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Marcin is applying for the [SupporTED Collaboratorium http://thehf.org/supported-collaboratorium.html]
=Fellows Introductions=
Jessica + Marcin + Siva


Here is his applicatio, submitted 1/30/12:
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'''In what work are you currently engaged?'''
=Logan on TED Fellows Program and Coaching=
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I am developing the Global Village Construction Set - an open technological platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small civilization with modern comforts. This is a large, complex, multidisciplinary project, where the deliverable is blueprints. My goal is to finish the 50 machines ( beta release status) by Dec. 21, 2012. 
=Fellows Debriefs=
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'''How do you envision your work having influence or making an impact in the world?
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The impact is lowering the barriers to entry in manufacturing, building, farming, and other enterprises. We are beginning to see replication of our machines by independent people – who are building homes, starting businesses, and building a village. For example - Manuel Antonio Aguilar, another TED Fellow - will be using our open source tractor, CEB press, and sawmill to build a village for displaced natives in Guatemala. I expect about 100 replications this year before replication goes viral worldwide. Many people talk about applications in the third world. I personally see the greater potential in reinventing the community-based solution of re-localized production – bringing wealth back to communities – or bringing production back to the USA (or any country). My TED Talk was featured at #6 in Best of TED for 2011 by the Huffington Post – so the idea is gaining traction especially in the scenario of a failing economy.  


My larger vision is more extensive. I envision the work contributing to the creation of an open source economy -  a distributive economy which optimizes not only production, but distribution. An open source economy is based on collaborative design of open source products and productive enterprises, such that competitive waste is eliminated and best practice becomes universally accessible. This is part of creating Industry 2.0 – a system where a global repository of design is freely downloadable via the internet to feed local production capacity.


'''What are the challenges you are facing? Please address those challenges that show up repeatedly, new challenges that are showing up as you move into unchartered territory, and current obstacles that might be slowing down movement into new territory.ing to the mix. What additional specific experience, skills, talents, and specialties are you willing to share with the TED Fellows at the SupporTED Collaboratorium?
*Marcin's [[SupporTED Application]]
'''
*[[Flip Charts from Working SupporTED Session]]
The main challenge is project scaling. We have secured $1/2M for first quarter fo 2012, so funding is not particularly an issue. I am currently managing 12 projects, but the quality of outcomes depends on taking our project management to the next level. This is particularly challenging because we are an open source project – with a combination of paid people and many volunteers. Moreover, we not only design the tools, but dogfood them through the creation of a real community that uses these tools – in order to provide immediate feedback on the usefulness/feasibility of the tools. Our goal is very ambitious: to demonstrate that a community of about 200 people on 200 acres can achieve a modern standard of living – at 2 hours of work per day – as a means of achieving the autonomy that allows the participant to pursue mastery consistent with their higher purpose. Ie, we would like to reinvent civilization, approaching this issue through material production as the basis. The particular skills that need to be improved on our team are primarily project management infrastructure of a complex, dynamic project – involving on-site work and remote collaboration. This involves recruiting and vetting the necessary development team. We are interested in developing a general methodology for a self-funding, open source, product development enterprise that can change the world by making open product design the new norm – not the exception.


The specific skills that I would like to contribute is systems thinking related to eco-industry or material production, opens source economic development,  and the development of economies from scratch. In particular, I have strong product design skills based in lifetime design, modularity, and disassembly. I am an interdisciplinarian who likes to examine problems from all their dimensions.
=Presentations=


'''If you had the opportunity to gain any skill, resource, or capacity in order to bring your work vision to a fuller or quicker fruition, what would it be?'''
Hajj Flemmings - Personal Identity or Brand + Internet Brand


The skill that I would like to master is the management of complex, nonlinear projects – particularly in the streamlined process of recruiting – including identifying, vetting, and absorbing new talent.
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'''What aspect of question #3 could a team of mentors and coaches help you with that you have not been able to accomplish or achieve up to now?'''
Gerard Cox - Fundraising


The particular aspect of scaling that I have not been able to accomplish until now is an effective process for recruiting talent on demand. We have attracted many contributors - essentially passively from people contacting us - but we have been able to attract only a few excellent performers. I would like to streamline the recruiting process to one that produces a higher portion of exceptional candidates – by following a well-defined process. Completing the cycle to the point of us being able to attract – on demand -  just about any new, high quality contributor - is our next step. The potential is great, as our project is currently on the world stage – plus we have a message that many people find important – so we should be able to recruit talent on demand.
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In an ideal world, what type of experts or resource people would be on your team?'''


In an ideal world, I would have an amazing talent recruiting strategist – someone who can help me shape a robust recruiting strategy. Recruiting refers to the 350 or so people that we need to prototype/document – plus the site director to manage our facility, and other people on the team.
=Pictures from SupporTED 2012=
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Second on my mentor team would be someone who can help me manage a large, complex, nonlinear project. I would also like to have somebody savvy in organizational structuring – especially if they have experience with open source projects.


''' If you are given that team, which specific endeavors, skills, areas of focus, or goals would you have them work on in a day? Please name three.'''
=Expressed Commitments to Marcin=


If I had the dream team for a day – I would have them work on coaching me to identify a process for recruiting to leverage our high visibility and ethical approach. We would like to strike a good balance between volunteers and paid people – considering both timing and budget issues. I would like to focus on what structure/process would be necessary for our organization to recruit effectively through existing networks and personal contacts – as opposed to formal recruiting sites.  
Hear recording: [[File:tomarcincommitments.amr]]


Second, I would like to have the team help me identify my blind spots in my overall management strategy  and organizational infrastructure.
*David - helps craft recruiting message to unbury the lead; helps craft powerful personal message; help with Candy assistance
*Scott - followup on 5 key promises for 2 weeks milestones
*Donna - assesses new message, how it touches her; team chemistry and dynamics; continue to update on how Marcin is doing
*15 min followup Skype
*Gerard - work sessions
*Candy - input on making vision visible on site at Factor e Farm
*Set up Google group - Gerard
*Stephanie - conversation on small picture - recruit, performance mgmt
*Siva - working together in future, field testing of equipment in India villages
*Sunny - getting Marcin out of operational hell and into soaring; connection to Emily on Hero's Journey
*Marcin - thanks for the love


The specific goal for the day could  be to write down a step-by-step process that can be used by our in-house recruiter, or which can be used to find that recruiter.
=Marcin's Feedback=


'''Regarding the situation(s) you want to work on, what have you already tried? What specific barriers are you facing?'''
''If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly:''


I have already tried using my own contacts to find people – via my own networks. This is working well, especially because many people are already contacting me. However, the main barrier is that so few people have the necessary, generalist skill set to take on leadership positions. This means that I end up spending too much time training people, and I am thus looking for more appropriate people. I need to find a better recruitment process that is able to make a better assessment on what candidates will really work well.
'''Comments''':


Regarding general project management, I have already tried project management software such as HighRise, Pivotal Tracker, and CiviCRM – but the main barrier is having the required time to manage these platforms. I am simply understaffed, and I end up doing too much of the work myself.
Regarding moving work spaces around: It is easy to suffer transition time losses moving from one place to another if teams are flexible in their location - I feel the intense deep dive in a secure quiet space provides the best results from the resulting focus - because of the limited time available.


Another specific barrier is that the project is changing dynamically – which puts a higher demand for rapid learning on its participants. We are a dynamic learning organization. Constant reevaluation is needed – with the present evolution needed is that of creating a proper project managemetn/recruiting infrastructure. Dynamic change is a good thing – but it does mean additional effort is required.
I feel that the time was so short yet so valuable in general. To make better use of our time, I wish that All The Coaches and Mentors would be assigned with presenting a one-page brief on The Most Kick Ass Resource List I Know Of In My Area of Expertise - Thought Leaders, Books, Templates, Apps and Software, Institutions, Consultants, SMEs, etc. This is because all of us are looking at similar issues of scaling/midcourse correction. I would love to see a set of Universal Resources presented more clearly. This would be in the nature of Key Resources - which I think would be applicable to any enterprise.  


[[Category:TED Fellows]]
Prior to event preparation was weak on my part. This is because the business plan changed so much from the time I started to really consider it seriously. Details kept evolving so fast that parts become obsolete from day to day. But that is perhaps a story of success of rapid evolution engendered by the SupporTED opportunity. I took preparation seriously - to find only that the preconceived plan was totally derailed.
 
I have been transformed by this loving experience to the point of asking seriously, how do we scale this, and how do I apply this through my work - to help more superheroes not go through the pains that we are going through?  I am privileged to have this opportunity - and not many have access to it. Only 10 per year per world! How to scale this model? The impact can be so profound.
 
It was amazing to have Bill and Ruth Ann open up their world to us - I have new and deep respect for how giving they are. I already knew that about Renee.
 
 
'''Offers to Future Participants'''
 
As part of our work with Open Source Ecology - I am focusing on replication of startup enterprise as a core aspect of our work. For this, we are beginning to document best practice of enterprise scaling. So in addition to the Civilization Starter Kit, I would like to create a Disruptive Enterprise Starter Kit. I would like to offer this resource to other Fellows as we develop this, and I would like to work with SupporTED to put together this resource - since it is a Key Resource that our organizational scaling requires. My scaling plan for OSE Incubators (http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Impact_Scaling_Strategy) is to train a number of Distributive Entrepreneurs via immersion. I am pioneering this road for them, and I would like to help them to not go through the same pains that I am going through by providing them with the necessary support. My life has been transformed by SupporTED and I am now constantly thinking of how to scale this type of event to disruptive, Distributive Enterprise in general. I want to make the Disruptive Enterprise Starter Kit available to all - and we will have significant work done on this within a year. I'd be glad to share any of my resources with future Collaboratorium participants.
 
Further, we are currently developing a bootstrap funding mechanism for social enterprise by means of high-value production of machines - where we leverage our social capital and brand identity in marketing our goods. I would like to offer future participants first-priority access to this bootstrap funding mechanism. This program is under development, but anyone willing to co-conspire is invited to benefit from our brand as long as they are an open source project.
 
 
'''More'''
 
Regarding The Resource Guide for Creating the Most Kick Ass organization in the World as above - I think SupporTED is perhaps the most well-positioned entity for making such a resource available - thereby changing the world by improving enterprise. In order to have global impact, this resource should be Open Source - so that best practice and guidelines are available to everyone - and we reach the open source economic paradigm (an optimized, collaborative economy beyond scarcity mindsets) sooner rather than later. I would like to request that  SupporTED shift in the direction of cultivating Distributive Enterprise (http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Distributive_Enterprise) (open blueprints for products and for the enterprise that makes those products) - which is one step beyond Open Source Enterprise (open blueprints for products) - which is in turn one step beyond the Open Business Model (open collaboration process where products themselves are typically proprietary).
 
 
'''Question'''
 
How could we start a process of making SupporTED-like events available to other startup social enterprise development groups? It appears that social enterprise will be the key disruptive change agent in the future, so asking the question of scaling SupporTED-like processes is highly relevant to leadership for disruptive change. How do we create a viable mechanism whereby economic surplus in advanced civilization shifts more to helping the cultural disruptives and superheroes, particularly from the field of  startup social enterprise - as opposed to supporting run-of-mill enterprise that does not make deep and lasting solutions? In my work with Open Source Ecology, I would like to create a support mechanism for future open source ecologists (distributive entrepreneurs) who go through our program.
 
 
[[Category:TED Fellows]][[Category:SupporTED]]

Latest revision as of 19:49, 23 September 2012

Fellows Introductions

Jessica + Marcin + Siva

Logan on TED Fellows Program and Coaching

Fellows Debriefs

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Presentations

Hajj Flemmings - Personal Identity or Brand + Internet Brand

Gerard Cox - Fundraising

Pictures from SupporTED 2012

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Expressed Commitments to Marcin

Hear recording: File:Tomarcincommitments.amr

  • David - helps craft recruiting message to unbury the lead; helps craft powerful personal message; help with Candy assistance
  • Scott - followup on 5 key promises for 2 weeks milestones
  • Donna - assesses new message, how it touches her; team chemistry and dynamics; continue to update on how Marcin is doing
  • 15 min followup Skype
  • Gerard - work sessions
  • Candy - input on making vision visible on site at Factor e Farm
  • Set up Google group - Gerard
  • Stephanie - conversation on small picture - recruit, performance mgmt
  • Siva - working together in future, field testing of equipment in India villages
  • Sunny - getting Marcin out of operational hell and into soaring; connection to Emily on Hero's Journey
  • Marcin - thanks for the love

Marcin's Feedback

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly:

Comments:

Regarding moving work spaces around: It is easy to suffer transition time losses moving from one place to another if teams are flexible in their location - I feel the intense deep dive in a secure quiet space provides the best results from the resulting focus - because of the limited time available.

I feel that the time was so short yet so valuable in general. To make better use of our time, I wish that All The Coaches and Mentors would be assigned with presenting a one-page brief on The Most Kick Ass Resource List I Know Of In My Area of Expertise - Thought Leaders, Books, Templates, Apps and Software, Institutions, Consultants, SMEs, etc. This is because all of us are looking at similar issues of scaling/midcourse correction. I would love to see a set of Universal Resources presented more clearly. This would be in the nature of Key Resources - which I think would be applicable to any enterprise.

Prior to event preparation was weak on my part. This is because the business plan changed so much from the time I started to really consider it seriously. Details kept evolving so fast that parts become obsolete from day to day. But that is perhaps a story of success of rapid evolution engendered by the SupporTED opportunity. I took preparation seriously - to find only that the preconceived plan was totally derailed.

I have been transformed by this loving experience to the point of asking seriously, how do we scale this, and how do I apply this through my work - to help more superheroes not go through the pains that we are going through? I am privileged to have this opportunity - and not many have access to it. Only 10 per year per world! How to scale this model? The impact can be so profound.

It was amazing to have Bill and Ruth Ann open up their world to us - I have new and deep respect for how giving they are. I already knew that about Renee.


Offers to Future Participants

As part of our work with Open Source Ecology - I am focusing on replication of startup enterprise as a core aspect of our work. For this, we are beginning to document best practice of enterprise scaling. So in addition to the Civilization Starter Kit, I would like to create a Disruptive Enterprise Starter Kit. I would like to offer this resource to other Fellows as we develop this, and I would like to work with SupporTED to put together this resource - since it is a Key Resource that our organizational scaling requires. My scaling plan for OSE Incubators (http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Impact_Scaling_Strategy) is to train a number of Distributive Entrepreneurs via immersion. I am pioneering this road for them, and I would like to help them to not go through the same pains that I am going through by providing them with the necessary support. My life has been transformed by SupporTED and I am now constantly thinking of how to scale this type of event to disruptive, Distributive Enterprise in general. I want to make the Disruptive Enterprise Starter Kit available to all - and we will have significant work done on this within a year. I'd be glad to share any of my resources with future Collaboratorium participants.

Further, we are currently developing a bootstrap funding mechanism for social enterprise by means of high-value production of machines - where we leverage our social capital and brand identity in marketing our goods. I would like to offer future participants first-priority access to this bootstrap funding mechanism. This program is under development, but anyone willing to co-conspire is invited to benefit from our brand as long as they are an open source project.


More

Regarding The Resource Guide for Creating the Most Kick Ass organization in the World as above - I think SupporTED is perhaps the most well-positioned entity for making such a resource available - thereby changing the world by improving enterprise. In order to have global impact, this resource should be Open Source - so that best practice and guidelines are available to everyone - and we reach the open source economic paradigm (an optimized, collaborative economy beyond scarcity mindsets) sooner rather than later. I would like to request that SupporTED shift in the direction of cultivating Distributive Enterprise (http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Distributive_Enterprise) (open blueprints for products and for the enterprise that makes those products) - which is one step beyond Open Source Enterprise (open blueprints for products) - which is in turn one step beyond the Open Business Model (open collaboration process where products themselves are typically proprietary).


Question

How could we start a process of making SupporTED-like events available to other startup social enterprise development groups? It appears that social enterprise will be the key disruptive change agent in the future, so asking the question of scaling SupporTED-like processes is highly relevant to leadership for disruptive change. How do we create a viable mechanism whereby economic surplus in advanced civilization shifts more to helping the cultural disruptives and superheroes, particularly from the field of startup social enterprise - as opposed to supporting run-of-mill enterprise that does not make deep and lasting solutions? In my work with Open Source Ecology, I would like to create a support mechanism for future open source ecologists (distributive entrepreneurs) who go through our program.

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