Building a Team

Last Updated April 18, 2012.

• Scaling strategy: Impact, Organization, Budget, Economic Sustainability
• Metrics, Milestones, Project Evaluation & Review

Abstract

As the OSE project evolves towards a world-class open source product development platform - the need emerges for a scalable strategy for motivating and retaining development talent.

We have already demonstrated measurable success in recruitment. This includes 600+ True Fans and growing, 3 full time OSE developers (Marcin, Aaron, Yoonseo), 3 current DPVs (Jose, Brianna, Andrew), several Replications including 2 enterprise startups, collaboration with Team Wikispeeed, collaboration with Creation Flame, and over 100 active wiki contributors.

To extend our open product development method towards rapid, agile (beta product release in 3 months with 3 monthly prototyping cycles while maintaining high quality control standards and producing complete documentation), parallel, scalable (extendable to any number of projects) development platform requires an improved human resources strategy.

Problem Statement

We are developing the open source economy - an economy that optimizes both production and distribution of wealth - while promoting environmental regeneration and social justice. We are developing a self-funding process for open product development. Self-fungibility is a requirement for scaling to an internet-scale phenomenon.

Self-fungibility requires low development cost matched by robust generation of visible economic value. Both of these can be addressed with a strategic approach to human resource development

Solution

As an open source project with high social capital (access to TED, Shuttleworth Foundation, and other support networks), we are well-position to leverage widespread volunteer support while to leverage available funding for high impact. Our proposed solution revolves around a human resource