Team Charter Notes

OSE

June 10, 2015 Hangout Chat

Introduction

Sponsor - Initiator of the Team

An OSE charter is a work contract initiated by a sponsor and created to empower the team to perform and achieve goals efficiently and effectively.

Why have a charter? To negotiate and agree. Why? Because assumptions can stop performance.

A charter is also an instrument like a map that is updated as changes in progress or geography occur and give clear direction of when to change course.

A charter is an instrument of documentation and communication.

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Charter History

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What is a charter and why are they used in groups?

: a document issued by a government that gives rights to a person or group

: a document which declares that a city, town, school, or corporation has been established

: a document that describes the basic laws, principles, etc., of a group

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charter (v.)

early 15c., "provide with a charter," from charter (n.). Meaning "to hire" is attested from 1806. Related: Chartered; chartering.

charter (n.)

c. 1200, from Old French chartre (12c.) "charter, letter, document, covenant," from Latin chartula/cartula, literally "little paper," diminutive of charta/carta "paper, document" (see chart (n.)).

Resources & Examples

• Andreas - How to Develop a Charter
• Great overview
• JumpStart Team Success
• Excellent lessons learned
• Creating an Effective Team Charter
• Critical elements of an effective charter, gives insight to roles needed
• Innovator’s Toolkit
• Agile Development Team Charter
• Github Project Example ** Good
• Open Source for America
• Open Compute Example
• OSE example - corporate charter

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Many ways to get involved without commitment (Andreas)

Many introductory ways to get involved, a long gradual “ladder” of involvement, starting without commitment, and can do more and more the more experienced you become, for example:

• simply test and report bugs
• experienced users can help in IRC #ose, #reprap, #debian, #freecad, and users mailing lists
• translating and other mundane tasks
• help maintain packages that you use through a group maintenance team or through alioth
• Alioth seem to use fusion forge for collaboration and version control, didn’t see much activity there though
• write documentation, write on the wiki, etc etc
• etc, see list
• This list should be adapted to specific tasks related to OSE

Social contract

• Need to define OSE Free social contract with community
• OSE needs a Constitution

I think one thing that stand out is that there are many places that are up and running where people can communicate with one another continuously, IRC, mailing lists, forums. And this communication seem to very important component for the development and maintenance.

Voting system:

Select team leaders with concorde system - maybe? the Schulze method of the concorde system

OSE Team Sponsorship

The OSE Team charters revolve around the principles, specifications, methods, and processes that make OSE distinct from other groups.

The Charter express the components and terms that legitimizes Open Hardware Development by upholding standards for viral replication and economic significance.

“In summary, we aim to raise the standards embodied in open source product development efforts by articulating the possibilities. OSE Specification describes all the desirable features that can be embodied in open economic development, under the assumption that maximum advancement of distributive production is the best route to human prosperity.”

Economic Significance[edit]

• Is it relevant for meeting the material needs of humans?

Distributive Economics[edit]

• Does the economic model distribute economic power?

Transformative Nature of Enterprise[edit]

• Does it promote evolution or disruption of outdated institutions?

Systems Design[edit]

• Does it consider the complete human and natural ecosystem?

Ecology[edit]

• Is it good for the environment?
• Does the approach follow holistic management?
• Does the machine fit other OSE Product Ecologies?

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Development Process[edit]

• Is participation in the process entirely voluntary?
• Can anyone join or leave the development group at any time?
• Does the collaborative development process utilize the input of diverse stakeholders?
• Are the steps and results of the development process documented?

Simplicity of design[edit]

• Is it low Cost?
• Does it have Long Life?
• Is it modular?
• Is it designed for disassembly?

Design for scalability[edit]

• Can it be scaled up?
• Can it be scaled down?
• Is it easily scalable?

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Localization[edit]

Materials[edit]

• Are materials used in production local?
• Is raw material production local?

Production[edit]

• Is production of the product local?
• Is the machinery used in production process open source?
• Is the machinery used in production process locally fabricated?

Economic Feasibility and Replicability[edit]

• Is there minimal overhead requirements for production?
• Is there minimal waste?
• Are R&D costs shared by a number of stakeholders?
• Does documentation exist to facilitate replication?
• Is generative capital avialable? Are facilities available to potential replicators for production, open source nurseries, enterprise incubation, training and teaching, R&D, and enterprise acceleration?

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Product Evolution[edit]

• Is there continual product development?
• Is there a user community?
• Is there a developer community?

Community

• Is there a developer community?
• Is there a community charter and constitution?
• Is there training for new developers?
• Is mentorship or apprenticeship available?
• Is there effective community management?
• Is there a solid recruiting function to bring in new cotributors, SMEs, mentors, and advisors?
• Are there opportunities for meeting in person - workshops, conferences, retreats, hackathons, etc.

Learning

• What learning materials are available?
• Is there a process for creating learning materials?
• How does the organization capture learning to make improvements?
• What immersion learning opportunities are available?

Designs[edit]

• Are design drawings (CAD) available?
• Are fabrication procedures detailed?
• Is economic analysis available?
• Is ergonomic analysis available?

Bill of Materials (BOM)[edit]

• Is there a parts list?
• Is Sourcing of parts listed?
• Are prices of parts listed?

Distributive Enterprise Assistance[edit]

• Is producer training available?
• Is startup assistance available?

Fabrication Facilities[edit]

• Do flexible fabrication facilities exist for production?
• Is there a way in which an interested individual can participate in a sweat equity, learn-as-you-go production?

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Open Enterprise Models[sedit]

• Is there a Business Plan published for producing machines?
• Is there an Operations Manual for replicating OSE on an organizational level?
• Is enterprise training available?

Open Documentation[edit]

• Is content Open Source?
• Is content readily accessible (downloadable)?
• Is there a project repository?