ArthurDent451

Back in 1980 I moved into a shared house in Sydney and one night I was woken up by commotion in the adjoining back yard. A man was sitting naked on top of the Hills Hoist hosing himself with cold water in the middle of winter and shouting "You're all as plastic as my little red guitar". Police and ambulance arrived and he was carted off. Neighbours told me that he was a computer programmer. Somehow I wiped this memory from my mind and took up a career as a coder. Fast forward 20 years and I was seeking medical advice for symptoms of "burn out". Thankfully not as severe as that poor chap in 1980.

The Open Repair Alliance publishes a repair data standard and datasets for downloading as well as insights into the data. https://openrepair.org/open-data/downloads/

From time to time, citizen sciencey "quests" are held to enrich the data and engage people with repair issues.

The data is used for lobbying for the Right to Repair in Europe.