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OSE Website Information Architecture Spreadsheet

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Timelines Information

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Optimization

• Website was optimized for databases., receiving A's on all but HTML. Using 35MB of the 40 allocated. Speed is unacceptable. Requsted Hetzner increase from 40MB to 128MB on 2/22/14.

Website Sections - Community

Intro

The Open Source Ecology project is fueled by a community of countless contributors - motivated by the open source ethic of collaborative development. We are lowering the barriers of participation so that anyone can join: in areas spanning design, engineering, art, communications, video, writing, enterprise - and on to tangible outcomes of hands-on builds and pilot projects. We are building on commonly-available tools and creating processes that allow people with little prior experience to generate sophisticated results - using an integrated, interdisciplinary development process. We care about systems and ecologies - where we value generalist skills that transcends the limits of siloed thinking. Our goal is to show that anyone, provided access to tools and techniques - can tap amazing productivity, creativity, and power - on a transition from consumer culture to a new level of responsibility. Our goal is to create a cultural revolution - where you can Build Yourself - and build the world around you. We offer Design Sprints, 3-day immersion workshops, and the summer of extreme design/builds. Our work is geared at students, professionals, and social entrepreneurs - and anyone looking to make a change in the world, reskill themselves, and collaborate in a growing community creating the collaborative economy. Our goal is to create a kernel for a Civilization Starter Kit, and to create a formidable, open source development platform to create the next economy. We are testing the limits of collaborative innovation fueled by open processes and open hardware - to accelerate innovation - to make a better world - and to leave nobody behind.

Develop + Organize + Support

'Call to action, contact info'

Development on the GVCS occurs both on site at Factor e Farm and remotely via Design Sprints, university collaborations, pilot projects, immersion workshops, and other development opportunities. We publish Requirements and Requests for Proposals and encourage anybody to apply either to work remotely or on-site. On-site work includes prototyping, infrastructure buildout, Immersion Workshops, agriculture, and other education opportunities. Our unique approach is creating not single machines, but instead - modular, scalable construction sets for building any machine - to Build Yourself - to Build Civilization.

Develop

• Design Sprints - We have held a number of Design Sprints where collaborators gather around a Google Hangout and work in real-time on collaborative documents for conceptual and technical design. The potential here lies in - for example a group of 20 mechanical engineering students working for 2 hours to generate CAD on 10 different modules of a machine - given that Requirements are provided and given that the event collaboration architecture is defined precisely. With team leaders emerging, we envision running such events in parrallel with a number of groups. For example, we envision 10 groups of 20 students coordinating development for 2 hours on a Saturday - to generate an equivalent of . Our University Tour is intended to identify and recruit groups for such work. If you are involved in a student group - such as ASME, SAE, EWB, ESW, AIAS, IEEE, IACES, Habitat for Humanity, Architecture for Humanity, public service, alternative spring break, or other groups anywhere in the world, please contact info at opensourceecology to enroll your chapter in OSE Design Sprints.

• Learning Factory Summer School - anyone is welcome to apply. This is a great opportunity for university students to gain practical experience, make a difference, or build their skill set and resume.

• Alternative Spring Breaks - currently we have a March 9-14 Alternative Spring Break trip. Interested in changing the world rather than going to the beach? Join us - [1].

Organize

If you have organizational skill and you are interested in working more closely with the core OSE team - help us organize:

• University Lectures - or other speaking engagemnents. This is a great form of outreach, intended to recruit participants. We are continuing to find strong stakeholders with our College Tour - and we are pursuing Design Sprints, Summer Internships, and student projects with the new contacts.

• University Chapters - We are currently working on the first OSE University chapters at UW Milwaukee and Purdue University. The requirements are hosting one design sprint per month. To organize an OSE Chapter, see the guidelines at the OSE Chapters Page on the wiki, and then contact info at opensourceecology dot org to pursue the opportunity.