Metrics for GVCS Deployment

Performance Metrics

Core

• Number of Prototypes Built (24), Number of Unique Prototypes Built (15), Beta Releases (4), and Full Product Releases (0)
• Cost performance of Full Product Releases compared to industry standard. Typical goal: 5x cost reduction or better.
• Number of machines replicated independently around the world (8)
• The number of OSE chapters started worldwide
  • Implementation: needs chapter standards and chapter manager
  • Possible measurement:
• Total sales volume of GVCS Machines ($45k)
• Size of permanent staff and volunteers on site(24)
• Number of technical contributors to the project worldwide
• The number of design events held monthly
• The quantity of high quality explainer videos
  • Specific metric: number of views on OSE explainer videos
• The number of projects documented to full Open Source Hardware Taxonomy Standards
  • Possible measurement: the number of taxonomy items completed from the list of ~100 or so
• Number of independent enterprises spawned based on the GVCS tools
• The number of OSE Microfactories started
• Nuber of
• Funding level ($450k for next 10 months, graph of overall funding)
• Technical Blog Posts (prototype builds)
• Prototypes/month development rate by OSE Headquarters
• Technical Team (Tech Team Culturing Survey) member numbers
  • We need to start graphing these numbers.

Other

• Pilot projects with use cases
  • Feedback sought: effectiveness of local production; we do not provide machines
• Publicity and Honors attained
• Number of wiki edits by top 10 contributors
• TF numbers
• Twitter, FB followers
• YouTube subscribers, views
• money spent per prototype built
• money spent per Distributive Enterprise
• Earnings, Donations, Grants
• Loal Food produced on site
• Local Energy Produced On Site - kW-Hr/month
• Web hits - main site, wiki, blog, TED Talk