Last updated May 2018.

Required reading for all OSE Developers and others who are interested in collaboration:

Top 16

To find out about OSE's work, study these top 16 resources if you are interested in becoming an OSE Developer:

GVCS TED Talk - the talk that brought OSE to the world stage at TED.
The New Yorker - article about the early days of OSE.
Open Building Institute Kickstarter - effort begun in 2016, intended to make affordable ecological housing widely accessible. Builds on the GVCS tool set.
Burndown graph of all machines completed - [1]
Product Ecologies - for how the machines fit together
Construction Set Approach - designing the technosphere using building blocks for everything
OSE Specifications - the design principles behind what we do
Open Source Product Development - how traditional product design is tending to modular and open design
OSE Development Process - the agile process that we use for open source product development
Extreme Manufacturing - radically efficient, module based, parallel swarming model of social production for rapid builds
Distributive Enterprise - OSE is pioneering this new economic paradigm for the open source economy
Open Source Everything Store - the Distributive Enterprise to disrupt Walmart
Open Source Technology Pattern Language - from 2008 and slightly dated, but still serves as a good benchmark for a comprehensive technology kernel - and will be updated as we move forward
Roadmap - 20 year plan of OSE to transcend artificial scarcity
Critical Path - current year's plan
OSE Developers - invitation to people who want to help take us there

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