OSE Webinars

Webinar 1 - Wednesday, May 27, 2015: Introduction to Collaborative Literacy

Covering a high level overview of OSE milestones to date and where we go from here. After watching this webinar, please fill the Webinar Survey if you are interested in being an OSE Ambassador for spreading OSE's message - or starting an OSE Chapter for doing OSE development, or joining the Federation of Open Source Entrepreneurs - individuals who engage in Distributive Enterprise. Reponses are private for viewing only by the OSE team.

Webinar 2 - Wed, Jun 3, 2015: OSE Developmente Process

Overview: In this session, the founder will discuss the existing method of open source product development that goes on at OSE. What is the overall ethic, philosophy, and metric? How does this compare to industry standard product development? What tools are used? What tools are missing? What processes and procedures are used? What is required to scale this process so that it occurs autonomously? Is it possible to create a new mass culture - of open collaboration? Is it possible to create a culture of self-determination? From these important questions, we go into the key enabling feature: focusing infinite amounts of dispersed human energy across the globe to solve all issues related to material scarcity by open-sourcing the development and production of all hardware, from trees to robots. From this perspectives, we will discuss the specifics of how we use real hardware and virtual tools: wikis, online tools, Extreme Manufacturing workshops, open source fabrication, our development campus, and social media to get there. We will discuss the capacity that's required to build an open source federation of independent producers - deployed through our Learning Campus Model of operation. We will discuss the key missing element. The working exam question is: To date, the technology of GVCS has seen 27 independent replications. What is the best strategy to go from the current state and values of the project to widespread use of the GVCS? Hint: development to a certain level of quality is essential - so where does the energy to take products to the last mile come from? Keywords: Product; The Last Mile Problem; Social Entrepreneurship; Self-Determination Theory.

Webinar 3: Wed, Jun 9, 2015: Forming Teams - the Team Charter

Concept: OSE's work relies on leveraging existing open source talent to build the Global Village Construction Set and to start OSE Campuses worldwide. Our approach is to develop highly effective Working Teams. OSE Ambassadors and OSE Chapters collaborate to populate the Working teams to achieve 100 full time developer-equivalent by early 2016. Collaborators each take ownership of one of the 50 machines so that a massive parallel development effort is born, as we test and refine collaborative protocols. Our organization model involves a federated approach, with a union of both loosely and closely allied nodes. The end product is not only open design - but a paradigm chance in entrepreneurship as we develop open business models that are tested and refined within the OSE community. Viral replication of best-practice enterprises is one of the goals - where the enterprises tend to distribute economic power rather than to concentrate it.

Links

• Potential Collaborators
• Community Development Working Team
• Webinar Survey

Invitation

Hello Friends,

We are glad to announce the first ever OSE Webinar. This s the first of an initial batch of 6 OSE Collaboation Literacy Webinars that are scheduled one per week for the next 6 weeks.

The intended audience is (1) OSE Ambassadors - those who are knowledgeable about OSE's work and can thus spread the word - (2) those who are interested in forming official OSE chapters - and (3) anyone interested in working more closely with OSE. The intended outcome is to generate the necessary leadership to enable mass parallel progress - on all 50 GVCS machines. Our big tangible milestone is August 2016 - an extreme build event over a year from now where we build 1/2 of a new civilization in one month. Collaborators who can contribute to this significantly will be invited.

As we move forward, we are seeing a great need to develop talent, culture, and leadership within the OSE community. We are interested in building technical skills for mass parallel collaborative development - creating a culture of open collaboration - and encouraging contributors to step up to project management and leadership. As a volunteer global effort - it is important to develop all these points to deliver the yet-unrealized full potential of open source development. We are convinced that the results of open collaboration can be much more powerful than the competitive waste that we see all around us - where some of the largest global corporations spend more on patents and protectionism than on research and development. We need a paradigm shift on this.

The Webinar is intended for close collaborators of OSE and includes 45 minutes of rapid presentation followed by a question-and-answer session. We will record this, and anyone can watch the recorded sessions - to which links will be added with supporting information - so that one can review the flood of information at their convenience. One tangible outcome of the 6 webinar series will be to formalize initial agreements on OSE Chapters, by providing a solid background on OSE collaboration - philosophy, cultural alignment, tools used, and processes. The webinar is tomorrow - Wednesday - May 27 at 1 PM CST USA time, and the recording will be posted soon thereafter.

Marcin