What data should I be collecting about my repairs?

Hi @guy! Impressive list of repairs. We’d encourage you to take a look at the Open Repair Data Standard (ORDS), which provides a basic framework. We’ll be working on harmonising our list of product categories (more about that soon), but ORDS sets out the basics needed for us to aggregate data at scale. (Our “Fixometer” tool is built on ORDS.)

Your question also leads us back to an earlier suggestion about working with iFixit to document the successes and failures of DIYers.

Lastly, we have asked professionals not to solicit jobs directly at events to avoid any potential liability for organisers. Do you have device owners sign anything that relieves organisers of liability? We drafted some guidelines that ask people not to take jobs directly from events, but this is more for paid jobs:

Would be interested to hear your take! Oh and please do a self-intro if you like, we’d love to “meet” you