Strategy Notes - 6 Month Plan of July 2011

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Statement of Intent

OSE is currently prototyping the GVCS

Strategic Summary

The focus shifts to the OSE Christmas Gift to the World 2011 - completion of infrastructure buildout at Factor e Farm - involving the construction of low-cost, super-insulated housing. The Kickstarter campaign is thus reorganized for the completion, extended field testing, and documentation of the Tractor, Soil Pulverizer, CEB Press, and Power Cube, providing a firm closure of our first main prototyping cycle of the base agriculture and construction infrastructures. To this end, we are recruiting a Fabrication Manager and Construction Manager, and producing a site survey and architectural plans - assuming a budget of up to $100k dedicated to construction. We are further securing a rental unit in Maysville to house 1-2 onsite participants. We further have a documentation team on site, consisting of 2 dedicaated people, who are working on full fabrication procedure documentation. We are currently securing our own server for video uploads, CiviCRM, and the ability to handle a large number of hits from Kickstarter. On video, we have almost 1TB of video footage from this production run, to be deployed to a remote video editing team - with a goal of professional quality instructionals on the CEB Press, Tractor, Soil Pulverizer, and Power Cube to be delivered as part of our Christmas Gift. On the legal front, we are trade-marking our identity and donating our land holdings into a trust.

Immediate Action

  • Reorganize Kickstarter
  • Search for a rental unit in Maysville
  • Get Viveik in on the loop to secure architecture plans after July 20 survey
  • Secure baler/mower/rake
  • Recruit Fabrication Manager and Construction Manager - blog post
  • Transfer $60k donation
  • Define Job Descriptions for people desired on-site

On-Site Team Requirements

The basic team of 6 onsite at Factor e Farm includes these people

  • Project Manager - executive director of GVCS prototyping
  • Custom Fabricator - on-demand fabrication all equipment needs of the community
  • Master Builder - enables on-demand production of housing units on the time scale of 2 weeks for building a 200 sq foot basic living addition
  • Equipment Designer/CAD draftsperson - on-demand rollout of prototype designs
  • Open Source Agroecologist - maintains all aspects of the agricultural/forestry/ecology operations
  • Site Manager - maintains infrastructure and takes care of the site
  • Food Manager - feeds the on-site population

Construction Manager

Requirements

  • Master builder
  • General Contracting experience
  • Expertise in carpentry and basic proficiency in plumbing & electrical
  • Their own tools and a truck for transporting materials
  • Basic proficiency in cement work

Duties

Fabrication Manager

Requirements

  • Mastery of welding and custom fabrication operations
  • Familiarity with hydraulic fluid power
  • Ability to follow fabrication drawings

Duties

  • Management of production runs (ongoing, for producing equipment kits)
  • Buildout of workshop, living units, meeting room, kitchen, bathroom, and tornado shelter
  • Management and logistics guidance for the buildout

Open Source Agroecologist

Commonly known as an integrated farmer - with the addition of savvy in equipment operation and custom fabrication.

Requirements

  • Familiarity with tractors and their operation
  • Experience in hay baling operations
  • Experience in fruit tree propagation
  • Experience in forestry

Duties

  • Lumber production from on-site trees
  • Square bale production from on-site hay crop
  • Wet baling for large-scale mulching purposes
  • Generation of woodchips from hammermill
  • Open source bulldozer build by gear-down of LifeTrac for tripling the torque.
  • Berm and pond digging with the bulldozer

Intro

See also Factor_e_Farm_Infrastructure_Buildout_2011

Planning session with Viveik, results:

Using existing resources, we should focus now on infrastructure for the next 5 months until the OSE Christmas Gift to the World 2011: Tractor/Construction product releases + documentation; plus infrastructure build

Midcourse Correction

  • Kickstarter for Tractor, Pulverizer, Power Cube - Product Releases - for documentation
  • Do not focus on training as core competency - that can be done by anybody; we focus on prototypes and their documentation to enable such training
  • My primary job - identifying and grabbing people who are smarter than I, 3-4 hours per day
  • Development pace is defined now, could change any second
  • Leave production scaling to others, under the assumption that prototyping is funded otherwise
  • Definitely focus on product testing - field use in construction and agriculture duties.
    • CEB construction + soil pulverizer
    • Sawmilling
    • Baling
    • Trenching
    • Backhoeing
    • Cement mixing
  • Main addition - Sawmill of 3 day design + ousource to Sweiger?

Midcourse Expansion

Under the assumption that we identify a Fabrication Manager and a Construction Manager, I should be liberated to study baler/cutter/rake industry standards and outsource prototyping of the Sawmill - to largely complete the superinsulated housing option at minimal cost.

Timeline:

  • July 16 - completion of air-cooled Power Cube
  • July 20-21 - ETA for James Clark, surveyor, coming to Factor e Farm - Google Earth + USGS + Geological Samples
  • July 20 - ETA for Marshall Smith, construction logistics organizer
  • July 20 - Identify Construction Manager
  • August 1 - Complete Power Cubes and CEB Press
  • August 1-30 - Build of cement mixer (2 day), trencher (2 day), shakedown of backhoe; buy and shakedown baler,rake, haycutter; have Sweiger build Sawmill after 3 day design session ($4k + $5k labor)

Other

  • Texas Terry as fabricator lead

Construction Preparations

  • Shake down bucket

Team

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