XM Organizational Strategy

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Open Source Ecology

March 27-5:30 PM CET meeting
Data Collection
- Products
  - How do you sell ?
  - What do you sell ?
    - training
    - kits
    - companies
  - raw margin ?
  - Basic components / building blocks
- Strategy
  - 21 projects: why ?
    - no focus product ?
    - 50 total
      - Q2 10
      - Q3 20
        budget is $4*20 (1 mo for PO and SM) only on overhead
        240
        
        6 to 7 people / 14k
        14 * 20 *3 ->
      - Q4 20
  - Strategy graph
    - What happens & when, what risks taken, what do you predict, what if this does not happen
    - distributive -> non profit
      - small companies creation
        gain $5k per week per person
        
        4k material
        
        9k sell price
        
        just the CB
        
        $20k per week
        
        80k per mo / 4ksqf facility, 4 persons
      - training
      - flexible fabrication units
      - demonstrate the 1rst facility that works
      - Document this distributive model
    - where's the money for Marcin ?
      - Training is going to be free
      - Franchise like but Distributive
      - model
        the foundation for Open Source Ecology
        non profit
        
        the companies created by people
        regular companies
        
        transportation
        
        energy
        
        meta machines
        
        cell
        
        soft
        
        whatever -
        
        open source communication infrastructure
      - providing kits
        to the OSE companies
        
        to other companies / big companies
      - providing meta machines
      - providing machines
      - provide energy
    - facilitate the creation of the companies
      - after building the basic products
      - after having the methodology written
    - needs
      - Non profit lawyer
        Dan Mc Cormick
      - connections in the NP ecosystem
    - start the village there, local ressources, self sustainability proof
      - Man, we need to connect you with the WSF guys
      - 30 acres
    - reinvent competition
    - change the world
      - srsly
  - Timeline
    - Today
      - 3
    - in 3 months
      - XM (extreme manufacturing technique)
        OSS version for XP but for hw
    - in 6 months
      - 20 ?
    - in 12 months
      - 100
        companies
    - in 24 months
      - 1000
        companies
    - 5 years
      - 1 trillion (a too big number)
      - 1% of global economy
- Organization
  - Macro Org / chart
    - Marcin / CEO + integrator
      - COO
        Project 1
        Product Owner
        
        Scrum Master
        also recruits people
        
        3rd party review
        
        Prod Team
        documenter
        
        designer
        
        ressource dev
        
        fabricator
        
        engineer
        
        IA
        
        tech writer
        
        Project 2
        Product Owner
        
        Scrum Master
        
        Prod Team
        
        Tom / Interviews
        
        recruits SM & PM
        
        QA + testing
      - CTO
      - CFO
        Aaron
        
        ressource dev
        grants
        
        donations
        
        Not for profit
      - Strategic Partnership Dev / Bus Dev
        detect micro contributions
      - Community Mgr
        at the moment, Forums, nothing organized
      - Communication
        FeF documenter
        
        someone coming in April
        mid april
        
        Andrew
        
        2k /mo
        
        Strategic dev
      - Sales
      - how to organize the volunteers
        by the scrum masters
    - 1 person can work on many projects, depending on people & projects
  - July deadline : why ?
  - Ecosystem
    - Main blocks
    - Community ?
  - Strategic Chart
    - Advisory Board
    - Shareholders
  - space : 20 people
    - then build on demand
      - modular house+office
        1week
        
        $4k
        
        3 people to build (2+1)
        
        for 2 people
- Financials
  - Grants
  - how does the distributive model work ?
  - needs in terms of
    - Hardware
    - IT structure
  - goal
    - projections ?
  - 10 projects at the time with $500k
  - 10 people at $2k
  - PO and SM are to be paid
  - Sparks Foundation / 1-2M
  - cost for a product
    - material : 5k per prototype
      - 3 protos: 15k
    - SM
      - 2k*3mo : 6k
    - PO
      - 2k*3mo : 6k
    - Team
      - ?
  - Template ?
    - Calc sheet
      - Marcin can send us what's existing ?
        https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aj7WbjRT9mlmdGYxZDFDalM3UGNFVTRUME1HalRiMnc&hl=en_US#gid=2
    - Aaron
- HR
  - need for HR
  - COO
    - Rynda ?
      - Good COO / music &film industry, but into OSS
    - Silona ?
      - CTO/COO ?
  - top notch people
  - need is: on demand
  - detect contributions and find the good people
- Communication
  - Product promotion
  - Mass market ?
  - Project communication
- Partners / funds
  - Shuttleworth
    - also advisor
  - Accelerator ?
    - partner or build ?
  - Techshop
  - Wikispeed
  - Hardware shops ?
    - Garage ?
- Production
  - 50 products ??
  - 20 to 50 steps ?
  - http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Aaron_log/XM_Project_Page_Prototype_2
What we could do ?
- document / help guide / help think and explain
  - Build a strategic graph/roadmap
- strat
- bp
  - make a presentation
- coaching
- recruiting
  - finding connexions for hiring
- connexions
  - organize trip in Paris / OWF
    - OWF
    - when visiting for the Open World Forum to meet with Key companies and potential partners
  - Connect to some key people in US
    - WSF?
- Next steps ?
  - Aurélie & Louis on site
  - define the wave of meetings
  - define the mission
  - define the deliverables
What's the budget?
- Louis's rate at €2.5k per day
- Aurelie's rate at €1.5k per day
- we can go down to $1k per day per person+expenses because
  - you will be our first client on our new US company
    - A company dedicated to Promote, Value Open Source initiatives: Open Economy, Open Business, Open Hardware, Open Source,... Open Up
  - We love your project and want to be part of the cofounders/initial team
    - board of advisors / board of directors
  - we would love to be involved in a long term relationship
- we could come and dedicate 3 full days on site, to build the business model canvas

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