One Day Partnerships

OSE has achieved a major milestone with the production of its automated Compressed Earth Brick Press in the One Day Production Run of December 18, 2012. This has set a new standard of efficiency for OSE. The implications are that when the other Global Village Construction Set machines are designed according to similar principles of hypermodularity and simplicity - they can also be produced on the time scale of a single day.

PS. Reward for student is guest appearance of Marcin as Guest Production Director, for a 1-2 day build of the machine they design in a hypermodular fashion. I am willing to commit to this - this is core work. So we can frame this visit as a working session to begin planning - boy, that would REALLY be worth my time. We need a good reward structure: we can motivate this by state-of-art efficiency of build, which we are pioneering. This is our One Day promise, and if they really don't bite, we continue to look. We have a major value proposition: extreme production, practical experience, humanitarian service. For professor, it will be fame, as we will probably have a camera crew trailing us (H2 channel, or Emily Hunter). I'm getting excited about this as a possible campaign.

Organizational Model

There is huge potential in leveraging partnerships with various education institutions worldwide, facilitated by our one-day production methodology.

For successful partnerships, it is useful to identify strong stakeholders with tenure and leadership at educational and other institutions - such as professors, administrators, and executives - as opposed to individual students. This has the advantage of continuity and ability to secure the efforts of an entire class, as opposed to a single student.

For example - a professor or chair can guarantee a Student Project for their class (say 10 students for 1 month = 400 hours of design time at 25% time commitment). This would allow such long-term partnerships to become part of a Milestones schedule for OSE on specific machines.

Process

• Identify strong stakeholder
  • Identify top mechatronics and engineering schools worldwide
  • Publish an RFC - an open Request for Collaboration - where we make a global call to University professors and other stakeholders in engineering and related institutions who are willing to have their class take on a project
  • This could be organized as part of OSE's Technical Community Manager role
• Hold a Skype conversation with stakeholder
• Confirm commitment to a specific Global Village Construction Set machine and deliverable
• Plan on a visit to the institution - and a speaking engagement would be a good opportunity
• Utilize speaking engagement as an opportunity to begin planning discussions with institution

University and Educational Institution Partnerships

• http://cpressoir.org - a top technical high school in Haiti, is a potential partner. The principal, Guy Etienne has expressed direct interest in taking on the build of our open source tractor as a pilot project for Haiti. The talent is there for a pilot build at the high school.
• If you are a professor, administrator, or executive of a college, high school, university, technical school, institute, or other interested party, contact us at opensourceecology at gmail.