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=Intent - OSE Mentroship Agreement=
=2024=
Marcin is taking on another invitation to [[Collaborative Mentorship]]


The intent of the OSE Mentorship is to start long-term relationships with individuals interested in carrying the work of OSE forward, in close collaboration with OSE. However, to provide maximum flexibility - it is the candidate's choice as to how closely they work with OSE. For the closest collaboration with OSE along OSE's roadmap to the completion of the [[GVCS]] by 2028, the OSE Chapter route can be followed. If a canditate wants to start other projects, based on OSE technology but not along OSE's critical path - then the candidate can choose to work independently. In the case of independent operation, OSE provides the skills training via the Mentorship, and OSE can certify the candidate's skill set with its certification exams. The certification exams are independent from certification as an official OSE Chapter. In the independent operation route - the candidate cannot use OSE's brand without specific permission.  
=2023 Introduction=
The OSE Mentorship teaches collaborative problem solving towards movement entrepreneurship. We learn how to learn, so that we can get up to speed on unsolved problems in society - using an integrated, multidisciplinary, boundary-crossing approach that spans all human disciplines from history, applied numeracy, flow psychology, economics, military studies, and leadership - among others. We learn psychosocial integration to cultivate the courage and art of possibility which places ourselves in a win-win mindset for problem-solving - as opposed to individualism. As a hands-on project, we take on projects to design and build organizations with fresh operating principles based on a systems-transformation approach fueled by best practice. Curriculum for Year 1 involves a survey of natural phenomena, human possibility, unsolved problems, and house design to use house construction as a bootstrap funding mechanism. The key outcome revolves around understanding basic principles of how the world works, in order to start asking fundamental questions on the design and operation of all sectors of civilization. The intent is to create change agents who commit fully to solving frontiers of human systems evolution, such as solving corruption, poverty, or loss of meaning.


For the OSE-aligned route under the OSE brand - the OSE Mentorship can be followed by further negotiation of a formal Chapter agreement. A Chapter agreement can apply to any region of the world, and starts with local/regional chapters of OSE. There is currently no restriction on the locations of Chapters, as Chapters are driven primarily by interested stakeholders - who operate from their local base. The growth path with OSE may include the transition of local chapters to full Open Source Microfactories, and further growth to land-based [[OSE Campuses]] - at the regional, country, and international level. The collaborative goal of all the prospective Chapters for the near term (until 2028) is completion of the [[GVCS]] as a basis for replicating OSE Campuses worldwide.
However, this would be nothing without practice. OSE Mentorship candidates must be engaged in, or start engaging in upon starting the Mentorship - a full-time program of enterprise startup - of an open enterprise. The enterprise startup must be in some way related to the Seed Eco-Home product ecosystem, such as supporting machines, modules, design tools etc. The content must be developed under an open license, and specifically intended for open publishing as part of a transition to the open, collaborative economy that unleashes human potential. This is with the full intent of eradicating artificial scarcity in housing - which starts with the practice of open enterprise.


My personal note - I thrive in working with people who are making a better world, and would love to share all my knowhow in making that happen. This will make the Seed Eco-Home ecosystem better, and make the world better. There is clear inspiration value in open enterprise, and we look forward to collaborating with anyone who engages in this.


There are 3 separate phases: Training, Skill Certification, and Chapter Charter or its dissolution. The Training and Certification is a prerequisite for a Chapter Charter. The phase of the OSE Mentorship involves the Training part, with skills certification as an optional part that is included in the Mentorship. Skills certification is pursuant to performance exams in building machines, teaching, and running workshops, to be defined specifically at a later date. Skill Certification measures one's ability to execute on OSE-based programs, and allows the candidate to run such programs - though not under the OSE brand. Only the Chapter Charter allows for operation under the OSE brand.
==Limits==


Is house construction an adequate bootstrap funding mechanism - for all types of transformative work around the world? Yes, if it produces the highest quality housing at optimized cost and speed, and can be run as a home-based enterprise with a truck, trailer, and open source multi-tractor. As a multitrillion dollar market segment, housing takes mission alignment to develop the housing product, but we believe that the demand and thus interest in solving housing for oneself and the world can lead to the largest collaborative effort in human history. This is based on the potential to become the single most important solution to reduce the cost of living to provide economic independence, especially if ecoindustrial activity is integrated within the house. To turn the house away from a cost, and into a productive asset. By reduction of operating scale through smart integration and open source, modular design, we believe that industry can operate at the household scale while providing industrial levels of productivity. That is, if open, collaborative design takes hold, allowing even individuals to produce advanced artifacts at an unprecedented small scale. This is clearly true for lifetime-design assembly-based manufacturing (as opposed to materials production), decentralized to the household and village scale. Note that 1 acre of PV is sufficient for 3MWhr of daily energy. And that 3D printing of wood, plastic, and metal - combined with electric motors, sensors, microcontrollers, and stock metal - can produce just about any artifact available at Amazon. This requires about $3B of development (induction furnace, rod/wire mill, 3D printer in plastic, ceramic, wood, metal), an open source design platform, electric motor making, precision machining, welder, hammermill, plastic extruder, CEB press, sawmill, and hydraulic motors) and one year of time with a 1000 person team for each effort - to accomplish.


=Training and Certification=
==Strategy==
#Name of OSE Mentorship Candidate - Lesego Tshepe
We will recruit the combination of mentees, a bevy of retired Level 5 leaders (and other seasoned entrepreneurs who are open to post-scarcity thinking). Plus, resource developers for funding, and inspire people with 1-day Extreme Manufacturing builds of houses, cars, diamond makers, and demining machines.
#The training program is a direct mentorship relationship between the OSE Founder and the Candidate, that provides a curriculum of 40 weekly meetings and a 20 hour work/study assignment each week to gain the technical competency in OSE operations. These can include but are not limited to:
*Paying up-and-coming mentees (18+)
##designing, building, using, and developing an enterprise around GVCS machines,
*Level 5 Leaders
##3D printing
*Resource developers
##3D CAD design in FreeCAD
*Brute force Extreme Manufacturing demos
##Collaborative literacy for large-scale collaborative design and build projects
##Machine design
##CNC machines
##Tractors, Power Cubes, and heavy machinery for agriculture and contstruction


#Part of the engagement is enlisting a business mentor to help the Candidate on the ground, with concrete business issues of incorporation, business development, and operation as a distributed international organization.
==More==
#Training period is assumed to be 2 years, at 20 hours of time requirement per week. The 40 week curriculum is at
The OSE Mentorship is an opportunity for you to learn about collaborative movement entrepreneurship, using a open collaborative techniques. It is as much about developing a vision and mindset of collaboration - along with the skill set to build things. We build optimized products as product ecologies that deliver the promise of improving the quality of life for everyone - and the mentee participates in this process as much as possible. The intended audience is individuals who have a high capacity for rapid, integrated learning. This consists of an hour-long weekly meeting - directly with me - Marcin Jakubowski - where we delve into the philosophical and practical aspects of open-collaborative development, regenerative design, open source appropriate technology, and movement entrepreneurship. The intent is to provide a strategic and tactical awareness of what it takes to work on pressing world issues - using truly open, inclusive, and collaborative techniques - to create an inclusive economy of abundance. Via an approach that centers on entrepreneurship, which provides financial independence as a prerequisite to the freedom of choice required to take on important work. The goal here is to cultivate mindsets of possibility regarding solving remaining unsolved problems in civilization - and to cultivate a culture of discipline that can anable anyone who is truly interested - to take on this path as a way of life. The OSE Way.


==Chapter Charter and Duties==
The OSE way is a lifeling learning process. The Mentorship is intended to build a closely-knit community, with a goal of a full-time transition to OSE-inspired work. To make this happen, we develop open, collaborative enterprise as a means of bootstrapping progress. This is a response to my frustration at my obvious conviction that collaboration can produce better results - yet every corporation is proprietary, reinventing the wheel instead of unleashing true progress. So far I have not met a single entrereneur in the world - who is interested in collaborating on an open enterprise with scalable impact. Even in the world of open source. So I have to do this myself: first by starting a robust open enterprise (Seed Eco-Home), and building a community around the OSE way - who aspires to [[Level 6 Leadership]].
#Certification is required to at least an 80% competency level, with supplemental training to be engaged in order to reach 100% capacity in key areas of competency. OSE administers this certification, with basic requirements as at [[Lesego_Conversation#Chapter_Certification]].
#Chapter fee of 4-12% is negotiated based on the capacity, revenue, and adhesion to the OSE development path.
#Chapter fee covers all of the admin, internet, and programming costs related to all coordination of effort as a distributed organization, towards the completion of the GVCS by 2028 as the central goal.
#Development Path - selection of a project focus to work on - shall be in conjuction with OSE International.
#Core of work until 2028 is GVCS and related business models. Post 2028 is about training others, replication, growing the [[OSE Campus]] model.
#OSE International Duties. '''Intent''' - setting up an infrastructure that encourages all OSE Chapters to collaborate on OSPD. Provision of new products to be distributed and produced by each chapter. Publicity via Podcast, Newsletter, Google Ad Words, marketing. Marketing of products. Provision of new product designs and training on an annual basis via Extreme Enterprise events. Organization of annual XE, Crowd Supply + Teardown, Kickstarter, HeroX campaign.
#OSE provides continuing education for increasing skill sets towards those of [[Integrated Humans]]. OSE is a lifelong learnign-centric organization.
#Chapter Duties - Coordination of annual Workshop Calendar, of events for the same dates in all locations. 1 month at Factor e Farm to participate in Summer of Extreme Design/Build. 24 Hour + Planning Participation in XE events. General support of OSE so that the entire movement works as a hole, and not a bunch of divergent efforts. Follows a prioritization set out in the Chapter Charter - for a one year plan, with quarterly and annual review.
#Contributing to business development, product development to assist in the collaborative completion of the GVCS by 2028 and to develop the collaborative OSE product line.
#Keeps [[Work Log]], coordinates via weekly meetings, the OSE Forum, and publishes a quarterly guest blog on the main OSE blog.
#Participates in the public sphere with presentations, talks, and public meeting recordings.
#Works openly by publishing all relevant work online as a general practice for complete transparency of its process.
#Abides by [[DIN SPEC 3105]] for all hardware documentation
#Participates in all large-scale design sprints such as Incentive Challenges, STEAM Camps, hackathons, and Extreme Enterprise events, at a minimum of 1 event per quarter and 4 minimum per year. The STEAM Camp schedule is expected to reach 1 event per month.
#Develops a workshop/fabrication facility for product development, experimentation, and training.
#Produces the products it sells or uses in its programs
#To attain status as a Chapter, there is first a biannual charter that is drawn up, specifying the areas of specialization for each chapter.
#Meets for a a quarterly review to optimize operations
#Charter Duration - 2 years. Renewal every 2 years, pending performance.
##Coordinates closely with OSE International on GVCS completion by 2028.


==Collaboration and Advancement Opportunities==
This comes from my recognition of the importance of mentorship, and I have a mentor who has changed my life. Imagine - direct access to decades of life's learnings so you don't have to make the same mistakes. For me, my last 2 decades of deep immersion in building things and conceptualizing integrated systems and institutions - are priceless. Before college, I would only dream of building such things. Now, I am working on a scalable enterprise around the same [[Global Village Construction Set]] ideology conceptualized first in 2008. Transformative impact can occur when people can gain the freedom to do what they want with their lives - and that such a true freedom can come only from bootstrapped entrepreneurship - if we are serious about solving pressing world issues. I would pay dearly for an opportunity to learn with someone who can shorten my path on such a journey. If you think you can benefit from my guidance, then join me.  It is not free - but if you are interested in such an immersion, then let's talk.
#The chapter collaborated directly to support and add to the core effort of OSE. This includes:
#Ongoing product sales and programming of immersion education events - as the core revenue model.
#[[Extreme U]] - coordinating University Chapters in the chapter's region or country
#[[Extreme Enterprise]] - grand, annual, collaborative event for product release
#Each chapter leads one product release for the [[Open Source Everything Store]] as a [[Distributive Enterprise]]
#OSE annual conference - each chapter participates hands-on-deck at the OSE International Headquarters (conditions allowing)
#Weekly dev team meeting - focusing on normal development and planning.
#Chapter leaders have advancement opportunities to continue developing their capacity and skills to a full Open Source Microfactory, and an [[OSE Campus]], in coordination with OSE International. Each Chapter may advance their status from a regional to a national branch, or a continental branch as a special economic zone.


==Finances and Legal==
Think of this as direct access to experience that can shorten your path of learning. In the ideal situation, you would not only be learning, but contributing your skills, insights, and knowhow to OSE - within the framework of creating an inclusive economy of abundance as described in the [[GVCS TED Talk]].
#Mentorship tuition is $10k. Materials costs for 6 3D printer, CNC torch, filament maker, and shredder will be about $10k. Candidate sources parts locally.
#Admission is on a rolling basis. After initial video of interest, interviews, reference check, 30 minute Slide Deck preparation - and securing mentorship, sponsorship, and facility - the Candidate may be admitted. Offer letter is presented.
#Payment of $10k shall be made upon acceptance. If the candidate changes their mind, there is a 50% cancellation fee up until 4 months from official acceptance. After the 4 month period, the tuition fee is non-refundable.
#At the end of the 2 year training period, a Charter is created within one month of the Candidate's skill certification. The chapter fee is determined in the charter.
#The chapter fee is paid on a monthly basis.
#The chapter benefits from collaborative development of new products through all of OSE's programming, and receives free tuition to all ongoing training, workshops, and continuing education.
#Chapter candidate covers travel, food, and lodging to any OSE events, and receives complimentary housing whenever such is available from OSE.
#Shares financials with OSE using live documents
#Each chapter incorporates in their local jurisdiction. Board of Directors shall have representation from OSE International.
#Any other terms may be accommodated in the Chapter Charter.
#Each chapter uses the OSE brand as an OSE Chapter, X branch - with access to branding and trademarks.
#Each chapter tends not to engage in non-disclosure agreements as a general rule
#No patents or trade secrets shall be obtained or kept, as all work is intended to benefit all humankind.
#An OSE Chapter which continues in good standing after 2 years may apply for representation on the Board of Directors of OSE International.
#OSE International may pursue a trademark within the local Chapter's jurisdiction if that is deemed a good course of action.
#Each Chapter is responsible for its finances, bank account, incorporation, and other memberships in their local jurisdiction.
#Each Chapter shall operate as an entity for the public interest and the benefit of all humankind, in a corporate form that meets this purpose most effectively and efficiently.


==Termination, Nonperformance, and Dissolution==
=Intent=
#Grounds for Dismissal. During the training phase, not publishing of results transparently or not collaborating is grounds for dismissal. We work openly and collaboratively. A candidate will receive warning as to this issue, and if not corrected, the candidate will be terminated. Mentorship tuition is not refundable in case of termination.
The intent of the OSE Mentorship is to start long-term relationships with individuals interested in carrying the work of OSE forward, in close collaboration with OSE. The program is flexible, but it does hold collaboration as its highest ideal. That means that we work on [[BHAG]]s aimed at solving pressing world issues, and anyone who joins the mentorship works in alignment with and in support of the current [[Mission]]s of OSE. Since we are into lifelong learning, we intend for the Mentorship to create a powerful learning community. For the most satisfying relationship, I expect to learn from the people that I am mentoring. When new people join, we will all meet together. Each meeting will involve about a half OSE lore, and half task coordination - once more people join the Mentorship. Note that the mentorship is not exclusive, as we are all collaborating.  
#Withdrawal - If the candidate needs to discontinue participation for whatever reason, withdrawal can be pursued by notice in writing (email will do). If withdrawal occurs within 4 months of program acceptance, 50% of the tuition is refundable. After that, tuition is non-refundable.
 
#Obtaining OSE certification for the skill set required to operate a Chapter - is a prerequisite for obtaining an OSE Chapter Charter. In case of failure to meet requirements, the Candidate may pursue work as an entity independent of OSE.  
My promise is to attract people who are potential open enterprise collaborators. This means that for every person that joins - the enterprise gets closer to succeeding - as we all collaborate on the same enterprise. Either in a distributed or a co-located way.  
#If operating independently of OSE, the independent entity may produce products from OSE designs, and OSE encourages derivative work. In such a case, it may not appropriate the OSE brand identity, unless specifically permitted to do so by OSE International. In the case of pursuing activity based on OSE's work, OSE International still encourages open source publishing according to the OSE license, so that independent entities also contribute to the equitable distribution of wealth for the benefit of everyone.
 
#Non-performance - If the Chapter, once incorporated, does not contribute to OSE Development, the Charter may be terminated. A warning to this effect will be given, and if no improvement occurs within 30 days, the Charter shall be withdrawn. In the case of non-performance, the entity may continue to operate independently of OSE, and OSE encourages collaboration with independent entities.
The intended outcome is for people to transition to working with OSE full time, starting an OSE Chapter, or other project-based endeavor.  
#Independent entities do not have free-of-charge access to the benefits that chapters receive, nor to the advancement opportunities of OSE chapters.
We have learned that the only way to guarantee continuity - a priority for OSE - is when people are paid for what they do. Volunteer work tends to be temporary and does not provide the continued effort required for product release - especially because the last steps of completion can take so long, and require discipline. The intent of the Mentorship is not to train volunteers, but people who are intending to do OSE work for a living. The current product release involves the Seed Eco-Home, and supporting machines such as 3D printing, heavy machines, autonomous vehicles.
#Address a minimum competency within a chapter - build a team.
 
=Cost=
Initially, the cost of the Mentorship is financial. Every new person joining pays this tuition. Over time, as the person starts to generate assets for the effort, and generates clear value towards completion according to our open source product development method - the Mentorship fee can transition to the value of the specific contributor. Our accounting is simple: the OSE Work Log where we publish all that we do: designs, strategies, CAD assets, conceptual diagrams, graphics assets, copy, etc.
 
Cost is negotiated on a case-by-case basis.  It depends on what the mentee's goals regarding building things or enterprises, financial situation, commitment level to collaborative development, alignment with the OSE idealogy, level of grit, moving beyond ego to do things larger than oneself, and other aspects. The Mentorship is in no case free, as we believe that if one is not paying, they are not paying attention. If the above resonates with you feel free to ask more questions.
 
=Links=
*Initial mentorship v1.0 - [[OSE Mentorship 2020]]. 2 candidates subscribed.
*Older program from 2018, from which we learned that we need to shift to a longer OSE Mentorship format because of the learning curve involved.[https://www.opensourceecology.org/ose-fellowship/]. Wiki page on the 2018 program - [[OSE_Immersion_Program]]
*[[OSE Apprenticeship]]

Latest revision as of 15:31, 17 August 2024

2024

Marcin is taking on another invitation to Collaborative Mentorship

2023 Introduction

The OSE Mentorship teaches collaborative problem solving towards movement entrepreneurship. We learn how to learn, so that we can get up to speed on unsolved problems in society - using an integrated, multidisciplinary, boundary-crossing approach that spans all human disciplines from history, applied numeracy, flow psychology, economics, military studies, and leadership - among others. We learn psychosocial integration to cultivate the courage and art of possibility which places ourselves in a win-win mindset for problem-solving - as opposed to individualism. As a hands-on project, we take on projects to design and build organizations with fresh operating principles based on a systems-transformation approach fueled by best practice. Curriculum for Year 1 involves a survey of natural phenomena, human possibility, unsolved problems, and house design to use house construction as a bootstrap funding mechanism. The key outcome revolves around understanding basic principles of how the world works, in order to start asking fundamental questions on the design and operation of all sectors of civilization. The intent is to create change agents who commit fully to solving frontiers of human systems evolution, such as solving corruption, poverty, or loss of meaning.

However, this would be nothing without practice. OSE Mentorship candidates must be engaged in, or start engaging in upon starting the Mentorship - a full-time program of enterprise startup - of an open enterprise. The enterprise startup must be in some way related to the Seed Eco-Home product ecosystem, such as supporting machines, modules, design tools etc. The content must be developed under an open license, and specifically intended for open publishing as part of a transition to the open, collaborative economy that unleashes human potential. This is with the full intent of eradicating artificial scarcity in housing - which starts with the practice of open enterprise.

My personal note - I thrive in working with people who are making a better world, and would love to share all my knowhow in making that happen. This will make the Seed Eco-Home ecosystem better, and make the world better. There is clear inspiration value in open enterprise, and we look forward to collaborating with anyone who engages in this.

Limits

Is house construction an adequate bootstrap funding mechanism - for all types of transformative work around the world? Yes, if it produces the highest quality housing at optimized cost and speed, and can be run as a home-based enterprise with a truck, trailer, and open source multi-tractor. As a multitrillion dollar market segment, housing takes mission alignment to develop the housing product, but we believe that the demand and thus interest in solving housing for oneself and the world can lead to the largest collaborative effort in human history. This is based on the potential to become the single most important solution to reduce the cost of living to provide economic independence, especially if ecoindustrial activity is integrated within the house. To turn the house away from a cost, and into a productive asset. By reduction of operating scale through smart integration and open source, modular design, we believe that industry can operate at the household scale while providing industrial levels of productivity. That is, if open, collaborative design takes hold, allowing even individuals to produce advanced artifacts at an unprecedented small scale. This is clearly true for lifetime-design assembly-based manufacturing (as opposed to materials production), decentralized to the household and village scale. Note that 1 acre of PV is sufficient for 3MWhr of daily energy. And that 3D printing of wood, plastic, and metal - combined with electric motors, sensors, microcontrollers, and stock metal - can produce just about any artifact available at Amazon. This requires about $3B of development (induction furnace, rod/wire mill, 3D printer in plastic, ceramic, wood, metal), an open source design platform, electric motor making, precision machining, welder, hammermill, plastic extruder, CEB press, sawmill, and hydraulic motors) and one year of time with a 1000 person team for each effort - to accomplish.

Strategy

We will recruit the combination of mentees, a bevy of retired Level 5 leaders (and other seasoned entrepreneurs who are open to post-scarcity thinking). Plus, resource developers for funding, and inspire people with 1-day Extreme Manufacturing builds of houses, cars, diamond makers, and demining machines.

  • Paying up-and-coming mentees (18+)
  • Level 5 Leaders
  • Resource developers
  • Brute force Extreme Manufacturing demos

More

The OSE Mentorship is an opportunity for you to learn about collaborative movement entrepreneurship, using a open collaborative techniques. It is as much about developing a vision and mindset of collaboration - along with the skill set to build things. We build optimized products as product ecologies that deliver the promise of improving the quality of life for everyone - and the mentee participates in this process as much as possible. The intended audience is individuals who have a high capacity for rapid, integrated learning. This consists of an hour-long weekly meeting - directly with me - Marcin Jakubowski - where we delve into the philosophical and practical aspects of open-collaborative development, regenerative design, open source appropriate technology, and movement entrepreneurship. The intent is to provide a strategic and tactical awareness of what it takes to work on pressing world issues - using truly open, inclusive, and collaborative techniques - to create an inclusive economy of abundance. Via an approach that centers on entrepreneurship, which provides financial independence as a prerequisite to the freedom of choice required to take on important work. The goal here is to cultivate mindsets of possibility regarding solving remaining unsolved problems in civilization - and to cultivate a culture of discipline that can anable anyone who is truly interested - to take on this path as a way of life. The OSE Way.

The OSE way is a lifeling learning process. The Mentorship is intended to build a closely-knit community, with a goal of a full-time transition to OSE-inspired work. To make this happen, we develop open, collaborative enterprise as a means of bootstrapping progress. This is a response to my frustration at my obvious conviction that collaboration can produce better results - yet every corporation is proprietary, reinventing the wheel instead of unleashing true progress. So far I have not met a single entrereneur in the world - who is interested in collaborating on an open enterprise with scalable impact. Even in the world of open source. So I have to do this myself: first by starting a robust open enterprise (Seed Eco-Home), and building a community around the OSE way - who aspires to Level 6 Leadership.

This comes from my recognition of the importance of mentorship, and I have a mentor who has changed my life. Imagine - direct access to decades of life's learnings so you don't have to make the same mistakes. For me, my last 2 decades of deep immersion in building things and conceptualizing integrated systems and institutions - are priceless. Before college, I would only dream of building such things. Now, I am working on a scalable enterprise around the same Global Village Construction Set ideology conceptualized first in 2008. Transformative impact can occur when people can gain the freedom to do what they want with their lives - and that such a true freedom can come only from bootstrapped entrepreneurship - if we are serious about solving pressing world issues. I would pay dearly for an opportunity to learn with someone who can shorten my path on such a journey. If you think you can benefit from my guidance, then join me. It is not free - but if you are interested in such an immersion, then let's talk.

Think of this as direct access to experience that can shorten your path of learning. In the ideal situation, you would not only be learning, but contributing your skills, insights, and knowhow to OSE - within the framework of creating an inclusive economy of abundance as described in the GVCS TED Talk.

Intent

The intent of the OSE Mentorship is to start long-term relationships with individuals interested in carrying the work of OSE forward, in close collaboration with OSE. The program is flexible, but it does hold collaboration as its highest ideal. That means that we work on BHAGs aimed at solving pressing world issues, and anyone who joins the mentorship works in alignment with and in support of the current Missions of OSE. Since we are into lifelong learning, we intend for the Mentorship to create a powerful learning community. For the most satisfying relationship, I expect to learn from the people that I am mentoring. When new people join, we will all meet together. Each meeting will involve about a half OSE lore, and half task coordination - once more people join the Mentorship. Note that the mentorship is not exclusive, as we are all collaborating.

My promise is to attract people who are potential open enterprise collaborators. This means that for every person that joins - the enterprise gets closer to succeeding - as we all collaborate on the same enterprise. Either in a distributed or a co-located way.

The intended outcome is for people to transition to working with OSE full time, starting an OSE Chapter, or other project-based endeavor. We have learned that the only way to guarantee continuity - a priority for OSE - is when people are paid for what they do. Volunteer work tends to be temporary and does not provide the continued effort required for product release - especially because the last steps of completion can take so long, and require discipline. The intent of the Mentorship is not to train volunteers, but people who are intending to do OSE work for a living. The current product release involves the Seed Eco-Home, and supporting machines such as 3D printing, heavy machines, autonomous vehicles.

Cost

Initially, the cost of the Mentorship is financial. Every new person joining pays this tuition. Over time, as the person starts to generate assets for the effort, and generates clear value towards completion according to our open source product development method - the Mentorship fee can transition to the value of the specific contributor. Our accounting is simple: the OSE Work Log where we publish all that we do: designs, strategies, CAD assets, conceptual diagrams, graphics assets, copy, etc.

Cost is negotiated on a case-by-case basis. It depends on what the mentee's goals regarding building things or enterprises, financial situation, commitment level to collaborative development, alignment with the OSE idealogy, level of grit, moving beyond ego to do things larger than oneself, and other aspects. The Mentorship is in no case free, as we believe that if one is not paying, they are not paying attention. If the above resonates with you feel free to ask more questions.

Links

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