Shuttleworth Foundation Quarterly Report - June
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Instructions:
- The purpose of this update is to showcase your work of the past 3 months and map the next 3 months.
- Be brief. Summarise, do not recreate.
- Link to posts, event profiles, etc. wherever possible.
- Include dates wherever possible.
What did you make?
Our team has upgraded the tractor to bent loader arms and quick connect wheels, finished 6 rooms of the HabLab, built 120 ton ironworker machine, done first run of the CNC torch table Prototype II with open source stepper motor controllers, milked 3 gallons of milk per day, designed a cold saw, planted a garden, built a 15 person community (up from 1 person when Karien visited), developed beta version of project management platform, and enjoyed 2 independent replications of the CEB press in Texas.
Where did you go?
TED Global at end of June, after the Shuttleworth Gathering, after the Thiel Fellows Reception in San Francisco to see Yoonseo win the Thiel Fellowship.
What have you been saying?
Continued with uncontrollable vlogging (approximately 450 new vlogs including Daily Standup meeting), Continued with blogging at blog, getting a documentary produced on our work. Coined the term Open Native - as in Digital Native - for those people to whom open is part of their innate culture.
Who is joining your thinking?
Can't keep track. Ones pointed to my attention include Toronto Star, Kickstarter, Framed Magazine, TED Radio Hour on NPR, Make Magazine, Shareable, Fast Company, and more on NPR.
Your roadmap for the next 3 months
For the next 3 months, we will be developing our bootstrap funding model - producing one CEB Machine in 1 day with 8 people in our workshop - with cross-trained multi-disciplinary people. We are leading up to net earnings of $20k/month by December. We are recruiting a 6 person Documentation Team while continuing to build our Flash Mobs of subject matter expert reviewers and developers.
Your favourite artefact of the past 3 months
The 15 person development team on site - where the community of open culture is beginning to form in earnest.