Talk:Essay on Creative Problem-Solving

= Bringing the specifications into constructive conversations =

This page is very much work in progress.

Intention
The Essay on Creative Problem-Solving is about how to keep ourselves constructive. It's not about the tools we build, but about how we talk when we're building the tools. So it's about what happens in the conversation-space that's around the hands-space.

An important part of this is quickly telling both newbies and oldtimers about specifications, and being able to refer to specifications in a constructive way.

Make the specifications concrete
The OSE specifications are an abstract set of requirements. The CEB Press is the first product that has reached the "1.0 release" level. Here's how the OSE specifications apply to the CEB Press, to make the specifications memorable to the non-abstract mind. If video travels around the CEB Press as an object, we could refine a good way to "tell the story of the specifications".


 * Open source design: a set of wikipages, CAD files and videos (how it works, how it can be built) is available so any person can copy and use the documentation.
 * Open business models for distributive economics: I don't know where this is being documented, appart from the actions of OSE itself.
 * Lifetime: metal lasts a lifetime. A counter-example is tools made from wood.
 * Modular:
 * Scalable:
 * Replicable:
 * Design-for-disassembly:


 * Integrated: the CEB Press can use the lifetrac to provide the soil, the powercube to provide the power.
 * Product ecology:
 * Complete community infrastructure: this is not seen at the tool level, but at the toolset level.


 * New economy, new politics, new human relations emerge from the GVCS
 * Iconoclastic solutions that they do not teach you in school
 * Simplicity, transparency of design

Provide counter-examples
Another way to bring the specifications into conversations would be to provide counter-examples, of course without mistreating the options at the other side of the fence. We just want to be very specific about "how OSE is different".

Examples:
 * Tools that are made from wood do not "last a lifetime".

Ways to assess comments and contributions
Could there be a neutral way to assess a comment or a contribution, so that we could say "modular +5" or "modular -5"?