Ian Log

Wed Mar 18, 2020

Meeting with Morio and Marcin on OSE Chapters. Emerging strategy:

1. University outreach is interested in recruiting high school students.
2. Chapters organize as a student organization with their university, and apply for funding from their respective student organizations office - for buiding a basic microfactory for prototyping
3. University provides meeting space and facilities
4. Kickoff event is a 2 day intro event - building 3D printers and learning FreeCAD design. Event invites OSE University Chapter leadership (faculty advisor, pair of student leaders) - and a number of local high schools.
   1. Student leaders organize OSE Chapter at the university prior to Kickoff, ideally, and apply for open source microfactory funding such that the kickoff is fruitful for high school students.
5. University chapter runs ongoing Design Sprints, and 2x per year High School Hackathons, achieving outreach goals of university
   1. Faculty advisor leverages the collaboration for producing meaningful research results, on an existing applied project of interest - so that the faculty advisor can synergize via their existing effort. Here it is a Farm Rover - part of the Tractor Construction Set - a platform for building human-controlled and autonomous tractors from 1 kW to 400kW in size.
6. National Coordinator for respective country facilitates publicity and marketing for kickoff event
7. University OSE Chapter can be formed with intent of long term relationship with OSE
8. University chapters run ongoing Design Sprints and annual hackathon
9. Chapters participate to annual Incentive Challenge
10. All chapters worldwide work on the same project, with collaboration ecology that includes hundreds of roles and thousands of contributors, to accelerate innovation to higher effectiveness than corporate R&D - via open collaboration under Open Source-Compliant hardware and software licenses

Next Steps

1. Prepare 4 hour onboarding webinar series for college students. See one hour from Collaborative Literacy of 2020.
2. Refine National Chapters of OSE
3. Select a date for event which invites high school students to Massey
4. Reach out to other Universities and high schools in New Zealand