Roadmap

Technical Areas of Endeavor

Meta: the audience for this writing is to expose a detailed technical rollout plan for 2016-2026, which is the time allotted to Full technical development of an autonomous infrastructure construction set known as the GVCS, and implemented in the form of OSE's first full Campus. This is OSE's current plan, and is constantly up for review under agile development methodology. This writing assumes technical expertise in specific areas of endeavor. For a popular overview of this work, please see the GVCS TED Talk, GVCS in 2 Minutes, the MIT Innovations Journal article, the New Yorker Article, and a recent interview at the Permaculture Voices Podcast0.

Tractor Construction Set

• Tractor Construction Set - a set of multipurpose, scalable, Design for Manufacturing modules that can be built at 2-10 times lower cost compared to industry standards.

Open Source Fab Lab

Immediate term goals are to implement a rapid prototyping infrastructure, of which the CNC Torch Table is the most important tool. Near-term goals include capacity to forge and roll steel into tubing, to induction melt and alloy steel followed by hot rolling, and to precision machine steel.

Within this capacity,

The near term goal is thus

Project Management

• OSE Warehouse of approved parts. Requires OSE Warehouse approval process. Module, link to repo, date, approval date
• Bug Reports - a set of specific details that need resolution
• Scrumy for backlog of tasks
• Social Media policy and SOPs
• FeF Journal
• OSE Blog
• OSE Communication Channels
• OSE Recruiting SOPs