Request edit access
OSE Apprenticeship - Initial Assessment
How we interpret reality - the mental models of reality that we form - determine how we act and what we think is possible. Thus, it is important to create accurate mental models - so we don't cause trouble in the world - and so we can live to our fullest potential. This survey starts with skills/goals assessments - and moves on to assessement of possibilities (as related to the mental models that we hold) - to be revisited and studied later to see how we change and grow as a result of the OSE experience. This is thus an important baseline, and it should be open for anyone to review and contribute to in the name of transparency and growth. The questions here explore your current understanding and perceptions regarding open collaboration, tranformative work, possibility of change, and corresponding scales and time frames. This is all about gaining clarity on creating the reality that we want to build as our future goals.

Sign in to Google to save your progress. Learn more
What is your name? *
What specific technical skills do you look forward to learning the most during the Apprenticeship? *
What specific soft skills, as opposed to technical skills, do you look forward to developing most during the apprenticeship? *
What are your larger aspirations for knowhow and skills that you are interested in gaining in the apprenticeship?
The apprenticeship is a chance to explore peak performance on many levels. Soft and hard skills, technology, business, psychology, physical health, self-determination, and other big picture areas
What skills and knowledge are you interested in getting throughout your life? What would you consider success in your learnings when you ask at the end of your life?
What are your known areas of strength - skills and capacities - both organizationally, business wise, and personally?
What about your weaknesses that you would like to improve?
What weaknesses are you not particularly interested in improving?
This is more a question of your mindset - how you view your strengths and weaknesses.
Now comes a bunch of specific interests questions. What is your level of interest in mechatronics?
Rate your interest in all topics from now on.
least
most
Clear selection
Systems Transformation
Clear selection
CAD
Clear selection
Collaboration
Clear selection
Peak performance
Clear selection
Psychology
Clear selection
Spirituality
Clear selection
Systems thinking
Clear selection
Building Things
Clear selection
Engineering/Calculations
Clear selection
Entrepreneurship
Clear selection
Marketing
Clear selection
Mining
Clear selection
Graphic Design
Clear selection
Computer programming / coding
Clear selection
Microcontrollers
Clear selection
Robotics
Clear selection
Geography
Clear selection
History
Clear selection
Video production
Clear selection
CNC Machines
Clear selection
3D Printing
Clear selection
Research
Clear selection
Genetics
Clear selection
Artificial Intelligence
Clear selection
Space exploration
Clear selection
Writing
Clear selection
Life extension
Clear selection
Applied chemistry
Clear selection
Meditation
Clear selection
Health, medicine, and exercise
Clear selection
Medical technology
Clear selection
Electronics
Clear selection
Integrated Agriculture *
Aquaponics
Clear selection
Housing
Clear selection
Math
Clear selection
Permaculture
Clear selection
Terraforming - earth works and water works for improving the environment
Clear selection
Aviation
Clear selection
Event organizing
Clear selection
Public speaking
Clear selection
Art
Clear selection
Music
Clear selection
Metallurgy and hot metal processing?
Clear selection
How do you picture your collaboration with OSE would look like after you finish the apprenticeship? *
Discuss how you would like to collaborate, whether by working at the OSE Campus, or in your own enterprise, or other ideas
How do you think the apprenticeship will help you collaborate in your work life in general? *
What specific skills will the apprenticeship sharpen for you in order to facilitate future collaboration wherever you work?
How much return on investment, directly related to the outcomes of the mentorship, do you think you will start to generate right at the end of the apprenticeship period? And 1 year after the apprenticeship? *
What obstacles do you currently see that could get in the way of your success in the apprenticeship? How do you plan to address them? *
What specific skills do you look forward to learning the most during the apprenticeship? *
Do you have other remote collaborators that you can partner with to assist you during the apprenticeship? Explain. *
In your estimation, how long do you think it will take you to learn to build the Seed Eco-Home from scratch, to the point that you are comfortable building one independently? Which parts of the build are you / are you not / interested in learning? *
Are you interested in learning how to source, purchase, and substitute materials for the Seed Eco-Home  from common, off-the shelf sources? *
This skill leads to capacity of organizing build events, not just doing builds.
Are you interested in learning how to run 24 person or larger swarm build crews on the Seed Eco-Home to add this to your skill set of what you can do after the Apprenticeship? *
Are you interested in learning the capacity to plan and execute Seed Eco-Homes from start to finish - as a build manager or executive? This is more the executive track - where you gain the capacity to run a full service Seed Eco-Home build operation. *
How would you rate your enterprise skills - such as negotiation, ceation of value propositions, strategy, marketing, revenue models, recruiting, feedback loops, customer service, etc? Please explain, and share specific learning goals that you have regarding enterprise. *
Which of your strengths or skills do you think will help you succeed with the apprenticeship and life after the apprenticeship? *
Considering the technical definition of open source hardware, please describe how open source hardware implies 'economic freedom'? See OSHWA definition and DIN Spec 3105. *
Why does OSE not use Creative Commons-Non-Commercial licenses? *
In 3 months of time from start (mid point), what would you see as successful progress for you within the apprenticeship? *
Within 6 months of time, what would you consider successful progress for you in the apprenticeship? *
What does open collaboration mean to you? *
How much value do you want to generate or create every year? *
This question aims to probe into the magnitude of your social entrepreneurial ambition. Express your answer in current US dollars.
Can you identify any blocks that are preventing you from accomplishing all that you want in your life today? *
Would you be interested in learning the skill set to become a director of one of OSE's 40 acre Campuses - or your own Campus - such as Factor e Farm or similar - in the future? OSE will need site stewards in the future, and the OSE Apprenticeship can be a step to OSE site stewards or stewards of allied facilities. This could be various ownership scenarios such a collaboratively owned facility between OSE and you/other groups, land trusts, private-public hybrid structures, blockchain-accounted structures, etc.
If you are interested in building a land-based facility/enterprise of some sort in the future - what do you envision this being?
What pressing world issues would you like to work on in your life, assuming that you would have the full independence/resources to work on them full time?
If you were to write your own job description for what you would want to do with your life - what would that be?
Based on your last question, could you envision how collaborating with OSE right after the Apprenticeship would help you meet your longer term goals?
What monthly pay would you like to attain once you finish the Apprenticeship? What would be your ideal source of revenue? *
This will depend on what you are capable of learning and what skills you have already?
If you collaborate with OSE on building Seed Eco-Homes, or build them more independenly, what monthly pay would you be interested in attaining for your work in building Seed Eco-Homes? *
What pay (before taxes) would you call a success, in your first month after the Apprenticeship? After 1 year?
Clear selection
What tracks (builder - R&D - manager - organizer - executive) are most interesting to you? Which roles would you like to learn during the Apprenticeship -  Builder - architect/builder - running crews - organizing build events - business development - marketing - R&D - facility replication - supporting machines, etc? *
For the last question, can you sketch out what the revenue model would look like for you?
How do you think your involvement with the OSE Apprenticeship would be relevant to solving pressing world issues? Be specific if you can point to specific points.
What do you think is missing most in OSE's capacity towards delivering regenerative solutions at scale according to the OSE vision of collaborative design for a transparent and inclusive economy of abundance?
What do you think are OSE's strengths, and how can we improve them? *
What do you think are OSE's weak points, and how can you help us address them? *
How do you envision that the collaborative enterprise development assets (open design, open enterprise models, collaboratively-generated marketing knowhow, etc) will help you in your own enterprise if you decide to start one? Do you think that these assets be directly translatable to your own  enterprise?
Do you have any reservations whatsover with respect to publishing all revenue models, enterprise plans, business analyses, marketing assets, and other supporting assets openly to facilitate startup by others? Please discuss any reservations or operational challenges that you can foresee. *
Do you think that distributed market substitution is feasible? What do you think will be the greatest challenge for its attainment? *
What do you think would be the greatest challenge to creating successful distributive enterprises? *
Submit
Clear form
Never submit passwords through Google Forms.
This form was created inside of Open Source Ecology.

Does this form look suspicious? Report

Google Forms