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OSE's goal is to create the open source economy. To get there, OSE is designing and building critical production machines - the [[Global Village Construction Set]]. As of January 2015, the OSE community has built a total of about 100 machines around the world. See [[Replication]].
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The dust has settled as of the 2011 [[TED Talk]].
 
At this time, viral replication has not yet happened within the Global Village Construction Set. It may perhaps be said that in the overall world of open source hardware, no single project has shown a transformation of some sector of the economy. The closest is the open source 3D printer, RepRap. However, the biggest producer of consumer 3D printers, Makerbot - has turned proprietary in 2013. This showed to the world a notion that as an open source company 'matures,' it has to go proprietary. Unfortunately, the world does not yet know a great example of a significant open source hardware tool that has dominated a marketplace, outside of electronics.
 
Why is this important to stop and consider this? Because the whole promise of open source is that open source products become superior to their proprietary counterparts - and this is a promise not delivered.
 
3D printing is interesting in this point. While open source has spawned the largest manufacturer of 3D printers - that industry is dominated by proprietary product.
 
The true promise is that open wins hands down. The time of this promise is yet to come.
 
We would like to begin moving OSE in that direction - after observing that none of our products have dominated the marketplace yet. We think there are reasons for that - and the bottom line is performance, access, and documentation. We think that we can show a good example with the Brick Press - the most evolved OSE product to date. We will be taking the CEB Press to the finish line this year.
 
What have we achieved so far?
 
See the main milestones from 2011-2014 - 2 pages here - https://docs.google.com/a/opensourceecology.org/presentation/d/1iE-kXfVWHk39-Y4iDCpRJX8G-RWGnF5QoSjYGcf1V3E/edit#slide=id.g5d8fba772_228 ('''Disclaimer:''' note that this document is work in progress, it is raw thoughts not yet packaged well for public consumption for sake of early feedback, with understanding .that the document is agile and will change. The public facing Strategy document will be published around April, 2015 after it is approved by the OSE [[Board of Directors]].)
 
Where do we go from here?

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