OSE Organization and Operations Manual

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Referencing

1. OSE Org Chart
2. Organization Projects
3. Technical Community Manager 2013
4. Product Lead 2013
5. Documentation Manager 2013
6. Operations Manager 2013
7. Mission

Problem (1): Doc Manager, Technical Community Manager, and Product Lead roles are merged. Both are responsible for managing contributions. See problem with the following Contributor Management sections of each role.

OSE International Organization, Mission, and Functions

OSE International Mission, Vision, and Strategic Plan

Mission

Open Source Ecology is accelerating the growth of the next economy, the Open Source Economy, that optimizes both production and distribution, while promoting environmental regeneration and social justice. We are building the Global Village Construction Set, a high-performance, modular, do-it-yourself, low-cost platform, that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different industrial machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts.

Vision

• Eliminate Material Scarcity: 50 machines of the Global Village Construction Set - Village in a Box
• Freedom for All: Elimination of war, by eliminating conflict of resource scarcity
• Enabling the Human Spirit: With a community of 12 people and 2 hours of work each day, it is possible to reach a modern standard of living from local resources - an ultimate standard of human potential
• Open Invitation: Benefits of Open Source beyond software

Strategic Plan

• Present - year end 2013: Distributive Enterprise Platform - Developing a scalable, open source product development methodology
• 2014 - 2015: Civilization Starter Kit - Develop the GVCS effectively demonstrating the development of 6 parallel projects via the Distributive Enterprise Platform
• 2016 - 2018: Immersion Curriculum for Distributive Enterprise Fellows - Create a curriculum for distributive entrepreneurs to build OSE economic hubs worldwide. The first training campus - called OSE Incubator - will be built in 2016, with the first class of 12 Fellows graduated by 2018 after a 2 year immersion program.
• 2022: OSE Incubators - New OSE Incubators will be developed on 3 year cycles from start of immersion training, to reach 144 OSE Incubators in 2022.
• 2028: OSE Campuses - OSE Incubators train other entrepreneurs interested in starting productive facilities within local communities. These new facilities are OSE Campuses. They focus on the production of all tools relevant to creating a complete economy. The goal is to incubate 12 OSE Fellows per class. The Fellows start Campuses world-wide, to reach over 3000 total OSE Campuses.

Technical Community

Tech Community Nomenclature and Structure

• Reports to Operations Manager

Tech Community Responsibilities and Functions

Problem (1)

Contributor Management

• Responsible for managing technical contributions from a broad range of OSE stakeholders - designers, fabricators, builders, architects, engineers, videographers, technical writers, students, and others
• Maintains good community relations to facilitate contributions
• Maintains and Updates OSE Community Handbook, a guide for remote collaborators
• Feeds contributor output to Documentation Manager and Product Lead
• Maintains a contributor database

Talent Search

• Recruits, negotiates and formalizes participation of remote contributors
• Leverages technical contributions from global community to augment the design/protyping/build efforts of the Product Lead

Events

• Organizes special events, hackathons, Flash Mobs, and other Crowd Design and Manufacturing sessions

Standards Development

• Assists ED in streamlining a process for effective talent capture from a large pool of contributors by developing effective protocols and innovative tools
• Assists ED in developing a scalable, replicable, open source product development process

Product Lead

Product Lead Nomenclature and Structure

• Reports to Operations Manager

Product Lead Responsibilities and Functions

Problem (1)

Contributor Management

• Responsible for managing technical contributions from a broad range of dedicated staff and contract-based developers - designers, fabricators, engineers, consultants, and others
• Maintains a contributor database with assistance from Technical Community Manager
• Engages in Talent Search for top machine design and prototyping talent
• Collaborates with Technical Community Manager on special development events

Development

• Assists ED in defining specific task priorities for the Prototyping Plan of 2013
• Assists ED in developing effective protocols and innovative tools for streamlining development
• Maintains and updates OSE Development Handbook, a guide for effective open source product development
• Specifies scopes of work, specifications, and clear conditions of satisfaction for design and prototyping work
• Manages production runs
• Works with Documentation Manager to assure delivery of documentation
• Publishes RFPs and solicits bids

Tool and Material Organization and Inventory

• Manages workshop

Documentation

Documentation Nomenclature and Structure

• Reports to Operations Manager

Documentation Responsibilities and Functions

Problem (1)

Contributor Management

• Engages in Talent Search to find key contributors
• Maintains a documenter database with assistance from Technical Community Manager

Documentation

• Responsible for managing delivery of technical documentation for the Global Village Construction Set
• Assists ED in developing effective protocols and innovative tools for streamlining the delivery of documentation
• Produces contract scopes of work and specifications to technical writers, videographers, and other documenters
• Maintains and updates OSE Documentation Handbook, a guide for effective open source product development
• Publishes RFPs and solicits bids for documentation work

Events

• Collaborates with Technical Community Manager on special documentation-producing events, such as book sprints, video editing hackathons, and others.

Videography and Public Updates

• Develops a remote video editing protocol
• Works with Product Lead to coordinate delivery of documentation

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