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Fri Feb 8, 2013

Working on Documentation_Standards#Basic_Wiki_Version. Active discussions with Jordan Phoenix on DPV for potential microhouse building, Daniel Keith on CNC torch table, Rahul Dhinakaran, Angel Rodriguez, Graciela Italiano-Thomas on Uruguay pilot, and Simone Cicero. Talking to Sunny Bates on headhunting at her Manhattan office and Mitch Joachim at the Navy Yard. Mitch - cancelled due to snow. Cocovivo.com offer for OSE location via Colby and Ulrich. Viraj Puri and Majora Carter are in Brooklyn.

Thu Feb 7, 2013

Resource Development page started. Documentation Standards - user stories. Week goals: contact every open source hardware project, asking for leads to a Product Lead 2013. Chris Traub - message that sticks out is the need for absolute clarity on everything communicated.

Wed Feb 6, 2013

Traveling back from Portugal.

Tue Feb 5, 2013

Planted an Orange Tree and interviewed Angel Rodriguez for ops manager.

Mon Feb 4, 2013

Documentation Standards. Goal for week: finish documentation standards work preparation for OSHW Documentation Hackathon. Have 3 conversations with recruiting candidates. Update OSE Specifications for build methodology for training product lead. Set up database of all OSHW company product leads, talk to them regarding hiring. Mining Open Source Hardware Definition - Endorsement List for OSE team. List of Open Source Hardware Projects. Year-End Report Goals for 2013-2014. Executive Director's Statement. OSE Mission.

Sun Feb 3, 2013

OSE Video Channels. Talking to product leads of OSHW companies.

Sat Feb 2, 2013

Evora.

Fri Feb 1, 2013

One-stop-shop for communication/documentation in Wikispeed. Wikispeed Documentation Callout. JMO Recruiters.

Thu Jan 31, 2013

Continued discussion on OSE/Shuttleworth expectations alignment. Critical item of agreement is the importance of a team.

Wed Jan 30, 2013

Sending out recruiting through personal networks, blogging Strategy Charrette. Recruiting 2013. Phase I. Design for Fabrication updated at OSE Specifications. Meeting Guidelines. Talked to Karien and Helen on OSE/Shuttleworth expectations alignment.

Tue Jan 29, 2013

Conference call with Karien, talking to Helen tomorrow.

Mon Jan 28, 2013

Duolingo.

Sun Jan 27, 2013

Recruiting Strategy 2013. Collaborative Development Strategies. Marcin's Calendar 2013. Hackation. Finished Comparison of Urban vs Rural OSE Development Sites and submitted to Shuttleworth.

Sat Jan 26, 2013

OSHW Documentation Hackathon. Slow Design. OpenStructures. AtFAB - start discussion on open design repo and local production. Slow Design, OSE, Wikihouse, AtFAB, already have material. AdaBIO.

Fri Jan 25, 2013

OSHW Documentation Taxonomy Elements. OSHW Documentation Problem Statements. Documentation Entity Relationship Diagram. Hydraulic Circuit Design. Visual Facilitation.

Thu Jan 24, 2013

One Day Partnerships. Operations Manager 2013. The Spark trailer. Guy Etienne. Job Descriptions 2013. Video of Interest. Publishing Operations Manager 2013 Recruiting Blog Post. OSHW Documentation Handbook. OSHW Documentation Taxonomy Elements. Creating Gift Economy School. OpenStructures.

Wed Jan 23, 2013

Comparison of Urban vs Rural OSE Development Sites. Strategy. Grants. CEB Press Sample at Open Materials. Open Source Hardware Taxonomy.

Tue Jan 22, 2013

Working on OSE Job Descriptions 2013 and Job Descriptions 2013 and Plan and Budget 2013. Added OSE Culture. Talked to Karien regarding expansion of OSE to an urban environment for access to development talent. NYC Branch

Mon Jan 21, 2013

Week Goals: (1) Post 4 executive job descriptions. Focus on tasks releted to assistance on pressing existing issues. (2) Interview at least one potential candidate. (3) Assess feasibility of NYC Branch of OSE. (4) Finish Specification for OS Hardware Documentation. Specification is best we can do if we want to hire someone to do it. (5) Refine Budget for OSE.

Sun Jan 20, 2013

Visited Industry City Distillery and NYC Resistor Heavy Industries.

Thu-Sat Jan 17-19, 2013

Strategy Charette, LA.

Wed Jan 16, 2013

NYC Branch. 2013 Structuring. Asked Adrian to join team.

Tue Jan 15, 2013

Personal breakthroughs on problem statement definition for others vs. managing vs. autistic development as a means to scaling my ability to execute. Meeting with Katherine for a 4 hour planning session - OSE Success 2013 criteria established. Conference call with Karien, validated need for an organizational mentor consultant. Pursuing Governor's Island partnership with Leslie Koch via email introduction care of 3rd Ward. Culture vs Strategy.

Mon Jan 14, 2013

Documentation Standards - working on OSHW Documentation Handbook including Documentation_Standards#Open_Hardware_Documentation_Outline, OSWH Information Architecture Wireframe, Documentation Development Process, CEB Press Sample Documentation

Fri-Sun Jan 11-13, 2013

Outing to Haiti. Proceeding with microfactory to build open source tractors in Haiti.

Thu Jan 10, 2013

Interviewed Susan Salerno for Operations Manager, 1 hours review with Dan. Discussed Adrian 1-year consultancy. 30 minute interview followed by Product Ecology and High Resolution GVCS Media sent to Popular Science for April article.

Wed Jan 9, 2013

Design Jam. Collective Action Toolkit. Human Centered Design Toolkit. Open Design Process. Nonhierarchical open source mapping software - Metamaps. Ouishare Factory Facebook Group. OpenPicus. Biz process management - , Liferay, Intalio. Metalevel of Process definition. Uploaded more pictures to High Resolution GVCS Media.

Tue Jan 8, 2013

OSE Job Descriptions 2013 updating. Email Handling Process - needs interview policy. Visiting Maker's Row. Define Open Source Technology Transfer - flowchart + text. Create Documentation budget. Define mission of Everywhere Tech: to do successful os t transfer. Define success criteria and metrics for efective tech transfer. Define TT. Define OS TT. Start planning pilot projects. Add contacts as a requirement for success. XP. Carlos Miranda Levy invited me to Haiti for the weekend of Relief 2.0, where I am proposing the Brick Press for a pilot project.

Mon Jan 7, 2013

Makeblock. Research Notebook. Met with Adrian and Juliette. Discussions include Governor's Island pilot project. Blogged on the MIT Innovations Journal.

Sun Jan 6, 2013

Working on Plan and Budget 2013. Revising OSE Job Descriptions 2013.

Sat Jan 5, 2013

Working with Catarina on Site Structure - OSHW Documentation - Information Architecture and OSHW Documentation - Information Architecture Metainfo. Working with Adrian and Dan on OSE Job Descriptions 2013. Deliverable: and OSHW Documentation Handbook as Step 1. Mashup implementation as Step 2. - and creation of programmed Template as Step. Continuing Documentation Standards. Purchased opensourcewarehouse.org.

Fri Jan 4, 2013

Met with Adrian Hong on structuring.

Thu Jan 3, 2013

Happy New Year 2013 Blog Post. Operations Management

Tuesday Jan 1,2013

Inspired. Operations Manager Announcement for Interim Operations Manager. Talk to Frank Cicela on operations management. Started Executive Email Handling Protocol. Talked to Dan about Everywhere Tech, got a number of seminal references. Wed Jan 2 - processing overload rest day. Talked to Jennie, watched Moneyball.

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