Shuttleworth Fellowship Application - 2014 - Marcin Jakubowski

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Application Video

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4 Application Questions

Describe the world as it is.

(a description of the status quo and context in which you will be working)

What change do you want to make?

(a description of what you want to change about the status quo, in the world, your personal vision for this area)

What do you want to explore?

(a description of the innovations or questions you would like to explore during the fellowship year)

What are you going to do to get there?

(a description of what you actually plan to do during the year)

• Pivot Core Team to Production Education Last year, we have found that our core team should be based on producer-educators. We are reframing to this model, while allowing longer term contributors to self-select from a constant flow of onsite contributors. For core staff, any core staff member will be required to find and teach skills to develop a portfolio of freelancers. In this model, performance evaluation becomes a
• Pivot Infrastructure from Survival Architecture to World Class - We installed facility utility infrastructure, and have gotten a great success with our Microhouse build. We will build more Microhouses; summer camp housing; a recreation center, and an office/electronics workshop. Budget: $150k - house materials + infrastructure. $150k - prototyping materials; deadweight - $500/month.
• Reframe from 50 Machines in the GVCS to 5 Construction Sets in the GVCS. We have already shifted to Module-Based Design - with about 50 modules We have demonstrated the LifeTrac Construction Set - a lifesize LEGO set - where the same construction method was used for a tractor, backhoe, ironworker, or trencher - and We will continue this to the 21 agriculture and construction tools. Then we will do the same for: Precision Machining Construction Set; Metallurgy Construction Set; Power Electronics Construction Set; and Energy Construction Set.
• Establish Residency Program. Invite experts to take technologies to the last mile of development. Provide each Residency participant with a support team. Support team: (1), Documenters + graphics artists - produce language agnostic instructionals. (2) Industrial Designers - produce parallel build procedures. (3) Documenters - Videographers - produce build instructionals.
• Develop Curriculum for 2 Week Crash Training Workshops - Support Residency Program with students who do hands-on experience. (1) Introduction to Module Based Design - how ~50 modules can make hundreds of different machines. (2) Introduction to CAD - how Sketchup and FreeCAD can be used in engineering design. (3) Digital Fabrication Crash Course. (4) Open Source Product Development platform - development and documentation platform for collaborative, parallel production. (5) Business Development - taking documentation to an open enterprise model for production workshops. Basic Model: one day training; one day production; one day documentation + lessons learned
• Reframe from production to documentation. Taking our products The Last Mile - the Residency Program develops documentation, which is a foundation for enterprise (production workshops).
• Optimize Prototype Building. We have proven that we can reduce prototyping time scales from the month to the day scale. We will continue this machine by machine.
• Address Weaknesses. Proper review has not happened to date. To address this, we will dedicate one person on a development for Study of Industry Standards, Outreach to Allied Groups, Tech Trees of Choices, and Review Requests via Facebook.
• Continue pilot projects. We have had great success with the LifeTrac 5 pilot project in New Orleans and the Microhouse build. We will continue to build these for clients.
• Documentation - We have succeeded in real-time creation of instructionals, and we are continuing that as a normal practice.'
• Define Brand Identity. - Finalize trademark.
• Clarify Critical Path - Clarified to Production Workshop Model; Residency program for Last Mile design; Crash Training Courses to support Residency clients. Restructure team ecology around production and thereby address Performance Management.