Metrics for GVCS Deployment

Dashboard Level Metrics

These are metrics to inform contributors about clear and visible progress.

• Number of modules and machines completed
• Number of active wiki contributors

Website

• Uptime percentage
• Cloudflare, April 19 - 1 Day - Opensourceecology.org. Even hourly is shown below over a 24 hour period - 8000 unique visitors - traffic means OSE audience is spread pretty much evenly around the globe.

Wiki

• Edits
• Top contributors
• Commits

Core

Primary - Development Metrics

• Number of Prototypes Built (24), Number of Unique Prototypes Built (15), Beta Releases (4), and Full Product Releases (0)
• Cost to performance of Full Product Releases compared to industry standards. Typical goal: 5x cost reduction or better.
• 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
• The quantity of high quality explainer videos
  • Specific metric: number of views on OSE explainer videos
• The rate of prototyping of GVCS machines
• Number of products that corporations fund to make them open source
• Size of permanent staff and volunteers on site(24)

Primary - Scaling and Transformation

• Number of OSE Incubators formed worlwide
• Number of OSE Chapters started worldwide. Chapters assist in development
• The number of OSE-based Microfactories started around the world

Primary - Economic Metrics

• Number of machines replicated independently around the world (8)
• The number of OSE chapters started worldwide
  • Implementation: needs chapter standards and OSE Global Chapters Manager
• Total sales volume of GVCS Machines ($45k)
• Number of technical contributions to the project worldwide
  • Could be measured by number of wiki edits or hits
• Number of independent enterprises spawned based on the GVCS tools

Community Metrics

• The number of design events held monthly
• Funding level ($450k for next 10 months, graph of overall funding)
• Technical Blog Posts (prototype builds)
• Technical Team (Tech Team Culturing Survey) member numbers
  • We need to start graphing these numbers by category - such as engineers, documenters, video producers, etc.
• Number of wiki contributors and number of total edits
• Number of Facebook, Twitter followers, and number of hits on wiki, blog, TED Talk, and website.

Dogfooding Metrics

• 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
• Local Food produced on site
• Local Energy Produced On Site - kW-Hr/month