OGM Infrastructure (Evolving)
Expressed in the context of The Five Layers.
Infrastructure
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Prototype and demonstrate initial versions of OGM platform and protocols.
- Wiki for knowledge sharing, documenting and reporting
- Directories and profiles
- Navigating Jerry's Brain in new media
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Develop technical and communications expertise in outreach to other organizations
- What OGM has to offer
- How OGM members should approach others
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Establish needed business infrastructure
- Identify and establish needed systems and processes
- Connect to back-end business services for limited bookkeeping and value tracking.
- Open a bank account in OGM's name (unless we use Lionsberg's for now)
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Set up grant funding process, using Lionsberg 501(c)3
- Apply for grants, create matching challenges
- Set up Fellowships
- Define Fellowship categories & structure
- Selection and awarding criteria
- Equitable distribution of available funds
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Set up simplest infrastructure for commercial ventures (eg, consulting, speaking)
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Lionsberg will provide $15K in matching funds for OGM. OGM will reach out to potential funders and raise the seed funds to match.
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Sustainability: making concrete progress against our milestones and soliciting additional funders in the second half of the Sprint will enable OGM to pave a runway that continues from Sprint to Sprint.
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Create plan for second OGM Sprint.
- Experiment with evaluating our progress
Governance
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How OGM works (internal governance)
- Define OGM structure and naming
- Determine what roles OGM needs to fill in this Sprint, and who will fill them
- Stewardship Council? Composition, responsibilities and protocols
- Define how independent sub-projects relate to one another within the community
- Create process for supporting OGM members' own projects
- Identify critical business structures and operations
- Definition of done: Create a rubric for how we run experiments, and how we evaluate the results
- Explore methods and tools for managing OGM activities
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Governance of OGM's emerging Commons
- Experiment with defining our membrane (what protections we need around "open")
- Experiment with collective decision-making, using at least three processes, and create a report comparing them
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Governance dimensions
- Experiment with connecting with other organizations
- Experiment with choosing OGM Fellows and rewarding them
- Experiment with consulting engagements and sharing their results
Knowledge
- Mining, mapping, organization of knowledge
- Evolving governance protocols
- In the public view
- Using OGM's infrastructure
- Exploring interconnected maps (eg, Brain + Kumu, etc.)
- Understanding kinds of knowledge
- Somatic, scientific, folk wisdom
- Social norms and processes
- Anti-knowledge, misinformation
- Applying the DIKW hierarchy
Services
- Identify categories of clients and how we connect to and serve them (both for- and non-profit)
- Define the nature of consulting services that OGM members can provide
- Establish simple speaker's bureau featuring OGM members
- Recruit speakers, set up their pages
- Explore equitable fee sharing arrangements
- Identify worthy projects ("OGMy" organizations)
- Evolve a listening function to determine what they need
- Define what we can offer them in terms of resources and relationships
Contagion
- Define an onboarding process for OGM newbies that helps them find the best, highest use of their energies
- Reach out to six "neighboring" organizations
- Develop selection criteria
- Evolve an outreach protocol for OGM
- Define what OGM offers
- Evolve how we integrate wisdom/code/data from the other organizations
- Give six public speeches about OGM and its work
- Publish and publicize OGM-guided open knowledge
- Run public experiments
- Bridge to two other open data sources, document and publicize the results
- Host two contests to explore new CX and UI use cases
- Host two debates using visualization tools
- Visibly model norms and behaviors