Commitments

Introduction

This page is dedicated to keeping track of commitments of volunteers regarding work towards completing the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) in as timely a fashion as possible. The motivation behind this page is to foster accountability and to help people clarify realistic goals and expectations. The aims of this are several:

• To show commitments to an outside audience - where the outside audience gains insight into the effectiveness of the GVCS development team in terms of delivering results.
• Provide transparency to the GVCS development process
• Help volunteers plan their work more effectively by having an explicit chance to write down their goals
• Provide insight into general organizational effectiveness to an outside audience. This is important in terms of creating an open source economy and a peer-to-peer culture.
• Serve as part of a broader, open source economic development infrastructure for Open Source Ecology, and for Open Source Engineering in particular.

How Does This Work?

In order to keep people to their promises regarding volunteer work, the process is as follows. Please see the first entry for Marcin Jakubowski for the template of all the information required.

• All volunteers set up an entry on this wiki upon being requested to do so by Project Managers or the Factor e Farm Core Team.
• The entry consists of the written goals that volunteers commit to for the near future. The goal is to clarify realistic expectations, in as much detail as is possible to write down in a short description.
  • Date of promise
  • 1 month goal
  • 6 month goal
• The volunteer or someone else goes back to the entry after 1 month and after 6 months, and reports back - whether the goal has or has not been reached. If the goals have not been reached, it is useful to comment why.
• Comments - it is useful to keep track of comments, as these may provide insight into why things do or do not get accomplished. This is useful both for the development team and for an outside audience studying organizational effectiveness.

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Marcin Jakubowski 11.7.08 Goals

• 1 month - I commit to building the flexible workshop at Factor e Farm by the end of November, to make a dedicated space for developing CEB Press digital fabrication beginning in November. As soon as this space is completed, it will be used for sawmill prototype development by Robert Todd, who is here at Factor e Farm.
• 6 month goal - This takes us to the end of April. The goal is to have the CEB machine in full production, with a capacity of 4 machines being produced every week. This includes building the entire physical infrastructure and recruiting 4 more people to operate the facility, on an on-demand production basis.