OSE Status Brief

OSE Status

We have recruited an Executive Core Team as of May, 2013. In June-July - we are on-boarding our team and coming up to speed to establish a new level of productivity at OSE. As we stabilize our operations, the immediate points of development include:

1. Developing pilot projects to go the last mile in quality control of our tools under the most demanding and diverse field testing conditions
2. Developing fundraising capacity to assure a funding base to retain existing staff and to grow the core team to a few more key positions
3. Developing production capacity after deploying the CNC Torch Table as a key element of digital fabrication
4. Developing strategic partnerships towards reaching the main milestone of 2013: demonstrating that we can design a single, complex machine in a single day with the collaboration of 250 realtime developers
5. Develop standards for OSE Chapters. To achieve point 4, we are developing Chapter Guidelines to engage OSE Chapters as a key component of accelerated research and development of the core program of OSE.
6. Develop documentation standards such that the general Open Source Hardware Community begins to contribute to a unique taxonomy schema - in which all open hardware projects can be identified via a shared, open standard.

OSE 6 Year Plan

OSE will spend the rest of 2013 on normalizing our operations in preparation for accelerated development in 2014-2015. We intend to reach a prototyping rate of 1 prototype designed and built per week by the end of 2013.