122
• Plan for a new process: https://github.com/fablabbcn/fablabs/issues/117
• Log Referee actions: https://github.com/fablabbcn/fablabs/issues/77
• Add data-driven categorization of labs: https://github.com/fablabbcn/fablabs/issues/108