Crowdmap
Introduction
We created a Crowdap to leverage the contributions of people worldwide who are helping bring the GVCS to completion.
The goals of the crowdmap are to:
- Identify potential developers and collaborators - all the subject matter experts, prototypers, managers, fabricators, CAD designers, reviewers, funders, and other potential supporters according to our Scalable Open Source Product Development Process
- Identify sourcing information, especially for hard to find parts like Steam engine piston rings.
If you are contributing in some way to the project, please enter your data in the Crowdmap by submitting a report. Fill out the following fields like in the image below:
- Report Title - your name
- Description - how do you contribute to the project
- Categories - choose the contribution categories
- Optional Information - enter your name and email for contacts
- Refine Location Name - enter your location - city and country
- News source link - enter a link to your contributions. It can be your Wiki page (e.g. http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/Your_Name)
On the home page of the Crowdmap you can filter the people by their contribution categories (all or only one) by clicking on a category. In this way you can easily find specific contributors on a specific place on the map.
Categories
This is a list of some of the categories in the Crowdmap with an explanation of the appropriate people who can chose it
- Funder - True Fans, donors, or other financial supporter
- CAD
- Systems Engineering Mapping
- Documentation – video, technical writing, instructionals, fabrication produceres
- Fabricator -
- Funder -
- IT Support
- Marketing Support -
- Part Sourcing -
- Peer Review -
- Project Manager -
- Project Leader
- Prototyping -
- Testing -
- Subject Matter Experts - people who can help in the development of any of the 50 GVCS Technologies
- Power Electronics - people working on the Universal Power Supply (Inverter, Welder, Plasma Cutter, Welder,
- Robotics and Automation - CNC Multimachine,
- Agriculture - Microcombine
Other Uses
Other useful features of the Crowdmap are:
- Reports - get an overview of the last submitted reports.
- Get Alerts - receive notifications if somebody within 1 to 100 km submits a report with a chosen category.
- Comment a report - when you click on a report, you can leave a comment to it.
- Search - the text entered in the fields can be searched (upper right corner).
Everybody who is already contributing to the project is invited to enter their data into the Crowdmap.
Entering Process
After submitting the Team Culturing survey, the users could see "Please enter your data also in the global OSE Crowdmap" and get a link to this page.