Open Source Product Development Pipeline
Introduction
This is the general Open Source Product Development strategy for rapid synthesis of knowledge and expertise required to deploy the Global Village Construction Set within a time frame of under 2 years.
Problem Statement
To date, we have been engaging a rather ineffective development process for open source product development, from the standpoint of scalability. Essentially, Marcin was the main developer on the CEB press and LifeTrac. While excellent prototype results came out of this process, it was essentially a one-man show utilizing in-house resources. We did tap Crowd Funding at the $2k/month level in September and October, 2008.
While it is possible for one person to carry on the above program with relative success, based on one's capacity to provide the necessary due diligence - the process is limited in that it cannot be scaled. The limit to scalability is the lack of resources required to engage other developers or more knowledgeable professionals. based on limited funding and limited time in a day.
However, the efficiency barrier to this type of process comes from many points:
- Lack of technical review to validate
The basic working assumption of this process is that large external support can be generated bey