OSE Documenter Job Description

Open Source Software has changed the world by presenting the world with options. We believe that Open Hardware will do the same by giving people access to resources and materials to change their lives through Open Source appropriate technology. Want to change the world with us?

See what we do in the Founder's TED Talk - http://bit.ly/2kyYsvn

The Open Source Economy is the next trillion dollar economy, and we intend to bring it to the world sooner with your help. We’re looking for a professionals with Documentation, Writing, Video Editing, Publishing, and Copywriting skills to play a role in documentation and publishing. As an education organization, our key product is documentation - of the machines, skills, and techniques that we develop.

The Documentation Team works closely with and as part of our core Development Team. Development work focuses on design - and Documenters assist in our open source product development efforts by publishing instructionals on both the development process and the technologies under development. We focus on open source appropriate technology and the development of regenerative economies. Documentation plays a key role in replication of our work worldwide. This offer is a generalist position, with promotion track to VP of Documentation.

Documentation Team Duties:

• Work with the Development Team of OSE Developers to document development processes and the technologies under development with a focus on making our designs and processes transparent to the general public
• Learning Kdenlive - the open source nonlinear video editor - to produce short but information-rich and impactful instructional videos
• Writing scripts for instructional videos, such as build instructionals, big-picture story-telling shorts, and other educational and edu-marketing materials.
• Learning basic proficiency in FreeCAD - the open source video editing package. Most of our workflows revolve around FreeCAD, and a number of workflows that needs to be documented involves FreeCAD - such that basic literacy in FreeCAD is indispensible to producing and testing instructionals.
• Downloading and using OSE Linux Live USB - a free operating system featuring critical software packages used throughout OSE's development work. We require this so everyone has access to a suite of preinstalled software, thereby eliminating software + file compatibilty issues for seamless development
• Participation in a weekly Development Team meeting to coordinate with team members on
• Producing compact video instructionals for the Development Team to help onboard new developers and to teach new skills to existing members
• Composing publications, such as Design Guides and Construction Set how-tos - which enable others to get more involved in
• Working directly with OSE Developers to produce

Requirements:

• We are looking for candidates who have an insatiable appetite for learning, who are effective communicators, have good technical competency, and who thrive in a dynamic learning environment.
• This offer is for a 90 day development cycle duration, at which point the candidate has a chance to renew their commitment
• A minimum of 10 hours of volunteer time is required per week, as we require a serious commitment from our participants and pride ourselves on rapid and visible results

Identifying short-term contributors for external reviews, curriculum development, and webinar presentations On-boarding and off-boarding of contributors Maintaining and updating a list of training resources, including recruiting contributors to assist in the creation of training materials Coordinating with Development Team leads on team staffing needs to fill any gaps in the Development Team Video recording of initial interview and uploading to YouTube as private records for quality control purposes Assisting the Heavyweight Product Manager in the creation of systems for scaling HR efforts for improved development velocity Documenting all HR protocols as publicly-acessible documents, restricting viewing access only to sensitive information Coordinate with IT Generalist on filling gaps in IT infrastructure related to the HR function Maintaining a Development Team profile page on the OSE wiki to show current and past developer profiles, including listing contributors' skills badges Maintaining analytics on contributor hours, retention rates, recruiting velocity, and HR effort. Helping to define metrics and incentives for contributors Continuous quality improvement of the recruiting process to optimize team morale, effectiveness and efficiency Setting specific recruiting velocity milestones on a monthly basis, with a an average goal of 1-2 new developers joining the team per week Logging all work product in a Work Log on the OSE wiki, and filling out a weekly Time Sheet Participate in continuing learning opportunities related to OSE's open source product development method