Team Ecology

Abstract: We aim to produce an innovative self-funding operation by incorporating core physical production - a basis of the Open Source Ecology paradigm - into our organizational infrastructure. We are requiring management to be involved hands-on in the subject matter of our development - infrastructures of communities - because of the essential connection to natural life support systems that we emphasize as part of our organization. This is a philosophy aimed at attaining the highest level of personal and political responsibility and autonomy.

Overview

In order to scale, we are mitigating risk from volatile funding stream by incorporating economic production into our operations. All people at the FeF experiment station are required to generate direct value as part of their engagement. Everyone is required to spend 10 hours per week in physical production.

How Self Funding Works

See OSE Self-Funding Business Model

We are currently demonstrating that productive work of building GVCS machines yields $100 per hour. This figure is obtained from a 50 hour requirement for the production of a single CEB press, which we sell for $9k - where the materials are $4k. Thus, under the assumption of such high-value production, we are estimating $100/hour of production. However, there are design and sourcing blocks. The machine has recently been improved by Texas developers. Combined with design changes, the organizational time involved in production - considering materials sourcing - will add time to the effort.

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Team and Facility

OSE RepLab (A self-replicating Fab Lab currentl has 12 bays, 256 square feet each. This structure

Next Steps

• Produce full CAD for new CEB press prototype
• Upgrade facility to 0 down-time workshop power (inverter + backup generator
  • Improve safety on PTO generator
  • Secure generator-welder from Team Wikispeed
• Improve tooling
  • Develop and Deploy CNC Circuit Mill
  • Build out CNC Torch table (support table, electronics (Start with Geckos, move to Open Capitalist Controller)
  • Deploy Prototype II of Ironworker machine
  • Plumb-in workshop-scale hydraulic power outlets

The basic organizational ecology revolves around the Founding Director, Director of Development, and Product Director. These people provide strategic development to keep the organization on track, under the oversight of the OSE Board of Directors.

The basic productive ecology on site at FeF revolves around the leadership of the Production Director, Farm Director, and Construction Director. Each of these have several interns in training, where the Directors are responsible for training the apprentices. Bootstrap-funding production occurs primarily through the Director-Apprentice pairings. Apprentices may be unskilled or may be professionals (such as welders, machinists, farmers, builders, etc.). In all cases, all apprentices are required to expand their skill sets via cross-training to become Integrated Humans. Products include GVCS tools, Immersion Learning Workshops, and products of these tools such as houses, agriculture operations, Microfactories, energy farms, OSE Campuses, and even small scale republics (as in Small Scale Decentralized Republic Development Corporations).

These directors also collaborate with OSE Fellows (new product prototypers/developers), Distributive Enterprise Incubator entrepreneurs (production replicators), and Fabricators.