Shuttleworth November Quarterly Report

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Instructions:

  • The purpose of this update is to showcase your work of the past 3 months and map the next 3 months.
  • Be brief. Summarise, do not recreate.
  • Link to posts, event profiles, etc. wherever possible.
  • Include dates wherever possible.

Quarterly Report Sep. 1, 2012 - Nov. 31, 2012

What did OSE make?

  • 4 Day Production Run of Brick Press - Sep. 24 - [1].
  • CEB Press Prototype IV Complete - Sep. 24 - [2]
  • 2 Day Collaborative Production Run of Brick Press - Nov. 23-24 - [3]
  • 2 Day Collaborative Production Run of Power Cube - Nov. 11 - 12 - [4]
  • 1 Day Build of Modular Stove - Oct. 17 - [5]
  • Trencher Build and Test - Nov. 18 - [6]
  • Keyline Plow Build and Test - Oct. 2 - [7]
  • CEB Press Controller - Prototype IV - Nov. 23 - [8]
  • Trenched ~500 feet of water lines with Backhoe - Oct. 3 - [9]
  • House Foundation Insulation Finished - Dec. 2 - [10]
  • Backhoe Design and Flash Mob - Nov. 21 - [11]
  • Working on True Fans crowd funding platform - Nov. 19 - [12]
  • Shuttleworth Foundation re-application - Nov. 29 - [13]
  • First time baling hay with LifeTrac with an industry standard baler - Oct. 30 - [14]

Where did you go?

  • SupporTED Collaboratorium - Sep. 5-8 - [15] and [16]
  • Global Insights Network gathering - Oct. 8-10 - organized by General Electric on the topic of Distributed Manufacturing.
  • Bioneers East Conference keynote - Oct. 28 - [17]
  • Shuttleworth Fellows Gathering - Nov. 4-9- [18]
  • NYC - Nov 18-19 - Strategic Planning Session with Undercurrent- [19], Milgo Bufkin Digital Fabricators - [20] on optimizing fabrication to single-day runs, 3rd Ward on teaching a CNC Torch Table workshop [[21], and Open Source Hardware Association Visit [22] on Documentation Standards development.

What have you been saying?

  • First Draft of Strategic Plan - [23]
  • First Installment of biweekly newsletter - OSEmail - [24]
  • TED Weekends in Huffington Post on the Efficient Economy - [25]
  • Plan for 2013 in Shuttleworth re-application - [26]
  • Modularity Pattern Language in development - [27]

Who is joining your thinking?

  • Focus Forward film competition - we are now Finalists - [28]
  • Time Magazine thinks we are one of the 50 Best Inventions for 2012 - [29]
  • MIT Innovations Journal - [30]
  • Open Source Hardware Association - development of Documentation Standards
  • 2 high school students did the first replication of our tractor and want to donate it to a community garden - [31]
  • Istanbul Design Biennial is joining us in thinking about the third industrial revolution - [32]

Your roadmap for the next 3 months

  • December - 1 Day Production Run of Brick Press - major milestone of efficient production. Stabilizing organization with tighter rollout plan and strategy.
  • January - Recruiting Operations Manager and Technical Lead as first people to free me up. Standards development for Documentation and Development Procedure.
  • February - 2 production runs in planning. Probably CNC Torch Table and Ironworker Machine - key production machines as we move into digital fabrication as our main means.

Your favourite artefact of the past 3 months

  • 2 Day Production Run of Brick Press and Power Cube - optimizing production.