Year-End Report Goals for 2013-2014
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Stabilize Organization
We have grown rapidly since our emergence to the world stage in 2011. We went through significant growing pains in 2012. Our main goal for this year is to stabilize the organization. This means recruiting a solid executive team and attaining the structure that qualifies us for multi-million dollar funding in 2014. We are demonstrating how our techniques will be used in practice at Factor e Farm in the Kansas City area, and we are setting up a design branch for OSE in New York City. We aim to develop standards for OSE Chapters worldwide.
Develop Open Source Hardware Documentation Standards
We are pioneers of open source economic development within the open source hardware community. We intend to develop a collaborative platform where both OSE and other groups are encourage to contribute to a common pool of human knowledge. This begins with an Open Source Hardware Development Platform to collect open source know-how from key stakeholders in the open source hardware community. This allows the whole community to build on prior work, accelerating innovation, and realizing the promise of open source economic development.
Streamline Open Source Hardware Development Process
Along with the development of documentation standards, we will also streamline our process for designing and developing Global Village Construction Set machines. We are defining new standards of Collaborative Design and Collaborative Production. By defining specific techniques for achieving rapid, collaborative development - we aim to scale this process within our own organization. We are also developing these techniques such that others can use them and build upon them - to accelerate collaborative innovation. We are creating a generalized methodology for open, collaborative hardware development - to transition the world to the efficient economy.
Accelerate Machine Prototyping
We have pioneered efficient methods of collaborative production. We have developed methods of building complex machines in one day. We are developing Documentation and Development standards for open hardware. Our next milestone is to demonstrate that we can attain 4-6 machine builds per month - while attaining high quality control standards and complete documentation. If we can attain this, we will complete the entire set of 50 GVCS tools by the end of 2015.
