About the Archive

OpenFlight Labs is a museum-style archive for research and development experiments conducted by the OpenFlightHPC group. We believe that every experiment—whether successful or not—has value worth preserving.

Like a natural history museum curates specimens from field research, we curate "specimens" from our R&D work. Each experiment documents what we tried, what we learned, and what we would do differently next time.

In fast-paced R&D environments, valuable insights often get lost. A hackathon project might yield an interesting approach that doesn't quite work—but three months later, someone else might have the missing piece of the puzzle.

By preserving our experiments as "specimens" in a structured archive, we create a searchable knowledge base that accelerates future work and prevents us from repeating the same investigations.

Each experiment is categorized by its status:

• Hypothesis — An idea proposed for investigation. Not yet started.
• In Progress — Currently being researched or developed.
• Completed — Research finished with documented outcomes and findings.
• Archived — No longer actively maintained, but preserved for reference.

Members of the OpenFlightHPC group can submit new experiments by creating markdown files in the src/experiments/ directory. Each experiment follows a structured format with YAML front matter for metadata and markdown for content.

For more information about contributing, see the project README on GitHub.

OpenFlight Labs is maintained by the OpenFlightHPC team. This site is built with Eleventy and styled with a custom museum specimen archive theme.