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From YouTube: Colaborative Literacy

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This presentation is seminally important - captures the big overview of true, open collaboration and its potential for breaking unicorn speed records.

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http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Collaborative_Literacy_101:_How_to_Work_Effectively_in_an_Open_Source_Hardware_Movement

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Okay, recording started welcome to the twelve OPI webinar. This is about collaborative literacy. This is obie I the open building Institute, making affordable ecological housing widely accessible. Today, we're going to talk about the the collaboration process itself. How do you get a lot of people to collaborate and massively transform this project? Our focus is large, significant projects that make an impact on a world so with that I'm going to start on the presentation, I'm going to screen share, make sure I start that sharing my screen and going into the presentation present mode. Okay,.

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So open building Institute as far as this twelfth webinar, this will be the last one for a few months, we're going to take a little break, but we're going to come back to this in a few months after we have all the utilities done and some much more significant progress on the CD go home and other projects here.

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So let's start this, this presentation so free and open source software has catalyzed the growth of open hardware and currently open hardware is beginning to gain traction and mainstream economics such as two good examples are 3d, printing and open scientific hardware, and in this in this webinar we explore the ways how how Larry, then is announced what we've learned over the last decade or so since OSE began like what are the principles and tools for effective, focused crowd collaboration? Who can do it? What motivates volunteers?

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What are the limits to the potential effect of such a van open collaborative process? Crowdfunder? Even what's how low can its scale and how can we have widespread adoption into the current status quo of proprietary research and development? So these are the learnings over the last decade and currently culminating a massively collaborative project, the open buildings to do what you build upon all Alessi's work and it's a perfect example of what large collaboration can do in the sense that a house is a very complex project.

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It requires so many moving parts and it requires a large effort to make it happen. So we build upon OSC les filles machines and build houses like this is our last ego home. This is 2016, the CD go home and the next plan is to build another second prototype in 2017 about about October. Now in 2016 we built the structure.

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It took five days for the main structure, with a team of about 50 people and took another five days for the greenhouse with another team of 50 people, a lot of them, those about half the same people from the last workshop. Now we're very ambitious. So what can we do next time? I mean one one thought on a table is doing a house- that's not as large as this. This one was 1,400 square feet, something maybe two-thirds the floor space, but what?

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If we do say the house in the greenhouse in five days now, that would double that will be pretty pretty radical.

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One way to go about that is to focus on smaller, cheaper, better, faster based on all the lessons, but that's how we think we think about always breaking the limits of what we have. This is aquaponics. How can we feed people? Okay, so let's talk about collaborative literacy, so literacy, so collaborative is self-explanatory, but what's what's collaborative literacy, I mean clubbers. Literacy is literally literally a literacy, just like writing, or using a computer to set up skills that allows for true and open cooperation in a digital age.

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How does this come about Hawaii this relevant today? Well, today, it's relevant because today's tools from communication to computers to ever-increasing technology that allows you to produce things on a micro scale that used to take hall factories to do this, allows literally today anyone's ambitions to match execution. I mean that that is possible today, like not that everyone's going to do it, but it's possible.

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Today we do have the tools available tools that 50 years ago, you know submit even 30 years ago, we're not available and certainly not available in the last last century or Satan last century of say a hundred years ago. So so we can be filled with great optimism, sac ace for abundance or post-scarcity. We talk about post-scarcity, of transcending the world's artificial scarcity on in terms of the material base, meaning essentially the entire economy, transcending that by open-source designed by open products, lowering the barriers to entry. So how about?

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If we solve all the world's problems that leave nobody behind? Well, that's the case that we are trying to make. We talk about post-scarcity people like Peter Diamandis and there in his book abundance or bold talk about their high-tech versions of that. We're focused much more on the ecological integration and the whole.

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Both technology and ecology play prominent roles and paying attention to heirloom wisdom, not only the advanced technology that we have today. So what we have to start with, though, is a hard open source hardware economy. That's pretty much non-existent.

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Linux is a major milestone in human history, as in most of the internet runs the backbone. The the backend software is Linux, Apache servers and other open source programs that make the internet run or Android. Let's open soft soft open source software, we know a lot of people know that or very well aware of it. Open hardware, in the other hand, is 1 billion of the existing economy too. Currently it's about a hundred million dollars of a market compared to the overall globe, that's worldwide compared to global a hundred trillion for the overall economy.

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So what are we comparing open development or open collaborative development or collaborative literacy to well we're comparing it to the current proprietary development, where people go up into silos, work individually on products a lot of times reinvent the wheel, they protect what they have they file patents, they work in secrecy and that could indicate a lot of the wheel is ends up being reinvented lots of competitive waste.

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So to say personally, my first introduction to such competitive waste was in grad school when we had some hot material and when I was back in a PhD fusion program. I actually couldn't talk openly to other groups, because of fear that they would take our ideas and publish them. Now, that's pretty crazy, if you think about it, because even in today's academia places are known for supposedly sharing knowledge that doesn't happen. So thank you deeply about that.

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About a decade ago, over a decade now, I came up with open source ecology and as an open platform for true collaboration between stakeholders. So the current trends in open hardware are positives, though, because 3d printing is that's one example of open hardware, because the 3d printing world is pretty much filled with open design. The open-source reprap project is pretty much responsible for creating the entire consumer 3d printer industry, the largest companies in the world, are based on this open-source project, great example of a vibrant project. That's pretty much popularized, 3d printing.

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Everyone now can build their own 3d printer or get a kid or something very low cost like three hundred dollars is compared to like ten thousand dollars, you'll say a decade ago when, prior to the open source project. Another great case is this is just a paper that came out yesterday by joshua peers from Michigan Tech University about emerging business model for open business models for open source hardware. He's mentioned particularly the case of open source scientific equipment where things like various equipment can get you.

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Ninety to ninety nine percent cost savings while retaining the high quality of the product, so things like, for example, obstacle mount for laser systems, various little syringes and probes and measurement devices that would be otherwise much more expensive or much more accessible in the open source and that's a good example of a you know: high-tech kind of advanced equipment, largely electronics, a perfect case for 3d printing and open electronics to make make prices go way down an accessibility, low-cost lab labs, much more widespread.

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So this is a this was published in the Journal of open hardware, which is also a new publication. So this is definitely motion on the open hardware front, largely by Joshua appears, he's our hero and open source movement and that's a book he published about open source lab equipment here that you can see, but let's, um okay. So now, let's talk about the possibilities, because we talked about okay project like ofc, Obi I, any ambitious project that that's really a be tagged.

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A big hairy, audacious goal like I talked about in the TED talk requires huge resources that we don't have. So what resources do you need to have? Well, it turns out that in today's world of capability, money is not the issue. So in our own history we've applied crowdfunding crowd design. We haven't actually used incentive challenges, but you know the first and twenty eleven we did. The global village Construction Set Kickstarter raised sixty-eight thousand dollars or sixty four thousand dollars.

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Their platforms like grab CAD are public platforms where you submit a design challenge, say for some mechanical device for some machine and a bunch of people work on that to produce the best design and you can pay them.

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There's that's an incentive kind of a platform, but crowd design you can out crowdsource things for free or for pay x prize is perhaps okay, so x prize is an example of an incentive challenge where, where some people raise money to like millions on a scale of millions now to fund some big hairy, audacious project like 100 mile per gallon car or the first commercial, spaceflight or whatever, but that that definitely fosters the development by by the masses. Now what about when we're talking open source, crowdsource development project like osv?

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If you combine all these three elements, you get a method of development that totally transcends the money issue here, so combine crowdfunding, combine crowd, design, combined incentive challenges into a crowdfunded crowd, design, incentive challenge. What is it that means you crowdfund? The actual reward for a challenge that you draw up, and then people compete for that to get a prize for a well-defined, serious and vicious goal. So you end up having to put in no money. You crowdfund it all. You need is your time and big ideas.

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So we have not used hero x to this point, but we are actually planning on that. That to me is the perfect balance of your you've got a big vision. You've got crowd, funding, that's available and the crowd incentive challenge where tons of people then go after that prize. That could be a very effective model for developing on low budget, but you still need people.

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Let's talk about people um well, I'm, inspired on this front, because people don't necessarily have to be the issue so I have a friend from the TED Fellows group name is Jimmy. He runs. He founded the rare genomics Institute and he taught me that he has 160 for doctors and professionals, volunteering 10 hours per week on his project. Now, that's over 40, full-time, equivalent volunteers and not just any people off the street, we're talking about high-level professionals and doctors. Okay. So now when I saw that I'm like okay wow, this is amazing.

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We can do the same for all x equals up for oh I see it's always been a challenge. Well, how do you get consistent, reliable developers? And this really sounds so we got onto that in a serious way. So, right now, just basically in February we started recruiting so we were building. We went across the building at Human, Resources team. You can see our human resources badge for people who make it to our human resources and basically people who recruit, recruit others to the development effort and we're starting to track the hours right now.

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Over a month about a month, we've risen from one developer, 28 developers right now that we want to see this rise and exponentiate. Our goal is to have a significant, large-scale effort, so we're tracking now the team and the hours the hours here we are requiring 10 hours per week. The hours should follow pretty much the development numbers. So let's say for eight people there should be about 80 hours, so we're tracking that actually by people logging their timesheets but yeah.

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That's that the hours here shown hours divided by 10, so the numbers should match up, but this is actually I'm going to put in a plug for ofe developers as we're shifting from ad hoc development too much more concerted effort. We are putting a significant effort on the recruiting function because we know that people want to help. We know that we need more organization, that's just one of the one of the things we have to do, but we are finding people are not the issue its organization.

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So let's continue. So if you want to start a big project and do well in the open source world, if we talk specifically about large ambitious projects, the first requirement is a massive transformative purpose. The word I borrow from Peter Diamandis, it's consistent with the kind of exponential organization thinking of OSE exponential means that right now we're building a foundation.

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We've developed a lot of work on what open source product development looks like how that works and I'll talk about more about that, but pretty much ambitious thinking, 10 x, 10, x, thinking or exponential just huge entries.

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My recent learnings are that no I guess it's been kind of in her to the way I think. But but 10x is much more exciting than 2x to get something two times as go. You can tweak something here and there make some linear improvements, but ten times thinking requires a totally new way of thought. It's and it excites people. The bottom line is that it excites people. It's got energy, it's got the juice to inspire people, get involved for all I see. We've got several points like that.

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We're just going to end artificial scarcity and and war. We're going to do. Mass creation is Right Livelihood we're going to do a hundred time. Resource efficiency increase how well kind of times by lowering the cost via open-source equipment and ten times by the fact that its lifetime design, meaning you'll, throw it away after ten years. You maintain it because it's forever serviceable and maintainable by the users, so 10 x, 10 and get a hundred times resource efficiency increase very positive things to think about very exciting to people.

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So then, our next promise is the distributive Enterprise idea. That means we don't only publish the design but also the business models around whatever we do. So, if we're developing a 3d printer right now, which is what we're doing we're developing a workshop model where you can build 3d printers, for example, 24 people come in to build a 3d printer in a single day using our extreme manufacturing processes, we charge people for the event. People walk away with a working 3d printer, it's great for everybody.

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Money crosses the table, people gain skills, everyone is happy, but we publish that. We don't want to monopolize that market. We know that we're working with many billion dollar in larger markets- we're saying hey everybody do this to this is great: let's, let's, let's be consistent with aussies mission of ending war on poverty, creating right livelihoods, amazing, ecological improvement and efficiency improvements. That's our mission!

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We don't care about giving her stuff away because it's good for the world, so the requirement one for any penny Harry project is a massive purpose and purpose is the key just like in self-determination. Theory. We have that autonomy. Mastery and purpose are the true drivers of human motivation. If you can provide that to people, people will join you and you will have a team and you will walk together an army to to to do things. You've, never thought possible, so I'm going to go through more requirements.

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Basically of what we've learned over the years regarding open development, massive transformative purpose being number one requirement: number two: it's modularity if you've got a complex project like the GBC s, the global village, Construction Set, the this is impossible until you think hard about breaking complexity into bite-size chunks.

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That's exactly what we have done and I'll talk a little bit more about that. If you read the open source product, sorry, the product development literature, because there is no such thing as open source product development, literature really yet! But if you look at the industry standard product development, literature- and you can see that link on a wiki to the presentation, you will see that in the most cutting-edge papers, people are talking about modularity and absolutely being a key to effective product development. You can break things down into interconnected parts. You can work in parallel.

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You can then enlist massive amounts of people to work on bite-sized chunks as long as you know how they fit together. So the good news is that open source product development them mod is the the future. The literature seems to say that they say that modular, open source design is the way that companies are going to migrate to in the future. I hope you can give me here. We've got rain here. I've got a little sound in the background here, so I'm going to try to speak very clearly so requirement to is modularity.

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How does it work for us? We work on 50 machines, we break them down into modules like a tractor has wheels and engine a frame and other parts or a backhoe has a bucket a boom hydraulic cylinders X. I we think about each each machine down into 12. We break then each of the 12 modules into a large number.

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It's about 40 of development elements, critical items like your design, your concept, your 3d, CAD, your build instructions, everything else that goes into the development process, your calculations, so you end up with a large number of individual development items for each machine and for each module now the trick there is. How do you organize a large team to work on that? What follows what what is strategic to do at what time? When can you begin a step and end another?

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That's all the kind of questions for process managers and that's the the forefront of our development right now, basically asking ourselves: what is the the process by which we can do this effectively and we're making the road by walking in our current development team with our HR function, we've got a core team of OSE developers and we've got we're going to add documentary to the show IT people we've got the HR team human resources in the works, so modularity works.

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The point is: if we can then match each of these tasks to a person that human resources gets us, because there is excited by the massively transformative purpose, then we're golden the possibility is huge. So the question revolves around how effective is our organization or our transition from revision to execution? So we've learned over the years that effectiveness in our case requires a shift from ad hoc development to a very focused process.

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There are good examples of the ad hoc process. It has succeeded in rap rap the open source 3d printer project over 10 years, they've been at this point, have designed a 3d printer, that's the best in the world. In fact, the number one 3d printer in the world is an open-source printer to Prusa i3 mk2 original. That was on the cover of make magazine, I, believe that's a leading best consumer 3d printer out there and that's an open source model.

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Then there's loes about another great example, but it took ten years to get an automated machine that includes automatic bed leveling, so you don't have to mess with the 3d printer actually being leveled to start a print. That's the current state of art, but it took a bit of time and when you actually look at that project very carefully, you'll see that it's a bunch of ad hoc contributions, a lot. You know hundreds of different design paths and roads and many dead ends and so forth.

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It works if you have a huge number of people and small enough capital investment that a lot of people can get involved. But that may not necessarily work for us as we're seeing I'll talk about that. So wikimedia foundation in linux foundation are well-recognized, multi-billion dollar value projects, and they, however, don't I mean they don't necessarily run on volunteers.

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They do some, but but their core is significant foundations with multi-million dollar budgets, like a look at media foundation about 30 million linux foundation is about six million dollar budgets, so they have a core team that does it's. Our model could be similar to that. However, both the combination of rap rap and foundation model would not work for a civilization civilization, starter kit project like like open source ecology.

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So for the reprap side, I must say that there is a much higher level of coordination, because we're not business is developing just one one machine like the reprap, the 3d printer, because that's actually one of our machines, but we have 50 different machines that all fit together. A huge coordinated effort is required for that. It can be done by ad hoc development, because people would be all over the place and that's actually what we've seen.

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That's exactly what we've seen over the history of the project, kind of exploded and kind of went all over the place as we lost track of documentation and now we're really shifting to getting the whole thing done now. Why did I say foundational model? Would not do it as well. Well, foundations typically aren't in a position to have the kind of long-term thinking or transformed of thinking that would fund a big project because for one it takes too much money. So so, right now, let's see is going to heavyweight product management.

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That's actually a term that comes from the the product, development, literature, but essentially strong strong managers that have a good overview of the working project and then can lead a large teams of people under tight specifications and requirements. So it's not kind of a free-for-all setting it's a well-planned, well-designed situation that can actually get to the specific goals on us on a specified time line, because we haven't achieved that one first, okay, so 2011 when I first got onto the Ted world stage.

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So much interest came about thousand your hundreds or thousands of emails and say: oh yeah, we'll be done in a second and then I found the difference between vision and execution. The difference between what just have an idea versus the structure, the team and resources to make something happen. These things don't just happen by themselves, like wikimedia foundation, takes 30 million dollars to write an online organizing of and online encyclopedia, and then there's many many people who contribute to the Encyclopedia around the world. But it takes some structure to do that.

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So that gives it gets me to the fourth requirement of the big hairy audacious goal project, and that is bootstrapping simply because it's just too expensive to achieve a typical, be had big hairy. Audacious goal takes a lot of money.

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Foundations cannot support it because foundations, typically a short, have a short stakeholder based view, their systemic issues, the entrenched money in the system, is not going to pay for its own destruction, though some people in foundations may may like that may like that, but we haven't found anybody that we know of yet food who would support our work in the long term crowd developed. So therefore, we migrate to crowd developed, replicable enterprise models as the only way.

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So what we're saying is that ok, we can do 10, let's see facility like say we're here in Missouri, we can build up a facility. If that's what we wanted to do say you know like get up to a million bucks or a few million dollars and call it a day. That would be great, but but our mission is much broader than that us to that is to create a large number of education, training production facilities worldwide.

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What we call the ofc campus model, which would require, require probably a million or two per facilities so for many of them, require on the order of a hundred billion dollars. I, don't think we're going to find that any time soon.

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So, in the meantime, we better boot strap our own way, create meaningful replicable enterprise as the way to fund all the all the development facilities and that's how we get people to join us. We're saying: hey we're developing this model, but once we have it, it's free free to everybody. We can teach you about it. We can teach you the effective so how to build tools, how to organize how to develop teams which is what we're, but so we're providing all those other support assets.

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So, in our process, what we've done is I mean we've done things like the true fans. We've done a Kickstarter. True fans are people who donate ten dollars a month to the project. That's still active this graph here ends in 2014 right now, we're only at like I haven't paid much attention to the true fans to raise that too much as we had other funding that came in pretty much around the area of of the 2011 TED talk right now, weird about a hundred, true fans. So still a background.

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Operational budget is coming from the true fans, but that is no way to do. Do any planning any expansion unless we get like thousands of true fans, like thousand true fans, would be 10,000 a month, but that's barely enough to hire like a couple of people. Still, you know if we wanted to hire people, so we got to go much too fun of funding levels, much greater than simple crowdfunding like that, can do, but I do recommend it.

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It's awesome if you're starting out like that mean the true fans have saved me, and thank you to all the true fans when I you know by 12 2009 I was a couple years after grad school I had thirty thousand dollars of savings, I burned that all in about two years, I had zero money.

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I started crowdfunding and I was gold, and that was the first time I felt so free in my life like I've, never liked it never at any time in the history of my life, because I was doing what I was passionate about and I was getting paid for that, and it was minimal like a thousand bucks per month, and it went up to like the four thousand dollars per month and I was plenty to get to the world stage to do some great things and then think about well.

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What does it really take to expand this kind of an effort so crowdfunding recommended the true fans model recommended hero X, which is the crowd-sourced the crowdfunded crowd, design challenge. We want to do that. We definitely recommend that we're going to see how our experience with that goes as we move into the future so bootstrapping. In summary, we need to pave a way for an unlimited number of replications to happen. We're not going to do that through foundations.

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Crowdfunding will will help, but open-source enterprise that provides the cash flow is our current way. So just to continue a little bit about the funding here, we have a graph of the prototypes built and cost. This is for a five-year period. Basically, from the time the first machine was built, the red line actually shows the cost per machine like at the very beginning, was like eighteen thousand dollars per per machine than it was dropping to dropping. Then it kind of rolls back up again with a number of machines kept rising.

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This is run until 2013, since then, I've lost track right now, we're at about 20 or so unique prototypes or a hund like 120 or so machines built, but I kind of lost track.

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Here 2011 was when the TED talk happened and first replication actually happened in 2012, where then in 2013, all the ones in the red here those are the ones we built a factory farm, the different machines, but now the green ones are the ones we started, seeing that many other machines were built in other countries, so, for example, in 20 13 2012, there are two four six eight 10 12 13 machines built not by us but by replicators, but still I mean we're, not scaling in any way virally.

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It's um it's good, but no worries of the viral adoption because we're relying on a voluntary effort. But we think the voluntary effort is key because you cannot buy a revolution, it would cost too much. Then the higher purpose attract attracts mission alignment and then we just need to select for performance with our Human Resources team. So many people have higher purpose. A lot of them unnecessary has the skill set.

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We want people with both the skill set and and the mission alignment to make things happen, but that's I don't believe we would have the money to do it. Let's just talk a little bit about money for what I've described about a parallel design method. Fifty machines, how many hours of development time does it work? Does it take it's about 50 million?

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If you pay people ten bucks per hour to develop the global village, Construction Set 50 machines to have 12 modules, each 40 development steps times another to because we develop the enterprise steps after that three prototypes each 40 hours per development item gets you five point: eight million development hours, that's for Minimum, Viable, Product, three prototypes that are almost ready for mainstream adoption. We don't have that money, so we rely on volunteers, so requirements. Six. If you want to build a hairy, big hairy project need a road map to attract people.

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We need some planning so there's a any good. Open-Source development project will have these guiding documents that show their mission their roadmap for ourselves. We can click on all these links. You can view our 20 or 25 year old, 25-year future roadmap. You can see our critical path. You can see our priorities and how we filter the priorities, because we have to make decisions on unaware and what do we do next right now and a budget?

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So if you are running an open source project in order to help your clients, your collaborators join and invite more of them put up these documents on your website help people see where you're going, because if you can tell people where you're going, you can take people on that trip. If you do not know where you're going a person may not sign up to go to an unknown place next, so this is actually talking about budgets here. This is our current state and these are our revenue goals based on the distributive enterprise.

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So, let's, let's explain this: this is our budget plan for 2017 from april till februari of 2018 april 2017 februari 2018. So this is the budget requirement. You gotta have a budget to do things now. If you talk about expanding like we're talking about large expansion, to significant world impact, in fact, towards the trillion-dollar economy within 25 years and, of course not by us, but all the people that we helped along, we can we can feed the effort. We can generate significant value, but then the real work is going to be by adopters.

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So, let's look at this right now we have a true fans baseline of a thousand dollars per month. We're going to we're actually putting up on would like to put up a website for selling swag like just little things like stickers and and and published books and other things. So, if you'd like to help with that, actually that's one of the tasks for the the enterprise website once again that all these enterprise assets, including like, for example, the sticker like embed codes for your website. Well, you can put that on your website too.

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If you want to start off to know it, you know a no se related project where we're opening up absolutely every economic asset to the world, we're taking leadership on it. We think that is important because if it works for us we'd like it to work for others, so, okay- but here let me let me go back to this here. So right now we're in like april the first 3d printer workshop. Our goal is to attract 12 people who pay each three hundred dollars per seat to attend the workshop.

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They walk out with a working printer if they pay you extra for the materials, so we're selling an education experience. Our aim is to show that we do thirty six hundred dollars in that event, we've done that before last year, so we know that that's doable and then in june we are aiming to run what you see here, as this distribute enterprise baseline as a baseline of about seven thousand per month, which comes from workshops where 24 we attract 24 people.

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So that's that's our model right now, and this large bump of chunk of change here is from producing a few brick presses in a brick press workshop and the large large milestone here, we're actually looking at by December 2017 running a big workshop. Now ambitious where you build a hundred 3d printers in a single day. Take an auditorium. Take perfected, instructionals perfected machines, they're extremely efficient to build. Currently, we've just done the unique part count on our 3d printer. The grand total is 40 parts.

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Look at d 3d on the wiki, that's a very simple design of a 3d printer made with 40 parts. We have absolutely broken through the complexity barrier. I think this is actually a decent milestone and we're hoping that our 3d printer actually goes viral because it's a Construction Set. It's not a single 3d printer to construction set, but anyway we are aiming for revenue, significant revenue demonstration that we can do that that it actually works to get this major productive effort in an extreme manufacturing workshop setting.

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But the baseline is 24 3d printers. We think that that people can replicate it. We think that to run a very effective well-organized workshop, where you build 24 3d printers in a day that can be a great product, the demand for 3d printers, who is huge. So that's that's what we're doing those are our revenue goals and then, once we stabilize this model, we can actually recruit people to run this in multiple locations and so forth, while encouraging anyone else to pick up exactly what we're doing and replicated free of charge.

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Okay requirement, seven! So talking more about the requirements for transformative project, you've got to have a baseline of critical tools and practices that everyone subscribes to, and this is the literacy for the collaborative literacy understanding how the hall open source product development process works. So so some of the critical tools and open source product development and practices Pratt you got to have a platform. We can upload all your designs for immediate access by anyone in the world, and that is our wiki right now: open source, ecology, org, slash wiki.

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There has to be good organization on the platform, and we do that by organizing everything by modules and the development template. The development template is the item. That's got like 40 items on it, look at look at that on them on the wiki, but we break down everything into those I believe that 50 projects x, 12 modules, that's like 600 ton x about a hundred steps each and then multiple. It's like a hundred, it's more than a hundred thousand items that were tracking just like that on the wiki. How do you do that?

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Well, you know the machine name. You know the module name based on a list, a web page, a wiki page that lists all the modules and then you've got the development template.

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So if you know these basic principles of orientation, if you study that may be, for you know an hour study that you'll be able to find any one of hundreds of thousands of development assets on the wiki and that's the literacy part, a person has to sit down and understand that there's a logic to the process and to the project, but that kind of logic and rules of the game can be established for any project, whether it's ose or somebody else to to run projects. Amazing, large-scale projects that do amazing work.

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Okay, more on the requirements on the critical tools. We all keep work along that show our current work product with a hyperlink. We log our time on the timesheet, so we can track how much time we're spending and what we're producing. If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it, hence the timesheet and work logs.

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Naturally, you want to use open tools, things like free cab, the open source, 3d, CAD or kayden line video editing. You download that for free as open source projects, no barrier to participation, say some person without any resources, but with an internet connection wants to collaborate, they can because the tools are free.

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The other part of rapid cloud, parallel collaboration is in real time. Tools such as me, you've got hangouts, naturally, video conferencing or open source versions of that live crowd. Editable docs, that's a huge one. Basically, documents like Google, slides or open source versions of that which are just coming out as really really workable, competitive alternatives to the Google Docs, and we want to transition to that as soon as we can.

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But so far we've been using Google Docs, but documents which a number of people can can join online in different parts of the world and they can edit that all of them all of the people like state ten, twenty thirty hundred people edit a single document in real time. So if you have good organization within that document, you can have many people make meaningful collaborations so that a task that would otherwise be linear linearly done by a hundred steps and series can now be done with a hundred people working in parallel at the same time.

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So if you've got this down, you got a one-hour meeting, a hundred collaboratively literate people and they do the work of a hundred hours in the single hour. That's the potential! We haven't done that yet we're not that good. Yet, but we've done that, certainly with a few people and we're trying to build those numbers up.

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So we can literally do what I just said: a hundred people working on a on a on a development project and after an hour, so you've got the complete design of something complete, so just just paralleling, using open source cloud based collaborative editing and design so requirements current another requirement that I also mentioned the module breakdown so yeah. The module breakdown is critical to the bike, bite-size chunks of information to dissolvable, bite-size chunks and then another practice. That's really critical for us is extreme manufacturing model.

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What we do is spend a lot of time on design and then do build very rapidly so which which then, for an open hardware project, allows many people to work on that project, because the you have to recognize that the bulk of the work is actually designed. If you have an absolute complete design, absolute, complete instructionals and bills of materials and sourcing information, the build, especially when you use digital fabrication between 3d, printing cnc, torch table, cutting and other digital fabrication tools.

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You can then build extremely rapid thing and that's that's what we're basing our extreme manufacturing are. We build things, build heavy machines in a single day and the houses in five days. So that's critical that enables the remote collaboration, because a lot of people think all those I'm not on site.

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I can't collaborate well very far from the truth and that's part of the collaborative lyra see your understanding that you do not need to be on site, but you can then defend to a site and then do a quick build so by all means remote collaboration as possible and digital economy makes it even better and easier than before, because think about this.

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If you're working with heavy machines, part of the the prototyping work is danger, heavy things that can follow you and kill you well, so, actually by doing the crowd, collaborative design, you're minimizing the time, you're spending in a workshop and therefore making the safety aspect much much better and that's part of the design. The safety issues are part of the design of the extreme manufacturing model. Okay, going forward with the the requirements on so I talked about the basic, critical tools and practices.

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Now now, I'm going to focus on one aspect: requirement: eight, which is the free and accessible tools, free and accessible, so freaked at 3d CAD. Anyone in the world can do it.

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It's important that it's free, because then nobody is prevented from contributing because they don't have a hundred bucks for a CAD license critical critical to enabling anybody to do it at low cost.

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So let me give you an another example of why free and open source or accessible tools are important, like, for example, in an HR and recruiting right now, there's various person like work style profiles that cost money and just to give a very specific example, the Colby index KO lbe, that's like a really advanced index for determining how people work their works about what they gravitate to, whether their starters or or detailed oriented, researchers or whatever. But anyway um it costs a it costs. Thirty bucks for us to do that.

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Well, if we're recruiting large number really through large numbers of volunteers, that may be recruited for even small tasks, it's just it kind of breaks the budget. You know so it's important not to put a price on any tool that we use, because they will just present others from using it like if it's a piece of intellectual property like to like software tools or just information, knowledge wants to be free so that we can benefit more people. That's just that. How we roll here and, of course, is controversy. Well, how do you make money?

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Well, there's many different ways to make money, but the business model has to reflect the open-source nature of the product. So example, three of low cost low cost tools like, for example, three printer. You can build yourself for three hundred dollars in parts and then you can prototype complex objects so that technology used to be 10,000. Now it's 300, so actually a lot of people can. Even if there are not on our team, they don't have too much money.

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Well, maybe they can save up 300 bucks to get a 3d printer, but but it will be much harder. You can naturally see if that 3d printer was ten thousand dollars. So in the best case scenario, tools for called cooperation are free. Just to remove that barrier completely so that anyone no matter of their financial position can collaborate and requirement number nine. That's a part of our platform here.

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So we're talking about Allah, see Linux a a distribution of Linux, which is preloaded with all the common tools that we use, such as freaking blenders, Sketchup, Libra, CAD, kdenlive, many others, but because all these tools and the libraries like part, libraries, that we want people to use I say we design our 3d printer. We have all these files for 3d printer Construction Set.

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Well, we want people to down to basically download our whole distribution of linux, so you don't have to download all the different programs from all the different different sites and there might be some software conflicts so to eliminate that from the get-go, because we know that software issues are going to be there. But with this route of doing what you do here, is you download a whole independent distribution of linux and open source operating system?

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You put it onto your USB drive and you run off that it does not change your computer. Everyone has the absolute identical system running. Therefore, no software conflicts no download issues. None of that. So that's a critical part. If you, if you want a large number of people to collaborate with you, seamlessly eliminate the software related issues, we're doing that with the ofc linux live USB and we're working on that right now requirement number 10.

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So if you are going to prototype somewhere, so this is for open hardware somewhere, there has to be a build step and that's the open-source microfactory just ignore the freak out there. But basically somehow you have to do here with 3d printing. We can you know a lot of people can see how accessible physical prototyping is.

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Somehow you have to make it easy for people to prototype, so 3d printing is one way to do it. Here's another microfactory, that's in Nicaragua that has two of our brick presses in four of our power tubes, or at least they definitely look like they. They they don't. They aren't exactly our model, but they seem to be very much like it and I, and those units here appear to be power, cubes running the machines, but this is another microfactory, so maybe collaboratively put into to a facility where you can prototype and collaborate.

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Now, if you don't have a physical facility, there are many online services that can do prototyping for you. So right now, services such as pinocho or shapeways or other places you can send digital fabrication files and you can simply outsource the physical manufacturing. So, for example, in our 3d printer example, we use a metal frame, we get it cut by laser cutting or plasma cutting. We just send a file to a manufacturer, and then we can get a set of frames, actually a very competitive cost.

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Currently, it's we're paying when we outsource for the 3d printer frames right now we're paying fifty dollars per frame, though we're looking actually getting that down to about half of that, potentially by wiser design for details. But yeah you can do various things quite affordably through the internet by sending digital fabrication files to producers.

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Okay requirement number 11, an open hardware, product development is what I alluded to before, and that is ninety. Nine percent of the effort is related to design and one percent is the build, in other words, focus on a design perfects your instructionals and procedures and simplify the design, really put a lot of effort on your design. Don't just do crap design and then spend all the time building it, because you don't have complete documentation.

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You don't have specific parts specified or you're relying on hard to source parts such as going to the junk yard for parts for like one of pieces of some now design it to be universally manufacturable off from off-the-shelf parts or locally fabricated parts, so that you spend a very small portion of your time in the physical prototyping, because the physical prototyping part is the part that requires the most effort. It's I mean effort, as in like you need a physical facility. You need materials, their safety issues, there's capital for machines and for materials.

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So that's not the zero entry level. That's there's significant barriers to that. So you want to make everything as easy for the fabrication step as possible because most of the costs in terms of like a real material costs, are coming in at the fabrication step. So and the good part is when you design it as such. That's where naturally, the extreme manufacturing model arose from that. So because we make the build process so efficient.

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We can then invite people to participate in workshops where it's a complete immersion education experience and that's a great way to to do open source product development.

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So just remember most of it is designed and then just a little bit of build, which turns a project from something that you have to do at a certain location to a globally distributed wide collaboration process. Okay next, so the next requirement is the distributed enterprise, and that is the idea that we're creating enterprises we're developing not only products but enterprises around those products.

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We wrote about it first in MIT innovations journal a couple of years ago, and this is where, where we care about mass creation of a bright light because of people getting involved in production, distributing the productivity as far and wide as possible according to principles of Jeffersonian democracy, this version of power, distribution of wealth all that by local production, therefore right livelihood, because if you build the world around you, you know that if that's more localized, then then you can be more responsible for that responsibly as a part of that, but also it's not like we're going to be isolationist.

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We care about global information flows and global sourcing only if we cannot provide locally, but the point is just about anything can be provided locally. If you have rocks sunlight plants, soil and water rocks are turned into into steel plants are turned into plastics rubber. You know: there's everything is rather just just to spend your effort on developing the open source enabling technology so that you don't have to rely on huge, global and irresponsible supply chains that are prone to corruption, in the sense that, if you have read Schumacher's small is beautiful.

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You will know that human organization breaks down after it reaches a certain size. That's just the truism, that's how things work. So we can either work to decrease the size of human organization or to make the huge scale huge scale operations better. Well, it seems easier to do the the former it's easier to just reduce the scale so that it's everything is more visible, more transparent and more direct bye-bye open source. That seems to be the winner not like going larger, and you know more complex, so that and still remain extremely efficient.

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If you go through the numbers, you can see that the local production is very efficient and we're going to see some some breakthrough numbers like, for example, comparing tractor production amount of hours and time and effort. It takes us to build a tractor versions, say mahindra, & mahindra, the largest tractor manufacturer in the world, we're competing with it and we do better than them. So that would be another publication later on. We don't have that data specific yet because our tractors are not in the production phase, yet so, okay, but the the distributor price aspect.

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If you want a success, successful open hardware project build in the element of how people can can make money with with your work and if you opposed to money think about livelihood.

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Some way to generate value, that's real and tangible, so livelihood is a huge incentive. That's why the freedom to make money is one of the essential freedoms of open source, and that's that's so for collaborative literacy. You have to understand that there's a lot of projects out there that so-called call themselves open source and I won't name any names. It's not just people off, but a lot of people use the word open source, even when their license does not allow the use of their stuff for livelihood or commercial needs like you can't sell their stuff.

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Well, that's not open source, so they call it open source they're lying the because open source is, is not just a fuzzy word. It's a well defined term defined by the Open Source Initiative and carry down into the open source hardware by the open source, hardware, Association and that's a technical term that that means that the open source has four freedoms want to copy, to build upon, to make to examine and to sell something or making a livelihood. Out of that is important because it's an incentive, if you can make a living out of it.

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Why wouldn't you get involved, especially if it's right livelihood and if it's good for the world and it's collaborative and it's fun and productive? That's the way to go so watch out for the the projects that call themselves open source, but are not commercial, don't allow commercial use for us we're very clear. Our social contract is based around open source distributor prize, we're promising to the world that we're producing not only open source design but also open source Enterprise documentation.

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So everything that we do we publish openly so that others can benefit, learn and replicate.

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Ok, I'm going to talk about as we wrap up here about the psychology of open source and that's an important one because for collaborative literacy, you have to be aware that there are certain properties of people that make people willing to do the open and and I think what I think about is. This actually requires a large amount of maturity and a part of the developer. Because to me, these three are critical to effective, open source collaboration and that's esteem vulnerability and a growth mindset.

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So a steam is the only way that you're going to be open to publish your work and open yourself up to critique if you're, insecure, you're going to be very sensitive to critique, and you won't be able to publish up to me so and vulnerability like brené Brown talks about in her well very well received TED talk about vulnerability.

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Take a look at that, if you haven't seen and Google that, but vulnerability is that critical aspect of us that allows us to publish early and often we expose ourselves, we expose our work, we expose stuff that is not complete because we want others to build upon it. That's a whole cultural mindset. It's vulnerable ax t, which means that you have to be a strong person, because only strong people can can have the courage to be vulnerable. It's about courage and then the last requirements for open source.

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The psychological requirement is, is the growth mindset, because the way that open source businesses succeed, for example, sparks on low spot ose, whoever that is, they take the long term view of constant improvement and not the fact that you develop something and then you protect it like with a patent or with with trade secrets or whatever you're, relying on the fact that you know that right now you produce something and you're going to produce something even better in the future, and you do that constantly without rest.

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So this is not for the ones that want to get grow old and get comfortable. This is for people who are constant learners with a growth mindset who are so good and believe that they're going to be good in the future and therefore they don't have to revert to protectionism to make their business succeed. They succeed on the mere power and effectiveness and quality of their work, and it improves constantly, by opening up themselves, to others and for feedback. They can grow faster, better stronger together.

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In my view, there is absolutely no comparison between what the growth mindset and an open source product development pipeline can achieve compared to proprietary development. No question about it. As the problems grow more and more complex, you need the growth minds that you need to work with people, you need more feedback. So to me, open source is the next economy, the next trillion-dollar economy and join it be a part of it. Join us as long a development team, ose developers I'll put a link below the video.

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If you've got any questions and suggestions, let me know below the video and right now I'm going to open this up. I'll finish the presentation: this is basically an overview of collaborative literacy. What it means to work together truly openly.

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Well, if I loved anybody, okay, I apology, apologies but yeah, the recording is there, so so this this video. Essentially, this webinar is a brief overview of the various requirements that we found out that work for us at osc, including the psychological and so forth, but yeah. If you have any questions, please write them below the video. Thank you for listening and we'll take it to the the next webinar in the future.

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I hope you found something really useful out of this I feel like we covered a lot of ground here in terms of a lot of different insights that we have learned. So I'm glad for that and thank you for listening and take care.