Getting Involved

2020

'Here are the main ways you can get involved.

Network

1. Join the OSE Workshops FB Group
2. Sign up for our monthly newsletter, OSEmail
3. Open Source Ecology Main Site
4. Open Building Institute
5. Open Source Ecology - Germany
6. Blog
7. YouTube Channel
8. Vimeo Channel
9. Follow OSE on Twitter
10. Request a workshop to be held in a location near you - [1]

Collaborate

1. Participate in our workshops and programs
2. We're hiring - Join us as an instructor 2020 (old link) in our STEAM Camps, or apply to be an Event Planner
3. Be part of our Tech Team: become an OSE_Developer
4. Create a Wiki Account

Build Community

1. OSE Meetups - start a meetup in your town and work towards completion of the Global Village Construction Set by developing derivative products that lead to the Open Source Economy.
2. OSE_Clubs Collaboration - Start an OSE Club - Get students involved in large-scale collaboration by turning class time into global collaboration time. See
3. Global_Classroom_Initiative - turn your classroom into a hotspot of global collaboration.
4. OSE_Chapters_at_Universities - begin developing the open source economy while you are in college
5. OSE_National_Chapters - regional and national chapters
6. OSE_Incentive_Challenge - annual grand event
7. Do you know any Subject Matter Experts who could help provide expertise? Help us with our SME Search.

Support

1. Buy our products. 100% of our proceeds go to a nonprofit cause to change the world.
2. Sign up for our workshops. Get exposed to Extreme Manufacturing swarm-based builds.
3. Subscribe to support this work financially as a True Fan
4. Donate to OSE. We are a 501(c)3 education organization.

Micro-Contributions

There are also many other assets that you can produce if you have relevant skill sets. We list some specific ways to get involved.

Calculations

Contribute to Basic Calculations by adding additional calculators relevant to GVCS development, so we can involve novices in advanced development work.

Part Libraries

Stock steel tubing library - stock steel sections of all steel. This could be implemented simply as a parametric spreadsheet in FreeCAD, where you type in the length of a select steel section. The more advanced version could be a a workbench which allows you to generate any stock steel section. Metric and imperial.

OSE FreeCAD Workbenches

G Roques is leading development of workbenches for OSE machines in FreeCAD - which allow the user to design different versions of our machines from available part libraries and proven build techniques. See OSE FreeCAD Workbenches and contact G to help out.

Video Production

We have loads of video footage, low and high quality, from over the last decade. A skilled editor could turn this into gold - just as our GVCS in 2 Minutes or OSE Anthem videos were created by completely unsolicited contributors. Here you can help us create a sequel to our first Kdenlive Tutorial to include how to do greenscreen, bottom third, aerials, action, and other edits. For example, GVCS in 2 Minutes and the OSE Anthem were produced completely independently by taking online OSE assets from OSE Youtube, OSE Vimeo, and High Resolution GVCS Media. The only requirement is pure skill and passion - to refine loads of content into bitesize packets.

Some ideas are: highlight videos - vine videos or 1 minute and under other videos made from any combination of assets: (1) raw footage from YouTube or clips from existing, high quality videos; (2) FreeCAD CAD. (3) FreeCAD ported into Blender; (4) FreeCAD ported into WebGL explosions. (5) Basic Video Scripts of refined content. See also Crowd Video Protocol and OSEdit, and Collaborative Video Protocol, Open Source Soundtracks, and Explainer Video and Tablet Blackboard Instructionals for ways that meaningful video contributions can be made.

Graphics Design

Do you like the way the infographics are designed at OBI - https://www.openbuildinginstitute.org/? Help us generate infographics like at OBI - and machine infographics as in the Machine Infographics contributor guidelines using GIMP and Inkscape.

Links

• Getting Involved 2019