X90-1000
OSE milestones to date involve single-day heavy machine builds, formulation of a modular design language, reduction of design time from months to weeks by using a construction set approach, and a revenue model based on Extreme Manufacturing. Our next major milestone is to 100x our development capacity via a refined collaboration architecture and modular breakdown of projects into parts.
To this end, our milestone is to recruit 1000 people on the scale of 30 days, for a 90 day development sprint for a total of 120,000 development hours per quarter. This is proposed by a combination of:
- Clear collaboration architecture - a handbook describing all the roles required for the development of a specific product
- Launching of a design challenge on HeroX to facilitate a specific project. Crowdfunding is contemporaneous with recruiting.
- Modular breakdown of project into about a dozen teams of 100 people each
- Self-selection process for developers for semi-automated on-boarding. Developer test must include FreeCAD for any design roles, and actual tasks for other roles.
Execution
Africa may be a place to try this by combining OSE Linux, 1 hour of CAD training, and 1 hour of development training in a 2 hour crash course on OSE development - a prerequisite for any Design Jam.
Africa provides a context for access to people, financed by the west, with intent to avoid modern-day imperialism by involving local capacity building to the highest extent possible. This means training local leaders to build, run, and replicate OSE Microfactories.