XM Flash Mob Recruiting
See intro video:
Flash Mob Recruiting Form – by Aidan Williamson + Marcin Jakubowski on 5/10/12
What are Flash Mobs
A Flash Mob is a highly coordinated group of people that assemble, either in person or via the internet, to rapidly complete specific tasks. In popular culture the term flash mob often refers to large groups of semi-coordinated people that swarm a physical location and do something unusual or pointless (and often disruptive) before quickly dispersing. We are attempting to extend the flash mob concept to useful, creative tasks – such as design or review of the Global Village Construction Set tools– in a highly efficient fashion with rapid delivery time. Essentially, flash mobs are spontaneous think tanks that solve problems or produce information. Open Source Ecology would like to utilize the unique qualities (speed, efficiency, subject matter expertise) of flash mobs via remote collaboration by designing a Flash Mob Platform and recruiting Subject Matter Experts, SMEs, to work in groups (10 or more people) and complete specific tasks. In some cases, we may organize Flash Mobs where the Session Leader invites people to a certain physical location as part of a session – but typically – this platform is executed by remote collaborators.
We are choosing the Flash Mob approach to address participation continuity and community-building within the OSE community. Flash Mobs are intended to be a venue where an individual has a chance to commit significant technical input to active development areas. Thus, participatiion will be considered as a significant measure of one's merit with the community. We will track the number of sessions and peer-review the contributions that participants contribute to OSE as part of merit system for contributor status. We will record the working sessions and create a crowd-bases rating system for the level of contribution for each participant. Contributors thus have a chance to increase their status within the OSE community besed on the quality of their contributions.
We are exploring how Flash Mobs may be utilized to provide rapid development across a wide, interdisciplinary range of areas:
Organizational Development
Creation of Augmented Reality Instructional Apps
Application Programming
Interface Design
Enterprise Scaling
Video Production
CAD/CAM/CAE
Technical Writing and Speech Writing
Resource Development
Business Plan Writing
Strategic Development
Legal Support
Curriculum Development
Tax Structuring
Recruiting
Script Writing
Social Entrepreneurship
Community Management
Open Source Agroecology
Site-Integrated Architecture and Biotecture
Speech Writing
Instructionals Creation
Board Member Developmentn
Specific engineering expertise requirements are listed in the Appendix.
Flash Mob Participation Details
See http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/XM_Flash_Mob_Strategy
Flash Mob Participant Rating
Participants will be rated according to a peer-review questionnaire, which may be submitted by any logged-in individual on the Flash Mob platform.
Did the contributor make a significant technical commit or participate in a significant way to a discussion that led to that commit? (1 point)
Did the contributor serve as a note-taker, Flash Mob Leader, session organizer, participant recruiter, or some other significant role in a session other than a technical commit? (1 point)
Did the contributor participate in the discussion at all, but did not make any significant contribution? (½ point)
Flash Mob Recruiting
Information about the OSE Flash Mob will be blogged and sent out through our social networks with a goal of finding an recruiting Flash Mob participants. The application will be the recruiting questionnaire (Google survey) – which includes relevant questions on skill set that will be then used to create a Flash Mob invitee groups to specific working sessions. In our email invitation, we will also ask people to help us recruit expertise by posting the invitation to specific forums or networks of experts.
A. Invite email (to OSE audience)
(needs to be written) Note that the invite is intended to get the necessary information from you so that you are invited to a working session based on your experience. Thus, keep in mind in your responses that the goal of the survey is to assess your skills properly sio you can be invited to a working session relevant to your skill set.
B. Invite email (prepared to assist others in recruiting SMEs through their channels)
(needs to be written)
Survey Design
1 Name, age, email, Skype, cell*
2 Country and Time Zone (for pursposes of scheduling)*
3 Can you commit to working openly – ie, do you agree that all the contributions that you make to the working session, whether ideas, drawings, design, or others – go under a CC-BY-SA license?* (Check yes or no)
4 Please check areas that you have experience, and for any areas that you checked, please state the number of years of your active experience in that area, and specify the type of experience that you have including further details (ex, type of Engineering that you do), and in which way you are involved in a given area (user of tools; designer of; builder of; provider or producer of; etc.* (check box with 2 blank text fields, first for years, second for details)
Engineering
Organizational Development
Site-Integrated Architecture and Biotecture
Enterprise Scaling
Video and documentary production
Technical Writing
Communications, Presentations, Speech Writing
Blogging, storytelling, journalism
Resource Development
Business Plan Writing
Strategic Development
Recruiting
CAD/CAM/CAE
Creation of Augmented Reality Instructional Apps
Application Programming
Modular Product Design
Legal Support
Curriculum Development
Tax Structuring
Video Script Writing
Social Entrepreneurship
Community Management
Instructionals Creation
Board Member Development
Mentoring, consulting
Performance coaching, life coaching, psychological coaching, etc.
5 Please upload your resume in pdf, odt, or doc format.*
6 Do you own a laptop/computer with a microphone/webcam/speakers?*
7 What tools, software, or other resources can you use/provide/lend/share in the working session For example, access to CAD software or to a specific database; access to a physical work space or production facility.*
8 What is your most likely time during the day when you can participate in a session?*
9 Can you recommend other Flash Mob participants, and if so, who? (text box) (optional)
10 What are you interested in getting out of your Flash Mob participation opportunity? (optional)
11 Other comments or suggestions on how to improve this method? (optional)
12 For engineering/design contributors – please check all that apply, and comment on specifics of your experience.
Implementation Strategy
The questionnaire above should be peer-reviewed and created.
Basic platform is defined– screen sharing + call-in + chat (+ possible vidoe with participants if possible)
Platform test – small group
Send out invite + interview through our social media, blog, email
Collect sufficient team members to hold a session
Database responses in Google
Use XM platform to include Survey in one window, and database of participants in the same window
Add a pop-out window for the Basic Platform (step 2) – all from XM page on wiki to keep entire platform to the wiki.
APPENDIX A
SME Engineering Expertise (as of 5/9/2012) List
We are looking for those individuals experienced in design, fabrication, and engineering of the following:
Power Electronics (circuits for: inverter, power supplies (HF and DC), induction furnace, welder, Induction furnace, charge controller, plasma cutter, laser cutter)
Machine design related to the 50 GVCS tools:
Agriculture: microtractor, tractor, bulldozer, rototiller, spader, microcombine, rake, baler, mower, universal seeder, universal rotor, loader, bakery oven, dairy milker
Construction: CEB Press, dimensional sawmill, cement mixer, backhoe, trencher, hammermill, well-drilling rig
Energy: Power Cube, solar concentrator, modern steam engine, gasifier burner, heat exchanger, pelletizer, nickel-iron batteries, 50kW wind turbine, universal power supply
Microfactory: CNC torch table, CNC multimachine, CNC circuit mill, ironworker machine, 3D printer, 3D scanner, welder, plasma cutter, laser cutter, induction furnace, press forge, metal rolling, rod and wire mill
Transportation: car, truck, hydraulic motor, electrical motor/generator
Materials: aluminum extractor from clay, bioplastic extruder
Tool and die - design and fabrication
Ball bearing production
Metal rolling (hot and cold)
Moldless casting process design
Continuous casting process design
Metal alloying, hardening, surface treating, and heat-treatment
Electrical motor/generator design
Precision machine design
Solar concentrator technology design for electrical generation
Polymer chemistry (bio-plastic production)
Gasification
Automotive engineers for open source car and truck design
Stepper motor controller (running open source code) for applications in all types of CNC machines
Flash steam generator design
fabrication of hydraulic motors
Fabrication of hydraulic cylinders
Pelletizer fabrication
Agricultural combine design
Freeze-drying machine for fruit powders
Fabrication of steam engines
Solenoid valve design and fabrication
ST Electrical generator design and fabrication
Induction furnace refractory design
Deep drilling well design
6 axis robotic arm design
Pellet biomass burner and gasifier design
Industrial laser design (of the laser itself)
Gear rack and gear fabrication process design
Ball screw fabrication
High torque CNC bed fabrication for millings/drilling/lathing
Stepper motor design and fabrication
APPENDIX B
Further description of the types of working sessions that will be held throughout the development process of the GVCS.
General
Flash Mob recruiting involves:
- Identifying which Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)s are needed
- Identifying strategic venues where such SMEs can be found
- Distributing an SME Application survey through strategic media channels
- Databasing the results and feeding Flash Mob team results into Flash Mob platform
Flash Mob Recruiting Plan
Note: Integrate Flash Mob Platform with XM Platform right on the wiki as suggested in Implementation Strategy below. Maximize simplicity and zero (v.) barriers to participation by working on a wiki. Call this Flashy XM - as in Scrumy - to denote the absolute simplicity of web tools used.
