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Sun Jun 28, 2015
As a result of Webinars, it appears that the excitement does not lie in the DevelopmentvMethod, but product. It always has been. So a shift to focusing around production enterprise has to be the way to move forward. This addresses the livelihood question. Development atechnique does not address livelihood in the immediate sense.
The next milestone for FeF is to recruit the first ever self-sustaining on-site collaborator. The idea would be for that person to run workshops. It appears this will be feasible when Brick Press, Power Cube, MicroTrac, Gasifier, and CNC Torch will be fully deployed. That right there is a powerful fabrication package.
A favorable scenario would be developing the first priority - agriculture. If this person knows how to build the Microtractor, and use CNC torch, and 3d model with a printer, FreeCAD, etc - they can be self-directed into high level R&D work - the key is providing sufficient direction and training, matching the skill level to the person.
There could be a 2 weeks ag/ 2 weeks running workshops every month. There would have to be a serious vetting process - maybe workshop to volunteer on site for a month at expenses paid of $15/day - to qualify for a deep immersion program. The program would offer substantive skills in agriculture and technology. From cad to Rapid prototyping to Machine Construction Set to energy to GIS to breeding.
The critical missing link is still training materials. Maybe the best way to attain organizational collaborative literacy is to write a curriculum - the teaching part - from where the goals and methodology are clarified. One major block right now is the lack of collaborative ecology. The methods and techniques of development are not clear - a persistent block. Specifically - I have not seen anyone skilled in modular breakdown, interface design, and parallel process design for product development. Thus, with little common ground, it is too steep a learning curve for someone to come up with parallel process design.
The next step on the parallel process design aspect of collaborative literacy is to define the methodology. Then, do a pilot course. If the results are favorable, as demonstrated by the ability of a leader to emerge to run a parallel dev process - then we have succeeded on two fronts. One is method of development. Two is the necessary leadership to spread the method. This is essentially a technology transfer question.
The outcome would be, for example, that a mass parallel process is begun to fulfill the open source Aquaponics project. Or nursery. Or Machine Construction Set.
Thu Jun 11, 2015
Today marks the shift to building a community development effort based on complete teams, as opposed to lean teams. We are still considering lean operation, however, we will be ramping up the recruiting function to make teams more complete. Incomplete teams are a persistent weak point of the project. Economic sufficiency is currently progressing well with the Extreme Manufacturing Workshop Model.
Wed May 6, 2015
This year marks the start of team building and training for creating high performing teams. The benefit is learning leadership and peak performance towards becoming Integrated Humans. The practice is doing world-changing work of creating Collaborative Literacy - one of core Literacy topics.