True Fans Hangout

True Fans Hangout - 2015

Hangouts for True Fans will occur monthly at 6 PM CST - USA Time - every last Thursday of the month, unless otherwise noted.

We will use a Google Hangout, a call-in line, and an Etherpad. The Hangout will be used only for video and text, but voice will happen over the call-in line in order to allow more people to participate. The hangout details for joining will be sent out a few minutes before the Hangout.

We will record the call for those True Fans who cannot make it to the meeting.

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Schedule and Notes

• January 2014 - Beyond Nonprofit Funding - In the first True Fans Hangout of the year, we will discuss our learnings on funding - and what it takes to grow a social good project when we give all of our information away. We are working on workshops and revenue generation for OSE to become self-sustaining as an organization - by using a production model combined with education - where our real product is education. After years of product development, our products are reaching a stage where they are robust enough to function reliably under difficult field conditions. We have already put several production workshops on our schedule - Microhouse Builds, Brick Press Builds, Tractor Builds - and we are offering a special attendance discount to our True Fans. To run successful 3-5 day workshops - we are bringing the production time down to a single day - for each of our machines. What is the key to achieving financial self-sustainability via production workshops? How do we maintain all of our information absolutely free? What are the limits to the scaling of our method? What do we aim to achieve in our workshops, in addition to production of physical products?
• February 2014 - Towards 1000 Development Hours Per Week - By leveraging University relationships from the College Tour, we aim to achieve 1000 development hours per week by the end of 2014. Can we get there? What are the challenges and opportunities? To date, we have not reached the 1000 hour mark - maybe 400 at most - but when we do - are we really achieving a prototyping rate of 1 machine per month?
• March 2014 - Documentation for Viral Replication - Can our documentation become clear enough, and our products sufficiently robust - that we attain hundreds of replications by the end of 2014? What will it take to achieve this point? We will discuss our learnings and what we are doing to make our goals of viral replication happen. Update: Workshops - moving forward, and preparation for the Summer of Extreme Design/Builds at Factor e Farm.
• April 2014 - Production Workshop Results - By now, we have had our first real Extreme Production Brick Press and Microhouse workshops - with Brick Press workshop starting on Friday the 25th - and where we are attempting to teach others to replicate these workshops. What are we learning? Can we bootstrap fund and scale the project by virtue of workshop earnings? What is required to make this successful? Can we use such earnings to take our project development to warp speed? How do we create an enterprise model where we train people to run workshops to fund further R&D on the machines?
• May 2014 - A Revenue Model for the Open Source Economy
• June 2014 - Workshops Results
• July 2014 - Velocar Workshop and MicroHouse 3
• August 2014
• September 2014
• October 2014
• November 2014
• January 2015

True Fans Hangouts - 2013

• NEXT HANGOUT: Friday, August 9, 2013 - Noon CST USA Time
• Link to Hangout: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/88c4e6748c662a33609649f026531c19913f6343?hl=en Note: you will be able to either join the Google Hangout or call in on a conference call line - if the Google Hangout is full. Etiquette: mute yourself whenever not speaking.
• Discussion: Collaboration Opportunities, Design Sprints, Pilot Projects
• See True Fans page

True Fans Hangout Log

• July 25 True Fans Hangout
• Current work - transitioning from institutional funding to crowd funding and production - True Fans Platform and True Fans Human Ecology
• TF Hangout Invitation

https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/72cpilbnduahmm34q914m1031s?hl=en

Notes on Conferencing Software

For a better solution: TeamSpeak

Download: http://teamspeak.com/?page=downloads Install and configure "Push-to-speak key": http://vimeo.com/9718101 Click here to automatically open TeamSpeak, enter server password and enter the Portuguese room that I offer for your use: ts3server://thezeitgeistmovement.com?password=ts_129tzm&channel=PORTUGAL%20%5C%26%20PALOPs

Recording software is provided built-in in TeamSpeak

Cheers!

Dario