Shuttleworth Application 2014 Brief

Executive Summary

• Continue developing infrastructure from 12 to 18 full time people on site with our new Artchitecture Product Lead
• Organize an ambitious college tour of 50 universities for Q1-Q2 of 2014
• Stabilize with 18 full time Dedicated Project visitors on site as the baseline developer population by end of May, and go into full speed of development on the Last Mile of the GVCS: beta release of all 50 machines by end of 2015 pending 1000 hours of contributions per week.
• Begin a Residency Program where we invide open source hardware rock stars towards making Factor e Farm a world class development facility. Improve infrastructure for this: more Microhousese, an Electronics Workshop, and a swimming pool.
• Partner with Everywhere Tech (Catarina Mota) on addressing the Last Mile of open source technology transfer: Production Workshops based on extensive documentation as a self-funding mechanism for continuing development of each of the 50 machines
• Develop GVCS machine and Microhouse Workshop model - weekends of "social production experience" - as a means for continuing development of each product.

Realtime doc/builds -Milestones achieved- This year, I have had a great year of learning into responsibility. I learned to be a big boy In a field of lost sheep. -

MILESTONES

• Frank Lloyd Wright model of apprenticeship
• hired Microhouse developer Chris Reinhart to his dream job
• MAstered on-site community management via gaining clarity of intent on Frank Lloyd Wright model of apprenticeship
• spring cleaning and grid hookup for utilities to house a larger population! HabLab stabilized for 12 peeps
• Realtime Build/Document Sprint
• setting up doc platform
• attaininga. Base understanding of Critical Ops + Outsource of Critical Ops Functions

PLAN

• partnering with Catarina Mota
• goal of 18 permanent people on site
• $100k - Upgrades towards world class infrastructure and electronics workshop + swimming pool
• Partnering with Catrina Mota on Open Source Tech Transfer via documentation/build optimization, becoming de facto our new production manager
• Build optimization to 1 day of the Microhouse - rigorous documentation requirements.

DEV PLAN

• Deploy FreeCAD or Lego Draw solution for machine design
• Do 6 residencies in key supported areas - steam, CNC multimahine, 3D Printer,
• JAN - CEB controller + Fritzing via Collaborative Workflow Design. Develop first Architected Sprint - Collaboration Architecture - for electronics, and invite 3 specific collaborators to a 3 hour session, including one Documenter of Process

INTERN PLAN Work - complete absorption On/off boarding - airport pickup, accommodations, RESIDENT ADVISOR/VIDEOGRAPHER (stipend), complete House Rules (for all participants) including respect, how to handle Marcin, food, cleaning, Honors (take out the garbage, etc.) ISSUES -

• Doing Their Own Thing - via Contract and Work Plan and clear protocols (generally exist) - and MJ working directly with students - 4 meetings per week in general, check-in in afternoon on progress, culturing a group leader by making that known.
• keeping numbers manageable - class of 18
• positioning as Apprentice Model
• Housing - Chris is here! No excuses now. Self-managing build model - architecture interns for builds. Taliesin students for build. Limestone oven for mortar. Slurry boils down to slurry mastery via slurry maker.
• emptional instability - kick them out if not reformed
• low productivity - clear expectations
• consult with - Board of Dir, Renee, Bob Cohn