Using Social Media - swindonmakers/wiki GitHub Wiki
The makerspace uses various services to share makerspace information, news, and media. While longer project posts on the main website, don't let that deter you from sharing smaller amounts of text, pictures, and video.
This page aims to document the makerspace's web presence on various services, and also serves as a guide for where certain types of media are best posted.
Telegram Chat
Telegram is the most active area for contacting other members or asking questions about anything related to the Makerspace. There are a number of groups for various discussion topics, join the main Telegram group to get started.
Forum
The Forum is an area for members to share ideas, discuss makerspace issues, and find help on projects, etc. You're welcome to post questions or news on your own projects here.
Twitter and Facebook
Short notices, links, pictures, and videos etc. Ideal during, or in advance of, the weekly makerspace sessions. Any tweet in which you mention [@swindonmakers] should get the attention of that account, and gain you a retweet should it be of particular interest to all members. Photos - either direct or via flickr - of a successful (or amusingly *unsuccessful*) makerspace project, are a perfect opportunity for a retweet.
We try not to post multiple re/tweets over a short period, so if you have an awesome but time sensitive link, pic, video, or other bit of news you want to share, please ping us via a separate tweet to let us know. :)
Integration: New blog posts are tweeted to [@swindonmakers] followers. Recent twitter posts are linked from the main website. Facebook acts as a secondary outlet for those members who prefer not to use twitter.
Examples: makerspace evenings, events, donations, members, posts, printer, pi, robots, toys, logos, and alerts.
Flickr and YouTube
Pictures are submitted by members into the Swindon Makerspace Flickr Group, while videos are posted from the Swindon Makerspacespace YouTube Account (either directly, or via member's who have been nominated as "managers"). There's also a YouTube Playlist for videos posted by makerspace members, similar to a flickr group, kinda, only not.
Integration: Recent videos and pics are not currently integrated into the main website, although that is planned for a future upgrade.
Github
For projects using any technical media - such as source code, manuals, diagrams, or drawings - please create a repo for easy access and collaboration with other members. Each repo has a wiki (just like this one, should you want to post additional wiki style information regarding your project.
For projects carried out for, or during the makerspace, it's best to create a repo directly under the github.com/snhack organisation, where it will be most visible. While it's not ideal, you can also fork an existing repo into github.com/snhack, should the code already exist elsewhere on github (or you wish to retain control of the "upstream" project).
Integration: Recent projects created within github.com/snhack are linked from the main website.
Thingiverse
A bit like Github for 3D printing, mixed with Tumblr. You can create, remix (similar to fork on github), collect (similar to star?), and watch designs; follow other members, and post images of your own prints.
Any 3D prints done at the makerspace should go up on here of course; either the design, or simply to log that "we made one!". For non-trivial prints you're welcome (and encouraged) to start a github repo too, especially if there are additional source files, instructions, firmware, etc. to collect together.
Integration: No integration into the main website as yet, look into including this into the planned video and images integration.
Google Group
The makerspace group is no longer used, but the information remains there for archive