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Revision as of 15:46, 29 November 2021
Jon Contacts. Weekly Video Folder- [1].
Mon, Nov 29, 2021
Progress Updates
Wed Nov 24, 2021
Weekly Meeting Notes
- Priorities:
1. Emergent Ventures Application 2. Completing Summer Ex and 3D Printer Workshop 3. Product Development 4. Client acquisition 5. Research Inspection Schedules for KC Building
- Marcin is wrapping up Summer Ex.
- Siding arrived for Seed Eco-Home
- Marcin will have 3-day Teacher's Seminar next week
- Talked to Brian, might have funding for Mortgage
- Options include risk share with client, or do a spec build, or find a client who owns land and applies for a construction permit
- Marcin is working on 3000sf workshop design. Focusing on rebar trusses. link
- Developing the pedagogy - iterative and immersive. Show don't tell. One example is Fab Academy
- GM University Emergent Ventures Grant is a priority. Need to work on describing moonshot idea. We need a logic chain from Seed EcoHome to achieving larger vision. Jon- do some research into Emergent Ventures and how we pitch.
- Jon needs to audio excerpt Tim Ferris Podcast for marketing, contacting Balaji Srinivasan who is speaking on OSE's behalf.
- Do we need to hire technical writers to put together a visual build-book for the Seed Eco-Home? Does that start with a promo video?
- From the Outlaws Inc. Newsletter published on 11/22/2021:
Progress Report, 11/23/2021 Thanks for your interest in our partnership with Open Source Ecology! Here is a brief recap:
OSE and Outlaws Inc. have partnered to create employment and education pathways for transitioning service members and veterans. Both education and employment will be covered by the GI Bill. Our vision: Veterans will move to the OSE campus in Maysville, MO, work and learn on site as either paid apprentices or students. Once complete with the curriculum, they will be prepared to start their own business, supporting the OSE mission directly, or ready to enter the economy with a diverse skillset. Last week, I traveled to the OSE campus and developed the plan for the OSE Apprenticeship. Here is where we stand…
We received conditional approval for our Apprenticeship Curriculum! Two representatives from the Missouri Department of Labor conducted a site visit and were impressed with everything OSE has accomplished and the potential to turn it into a Registered Apprenticeship for both Production Technologist (2-year), and Tiny-House builder (1-year). Together, we formed a 12-month glide path to become apprentice ready. The first step is to build a Seed Eco-Home to a client in Kansas City in the early Spring of 2022. This first build will serve as a proof of concept for the full apprenticeship, generating revenue we need to build out the OSE campus for future apprentices and students.
How you can help! To achieve our next milestone—selling a Seed Eco-Home—we will be recruiting 24 workers to travel to Kansas City, learn the modular construction process, and build the actual home. The entire build will take 1-2 weeks and workers will be paid ~$50/hour. Exact wages are TBD.
Please spread the word about this opportunity. Tell your friends to subscribe to this newsletter for the latest updates.
Mon Nov 22, 2021
Links
- Swarm build and crash course model concept + economics - [2]
Production Technologist
Emergent Ventures
Marcin,
- OSE democratizes technology
- OSE lowers the barrier to entry for a regenerative economy
- OSE lowers the cost of technology and STEM education
- OSE empowers distributed enterprise and human development
One liner of main interest is 'to create the collaborative economy'. That sounds like a general idea, but the specifics are testing one business case for a distributive enterprise that matches or exceeds the growth rate of unicorns and results in distributed market substitution of one sector of the economy. By working out an open enterprise development model. Build that around 'Housing'.
Or we can keep it small, such as 'Solve Housing.'
The key would be excellent communication, with which Steve could help.
Apprenticeship
Jonathan Miller 6:39 AM (1 hour ago) to Jeremy, Tracy, Debra, Catarina, Brian, me Good Morning! Thanks again to both of you for making the trek out to Maysville last week. I hope you enjoyed the weekend after all that travel. I just wanted to touch base and confirm where we are: OSE’s work process for Production Technologist is technically approved, but OSE is not apprentice ready. Specifically, OSE will build more on-site infrastructure to support long-term work/learning. If we need something official from the DoL that helps us in the grant-writing process, we will let you know. Brian Weinberg is cc’d as he is helping us navigate the grant writing process. OSE will update you as we build the infrastructure to support apprenticeships. You will send us the standards for the “Tiny House” work process. We may be closer to apprentice ready for this than we are for Production Technologist. Finally, a question: if we submit an acceptable Tiny House work process, did you find any reason during the site visit why we wouldn’t be able to Register as soon as we found a willing candidate? Great meeting you again, and I look forward to working together! Jon Miller Founder, Outlaws Inc. My Calendar Leave a Review
Thu Nov 18, 2021
Jon Thoughts on Compensation
- Truly free market existed somewhere in middle east?
- Cost should reflect your risk. Institutions figured out how to take out the risk, and still charge you as if they were taking risk. Debt by David Graeber. First thing that was traded was women. Barter preceded money preceded credit - it really happened in reverse. Within tribes it was credit - iou if you give me some wheat. Between tribes, it was barter. When you remove trust. Capitalists call that a success.
- Compensation should scale with unique value creation
- Recurring revenue should be capped to avoid rent-seeking
- Must reward innovation
Draft Memorandum of Understanding
- Summarizes work accomplished during Jon's visit
- Create common operational picture
- Manage expectations
- Formulate realistic plan
- Low income housing with vets
- Microhouse village with vets - social service way to provide labor
- Sweat equity labor - way to provide labor. Future homeowners spend 50 weekends over 2 years
Apprenticeship Financial Model (GI Bill)
Notes
- Common opearational picture
- SEH Product - Spec Build - Infrastructure are key elements
- How do we account for payroll taxes once we have an apprentice?
Wed Nov 17, 2021
- MVP tinyhouse crash course - [3]
Tue Nov 16, 2021
Infrastructure
- Inventory of workshop
- Equipment, organized, operations for it
- Organize steel pile
- Not just clean up - but system to prevent future entropy
- Repair as needed
- Landscaping
- Cleanup
- Design new building layout
- Same for hablab
- Life support
- Trash
- Recycling
- Food - how it comes in, managed, prepared
- Laundry
- Entertainment
- Think of systems
- How are bathrooms cleaned
- Where are people parking
- Areas: life support, workshop, materials storage and handling, 2nd workshop
- Build the workshop as we want to build the workshop
DoL Talking Points
- Match masking behavior
- SEH 1 first
- Ask by Jon - what's the best use of your time?
- Cool let's take 5 minutes to talk
- What you're looking at is a house that Apprentices will be building
- We should make it clear that we have skin in the game,
- Way there is - this is our house; this is our design; we build it (not hired a contractor)
- Carpentry apprenticeship if it doesn't follow industry standards- harms the industry. 3rd option is to create a new standard.
- Ex - building rafters - we don't do it
- Burning hours idea - you build over and over. To quantify what they do in daily life.
- Gatekeeping is reporting hours worked in pre-defined work process
- How do you qualify apprentices? It's hours.
General Conditions
- Recruiting - full trash can. Proper response - where is your trash can liner.
- Engineer social interactions
- Systems - how do we manage
- April 1
- Solve for people first
- But, to solve for people we need to solve for living conditions
- Infrastructure and operations - but these need people!
- People -> infrastructure -> people -> money
Wed Nov 10, 2021
- Bringing structure to OSE vision
- DoL - system level constraints to scaling Apprenticeship
- Maybe 2 year apprenticeship is one of multiple things on a menu
- Crash course - part of making OSE an education and employment pathway
- Operationalizing a plan for Builder Crash Course
- Jon imagined a place like OSE before met me. Learn by doing, plus education - thermo, civ e. Originally - make products that you can sell.
- Have: brain; prouducts ready for commercialization; within context of sust and regen. Perfect match for where employment and edu is going.
- Vets - cultural, awareness, and bureaucracy issues.
- Change the narrative around slave live. To financial independence etc. Rewrite vet transition story
- Others - gig workers, not college grads, young people in hs who didn't buy into academics but who care about a better world; marginalized communities
- Chambers of Commerce - we have a formula for scaling economic dev. New skill base dev, help local enterprise start up.
- Work used to be: factory, widget, get paid.
- Prove a new model for edu and employment.
- Build a microfactory?
- Before that: build a program. Ops manual. Bible. The bible could be the insurgency.
- Get this to copy. 100% getting the message out there.
- Teaser - we need feedback etc.
- Putting people in place to execute.
- Operations Manager -
- 2 routes: boatload of cash, hire experts. Or - bootstrap iterate, ex Builder Crash Course.
Sun Nov 7, 2021
Thoughts: '"it is unlikely that OSE would be able to make it through the certification process due to current statutes that are in place. As of now, it is important for certification programs to teach skills to a certain depth so students are marketable in the job market, and while OSE teaches a variety of extremely useful skills, it does not teach them to the depth to where they could realistically attain a job in the field.”' Why if we could start a welding program, don't confuse the people.
- Swarm Build Ops Manual [4]
- Swarm Build Doc - [5]
- Career Faur Soreadsheet - [6]
- Podcast invite - [7]
- Proprietary school exemption - [8]
- MO dept of higher Ed application - [9]
- Yale architecture - [10]
- Kiva loans for $15k [11]
- State approving agency - [12]
- Unaccredited programs - [13]
Wed Nov 3, 2021
- OSE 4 Year Program
- Proprietary Non-academic Exemption
- Shorter apprenticeship
- Deconstruction service of existing structure - controlled demo - reusing existing materials.
- Builder Crash Course Curriculum Development
- Jon - goal is to rebuild the American Dream. If you work hard, you'll get success. Manufacturing in the USA. Unsustainable work-life balance. Transform culture around the military. Veterans. Not restricted by current jobs.
- Thought his ME was hot, but saw a farmer rig up creativity on a tractor...
- 150k vets. 50% get education. Culture of "I need a 4 year degree to be successful"
- College doesn't interest them
- Navigate benefits - lots of red tape
- Some get employed
- There is a culture in the military re dependency, disabled vet sense of entitlement.
- Unconventional education, system change, collaboration with institutions.
- Could
Meeting 2
- Brian, Jon, Marcin. David Leasure not today.
- Ranch in South Dakota - actually seeing it. Getting hands dirty on a ranch.
- Production Technologist - apprenticeship title. Submitted to DoL
- Established Relationship, willing to approve on paper, we're far away from apprentices on the ground. They are still to approve standards. But before that it is a site visit. It would be a local level DoL.
- Scenarios - no, this doesn't meet our standards for Apprenticeship, here are changes. OR - 'you are good -
- Education - students
- ARPA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Rescue_Plan_Act_of_2021 - Brian applied for a $100M grant
- Missouri Community College - MCC
- Education Route - Builder Crash Course. Submit as independent program. Exemption under non-vocational status. This would make OSE a proprietary school in Missouri - 30 day turnaround.
- Nonvocation - could be basketweaving. Not putting people into workforce.
- Allows us to start clock on GI-bill approved facility.
- Waiver - from high up in the edu world.
- Financial Instruments-
- P2P
- Purchase orders
- MCC financial aid
- DAO
- Financial Innovation - how to finance anyone who wants to go in
- Kiva Loans- $15k of labor.
- General Assembly - got VA to sign off on their program by. General Assembly went the education pathway. Financing handbook by General Assembly.
- Look at their financing handbook - [14]. For how to finance students. Brian knows GA founder
- Build in 2 weeks - we build a kit!
- Hire a company to productize -
- Income-sharing agreement
- We want to unjob people, not employees - Brian sez.
- Add a layer of support via financing structures.
- Smuggle thems in, koz pimping ain't easy
- Jungletown - not a Marcin but had good intentions - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6749344/
- https://www.givingback.org/ - fiscal sponsor of Foundation for Regeneration
- Economic Gardening - selling innovation to other markets. https://economicgardening.org/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fungible_token
Wed Oct 27, 2021
- Workforce dev + refrigeration units
Wed Oct 20, 2021
- Less of this likeminded geniuses to the normal
- People show up, we accomplish things, people leave happy
- Plan that can run on autopilot. That would be growth.
- Less from pay for a 3D printer - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/622508883/open-building-institute-eco-building-toolkit?gclid=CjwKCAjw_L6LBhBbEiwA4c46upx-L9G9s9VQcfiAA_siAjnDGh6_qMBP4aT6NbSwjikJUu1yDaToURoCjVQQAvD_BwE
- Check out the Stages of Organization Model - https://arthuryoung.com/applications/the-sibbet-le-saget-stages-of-organization-model/
- This is relevant to our notions of collaboration.
- Plan - finish eating this candy bar. Then open up the next candybar.
- Summary - categorize all that we have. $30k. It's when you have the numbers figured out.
- Richard Henneger - get word out, message has to be cohesive.
- Time and task organization - step 1.
Wed Oct 13, 2021
Planning Doc - Troop Leading Procedures - standard framework for any planning in the military:
- Analysis of situation
- Mission
- Execution
- Sustainment - logistics and coordination
- Command and Control - who reports to who, roles, etc - roles and responsibilities
- DOL is willing to approve, but want an in-person site visit. Mid Nov but depends on budget
- Gaps - paying people, instructors
- On visit - eye wash equipment, safety posters, etc.
- Fire extinguisher, eye wash station, emergency station - have that prepped
- Prior to finding client:
- Product specification
- Education discussion - they won't approve something not well-defined.
- More compelling argument on specific
- 97% use GI Bill for education
- 3% do employment
- Swarm Build doc - [15]
Wed Oct 6, 2021
Rusk, Jack <jack.rusk@yale.edu> Attachments Tue, Oct 5, 2:21 PM (18 hours ago) to Jonathan, me
Jonathan and Marcin -
Wow! Thank you for thinking of me. This is a really exciting project and I’m very much in love with the ethic behind Open Source Ecology. I’m game to do what I can to support you in bringing this to fruition.
I really wish I could volunteer myself, but I have a few other things lined up. What I could do, though, is: 1) Forward an email to the School of Architecture about this opportunity. I’d imagine that you would draft boilerplate and I could tune it to the audience. 2) Ask if there’s a student in the Green Building class (which Jon took) that would be interested in taking this on as a class project. 3) Connect you with the people who run the Green Light ideation workshops at Yale School of the Environment. They host half-day chartreuse working with real clients on real problems.
Let me know if any of that could be helpful? Or if there’s anything else I could do.
Sincerely,
Sent from my iPad
Sep
- Wage schedule, timeline, curriculum
- 2 year apprenticeship.
- Rapids Database, GI database
- Good relationship with Tracy - DoL missouri. Jon talked to Deborah, state relationship.
- Application is a living document
- Next: complete the application and submit it.
- Concrete final month is 85% of it
- GI Bill will give Vet $1250/month, decreases every 6 months by 20%
- TBI - traumatic brain injury
- What you think is possible is only a fraction of what is possible
- If this is s
Mon Aug 9, 2021
- Context: I recently partnered with Open Source Ecology a non-profit based an hour outside of Kansas City, MO. Together, we are building a 2-year curriculum that could double as a registered apprenticeship and supplement a 4-year engineering degree. The program would teach students to construct a modular home system called the Seed Eco-Home by combining foundational STEM and building science with hands-on construction and the integrative design process. I am directly assisting with curriculum development and pathways to the veteran community and benefits. I’ve cc’d OSE’s founder, Marcin Jakubowski.
- Ask: Is there a way we can tap into your networks to spread awareness of OSE and lay the groundwork for future partnerships? This could be through the UnBuild It podcast, or maybe even the Build Show. Marcin is currently running their first apprenticeship class in collaborative design. It could also be through warm intros with industry professionals who find the idea intriguing. Jake—is this something you might be interested in checking out as it is relatively close to your base of operations? In general, your thoughts as building professionals and scientists would be extremely valuable.
- Opportunities for builders/employers to tap into veteran benefit programs and recruit long-term apprentices and employees.
- My personal journey working with a building scientist (Paul Herron) to upgrade the 1980s single family home over the past month. This includes rebate programs, solar, insulation upgrades, and energy audits.
- The Open Source Ecology model for empowering the next generation to tackle big problems through applied learning in home construction."
Mon Aug 9, 2021
Relevant Links: Apprenticeship Standards, Cornell Law site - [16]. Other Training - [17]
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