Open Source Microfactory Startup Camp Remote Participation Topics
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Remote sessions for
- How to Start an Amazon Store
- Open Hardware Business Models
- Finanical Analysis of Kit Production
- Product Strategy for Producing Kits
- Open source economics - philosophy, branding, case studies, and growing the pie for everyone.
- Business models - business model options for open hardware, revenue projections and scenarios for sample products; revenue model case studies.
- Product Strategy - how to design an irresistable offer; education products; bootstrapping products. Actual products, production, and education as products.
- Production Strategy - How to design and operate an on open source microfactory. Startup budget. Production tools, layout, parts inventory, workflow
- Production Engineering - Detailed ergonomics of production and revenue per microfactory per hour.
- Packaging - shipping options, labeling, packaging. Flat rate, envelope, and custom shipments. The USPO mailbox.
- Sales funnels - designing a sales funnel for your open hardware business, and leveraging collaboratively-developed marketing assets.
- Franchising - What does an open source franchise look like? Franchise agreements.
- Producer Training and Certification - OSE Certified.
- Distribution Channels - How to set up an Amazon or Etsy store. Setting up kit sales on Kit.com. Setting up a Crowd Supply channel. Kickstarter campaigns. E-commerce, m-commerce, and an OSE Everything Store app.
- Product Support and Warranties - How to leverage an online community for support. Forums. Askbot. How to leverage lifetime design for a warranty
- Product Photo Shoot - How to do a product photo shoot, and doing one for a product
- Open Source Everything Store - On-demand production infrastructure for microfactories. Required uniform infrastructure, delivery time, and producer certification. Open Source Everything Store templates on the wiki.
- The Open Source Film Studio - making and preparing education products for YouTube, live streams, webinars, and podcasts. Combining the Open Source Film Studio for product photo shoots, promotional materials, and instructionals. How to script and produce an explainer video, a blackboard video, and a whiteboard video.
- Product Templates - embeddable website product page templates with 3D visualizations and product reviews for e-commerce
- Collaborative Video Editing - using the Open Source Film Studio and Collaborative Video Editing, we will produce an instructional video with multiple editors collaborating in Kdenlive at the same time. We will do a 1 hour experiment on editing an entire video via parallel collaboration, essentially packing 12-24 hours of video edit into 1 hour. The key here is once again - modular breakdown of the video into steps. This includes Blender renders, FreeCAD explosions, and more.
- Collaborative Documentation - This involves a Production Guide, Build Manual, Product Guide with Troubleshooting and Repair information. Doing a Documentation Sprint to produce a product manual with a Remote Team using realtime collaborative editing.
- Augmented Reality - creating augmented reality applications using the Raspberry Pi Tablet.