XM Control Panel Howto

Introduction

Welcome to the Control Panel for Open Product Development by Open Source Ecology. We are developing the Global Village Construction Set + the organizational framework which allows for the scaling of open source product development towards significant economic impact.

The goal of this HOWTO is to provide insight into:

• How a person who knows little about the project can get involved
• Orient that person towards meaningful contribution
• Explain insights into how the Project Page can leverage extensive global collaboration, so that a contributor can contribute meaningfully - whether it is a one-time or extended period of contibution.

New Contributors: Getting Involved

This is a platform for Open Source Product Development that intends to leverage small and large development contributions on any of a large number of development steps required to bring a physical product from idea to reality.

Volunteers and paid people are working on the project. For all new contributors: To get involved, examine the ~100 steps of the Control Panel. Click on the hyperlink to each step to examine what each step entails.

Framework of Development

Process

The Control Panel assumes that there is a framework of a Scrum Master and a Product Owner who 'run' the development process of the Global Village Construction Set. The assumption is further that there is an organization - OSE - providing funding for this development. Further, the organization is responsible for recruiting Advisers and Subject Matter Experts who can enhance the velocity greatly.

The Scrum Master is key in accelerating the process:

• Scrum Master works both locally (Factor e Farm) and Globally (remote collaboration and remote swarming (Flash Mobs))
• World can view and join at any time. By assuring that ALL the steps are documented, anyone in the world can begin contributing.
  • Buzz is generated when updates are constant.
• Task done on backlog qualifies a person to join a team.
• Person joining team qualifies to vlog and log tasks in completion log
• Flash Mobs are engaged for swarming on problems
• Advanced techniques such as 3D scans are generated to produce rapid CAD design
• CAD and Design can be done rapidly via remote swarms
• Prototyping work can be done rapidly at Factor e Farm with 12 Fabricators + 12 Assistants
• Remote fabrication can happen at TechShop or Home Machine Shop
• Rapid Fabrication and Design can be leveraged
  • Requires CAD swarm and design swarm - first focuses on documentation, other focuses on design - 1 hour per week.
• Rapid Prototyping/Testing can be leveraged
  • CAE swarming, 3D print swarming (For rapid prototypes), High School fab shops, Makerspaces

Platform Design Rationale

• Platform does not use links within the entries for the Master List of Steps. This is to facilitate navigation by preventing people from being taken away from the overall Project Page. Rate
• Tags (Categories) should be added to pages in the Mediawiki platform, such that any Master List of Steps item should be tagged by that name (such as this page is tagged XM Control Panel Howto at the bottom of this page.
  • The usefulness of this lies in examining a whole bunch of Steps from different machines to assess documentation standards and learn best practices from the other 50 GVCS projects.

Minimum Management Required:

• 12 fabricators at factor e farm (2 currently)
• 1 FeF documenter + upload strategy
• 10 scrum masters, 10 project owners
  • Needs weekly on-demand housing
• COO (manages Scrum)
• CEO (manages Project)
• CFO (Aaron)

Budget - $64k/month in management (32 people at $2k stipend, halp at Factor e Farm + half remote, then 25 on-site by Quarter 4)

Capacity

We can currently house a max of 15 people. Camping space is unlimited.

Volunteers Required:

• crowd-source documentation talent in the summer (film and journalism schools),
• Flash Design, CAD, CAE via volunteer engineers in Flash Mobs, supported via nonprofit sector; work with EWB
• Flash CAD via Sketchup to CAD conversion
• 1 mechanic for machine testing
• Crowdsource CAD from nonprofit
• Scaling Calculation Flash Mobs

Strategy

• Due Diligence via Scrum Master and Product Owner who are guided by an Advisory Board of Titans (100-200 advisors)
  • Mine via TED, EWB, LifeBoat, OSE True Fans + Supporters, Professional Headhunter, and others.
• Recruit full-time community manager for Flash Mob talent.
  • Flash Mob Brief - from Due Diligence
  • 1.5 hour design session on Google Hangout.