Shuttleworth Foundation Quarterly Report - June
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Instructions:
- The purpose of this update is to showcase your work of the past 3 months and map the next 3 months.
- Be brief. Summarise, do not recreate.
- Link to posts, event profiles, etc. wherever possible.
- Include dates wherever possible.
Contents
What did you make?
Our team has:
- cut our first dimensional lumber pieces with the Open Source Dimensional Sawmill
- built and tested the Cold Saw
- completed design of CEB Press Prototype IV
- built the small backhoe for treching
- built another Hexayurt
- finished walls of last 4 rooms of Hablab so they are ready for installation of floor and heat for winter
- built and tested the Trencher Prototype I
- harvested some Asian Pears
- built and tested Subsoiler Prototype I
- installed 20kW of 3-phase power in workshop
- hired well drilling
We also continued using/upgrading Flashy XM project oversight platform. Good for overall index.
Where did you go?
What have you been saying?
Continued with uncontrollable vlogging (1597 vids, approximately 200 new vlogs including Daily Standup meeting), Continued with blogging at blog. Entering Focus Forward film competition with 3 minute video.
Who is joining your thinking?
Seminal thinking on Distributive Enterprise to be published by MIT Innovations Journal - which will be our first academic publication of the Distributive Enterprise concept. See Levels_of_Openness_in_Human_Enterprise for concept.
Large sugar mill in Guatemala thinks that our tractors could replace their John Deere tractors, and they are building the first LifeTrac by Oct 1.
Your roadmap for the next 3 months
The roadmap for next 3 months is to secure ~$30M grant from Conxcorp.com, and recruit an Operations Manager, Master Prototyper, 3 Machine Designers, and a Construction Director - focusing on the world's best. On top of this, we aim to achieve a $20k/month bootstrap funding model via sales of CEB presses, after a build of the OSE Microhouse prototype using the CEB Prototype IV - with this going from Beta Release to Full Product Release.
Your favourite artefact of the past 3 months
3 replications. China replicated our CEB press, sugar mill in Guatemala is building a copy of the Tractor, and 2 high schoold students replicated LifeTrac in Los Angeles to donate to a community garden. But the Collaboratorium was a real peak moment much greater than these.
