COMPUTE & INFRASTRUCTURE
Servers, hosting, storage, networking, development infrastructure, domains, testing environments, and the boring-but-essential pieces that keep the lab running.
01 / MISSION
BARKLY LABS / SUPPORT THE LAB
HELP BUILD
THE LAB.
Barkly Labs is building technology around a simple idea:people are worth designing for.
We build software, hardware, AI systems, documentation, research infrastructure, and experimental tools designed to make complex technology more understandable, accessible, creative, and human.
02 / WHY SUPPORT
THIS ISN'T
JUST A WEBSITE.
01 / BUILD
WE BUILD REAL THINGS.
Barkly is an active laboratory. Projects become software, hardware, documentation, standards, experiments, and infrastructure that people can actually use.
02 / DOCUMENT
WE MAKE THE WORK UNDERSTANDABLE.
Good technology should not require everyone to already understand how it works. Barkly documents systems, decisions, requirements, interfaces, and experiments so other people can learn from them.
03 / RELEASE
WE WANT KNOWLEDGE TO ESCAPE THE LAB.
Open projects are more useful when people can actually understand, reproduce, modify, and build on them. Barkly is designed around that idea.
04 / HUMAN FIRST
PEOPLE COME BEFORE THE SYSTEM.
The Barkly Standard asks a different question:does this technology work for the human using it?
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TECHNOLOGY SHOULD ADAPT TO HUMANS.
That's the whole point.
03 / WHERE IT GOES
SUPPORT
BECOMES INFRASTRUCTURE.
Contributions help turn ideas into things that can actually be built, tested, documented, maintained, and shared.
HARDWARE & PROTOTYPING
Development boards, sensors, embedded systems, electronics, fabrication, testing equipment, and experimental hardware.
SOFTWARE & RESEARCH
Development tools, AI infrastructure, research systems, open-source software, documentation, testing, and engineering work.
COMMUNITY & ACCESS
Tools, educational resources, accessibility work, community infrastructure, and projects that help more people participate in technology.
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WE DON'T WANT SUPPORT TO DISAPPEAR INTO A BLACK BOX.
Barkly is being built around documentation and transparency. As the lab grows, we intend to show what we're working on, what infrastructure we maintain, and how resources are being used.
04 / WAYS TO HELP
YOU DON'T HAVE
TO BE A COMPANY.
Barkly is being built for people. That means people can help build it too.
DONATIONS / 001PAYPAL
HELP KEEP
BARKLY BUILDING.
Contributions help provide the infrastructure, hardware, software, research capacity, and development time needed to keep the laboratory moving.
SUPPORT BARKLY LABSDONATE WITH PAYPALFinancial transparency infrastructure is currently under development. Public reporting will expand as the system comes online.
05 / SPONSORSHIP
BUILD WITH
THE LAB.
Barkly Labs is open to organizations that want to support human-centered technology, experimental engineering, open infrastructure, and the people building it.
LAB SPONSORSHIP
Support the broader laboratory and help maintain the infrastructure that allows multiple projects to exist and evolve.
PROJECT SUPPORT
Support a specific area of development such as AI, hardware, documentation, accessibility, plant technology, or experimental computing.
EQUIPMENT & INFRASTRUCTURE
Help put physical tools and computing infrastructure into the lab so ideas can move from software diagrams into working systems.
SPONSORSHIP PRINCIPLEPARTNERSHIP SHOULD
TALK TO THE LAB →PARTNERSHIP SHOULD
HELP THE WORK.
Barkly will not pretend that a logo on a website is the same thing as building something useful. Sponsorship should create meaningful capacity for the laboratory and the work it exists to do.
06 / TRANSPARENCY
SHOW THE
WORK.
Barkly follows a simple principle: if we're asking people to believe in the work, we should show them the work.
01PUBLIC PROJECTS
Whenever practical, projects, documentation, requirements, and technical work are made visible.
02DOCUMENTED DECISIONS
Requirements, design choices, experiments, and lessons learned should become part of the record.
03NO MAGIC
Barkly should be understandable enough that another human can inspect the system and see how it works.
04HUMAN FIRST
Transparency isn't only about money. It's also about making technology understandable to the people using it.
PEOPLE ARE WORTH
DESIGNING FOR.
CONTACT / 001
WANT TO
BUILD WITH US?
Whether you're an individual, organization, engineer, artist, researcher, builder, or simply someone who thinks this should exist — there's room in the lab.
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