Roadmap

Technical Areas of Endeavor

Meta: the audience for this writing is to expose a detailed technical rollout plan for 2016-2026, which is the time allotted to Full technical development of an autonomous infrastructure construction set known as the GVCS, and implemented in the form of OSE's first full Campus. This is OSE's current plan, and is constantly up for review under agile development methodology. This writing assumes technical expertise in specific areas of endeavor. For a popular overview of this work, please see the GVCS TED Talk, GVCS in 2 Minutes, the MIT Innovations Journal article, the New Yorker Article, and a recent interview at the Permaculture Voices Podcast.

Tractor Construction Set

• Tractor Construction Set - a set of multipurpose, scalable, Design for Manufacturing modules that can be built at 2-10 times lower cost compared to industry standards. The power level of this set spans from fractional horsepower to 168 horsepower machines and above.

Open Source Fab Lab

Immediate term goals are to implement a rapid prototyping infrastructure primarily for the Tractor Construction Set and other construction sets of the GVCS. The open source Fab Lab is an open source industrial upgrade of Neil Gerschenfeld's Fab lab concept, spanning a broader range of more powerful tools focusing on localized industrial production capacity.

Currently the open source CNC Torch Table is the most important tool. Near-term goals include capacity to forge and roll steel into tubing, to induction melt and alloy steel followed by hot rolling to generate virgin steel from scrap, and to precision machine steel - culminating in the manufacture of ball bearings.

To assist with

Effectively, the goal is to enable the creation of advanced civilization using an integrated workshop facility on the scale of 400 square meters (civilization which uses a level of technology up to precision machined metal objects, such as engines) in any location where scrap metal is available as a feedstock.

The near term goal is thus

Project Management

• OSE Warehouse of approved parts. Requires OSE Warehouse approval process. Module, link to repo, date, approval date
• Bug Reports - a set of specific details that need resolution
• Scrumy for backlog of tasks
• Social Media policy and SOPs
• FeF Journal
• OSE Blog
• OSE Communication Channels
• OSE Recruiting SOPs