OSE Right Livelihood Framework
OSE is asking the question of how we can create - collaboratively - mass opportunities for regenerative livelohoods? For Open Source Product Development in hardware to scale to the level of Linux software - economic feedback loops from open hardware must happen. The point must be the individuals end up with an opportunity to make a living from open source, collaborative work, via Distributed Market Substitution that creates the Circular Economy, based on Distributive Enterprise, towards the Open Source Economy. As such, the new livelihoods contribute to solving Pressing World Issues by not contributing to the underlying causes, namely the Neoliberal Economic World Order. From OSE's perspective, we are pursuing a distributed economy - distributed production and distributed power - for a historic transfer of wealth from the few to the many.
OSE's general development methodology involves:
- crowd development and people logging work on their Work Logs
- Extreme Enterprise for taking products to final release for enterprise startup, and for training entrepreneurs to run an enterprise on their own. This is either through Extreme Enterprise Training (immersion courses) or through the 1 year OSE Mentorship
- Design Guides for involving larger numbers of people in meaningful design. This enables
- OSE Chapters which create new OSE Campuses that carry on open, collaborative development.
- Part Libraries which organize all of the designed parts in an easy-to-find fashion
- OSE Discourse Forum which links to relevant discussions, and is embedded in respective wiki pages.
- OSE Badges to certify individuals in relevant skills for collaborative design
The current (2020) stand of OSE is converting its product prototypes into distributed enterprises, where Open Source Capital is a viable substitute for Finance Capital. In our methodology, we organize large-scale (2000 people) development events for taking proven prototypes to product release - with customers participating in that development process. Our method involves direct incentivization of stakeholders to take the development work to completion, and provides an opportunity for solving pressing world issues.
