Team Culturing

Introduction

Open Source Ecology (OSE) is creating a culture of open source economic development - also known as Distributive Economics (see provocative comments on the topic in Douglas Rushkoff's Radical Abundance talk). OSE Core Values are outlined here. Transparency is an essential part of this goal. One aspect of transparency involves the development team: who is contributing, what is the skill set of each contributor, how has/is/will each player contribute to the mission of Open Source Ecology, and why is that individual interested in the results of this work. To this end, we are requesting that all contributors to Open Source Ecology development create a page about themselves on this wiki (see editing Instructions and Team Culturing Template Instructions below), filling out as many fields as possible from the Team Culturing Survey template below. If you are unable to enter this information on the wiki for any reason, you may email it to gvcsculturing at gmail dot com instead. Send any correspondence to the moderator at the gvcsculturing address, and send any technical questions regarding the web platform itself to elifarley at gmail dot com. Team Culturing also helps raise the level of discussion on the OSE Forums. Read more about the OSE Team Infrastructure. (OSE Core Values to be detailed next, followed by Forums and Team Infrastructure (part of Operations Management strategy)

OSE Team Transparency

The essential goals of team transparency, and of the Team Culturing pages, are:

• Helping to foster team unity and to motivate new contributors to join by showing the wealth of contributions that have already been made to the OSE project
• Helping new contributors to orient themselves within the project
• Providing a networking tool focusing on open source economic development to related projects
• Promoting effective collaboration on existing OSE projects, both in technical and organizational development
• Provide a platform to incubate new collaborations towards OSE goals
• Creating a foundation for developing an OSE Fellows program – a program analogous to TED Fellows – where OSE Fellows centers on nurturing players in the field of distributive economic development

In the 2-year phase from 2011-2012 (Phase 1), we are focusing on building the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). In short – it is the 50/2/2 campaign – or developing the 50 Technologies of the GVCS tool set within 2 years and a $2.4M budget according to the GVCS Development Template. From 2013-2014 (Phase 2), we will be focusing on building the world's first, prototype, resilient community of 200 people on 200 acres – to demonstrate that a complete economy with modern-day comforts may be built from local resources. The hallmark of this experiment is to demonstrate that it is possible, and indeed trivial, to produce a resource-efficient community similar to One Planet Communities, but at a fraction of the cost and with a completely relocalized economy (and therefore containing the substance for a local currency). From 2015-2016 (Phase 3), the OSE movement will work on replication to 1000 places worldwide, realizing the promise indicated initially in the 1000 True Fans – 1000 Global Villages campaign.

The Team Culturing pages show some of the people who are making this happen. These pages will also evolve into a more powerful GVCS Team Culturing CiviCRM platform for Contact Relationship Management - a database of key players involved in distributive economic development.

Team Culturing Survey Template

Instructions

You can go directly to this survey to fill in your information, or, enter your information on this wiki according to the following instructions. Filling out your information manually allows you greater flexibility.

This survey is intended to be used by the developers of the OSE project. Please fill out as many fields as you can. The more that the team knows about you and your involvement, the more collaborative development can arise. This is part of the open culture that we aim to create within the OSE community.

To fill out this template, start a new page (see Wiki instructions), with your name as the title of the page. If for some reason a page with your name already exists, just change your name by adding a middle name, a number, or some other descriptor such as "John Smith from New York," etc. Then copy and paste all the questions below into that page, while editing out questions that you leave blank or that you answer in the negative. At the end of your entry, tag your entry with:

[[Category:Team Culturing]]

so that your name is indexed with all the other Team Culturing entries. See more information on using categories.

Survey

WHO are you?

• Name/Nationality/Ethnicity -
• Location – what is your city and country?
• Contact Information – email, phone, Skype (email us with this information if you would like to share it only with the core development team)
• Picture – Show us what you look like
• Introductory Video- a link to an uploaded video. Introduce yourself in a 15-30 second video, or longer if you desire. It is interesting for us to hear your reason for your involvement.
• Resume/CV – Attach your resume
• Hobbies and Pastimes- Tell us about your other dimensions.

WHY are you motivated to support/develop this work?

• Do you endorse open source culture?
• Why are you interested in collaborating with us?
• Are you interested in teaching about the GVCS?
• Are you interested in economic relocalization possibilities arising from the GVCS?
• Do you want to use the GVCS technologies yourself? Do you want to build them yourself?
• Are you interested in starting up enterprise using the GVCS technologies?
• Are you interested in having the GVCS technologies fabricated by your local custom fabricator?
• Are you interested in applying the GVCS to third world development? To redevelopment of crisis areas? To development of derelict areas in the developed world?
• Are you interested in starting up Industry 2.0 flexible fabrication enterprises for your local community, by drawing from a global repository of freely down-loadable designs and fabricating using open source fabrication equipment?
• Are you interested in the potential of the GVCS for developing local food systems?
• Are you interested in doing academic studies/papers, publishing books, or doing other analysis of our efforts?
• Are you interested in financial investment opportunities arising from our work?
• Are you interested in the distributive economic aspects of our work, and if so, how do you see this playing out?
• Are you interested in building renewable energy production facilities based on open hardware (solar concentrator electric, wind, biomass power)
• Are you interested in building resilient communities based on access to the GVCS?
• Are you interested in creating a bug-out hut using GVCS technologies?
• How do you think that the GVCS can help alleviate the instabilities of global monetary systems?
• How do you think that the GVCS can address issues related to resource conflicts?
• How do you think that the GVCS can address issues of overpopulatoin?
• How do you think that the GVCS can address issues of resource depletion and environmental degradation?
• Do you have any other comments that you'd like to make?

WHAT- What can you/have you contributed to the development of OSE? This assesses some of the key contributions that we are looking for with respect to the OSE project. If you answer positively to any of the points, please expand on your experience.

• What have you already contributed to the OSE project? (technical contributions, blogging about us, financial support, organizing events, translations, interviews, video editing, publications, publicity work, beind-the-scenes work, CAD work, wiki contributions, computer support, etc)

Communications

• Are you a technical writer? Desktop publisher? On-demand publisher? Blogger? Vlogger? Data visualization expert? Graphic designer? Information architect? Do you do computer animation and modeling? Are you a wireless communications expert? Are you a PR specialist? Do you have experience in marketing? Have you created marketing materials? What relevant field of communications have we missed that we should be asking about?

Organizational

• Do you have experience in public relations? Strategic development? Organizational architecture consulting? Project management? Product management? Operations management? Nonprofit organizations? Public event organizing? Community organizing? Public speaking? Are you a good networker? Do you know contract law and can you draft legal agreements?

Computer Support

• Are you familiar with open source software? Do you use Linux? Are you a computer programmer? Are you a web designer? Open source CMS Developer/Designer? System administrator? Open source CRM developer? Augmented reality developer? Have you created or managed web-based forums? Have you administered a wiki? Can you lead a development effort on a specialized Linux implementation that addresses the goals of OSE? What relevant field of computer support have we missed that we should be asking about?

Finances

• Are you an accountant? Are you a lawyer? Have you written any business plans? Have you served as a corporate CFO? Do you have experience with resource development? Are you well-versed in the tax code? Do you have experience with project bidding?

Sociology

• Are you interested in developing a social contract for a prototypical GVCS village – a modern village of 200 people thriving from local resources?

Home Economics

• Can you cook? Can you cook for a group of 20? Can you grow food? What is your experience in agriculture? Have you done food processing? Have you

Design

• Are you an architect, interior designer, product designer, industrial process designer, electronics designer, water systems designer? Are you familiar with CAD software or modeling software such as Blender? Have you designed and built circuits? Are you familiar with power electronics design? What relevant field of design have we missed that we should be asking about?

Building Are you a prototyper, rapid prototyper, custom fabricator, general contractor, construction worker, mason, carpenter, heavy equipment operator, welder, machinist, mechanic, woodworker, or other producer? Are you a certified chainsaw operator and have you taken a chainsaw safety course? Are you familiar with CAM? Do you know how to machine gears? Have you built any tools that you use on a regular basis? Have you built your own house? What relevant build skill have we missed that we should be asking about?

Electronics and Magnetics

• Do you have axperience with power electronics or circuit design? Are you familiar with converters, inverters, high frequency power supplies? Are you familiar with solenoid valve desing? Can you do magnetic field calculations? Have you designed electrical motors or generators? What relevant field of E&M have we missed that we should be asking about?

Automation

• Are you familiar with precision drive systems? Are you familiar with stepper motors or servos? Can you design an open source stepper motor controller? Have you built or designed CNC equipment? Do you have experience with industrial robotics? What relevant subset of automation have we missed that we should be asking about?

Metallurgy

• Are you a metallurgist? Do you have experience with hot metal processing? Press forging? Induction furnace design? Have you used an induction furnace? Have you built any machining equipment, tooling/dies? Do you have experience with alloying or smelting? What relevant topic in metallury have we missed that we should be asking about?

Engineering

• Are you a subject matter expert in agricultural engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, industrial process design, robotics and automation, chemical engineering, materials science, polymer engineering, structural engineering, automotive engineering?

HOW can you help?

• How are you interested in contributing to the work of GVCS development?
• Can you volunteer to work with us, and if so, how many hours per week?
• Are you interested in working with us for pay? If so, what services can you offer, and what is your hourly or per-project rate?
• Are you interested in a Dedicated Project Visit?
• Are you interested in purchasing equipment from us to help bootstrap development?
• Are you interested in bidding for consulting/design/prototyping work?
• Are you a True Fan? If not, why not?
• Would you like to see yourself working with us on a full-time basis?
• Are you interested in using the technologies that we are developing directly?
• Are you interested in being part of the world's first, open source, resilient community? The GVCS is the preparatory step for the OSE Village Experiment – a 2 year, immersion experiment (2013-2014) for testing whether a real, thriving, modern-day prototype community of 200 people can be built on 200 acres using local resources and open access to information? We are looking for approximately 200 people to fill a diverse array of roles, according to the Social Contract that is being developed. This may be the boldest social experiment on earth - a pioneering community whose goal is to extend the index of possibilities regarding harmonious existence of humans, ecology, and technology – as a beacon of light to benefit of all people on Earth.