Shuttleworth Foundation Quarterly Reports: Difference between revisions

From Open Source Ecology
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
(Replaced content with "August 2012 - Shuttleworth Foundation Quarterly Report - August 2012")
Line 1: Line 1:
=August=
August 2012 - [[Shuttleworth Foundation Quarterly Report - August 2012]]
 
Back to [http://wiki.shuttleworthfoundation.org/~shuttlew/wiki/index.php?title=Marcin_Jakubowski Marcin Jakubowski]
 
''Instructions: ''
* The purpose of this update is to showcase your work of the past 3 months and map the next 3 months.
* Be brief. Summarise, do not recreate.
* Link to posts, event profiles, etc. wherever possible.
* Include dates wherever possible.
 
=== What did you make? ===
 
Our team has:
*cut our first dimensional lumber pieces with the [http://blog.opensourceecology.org/2012/08/open-source-dimensional-sawmill-first-test-run/ Open Source Dimensional Sawmill]
*built and tested the [http://blog.opensourceecology.org/2012/08/open-source-cold-saw-first-prototype-test/ Cold Saw]
*completed design of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO50Hk93ln8 CEB Press Prototype IV]
*built the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ho2o9eHHiU small backhoe] for treching
*built another [http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Hexayurt_II Hexayurt]
*finished walls of last [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxMExwhbFQw 4 rooms of Hablab] so they are ready for installation of floor and heat for winter
 
*built and tested the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyVAKnbBGqM Trencher Prototype I]
*harvested some [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUOsNas2c2U Asian Pears]
*built and tested [http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/LifeTrac_implements#Subsoiler Subsoiler Prototype I]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6kbrQtVWGA installed 20kW of 3-phase power in workshop]
*[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL52179E21BB91D8FE&feature=view_all hired well drilling]
 
We also continued using/upgrading [http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Flashy_XM Flashy XM] project oversight platform. Good for overall index.
 
=== Where did you go? ===
 
[http://blog.opensourceecology.org/2012/09/transformed/ TED Collaboratorium]
 
=== What have you been saying? ===
 
Continued with uncontrollable [http://www.youtube.com/user/marcinose?feature=mhee vlogging] (1597 vids, approximately 200 new vlogs including Daily Standup meeting), Continued with blogging at [http://blog.opensourceecology.org/ blog]. Entering [http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Focus_Forward Focus Forward film competition] with 3 minute video.
 
=== Who is joining your thinking? ===
 
Seminal thinking on Distributive Enterprise to be published by MIT Innovations Journal - which will be our first academic publication of the Distributive Enterprise concept. See [http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Levels_of_Openness_in_Human_Enterprise Levels_of_Openness_in_Human_Enterprise] for concept.
 
[http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Ingenio_Santa_Ana_Collaboration_Proposal_Sep._2012 Large sugar mill in Guatemala] thinks that our tractors could replace their John Deere tractors, and they are building the first LifeTrac by Oct 1.
 
=== Your roadmap for the next 3 months ===
 
The roadmap for next 3 months is to secure ~$30M grant from [http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Marcin_Blog#Monday_Sep._17.2C_2012 Conxcorp.com], and recruit an Operations Manager, Master Prototyper, 3 Machine Designers, and a Construction Director - focusing on the world's best. On top of this, we aim to achieve a $20k/month bootstrap funding model via sales of CEB presses, after a build of the [http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/OSE_Microhouse OSE Microhouse] prototype using the CEB Prototype IV - with this going from Beta Release to Full Product Release.
 
=== Your favourite artefact of the past 3 months ===
3 replications. [http://opensourceecology.org/w/index.php?title=China_Replication China replicated] our CEB press, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ikt0HwAorM sugar mill in Guatemala] is building a copy of the Tractor, and 2 high schoold students [http://blog.opensourceecology.org/2012/09/daniel-hayden-build-a-lifetrac/ replicated LifeTrac in Los Angeles] to donate to a community garden. But the Collaboratorium was a real peak moment much greater than these.

Revision as of 00:13, 1 October 2012

August 2012 - Shuttleworth Foundation Quarterly Report - August 2012

Retrieved from "https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/index.php?title=Shuttleworth_Foundation_Quarterly_Reports&oldid=74873"