Projects
Project types
Section titled “Project types”| Type | Started by | Approval |
|---|---|---|
| Personal | Any member | None, just register it |
| Community | Any member | A lead and a short charter |
| Official OASA | Builder+ proposal or Core | Founder (later the Core council) |
| Contract | The company | Company and client |
Projects can graduate from personal to community to official.
Access levels
Section titled “Access levels”| Level | Who can work on it |
|---|---|
| Open to members | Any member can start |
| Apply or invite | Members the lead approves |
| Contract | Members hired through OASA Engineering |
Charter
Section titled “Charter”One page: name and goal, tech tree nodes, lead and team, access level, first milestone, help needed.
Help board
Section titled “Help board”Projects post what they need: skills, parts, money. Members jump in and get credited.
Visibility
Section titled “Visibility”Personal projects can keep their work private, but every project has a public listing (name, goal, who’s on it, tech tree link) so others can find it and offer help.
Lifecycle
Section titled “Lifecycle”Idea → Registered → Active → Milestone → Released → Maintained → Archived
Post an update when you hit a milestone or get blocked. Blockers can become new project opportunities on the tech tree.
Inactivity
Section titled “Inactivity”A project with no progress for 90 days is archived. Anyone can pick it up and fork it. For private projects, the creator chooses at registration whether the work opens on archive or stays private. The public listing always stays available.
Release standard
Section titled “Release standard”A project is released when it has a working build, docs someone else can follow, a bill of materials (for hardware), test results, a security review (for anything that communicates) and a training guide.
Resources a project can request
Section titled “Resources a project can request”Funding, makerspace time, partner parts, mentors and promotion.
Have an idea but no project yet? Post it on the idea board.