Performance Metrics

Core

Number of Prototypes Built (24), Number of Unique Prototypes Built (15), Beta Releases (4), and Full Product Releases (0)
Cost performance of Full Product Releases compared to industry standard. Typical goal: 5x cost reduction or better.
Number of machines replicated independently around the world (8)
The number of OSE chapters started worldwide
- Implementation: needs chapter standards and chapter manager
- Possible measurement:
Total sales volume of GVCS Machines ($45k)
Size of permanent staff and volunteers on site(24)
Number of technical contributors to the project worldwide
The number of design events held monthly
The quantity of high quality explainer videos
- Specific metric: number of views on OSE explainer videos
The number of projects documented to full Open Source Hardware Taxonomy Standards
- Possible measurement: the number of taxonomy items completed from the list of ~100 or so
Number of independent enterprises spawned based on the GVCS tools
The number of OSE Microfactories started
Nuber of
Funding level ($450k for next 10 months, graph of overall funding)
Technical Blog Posts (prototype builds)
Prototypes/month development rate by OSE Headquarters
Technical Team (Tech Team Culturing Survey) member numbers
- We need to start graphing these numbers.

Pilot projects with use cases
- Feedback sought: effectiveness of local production; we do not provide machines
Publicity and Honors attained
Number of wiki edits by top 10 contributors
TF numbers
Twitter, FB followers
YouTube subscribers, views
money spent per prototype built
money spent per Distributive Enterprise
Earnings, Donations, Grants
Loal Food produced on site
Local Energy Produced On Site - kW-Hr/month
Web hits - main site, wiki, blog, TED Talk