This is my “drawing board” where I’m going to “Brain Dump”

To Do list:

• Develop a list of long- and short-term Action Items for Project Aurora
  • RECORD EVERYTHING, take pictures at meetings, video whenever feasible
  • Seek out help on ITAR regulations
  • Seek advice on intellectual property “waiver paragraph” for open-source work
  • Fundraise for Aurora Phase 1 ($200K)
  • Decide on criteria for phase 1 judges
  • recruit phase 1 judges
  • plan the aurora phase 1 culmination event.
  • find judges “present”/art
  • find peer reviewed trophy/prize/art
  • brainstorm for phase 2 activities
  • plan the phase 2 kick off activity
• Develop a list of long- and short-term Action Items for Mach 30
  • Follow up with J’s contacts from the ISPCS
  • RECORD EVERYTHING, take pictures at meetings, video whenever feasible
  • Produce a very generic and all inclusive presentation for communications purposes
  • Start compiling a list of “stakeholders” (ie Rolodex)
  • Incorporate
  • Find an umbrella 501c3 organization
  • Open a bank account
  • Develop more pics and graphics for marketing/advertizing materials
  • Discuss the proposed path to the long term vision
  • Organize for influx of volunteers (recruiting plan)
  • Develop a fundraising plan (raffle off a $25 “vomit comet” ride)

Strategically Developed Long Term Path:

• Aurora class RLV (4-6 years)-
  • phase 1 – concept design competition
    • small (crew)
    • orbital (km)
    • short duration (orbits)
    • reusable (x flt/y weeks)
  • phase 2 – refine designs
  • phase 3 – flight worthy prototype development
• Medium sized RLV (6-12 years)
  • 3 crew
  • orbital
  • reusable
  • functional (payload, science, docking, etc)
• Larrge sized RLV (6-20 years)
  • Crew+passengers
  • orbital
  • reusable
  • +capacity (payload, docking, transportation, etc)

Other parallel plans:

• Competitions for larger concept designs
• System Engineering design studies
• Prototype manufacturing and Developement
• Developmental and Operational Testing.
• Facility construction/development
• Ground station for orbital operations
• Continue to form organizational relationships/Networking

Phase 1 culmination event:  Award Conference, Banquet, Ceremony

• Held within 2 months of submission deadline
• Day zero
  • Evening Social
• (0 or 1) Sponsors Welcome message
• (0 or 1) Judges Announce the 5-6 finalists
• (0 or 1) Present Space contest video

• Day 1
  • Review the Process of the weekend
  •   <break> go right into finalist presentations
  • Finalist show and tell (20 min) <break and set up time>
  • Finalist show and tell (20 min) <break and set up time>
  • Finalist show and tell (20 min) <break and set up time>
  • Finalist show and tell (20 min) <break and set up time>
  • Finalist show and tell (20 min) <break and set up time>
  • Finalist show and tell (20 min) <break and set up time>
  • Keynote speaker (option 2)
  • Wrap up of day 1
  • Video, promo video, demo
  • Dismiss for dinner
• Day 2 – facilitated discussion, for peer review
• Plenary session – review today’s events
• Break out sessions (need a facilitator, team members are the “panel”, Q&A to dive into system concept, explain analysis and design trade offs, limited to 30 minutes?
  • Session 1 <reset break>
  • Session 2 <reset break>
  • Session 3 <reset break>
  • Session 4 <reset break>
  • Session 5 <reset break>
  • Session 6 <reset break>
• Keynote speaker (option 1)
• Tally Votes
• “Year in review” video
• Formal Award ceremony
  • cash prizes awarded, peer reviewed prize awarded
  • -or-
• Award dinner/banquet (with keynote speaker as option 3)
  • cash prizes awarded, peer reviewed prize awarded
• Dismiss until… [phase 2? next year?] dont leave it open ended?