X90-1000

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Introduction

OSE milestones to date involve single-day heavy machine builds, formulation of a modular design language, reduction of design time from months to weeks by using a construction set approach, and a revenue model based on Extreme Manufacturing. Our next major milestone is to 100x our development capacity via a refined collaboration architecture towards visible market substitution.

Market substitution refers to an open source process where a local open source microfactory effectively becomes "a xerox machine for tangible goods" - ie - common products being manufactures in communities.

To this end, our milestone is to recruit 1000 people on the scale of 30 days, for a 90 day development sprint for a total of 120,000 development hours per quarter. This is proposed by a combination of:

  • Clear collaboration architecture - a handbook describing all the roles required for the development of a specific product
  • Launching of a design challenge on HeroX to facilitate a specific project. Crowdfunding is contemporaneous with recruiting.
  • Modular breakdown of project into about a dozen teams of 100 people each
  • Self-selection process for developers for semi-automated on-boarding. Developer test must include FreeCAD for any design roles, and actual tasks for other roles.

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Execution

Africa may be a place to try this by combining OSE Linux, 1 hour of CAD training, and 1 hour of development training in a 2 hour crash course on OSE development - a prerequisite for any Design Jam.

Africa provides a context for access to people, financed by the west, with intent to avoid modern-day imperialism by involving local capacity building to the highest extent possible. This means training local leaders to build, run, and replicate OSE Microfactories. Collaboration with Alex Socolof and David Li may be useful here.