Core Team

Core Team Duties

The Core Team is the organizational heart of our Open Source Product Development. A core team leads the development of each of the 7 product areas shown in the Overview. The Core Team is a small group, up to about 25 based on ease of orgnanizing this many people, responsible for producing the due dilligence - specifications, designs, fabrication procedure, bill of materials, reviews - to make prospective supporters sufficiently confident to support the project

   * Core team should be small, but funders should be many
 
   * Funding cycles should be short - one month - to make progress visible and help risk sharing
   * Simplest way to phrase the neosubsistence economic model is "Buying Club for Open Source Product Development"
         o The Buying Club metaphor goes only so far as distributing cost among buyers to purchase better, lower cost products
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     We need to focus on recruiting core teams to accelerate progress
         o This is time-taking work, but there is no easy way to produce mass participation
   * We should use a Wikipedia-like model - gather a core team of distillers who add value to information from a large number of sources
         o The main difference between our model and Wikipedia is that Wikipedia gets random, voluntary contributions (of content). We will solicit those contributions (of information), since our contributions are of a far more directed, though not necessarily more technical nature (as Wikipedia has some very technical content).
         o It may be an interesting avenue to solicit help from the Wikipedia team to get our core teams organized. They may point us to people who may be interested in being on our core teams
         o We need to define the roles of the core team more clearly. Recruiting the core team should be an ongoing, piecemeal effort. There is no magic bullet.

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Additional notes

• Sam Rose is working on http://socialsynergyweb.org/opensourceecology/node/add/wikipage as a space for coordinating core teams, Core Team members should visit this site regularly
• In order to appreciate the nature of the economic model that we are testing, Core Team members should start with http://p2pfoundation.net/Neocommercialization , and this definition should evolve to help communicate the model