2 Year Strategic Plan

Abstract

This is a 2 year strategic plan for OSE for the completion of the GVCS not only to Beta Release, but to XM_Distributive Enterprise Development.

We are building a scalable, collaborative, open source product development pipeline for increasing the rate of innovation. Our method is developing the <a href-="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Global_Village_Construction_Set">Global Village Construction Set</a> as a test bed for an <a href="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Extreme_Manufacturing">Extreme Manufacturing</a> methodology - an application of <a href="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Scrum">Scrum</a> to hardware development. Our sprcific product is an open source, <a href="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Distributive_Enterprise">Distributive Enterprise</a> - the Extreme Microfactory capable of clearing $80k/4 people/month/4000 square feet of production space - producing the 50 GVCS machines - as proof of concept that open economic collaboration not only works - but makes proprietary development models obsolete. As a first milestone by the beginning of Q4 2012, we are aiming to demonstrate a $20k/month revenue stream to bootstrap fund ongoing development - via production of CEB Presses at a rate of 1 per week - with a Production Manager and apprentices who receive crash course training in flexible fabrication.