How to Start

Founders - Start with 2 co-founders who get the ball rolling. These individuals must be interested in promoting the OSE Vision, and must have some familiarity with OSE's work based on participating in OSE development work, Extreme Builds, or other educational programs.
Club Formation - Co-Founders approach their respective University student club office to register a club with the university. Club charter is filed, and officers are selected.
OSE Charter - Founders work with OSE to develop a charter, which specifies a year-long critical path for the club.
Operation - Founders apply for university student club funding to build up their productive infrastructure, such as a Desktop Microfactory with 3D printers and plastic recycling as a good entry level program for teaching collaborative design while cleaning up the environment.

Requirements

Willingness to work as a team - OSE Chapters, in order to coordinate on effective development, are designed to collaborate on development with other chapters around the world. This increases development velocity, and allows meaningful results to be obtained on short time periods
Ideally, OSE Chapters meet for an extreme build or other hands-on build event to implement what they have been designing together. This solidifies team connections, and reifies the design work that has been carried out. The printciple here is that together, large-scale projects can be accomplished easily - such as building a microfactory or a school over spring break or over a vacation.