Roadmap

Technical Areas of Endeavor

Meta: the audience for this writing is to expose a detailed technical rollout plan. This is OSE's current plan, and is constantly up for review under agile development methodology. This assumes technical expertise in specific areas of endeavor. For a nontechnical overview of this work, please see

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