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Mission Statement
The Open Space Movement seeks to rally public interest in space colonization through a community-driven public space venture. We aim to develop and provide the educational resources to teach space science and engineering to a worldwide audience, while offering participation through a collaborative design environment, and democratic control of organizational and financial policy.
We will adhere to the spirit of the open-source software paradigm through open-book accounting of all income and expenditures, open access to private and commercial interests, and allowing direct involvement by the community in policy creation and decision making, insofar that proposed changes do not violate our fundamental tenets.
Our plan is to determine the optimal means of doing the greatest good for manned space development. We believe there are several potential means of reaching our stated outcome. Our organization, and associated web site, will serve to harness the sum of our community's combined talents, monetary resources, and initiative to develop a public space venture for the express purpose of enabling affordable space access, establishment of space-borne industry, and to drive the colonization of our home solar system.
We are limited only by public involvement. To flourish, space needs markets, markets need people, and the Open Space Movement aims to unify the public behind a single banner. We call upon the public to support our endeavor, for we seek to challenge the most relentless enemy: time. Time, which has allowed disinterest and boredom to bring Mankind's expansion in space to a standstill. Time, which we must quietly endure, if the realm of space is one day controlled by nationalistic or corporate interests. We fight the time that stands between our earthbound present, and our innate desire to become the first free citizens of space. For all that we stand for, we seek to focus the combined might of the public behind one banner, one movement, one rallying cry:
Get There First!
How you can participate:
Develop a project
Anybody may submit an idea as a project. It may start simple, with just a document or a pencil-on-paper sketch. If the idea has merit, it may be advanced to the next development stage, and become eligible for funding. Other members may want to help provide improvements, fill out details, or offer constructive criticism. You are encouraged to comment upon other peoples' projects as well. If your project is genuinely useful, and meets the criteria for advancement, it may be moved on to testing, prototyping, and production phases.
Answer questions
The OSM environment aims to match questions and project-related issues to the people with the skills and experience most suited to solve them. This will encompass a wide variety of educational backgrounds and areas of expertise, so you don't have to be a rocket scientist in order to provide useful input.
Donate
The OSM is driven by the contributions of its members, both creatively and financially. Your donations will primarily fund project development, enabling project authors to receive incremental funding for autocad services, third-party testing, Commercial Off-The-Shelf purchases, safety certification, and eventual production.
Vote
As an organization, the OSM seeks to rally interest in space development by offering actual participation. You may vote on anything from changes to the organizational by-laws, granting project funding, or determining the course of action the OSM will undertake with it's available resources. We decide our course together.
Teach
Projects
Anybody may post an idea in the form of a project. These projects will be categorized by their type, role, intended destination, etc in order to fluidly group together similar projects that may be useful under a single mission. You are encouraged to review and comment upon other projects, or add your own improvements to existing ones. The OSM retains the right to use these projects for the express purpose of developing a public space venture
Policy
OSM members may take part in guiding OSM policy and financial decisions. Any issue may be brought up, voted on, and enacted - so long that it does not contradict the OSM's corporate charter, or affect our status as a non-profit entity. The majority of policy voting will deal with the granting of project funding, based upon our existing financial resources, and the relative worth of the projects in question. Other policy decisions may deal with the creation of full-time staff positions or departments within the OSM, and deciding their salary or budget.
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