OSE Webinars

Introduction

There will be 6 introductory webinars with a goal of explaining the long-term goals of OSE, creating cultural expectations, and setting up high-performing Working Teams. The webinar is held on this google hangout.

The following webinars are intended to provide the necessary guidance, and as feedback is gathered through the Webinar Survey - webinars will be improved and redone. These webinars are intended for 3 groups of people: (1) OSE Ambassadors for spreading OSE's message; (2), leaders interested in starting an OSE Chapters for doing OSE development, or (3) joining the Federation of Open Source Entrepreneurs - individuals who engage in Distributive Enterprise. You can read the invitation to the first webinar at the bottom of this page.

Webinar 1 - Wednesday, May 27, 2015: Introduction to Collaborative Literacy

Covering a high level overview of OSE milestones to date and where we go from here. After watching this webinar, please fill the Webinar Survey if you are interested in being an OSE Ambassador for spreading OSE's message - or starting an OSE Chapter for doing OSE development, or joining the Federation of Open Source Entrepreneurs - individuals who engage in Distributive Enterprise. Reponses are private for viewing only by the OSE team.

Webinar 2 - Wed, Jun 3, 2015: OSE Developmente Process

Overview: In this session, the founder will discuss the existing method of open source product development that goes on at OSE. The method is agile, and may be characterized best as a hybrid of Scrum and Waterfall - Scrumy Waterfall. The unique feature about OSE's methods compared to others - is the absence of team boundaries in its distributed development - a fluid team model. Contributors are sought both for short-term and long term development - which means that a strong focus is given to development documentation to allow for continuity. This is a significant challenge - and also a great opportunity.

What is the overall ethic, philosophy, and metric of OSE development? What is the importance of financial stability for developers? How does this compare to industry standard product development? What tools are used? What tools are missing? What processes and procedures are used? What is required to scale this process so that it occurs autonomously? Is it possible to create a new mass culture - of open collaboration? Is it possible to create a culture of self-determination? From these important questions, we go into the key enabling feature: focusing infinite amounts of dispersed human energy across the globe to solve all issues related to material scarcity by open-sourcing the development and production of all hardware, from trees to robots. From this perspectives, we will discuss the specifics of how we use real hardware and virtual tools: wikis, online tools, Extreme Manufacturing workshops, open source fabrication, our development campus, and social media to get there. We will discuss the capacity that's required to build an open source federation of independent producers - deployed through our Learning Campus Model of operation. We will discuss the key missing element.

The working exam question is: To date, the technology of GVCS has seen 27 independent replications. What is the best strategy to go from the current state and values of the project to widespread use of the GVCS? Hint: development to a certain level of quality is essential - so where does the energy to take products to the last mile come from? Keywords: Product; The Last Mile Problem; Social Entrepreneurship; Distributive Entrepreneurship; Self-Determination Theory.

After watching this webinar, please fill the Webinar Survey if you are interested in being an OSE Ambassador for spreading OSE's message - or starting an OSE Chapter for doing OSE development, or joining the Federation of Open Source Entrepreneurs - individuals who engage in Distributive Enterprise. Responses are private for viewing only by the OSE team. You can also comment here or on YouTube:

Webinar 3: Wed, Jun 10, 2015: Building Teams and the Team Charter

Introduction

OSE's work relies on leveraging existing open source talent to build the Global Village Construction Set and to start OSE Campuses worldwide. Our approach is to develop highly effective Working Teams that carry on OSE's Development Process. OSE Ambassadors and OSE Chapters collaborate to populate the Working teams to achieve 100 full time developer-equivalent by early 2016. Collaborators each take ownership of one of the 50 machines so that a massive parallel development effort is born, as we test and refine collaborative protocols. Our organization model involves a federated approach, with a union of both loosely and closely allied nodes. The end product is not only open design - but a paradigm change in the global economy as we develop open business models that are tested and refined within the OSE community. Viral replication of best-practice enterprises is one of the goals - where the enterprises tend to distribute economic power rather than to concentrate it.

Presentation

With that said, how do we Build Teams? Building teams starts with a Team Charter. This can apply to Working Teams, or to Chapters - which are a form of a team.

To begin with, with start with the high level view of the next economy - the Open Source Economy - the goal of OSE. We start with the OSE Promise - open source tools and machines that cost between 5-10 times less than industry standards - and that are as good or better than industry standards.

That is a strong statement. It is so strong that each of the OSE products or product service systems has a value of between a billion and trillion dollars. Our working assumption is that we have a high value proposition, and that we can build the teams to deliver the promise - while turning the organizational model upside down.

We are intending to do this with 100% volunteers - by figuring out innovative models of organization. It doesn't mean that the volunteers cannot get paid - but the point is that it's volunteers as opposed to traditional organizational structures.

To go forward - continuity has to happen. Continuity is a continuing challenge for OSE. There have to be project teams that continue because their members are getting value out of the experience.

Can we do this with volunteers? Can we do this with an open organizational model? Who needs to get paid? What other forms of capital are sufficient to assure continued collaboration? These are the questions that we are asking.

One of the main challenges are that we are taking on a global challenge, and the pathway to get there is complex. To solve world problems, we need world class resources: teams, processes, materials.

Here I will outline the main challenge to date, and propose a Team Architecture - a Collaboration Architecture that relies on collaborative literacy in its members.

Now we will have Laura and Jonathan on the Team Charter.

Jonathan notes:

Notes

Webinar 3 Notes

Action point: create the official OSE Team Charter Template - by combining the 2 templates shown above by Laura Colcord's and Andreas Sjostedt and refactoring for OSE case.

Conclusion

After watching this webinar, please fill the Webinar Survey if you are interested in being an OSE Ambassador for spreading OSE's message - or starting an OSE Chapter for doing OSE development, or joining the Federation of Open Source Entrepreneurs - individuals who engage in Distributive Enterprise. Reponses are private for viewing only by the OSE team.

Webinar 4: June 17 - Team Kickoff: Forming a Team

Planned for Wed, June 17, 3:30 PM CST USA time.

Once the critical elements of a team are in place - ie, specific people have been identified and invited to work on teams - what happens at the first meeting? How do we structure a team kickoff so that poeple are motivated to remain, and a low volunteer turnover rate is achieved? What are the key things to watch out for? When is the right time for a person to leave a team? What is the process for filling in gaps? How are teams structured so that oversight from the project owner is not necessary, and the scrum master is able to run the team independently?

After watching this webinar, please fill the Webinar Survey if you are interested in being an OSE Ambassador for spreading OSE's message - or starting an OSE Chapter for doing OSE development, or joining the Federation of Open Source Entrepreneurs - individuals who engage in Distributive Enterprise. Reponses are private for viewing only by the OSE team.

Result: starting on a Development Method Team Charter

Webinar 5: June 24 - Working Team Meetings: Storming and Norming

Now that we have built teams and had the kickoff, what happens in Working Team Meetings? How do we transition most quickly throught the storming phase and into the norming phase? What makes these meetings effective so that the talent of many people moves the project forward in parallel? What is the critical element for success? What is the scalability of a team: ie, how many people can work effectively on a team? How do teams split into subteams, without defecting? What are the natural limits of scaling the number of poeple on a team, and how can these limits be negotiated to maximize the number of effective participants?

After watching this webinar, please fill the Webinar Survey if you are interested in being an OSE Ambassador for spreading OSE's message - or starting an OSE Chapter for doing OSE development, or joining the Federation of Open Source Entrepreneurs - individuals who engage in Distributive Enterprise. Reponses are private for viewing only by the OSE team.

Webinar 6: July 1 - Working With Other Teams

Once a team is set up and stabilized - how do we create other teams working in parallel on other aspects of the project? How quickly can we reach our intended goal of 100 full-time-equivalent contributors from the existing 4-6? What is the key to getting there? What is the relationship between teams? How do teams interact? For OSE, how many solid teams is it possible to scale to, without the project imploding? If team scalability is desired - what are the natural limits to scalability in the number of working teams, and how can these limits be overcome?

After watching this webinar, please fill the Webinar Survey if you are interested in being an OSE Ambassador for spreading OSE's message - or starting an OSE Chapter for doing OSE development, or joining the Federation of Open Source Entrepreneurs - individuals who engage in Distributive Enterprise. Reponses are private for viewing only by the OSE team.

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• Webinar Survey

Invitation

Hello Friends,

We are glad to announce the first ever OSE Webinar. This s the first of an initial batch of 6 OSE Collaboation Literacy Webinars that are scheduled one per week for the next 6 weeks.

The intended audience is (1) OSE Ambassadors - those who are knowledgeable about OSE's work and can thus spread the word - (2) those who are interested in forming official OSE chapters - and (3) anyone interested in working more closely with OSE. The intended outcome is to generate the necessary leadership to enable mass parallel progress - on all 50 GVCS machines. Our big tangible milestone is August 2016 - an extreme build event over a year from now where we build 1/2 of a new civilization in one month. Collaborators who can contribute to this significantly will be invited.

As we move forward, we are seeing a great need to develop talent, culture, and leadership within the OSE community. We are interested in building technical skills for mass parallel collaborative development - creating a culture of open collaboration - and encouraging contributors to step up to project management and leadership. As a volunteer global effort - it is important to develop all these points to deliver the yet-unrealized full potential of open source development. We are convinced that the results of open collaboration can be much more powerful than the competitive waste that we see all around us - where some of the largest global corporations spend more on patents and protectionism than on research and development. We need a paradigm shift on this.

The Webinar is intended for close collaborators of OSE and includes 45 minutes of rapid presentation followed by a question-and-answer session. We will record this, and anyone can watch the recorded sessions - to which links will be added with supporting information - so that one can review the flood of information at their convenience. One tangible outcome of the 6 webinar series will be to formalize initial agreements on OSE Chapters, by providing a solid background on OSE collaboration - philosophy, cultural alignment, tools used, and processes. The webinar is tomorrow - Wednesday - May 27 at 1 PM CST USA time, and the recording will be posted soon thereafter.

Marcin

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• In 2016, we are focusing on collaborative literacy - and doing Collaborative Literacy Webinars