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Open Homelab Project – Preview – Part Deux

Posted on 28th April 2016 by Alex Galbraith Comments Off on Open Homelab Project – Preview – Part Deux

For those of you who keep a regular eye on my ramblings and mutterings, you may have noticed that since my presentation at the London VMUG a couple of weeks ago, I have been very quiet on the blogging front! There is, in fact, a reason for this!…

The session itself was really interesting and loads of ideas and methods I had never even heard or thought of came out, exactly what I had hoped would be the outcome! Subsequently a number of people volunteered to help create a site for the rationalisation and curation of all of this awesome content and knowledge, which we have dubbed the Open Homelab Project.

We are still in pre-alpha for the site itself, but here are a couple of screenshots of some of the content in production. Once it goes live it will be a full wiki site with the ability for any registered community member to edit, contribute to and create content! Once we have reached a reasonable quantity of initial content, then the site URL will actually be released!

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Managing your Homelab from an Xbox One!

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HP MicroServer

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Requirements Gathering

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Ye Trusty Intel NUC!

Right now we are keenly seeking a couple of things from community members who are interested in being involved:

  1. Start by following our @OpenHomelab account on twitter for all the latest news and updates (as well as a few random tweets when I post using the wrong account -now I get how easy it is for corporate people to randomly tweet to the wrong pipe by accident!)
  2. If you would like to get involved early on and help contribute to the initial release of content, please hit me up on twitter or DM the @OpenHomelab account with your email address for a Slack invitation.
  3. If you have any design talents, we are looking for a unique but simple logo for the site. The one we have at the moment is just a placeholder! We would ideally like a few entries from different people and the community can choose their favourite! Main requirements are that the logo:
    • is square.
    • has a reasonably clean look.
    • has relatively few colours (in case we every want to print it on t-shirts, stickers, etc).
    • Looks good when shrunk to 135px by 135px (as this is the standard size of the logo in MediaWiki.
    • Beyond that, let your imagination run riot! All entries can be sent to me or the OpenHomelab project via Twitter DM.

So in answer to the question as to why I have haven’t been blogging for the last couple of weeks; it’s because I (along with the rest of the team) have been furiously producing content for the new site! I hope to return to normal service within a couple more weeks, but in the meantime, let me know if you want to be involved!

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