Team Culturing
Introduction
Open Source Ecology (OSE) is creating a culture of open source economic development - also known as Distributive Economics (see provocative comments on the topic in Douglas Rushkoff's Radical Abundance talk). OSE Core Values are outlined here. Transparency is an essential part of this goal. One aspect of transparency involves the development team: who is contributing, what is the skill set of each contributor, how has/is/will each player contribute to the mission of Open Source Ecology, and why is that individual interested in the results of this work. To this end, we are requesting that all contributors to Open Source Ecology development create a page about themselves on this wiki (see editing Instructions and Team Culturing Template Instructions below), filling out as many fields as possible from the Team Culturing Survey template below. If you are unable to enter this information on the wiki for any reason, you may email it to gvcsculturing at gmail dot com instead. Send any correspondence to the moderator at the gvcsculturing address, and send any technical questions regarding the web platform itself to elifarley at gmail dot com. Team Culturing also helps raise the level of discussion on the OSE Forums. Read more about the Development Team. (OSE Core Values to be detailed next, followed by Forums and Team Infrastructure (part of Operations Management strategy)
OSE Team Transparency
The essential goals of team transparency, and of the Team Culturing pages, are:
- Helping to foster team unity and to motivate new contributors to join by showing the wealth of contributions that have already been made to the OSE project
- Helping new contributors to orient themselves within the project
- Providing a networking tool focusing on open source economic development to related projects
- Promoting effective collaboration on existing OSE projects, both in technical and organizational development
- Provide a platform to incubate new collaborations towards OSE goals
- Creating a foundation for developing an OSE Fellows program – a program analogous to TED Fellows – where OSE Fellows centers on nurturing players in the field of distributive economic development
In the 2-year phase from 2011-2012 (Phase 1), we are focusing on building the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). In short – it is the 50/2/2 campaign – or developing the 50 Technologies of the GVCS tool set within 2 years and a $2.4M budget according to the GVCS Development Template. From 2013-2014 (Phase 2), we will be focusing on building the world's first, prototype, resilient community of 200 people on 200 acres – to demonstrate that a complete economy with modern-day comforts may be built from local resources. The hallmark of this experiment is to demonstrate that it is possible, and indeed trivial, to produce a resource-efficient community similar to One Planet Communities, but at a fraction of the cost and with a completely relocalized economy (and therefore containing the substance for a local currency). From 2015-2016 (Phase 3), the OSE movement will work on replication to 1000 places worldwide, realizing the promise indicated initially in the 1000 True Fans – 1000 Global Villages campaign.
The Team Culturing pages show some of the people who are making this happen. These pages will also evolve into a more powerful GVCS Team Culturing CiviCRM platform for Contact Relationship Management - a database of key players involved in distributive economic development.
Team Culturing Survey Template
Instructions
You can go directly to this survey to fill in your information, or, enter your information on this wiki according to the following instructions. Filling out your information manually allows you greater flexibility.
This survey is intended to be used by the developers of the OSE project. Please fill out as many fields as you can. The more that the team knows about you and your involvement, the more collaborative development can arise. This is part of the open culture that we aim to create within the OSE community.
To fill out this template, start a new page (see Wiki instructions), with your name as the title of the page. If for some reason a page with your name already exists, just change your name by adding a middle name, a number, or some other descriptor such as "John Smith from New York," etc. Then you can go to the Team Culturing Information Template, click on edit, and copy and paste all the content into that page, while editing out questions that you leave blank or that you answer in the negative. At the end of your entry, there will be the tag:
[[Category:Team Culturing]]
so that your name is indexed with all the other Team Culturing entries. See more information on using categories.
Survey
Team Culturing Information
WHO are you?
- Resume/CV -
WHY are you motivated to support/develop this work?
- Why are you interested in collaborating with us?
WHAT are your skills?
- List all of your skills in these areas: Communications - Organizational - Computer Support - Finances - Design - Natural Building - Electronics - Automation - Metallurgy - Engineering - Fabrication - Agriculture - Energy - Architecture - Video/Graphics/Art - PR/Marketing - Education - Construction - Industry - CNC - Chemistry - Product Design - Other
- How have you already contributed to the project?
HOW can you help?
- How are you interested in contributing to the work of GVCS development?
- Can you volunteer to work with us, and if so, how many hours per week?
- Are you interested in working with us for pay? If so, what services can you offer, and what is your hourly or per-project rate?
- Are you interested in a Dedicated Project Visit?
- Are you interested in purchasing equipment from us to help bootstrap development?
- Are you interested in bidding for consulting/design/prototyping work?
- Are you a True Fan?
- Would you like to see yourself working with us on a full-time basis?