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Talk:Open Source Washing Machine Project

2021-03-04T17:42:05Z

Capiscuas:

== Bamboo vs. "normal" washing machine ==
The idea of making washing machines (wm) with components like bamboo (like [https://web.archive.org/web/20131015032257/http://openmaterials.org:80/2010/03/17/the-open-source-washing-machine-project/ this]) might be interesting but we have to consider the following:
* Not everywhere in the world you can find bamboo so you might need to make a different design for every part of the world.
* The ''bamboo wm'' is aimed to provide a wm to the poor people while the ''open source (os) wm'' is aimed to reduce poverty. Lifting people out of poverty will allow them to buy an ''os wm''
* There are many poor people who have access to water and electricity but simply can't afford to buy a washing machine. They can't pay 400$ for a washing machine but they can afford to buy an 200-300$ ''os wm''
* There are many others who can afford to buy a 400$ washing machine but can't afford to buy another one next year just because the door broke. With an ''os wm'' they can buy the door for 10, 20 or 30$.
* Once the market for ''os wm'' is created, the poor people around the world can easily start small businesses in order to create parts for ''os wm'' (doors, panels, covers, buttons, etc.)
* Once the people have jobs and make money, they can buy an ''os wm''.

My thoughts for creating an ''os wm'':
* It should look, interact and function very much like the regular washing machines that are already on the market. Should not require more training to use than the regular ones.
* The key factor for making the project successful is ''availability''. When people can buy the ''os wm'' and the parts for it in their own town, then the project will be successful.
* Therefore, when you start making it, make sure it will be available for the clients in the city where you sell it. Make sure they can buy parts at any time.
* Then extend your availability network to other cities, throughout the country and then to the entire planet. Sounds (very) big but otherwise won't work. The average John Doe won't download a .CAD file to start making an ''os wm'' from scratch. He might download the .CAD to create one component of the ''os wm'', but that only after the project is popular enough.
* It will take time to extend the network to the entire planet, but the most important thing is: at the places where you already started to supply, make sure you keep supplying the ''os wm'' and the parts for it. Only then you can extend the network.
* Therefore, in order to make the ''os wm'' project successful, there is a need to create a big company like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolux Electrolux]. But it can start from a small company, and grow, of course.
* The big company can also be a conglomerate of smaller companies. Either you split the big company into smaller ones, or while your company grows, you find partners to produce parts for you and they will grow at the same pace with you. You can convince others to start the same business like you, so you won't have to create a big company like Electrolux. But you can only convince them after you already reached a critical mass.
* To reach the critical mass, you must make available the ''os wm'' to at least a big enough region or number of clients. So you have to grow the business to a certain point. After that, you can convince others to replicate your business, and you can even quit. Just make sure the others don't abandon the business, leaving the clients without the option to buy an ''os wm''. Therefore, it's not a good idea to quit from the business until the ''os wm'' is popular around the world.

These are my thoughts for the Open Source Washing Machine, I will come back later when I'll have something interesting to add. -- [[User:Gonzo|Gonzo]] 04:49, 7 November 2011 (CET)

==Pedal Powered Washer==
I think that it would be better to take an "degrowth" approach to the western invention of the automated washing machine and go find a opensource DIY with 3d printed or recycled pieces. Pedal Powered Washers(different than bycicle-powered ones) has great designs and can fit in any toilet of any house and does not require any electricity, which is great for developping countries or self-suficient houses that doesn't want to use big part of their batteries to wash clothes.

https://jandnroofing.com/pedal-powered-washer-needs-no-electricity-and-costs-only-40/

Also bycicle models can also be easier to maintain and recycle parts from old bycicles and if modular-enough, they can be installed also in any room with the bycicle part separated from the water barrel, etc.

https://greendiary.com/pedal-powered-washing-machine-designs.html

--[[User:Capiscuas|Capiscuas]] ([[User talk:Capiscuas|talk]]) 17:39, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Talk:Open Source Washing Machine Project

2021-03-04T17:39:35Z

Capiscuas:

== Bamboo vs. "normal" washing machine ==
The idea of making washing machines (wm) with components like bamboo (like [https://web.archive.org/web/20131015032257/http://openmaterials.org:80/2010/03/17/the-open-source-washing-machine-project/ this]) might be interesting but we have to consider the following:
* Not everywhere in the world you can find bamboo so you might need to make a different design for every part of the world.
* The ''bamboo wm'' is aimed to provide a wm to the poor people while the ''open source (os) wm'' is aimed to reduce poverty. Lifting people out of poverty will allow them to buy an ''os wm''
* There are many poor people who have access to water and electricity but simply can't afford to buy a washing machine. They can't pay 400$ for a washing machine but they can afford to buy an 200-300$ ''os wm''
* There are many others who can afford to buy a 400$ washing machine but can't afford to buy another one next year just because the door broke. With an ''os wm'' they can buy the door for 10, 20 or 30$.
* Once the market for ''os wm'' is created, the poor people around the world can easily start small businesses in order to create parts for ''os wm'' (doors, panels, covers, buttons, etc.)
* Once the people have jobs and make money, they can buy an ''os wm''.

My thoughts for creating an ''os wm'':
* It should look, interact and function very much like the regular washing machines that are already on the market. Should not require more training to use than the regular ones.
* The key factor for making the project successful is ''availability''. When people can buy the ''os wm'' and the parts for it in their own town, then the project will be successful.
* Therefore, when you start making it, make sure it will be available for the clients in the city where you sell it. Make sure they can buy parts at any time.
* Then extend your availability network to other cities, throughout the country and then to the entire planet. Sounds (very) big but otherwise won't work. The average John Doe won't download a .CAD file to start making an ''os wm'' from scratch. He might download the .CAD to create one component of the ''os wm'', but that only after the project is popular enough.
* It will take time to extend the network to the entire planet, but the most important thing is: at the places where you already started to supply, make sure you keep supplying the ''os wm'' and the parts for it. Only then you can extend the network.
* Therefore, in order to make the ''os wm'' project successful, there is a need to create a big company like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolux Electrolux]. But it can start from a small company, and grow, of course.
* The big company can also be a conglomerate of smaller companies. Either you split the big company into smaller ones, or while your company grows, you find partners to produce parts for you and they will grow at the same pace with you. You can convince others to start the same business like you, so you won't have to create a big company like Electrolux. But you can only convince them after you already reached a critical mass.
* To reach the critical mass, you must make available the ''os wm'' to at least a big enough region or number of clients. So you have to grow the business to a certain point. After that, you can convince others to replicate your business, and you can even quit. Just make sure the others don't abandon the business, leaving the clients without the option to buy an ''os wm''. Therefore, it's not a good idea to quit from the business until the ''os wm'' is popular around the world.

These are my thoughts for the Open Source Washing Machine, I will come back later when I'll have something interesting to add. -- [[User:Gonzo|Gonzo]] 04:49, 7 November 2011 (CET)

==Pedal Powered Washer==
I think that it would be better to take an "degrowth" approach to the western invention of the automated washing machine and go find a opensource DIY with 3d printed or recycled pieces. Pedal Powered Washers(different than bycicle-powered ones) has great designs and can fit in any toilet of any house and does not require any electricity, which is great for developping countries or self-suficient houses that doesn't want to use big part of their batteries to wash clothes.

https://jandnroofing.com/pedal-powered-washer-needs-no-electricity-and-costs-only-40/

Also bycicle models can also be easier to maintain and recycle parts from old bycicles and if modular-enough, they can be installed also in any room with the bycicle part separated from the water barrel, etc.
--[[User:Capiscuas|Capiscuas]] ([[User talk:Capiscuas|talk]]) 17:39, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Talk:Open Source Washing Machine Project

2021-03-04T17:00:11Z

Capiscuas:

Open Source Washing Machine Project

2021-03-04T16:52:49Z

Capiscuas: /* About the OSWash project */

{{Category=Home fittings}}
Washing machines are arguably the most liberating machine that poor people can attain. Five billion people do not have access to washing machines (see [http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_machine.html Hans Rosling's TED talk]); that means that women (and it is nearly always women) are spending tens of billions of hours doing boring, hard labour. By making a cheap, open-source washing machine, we can create billions of hours of free time for these women to do the things they really want to.

== About the OSWash project ==
OSWASH website: http://www.oswash.org/ . This was a project aiming to build a cheap open-source washing machine, but nothing seems to have come of it. There are no designs on the website, and no updates for the past year. The biketech projects below are more active.

Project Presentation (from Internet Archive):
*ODF:https://web.archive.org/web/20190411183039/http://www.craslab.org/persojn/bricolabs/OSwash.odp
*PDF:https://web.archive.org/web/20161024092442/http://www.craslab.org/persojn/bricolabs/OSwash.pdf

The open source washing machine project aims to rethink the way we wash clothes around the world, in accordance with economical, sociological, cultural and environmental aspects. Around the planet, most people - mostly women - wash clothes by hand in harsh conditions because of poverty, lack of sanitation, water or energy.

The project was born in spring 2008 during an Open Source Hardware workshop for artists in Craslab Paris. The Freeduino board is a piece of low-cost Open Source Hardware created to replace the systems that manage sensors, actuators or data acquisition in many devices. This electronic board is used by artists, designers, architects...

”A 12 $ freeduino could replace the programmer in any washing machine, because it can manage the keyboard of the washing machine. It can manage the heat and pressure sensors of the machine, and it can manage all the hardware like the heater, pumps or valves, and you could program your washing cycles yourself."

The idea of a DIY electronic washing machine using recycling parts and an open source microcontroller was born. “Let’s do it!”. But immediately, we knew that this was a Western-style project for rich countries only. Here in rich countries, we are able to use industrialised washing machines because we have electricity, running water, sanitation and detergents. But for more than 2 billion people, there is little or no water, no running water, no energy and no opportunity to buy and maintain a Western-style washing machine - even one made with recycled parts.

We had to find something different.

We had to rethink the economical, sociological and technical concepts of washing clothes from a mindset of sustainable development and respect of the natural and human environment.

We had to rethink the role of technology in day-to-day life, particularly as applied to the laborious activity of washing clothes.

How can we use open source technologies to solve both global and local issues? How can the exchange of knowledge, through open resources and open source communities, create the organisational model for such projects? How can the model of self-organisation and technological autarchy save us in the coming years, when the effects of the petrol/climate crisis will deeply affect all civilisation?

=== Communications ===

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kurt Van Houtte <kurt@hexmatic.com>
Date: Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:19 AM
Subject: [dorkbotgent-announce] OSWASH: bring your dirty underwear!
To: dorkbotgent-announce <dorkbotgent-announce@dorkbot.org>

---please spread

OSWASH | Open Source Washing Machine Project

A four day workshop this july (14-15-16-17) at the Summercamp
Electrified in Ghent (Belgium) where we'll be rethinking, designing
and developing open source washing machines.
Using recycled parts and sustainable energy we'll be building working
washing machine prototypes.

Bring your dirty underwear and join this workshop by sending a mail to
summercamp@timelab.org!

cost: €5/day for the workshop. €20/day extra for lunch & diner (optional)

clickedieclick > http://www.timelab.org/summercamp09/workshops/oswash/

"The open source washing machine project aims to rethink the way we
wash clothes around the world...

The idea of a DIY electronic washing machine using recycling parts and
Open source microcontroller was born in spring 2008 during an Open
Source Hardware workshop for artists in Craslab Paris.

Workshop by Jean-Noël Montagné. French artist and activist born in
1963. Creates interactive installations with sensing technologies
since 1991. Last installation: “Je te parlerai dans un reflet de
lumière”, 2006/2007, an interactive installation on the subject of the
walls for separating rich and poor. Founder of the non-profit NGO “Art
Sensitif ” related to relations between art and science for
interactive art. Founder and director of CRAS ressource center for
interactive technologies in Paris-Saint Ouen."

mailto:summercamp@timelab.org

Spread the word!
/thx

==Factor e Farm Happenings==

We are considering making an industrial-scale washing machine by attaching the hydraulics of [[LifeTrac]] to the [[Universal Rotor]] to spin a vat full of clothes. This is one implementation using available power sources.

==Open-source washing machine using [[Bicycle technology|biketech]]==
[http://www.mayapedal.org/machines.html Maya Pedal] are developing an open-source pedal-powered washing machine. It is in the prototype phase and there are no plans online yet (March 2011).

And another one: [http://www.cyclean.biz/mainmenu.html The Cyclean]. As of March 23rd 2011, it says, "Update: We are currently working on getting some plans up on here so you will be able to make your own".

====And a third: ====
[[Image:Projects-washer.jpg|thumb|right]]

http://orgs.utulsa.edu/senea/projects/

'''Email reply from Andrew Lowe (''andrew-lowe AT utulsa.edu'' ):'''

My name is Andrew Lowe and myself and another TU student are in charge of the Pedal Powered Washing Machine product. We've nearly completed the first prototype, but unfortunate we didn't make any detailed plans. I can, however, give you some of the details of what we built and how we built it:

-We designed our machine primarily from videos we found on youtube of other machines that have already been built.

-The tub is made of two rain barrels. For the outside, we used a 55 gallon barrel. The only modification you have to make to this one is cut a hole in the top large enough to get your second barrel in. For the inside, we used a 30 gallon barrel and drilled small holes all around it to let the water in and also keep the clothes in. On this barrel we cut out a door and attached it with hinges and a latch. These barrels ended up being much too large and took too much water. When we rebuild it we're going to use smaller barrels.

-The outside barrel is mounted on a frame, keeping it from moving. The inside barrel has a shaft coming out of each side of the large barrel. This connects it to the drive shaft from the bike.

-For the drive shaft we just mounted bike pedals on a separate frame and connected that to a bike gear that turned the inside barrel directly.

-At the bottom of the larger barrel we put a valve to drain the water after washing

-We plan on adding a gear shifter to make it easier to get up to higher speeds for spin-drying the clothes.

Like I said, the first model has a few problems and we're going to try to rebuild it on a smaller scale. Next time we'll make more detailed plans.

Talk:Charge Controller

2018-04-22T23:33:14Z

Capiscuas:

Why does a charge regulator need a microcontroler? Battery charging can easily be done with analog. I can imagine it being a data logger for battery life analysis but what would it do for the charge regulator? Also, I like all oscillating electrical stuff to turn off when I sleep...

--[[User:Capiscuas|Capiscuas]] ([[User talk:Capiscuas|talk]]) 01:33, 23 April 2018 (CEST) Take a look at this project: https://github.com/Teslafly/OpenBMS , although there is 1 year without development in their github.

File talk:Oh.jpg

2013-11-29T14:59:23Z

Capiscuas: Created page with "I'd like to translate it to Spanish, could you 'free' the source of the image or lead me to it? Thanks! --~~~~"

I'd like to translate it to Spanish, could you 'free' the source of the image or lead me to it? Thanks!
--[[User:Capiscuas|Capiscuas]] ([[User talk:Capiscuas|talk]]) 15:59, 29 November 2013 (CET)

Netherlands

2012-04-12T11:24:45Z

Capiscuas: /* People */

{{OrigLang}}

Documenting the expansion of OSE in the Netherlands.

==People==
If you are interested in expanding OSE in the Netherlands, please add your name (possibly linked to your [[Team Culturing]] profile) and contacts:

*
* First name, Last name, youremail (at) mail (dot) net

[[Category: OSE Europe]] [[Category: Netherlands]]

Talk:XM Notes

2012-04-06T03:01:29Z

Capiscuas: Created page with "If you have time, please take a look to the scrum-like similar process for service-product support. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban --~~~~"

If you have time, please take a look to the scrum-like similar process for service-product support.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban

--[[User:Capiscuas|Capiscuas]] 05:01, 6 April 2012 (CEST)

Point To Peer

2012-03-29T16:01:25Z

Capiscuas: /* More info / Links */

{{Template:Category=Wireless mesh networking}}

=The Theory=

We propose that the development of a peer-to-peer internet and communications infrastructure, delivered essentially '''at cost''', is feasible today. It is merely a question of organization to get it implemented. Regulatory and structural barriers are likely to crumble via wide, popular support.

=Existing Problems=

Today, the internet and communication backbones are controlled by centralized interests. This does not favor a long-lasting democratic environment for human communication.

=Proposed Way to Apply the Theory=

We aim to test our theory (feasibility of P2P, physical communication infratructure) by building the infrastructure for peer, decentralized internet.

The core of a peer-based internet system proposal is the building of a physical infrastructure, where internet service is delivered at-cost. Such an infrastructure may be implemented most easily via a network of wireless towers. User nodes store content in a distributed fashion.

Key technical issues are:

#Development of communication and storage protocol based on peer-to-peer strategies
##Storage on peer computer nodes
#Building of wireless emitter/receiver nodes
#Building towers
#Powering wireless nodes

Key social issues:

#Organize a large support base of future user owners simply by concerted effort and by sustaining focus
#Attempts to stop this by the centralized power system can succeed only if people support the centralized power system, with its higher costs for internet and communications systems. This is unlikely to happen by simple dollar and cents arguments.
#Breakthrough application of [[User Owner]] concept.

=Related existing work that verifies feasibility=

*Paul is working on a protocol for decentralized communication.
*Marcin is working on solar energy production, circuit fabrication, aluminum production.
*Sam can align a wide support base for getting the proposal funded directly by stakeholders.
*Natural law: all empires crumble after some time

==Development Team==

*Marcin Jakubowski
*Sam Rose
*Paul B. Hartzog
*Keith Smith

==Infrastructure==

*[[PeerNet]]

=Related existing data or facts that support theory=

* The [[User Owner]] concept
* Various un-money, free internet, free communications, and related efforts
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXyVqk3EbwE
==Examples - please fill in here==

*[http://freenetproject.org/whatis.html Freenet]
*[http://guifi.net/en Guifi.net] (Spain, +15.000 free nodes interconnected)
*http://melbourne.wireless.org.au/ - a free community broadband network, using inexpensive off-the-shelf wireless network hardware.
**I believe they have been working on storage and communications protocols for some years. [[User:Mark Elliott|Mark Elliott]] 16:15, 30 March 2008 (PDT)
*[http://wirelessafrica.meraka.org.za/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Africa_Home_Page Wireless Africa]
*[http://seattlewireless.net/ SeattleWireless.net]

=Existing constraints and barriers to deployment=

*Costly off-grid energy systems
*Regulatory issues in communication infrastructures
*Land base for setting up towers
*Peer to peer communication protocol
*Peer to peer data storage
*Cost of erecting towers
*Opposition from centralized interests

=Facts and data that support arguments against=

Centralized control of information efforts include lawsuits of the Motion Pictures Association, Recording Artists Association

=Relevance to OSE core values=

Decentralized and effective provision of needs is essential to OSE's philosophy.

----

=Implementation=

#Development of communication and storage protocol is a tractable problem
#Capitalization may be obtained readily by involving a large number of internet users, paying perhaps $25/year or whatever the at-cost price may be
##1 node every 10 miles, or every 100 sq miles (ex: 30,000 nodes for 3M sq miles of the USA
##Assume 10M initial subscribers- $2.5 billion in startup revenue available
##Each node has $100k allotment available

=Strategy=

Cost reduction for a project of this magnitude is feasible. $100k/node provides for feasibility using off-shelf technology. However, we want to go for open source components to assure maximum value. I propose we use $1-10M to develop open source, at-cost production facilities for hardware:
*wireless nodes - via CNC routers
*mobile, onsite aluminum production for towers from on-site clay - '''feasibility has not been evaluated'''
*open source protocol and code
*open source solar concentrator or OS PV production (ribbon PV is an immediate candidate)
*storage battery production - sealed lead acid
*power electronics - inverter and power conditioning for tower

[[Category:Zero_Hour]]

=Project Status=

*Zero Hour began at 5 PM, Wednesday, February 26, 2008
*Initial business plan to be drafted by March 26, 2008
**Due diligence required: dedicated email list, publicity via networks
**Dedicated webspace; opensourceecology.org volunteered at present
*Refined business plan to be drafted by April 26, 2008
**Due diligence required:
***Economic feasibility of mobile aluminum smelting unit
***Economic analysis of node hardware fabrication
***Economic analysis of solar energy production
***Economic analysis of energy storage production
*Final business plan to be drafted by May 26, 2008
*Technical development period: June - December 1, 2008
*Fundraising, PR, begun December 1
*Deployment begun January 1, 2009

=Feedback=

We welcome your feedback on any points of this project. -The Neomanagement

=More info / Links =
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networking
* [http://ecbiz103.inmotionhosting.com/~jrbald5/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/MeshKit_jrbaldwin.pdf MeshKit - Building & Sustaining Community Mesh Networks]
* [http://wirelessafrica.meraka.org.za/wiki/index.php/DIY_Mesh_Guide Wireless Mesh DIY guide]
* [http://wndw.net/ Wireless Networking in the Developing World Book]
* [http://wirelessu.org/units/list Documents - Presentations WirelessU.org]

Point To Peer

2012-03-29T13:45:01Z

Capiscuas: /* More info / Links */

FeF Workshop Design

2012-03-27T22:05:03Z

Capiscuas:

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</div>

Live Webcam:

<iframe width="480" height="296" src="http://www.ustream.tv/embed/952543" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border: 0px none transparent;"> </iframe>
<br /><a href="http://www.ustream.tv/" style="padding: 2px 0px 4px; width: 400px; background: #ffffff; display: block; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline; text-align: center;" target="_blank">Live broadcast by Ustream</a>

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https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/18h13wYsQJdDfFs_wyju7ZW-hWzFewOWQPaIjKSWW9vw/edit

INAMOVABLE TOOLS

-Power cube

-Floor drill press

-Small drill press

-Torch table

-Two welding tables

-Ironworker

-Shop press

-Lathe

-2 mills

-Surface grinder

-Small lathe

-Power cube

MOVABLE TOOLS

-2 MIG welders

-TIG/SMAW welder

-small SMAW welder

-2 rolling tool boxes

-2 torch sets

Point To Peer

2012-03-27T18:28:04Z

Capiscuas: /* More info / Links */

{{Template:Category=Wireless mesh networking}}

=The Theory=

We propose that the development of a peer-to-peer internet and communications infrastructure, delivered essentially '''at cost''', is feasible today. It is merely a question of organization to get it implemented. Regulatory and structural barriers are likely to crumble via wide, popular support.

=Existing Problems=

Today, the internet and communication backbones are controlled by centralized interests. This does not favor a long-lasting democratic environment for human communication.

=Proposed Way to Apply the Theory=

We aim to test our theory (feasibility of P2P, physical communication infratructure) by building the infrastructure for peer, decentralized internet.

The core of a peer-based internet system proposal is the building of a physical infrastructure, where internet service is delivered at-cost. Such an infrastructure may be implemented most easily via a network of wireless towers. User nodes store content in a distributed fashion.

Key technical issues are:

#Development of communication and storage protocol based on peer-to-peer strategies
##Storage on peer computer nodes
#Building of wireless emitter/receiver nodes
#Building towers
#Powering wireless nodes

Key social issues:

#Organize a large support base of future user owners simply by concerted effort and by sustaining focus
#Attempts to stop this by the centralized power system can succeed only if people support the centralized power system, with its higher costs for internet and communications systems. This is unlikely to happen by simple dollar and cents arguments.
#Breakthrough application of [[User Owner]] concept.

=Related existing work that verifies feasibility=

*Paul is working on a protocol for decentralized communication.
*Marcin is working on solar energy production, circuit fabrication, aluminum production.
*Sam can align a wide support base for getting the proposal funded directly by stakeholders.
*Natural law: all empires crumble after some time

==Development Team==

*Marcin Jakubowski
*Sam Rose
*Paul B. Hartzog
*Keith Smith

==Infrastructure==

*[[PeerNet]]

=Related existing data or facts that support theory=

* The [[User Owner]] concept
* Various un-money, free internet, free communications, and related efforts
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXyVqk3EbwE
==Examples - please fill in here==

*[http://freenetproject.org/whatis.html Freenet]
*[http://guifi.net/en Guifi.net] (Spain, +15.000 free nodes interconnected)
*http://melbourne.wireless.org.au/ - a free community broadband network, using inexpensive off-the-shelf wireless network hardware.
**I believe they have been working on storage and communications protocols for some years. [[User:Mark Elliott|Mark Elliott]] 16:15, 30 March 2008 (PDT)
*[http://wirelessafrica.meraka.org.za/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Africa_Home_Page Wireless Africa]
*[http://seattlewireless.net/ SeattleWireless.net]

=Existing constraints and barriers to deployment=

*Costly off-grid energy systems
*Regulatory issues in communication infrastructures
*Land base for setting up towers
*Peer to peer communication protocol
*Peer to peer data storage
*Cost of erecting towers
*Opposition from centralized interests

=Facts and data that support arguments against=

Centralized control of information efforts include lawsuits of the Motion Pictures Association, Recording Artists Association

=Relevance to OSE core values=

Decentralized and effective provision of needs is essential to OSE's philosophy.

----

=Implementation=

#Development of communication and storage protocol is a tractable problem
#Capitalization may be obtained readily by involving a large number of internet users, paying perhaps $25/year or whatever the at-cost price may be
##1 node every 10 miles, or every 100 sq miles (ex: 30,000 nodes for 3M sq miles of the USA
##Assume 10M initial subscribers- $2.5 billion in startup revenue available
##Each node has $100k allotment available

=Strategy=

Cost reduction for a project of this magnitude is feasible. $100k/node provides for feasibility using off-shelf technology. However, we want to go for open source components to assure maximum value. I propose we use $1-10M to develop open source, at-cost production facilities for hardware:
*wireless nodes - via CNC routers
*mobile, onsite aluminum production for towers from on-site clay - '''feasibility has not been evaluated'''
*open source protocol and code
*open source solar concentrator or OS PV production (ribbon PV is an immediate candidate)
*storage battery production - sealed lead acid
*power electronics - inverter and power conditioning for tower

[[Category:Zero_Hour]]

=Project Status=

*Zero Hour began at 5 PM, Wednesday, February 26, 2008
*Initial business plan to be drafted by March 26, 2008
**Due diligence required: dedicated email list, publicity via networks
**Dedicated webspace; opensourceecology.org volunteered at present
*Refined business plan to be drafted by April 26, 2008
**Due diligence required:
***Economic feasibility of mobile aluminum smelting unit
***Economic analysis of node hardware fabrication
***Economic analysis of solar energy production
***Economic analysis of energy storage production
*Final business plan to be drafted by May 26, 2008
*Technical development period: June - December 1, 2008
*Fundraising, PR, begun December 1
*Deployment begun January 1, 2009

=Feedback=

We welcome your feedback on any points of this project. -The Neomanagement

=More info / Links =
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networking
* [http://ecbiz103.inmotionhosting.com/~jrbald5/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/MeshKit_jrbaldwin.pdf MeshKit - Building & Sustaining Community Mesh Networks]
* [http://wirelessafrica.meraka.org.za/wiki/index.php/DIY_Mesh_Guide Wireless Mesh DIY guide]
* [http://wndw.net/pdf/wndw2-en/wndw2-ebook.pdf Wireless Networking in the Developing World - Second Edition]

Point To Peer

2012-03-27T18:27:02Z

Capiscuas: /* More info / Links */

{{Template:Category=Wireless mesh networking}}

=The Theory=

We propose that the development of a peer-to-peer internet and communications infrastructure, delivered essentially '''at cost''', is feasible today. It is merely a question of organization to get it implemented. Regulatory and structural barriers are likely to crumble via wide, popular support.

=Existing Problems=

Today, the internet and communication backbones are controlled by centralized interests. This does not favor a long-lasting democratic environment for human communication.

=Proposed Way to Apply the Theory=

We aim to test our theory (feasibility of P2P, physical communication infratructure) by building the infrastructure for peer, decentralized internet.

The core of a peer-based internet system proposal is the building of a physical infrastructure, where internet service is delivered at-cost. Such an infrastructure may be implemented most easily via a network of wireless towers. User nodes store content in a distributed fashion.

Key technical issues are:

#Development of communication and storage protocol based on peer-to-peer strategies
##Storage on peer computer nodes
#Building of wireless emitter/receiver nodes
#Building towers
#Powering wireless nodes

Key social issues:

#Organize a large support base of future user owners simply by concerted effort and by sustaining focus
#Attempts to stop this by the centralized power system can succeed only if people support the centralized power system, with its higher costs for internet and communications systems. This is unlikely to happen by simple dollar and cents arguments.
#Breakthrough application of [[User Owner]] concept.

=Related existing work that verifies feasibility=

*Paul is working on a protocol for decentralized communication.
*Marcin is working on solar energy production, circuit fabrication, aluminum production.
*Sam can align a wide support base for getting the proposal funded directly by stakeholders.
*Natural law: all empires crumble after some time

==Development Team==

*Marcin Jakubowski
*Sam Rose
*Paul B. Hartzog
*Keith Smith

==Infrastructure==

*[[PeerNet]]

=Related existing data or facts that support theory=

* The [[User Owner]] concept
* Various un-money, free internet, free communications, and related efforts
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXyVqk3EbwE
==Examples - please fill in here==

*[http://freenetproject.org/whatis.html Freenet]
*[http://guifi.net/en Guifi.net] (Spain, +15.000 free nodes interconnected)
*http://melbourne.wireless.org.au/ - a free community broadband network, using inexpensive off-the-shelf wireless network hardware.
**I believe they have been working on storage and communications protocols for some years. [[User:Mark Elliott|Mark Elliott]] 16:15, 30 March 2008 (PDT)
*[http://wirelessafrica.meraka.org.za/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Africa_Home_Page Wireless Africa]
*[http://seattlewireless.net/ SeattleWireless.net]

=Existing constraints and barriers to deployment=

*Costly off-grid energy systems
*Regulatory issues in communication infrastructures
*Land base for setting up towers
*Peer to peer communication protocol
*Peer to peer data storage
*Cost of erecting towers
*Opposition from centralized interests

=Facts and data that support arguments against=

Centralized control of information efforts include lawsuits of the Motion Pictures Association, Recording Artists Association

=Relevance to OSE core values=

Decentralized and effective provision of needs is essential to OSE's philosophy.

----

=Implementation=

#Development of communication and storage protocol is a tractable problem
#Capitalization may be obtained readily by involving a large number of internet users, paying perhaps $25/year or whatever the at-cost price may be
##1 node every 10 miles, or every 100 sq miles (ex: 30,000 nodes for 3M sq miles of the USA
##Assume 10M initial subscribers- $2.5 billion in startup revenue available
##Each node has $100k allotment available

=Strategy=

Cost reduction for a project of this magnitude is feasible. $100k/node provides for feasibility using off-shelf technology. However, we want to go for open source components to assure maximum value. I propose we use $1-10M to develop open source, at-cost production facilities for hardware:
*wireless nodes - via CNC routers
*mobile, onsite aluminum production for towers from on-site clay - '''feasibility has not been evaluated'''
*open source protocol and code
*open source solar concentrator or OS PV production (ribbon PV is an immediate candidate)
*storage battery production - sealed lead acid
*power electronics - inverter and power conditioning for tower

[[Category:Zero_Hour]]

=Project Status=

*Zero Hour began at 5 PM, Wednesday, February 26, 2008
*Initial business plan to be drafted by March 26, 2008
**Due diligence required: dedicated email list, publicity via networks
**Dedicated webspace; opensourceecology.org volunteered at present
*Refined business plan to be drafted by April 26, 2008
**Due diligence required:
***Economic feasibility of mobile aluminum smelting unit
***Economic analysis of node hardware fabrication
***Economic analysis of solar energy production
***Economic analysis of energy storage production
*Final business plan to be drafted by May 26, 2008
*Technical development period: June - December 1, 2008
*Fundraising, PR, begun December 1
*Deployment begun January 1, 2009

=Feedback=

We welcome your feedback on any points of this project. -The Neomanagement

=More info / Links =
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networking
* PDF http://ecbiz103.inmotionhosting.com/~jrbald5/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/MeshKit_jrbaldwin.pdf
* [http://wirelessafrica.meraka.org.za/wiki/index.php/DIY_Mesh_Guide Wireless Mesh DIY guide]
* [http://wndw.net/pdf/wndw2-en/wndw2-ebook.pdf Wireless Networking in the Developing World - Second Edition]

Wireless communications networks

2012-03-27T15:02:53Z

Capiscuas: /* Mesh networks */

A wireless communications network is any system which uses electromagnetic waves to communicate wirelessly over some distance. Common applications are cellular phones, CBs, Ham radios, wireless local area networks, point to point links, sensor networks, and personal area networks. Distances range from several feet to tens of miles.

Here we give an overview of different technologies, critical applications, and the OSE projects to address them.

=Tools, projects, and components=
===OSE===
*[[Point To Peer]]
*[[Communications tower]]
*[[Low-cost, off-the-shelf, 802.11 based broadband deployment for backhaul and last mile applications]]
===Other===

=OSI model=
This article will be roughly structured to follow the OSI model[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model], and it will cover the first 4 layers.
=Physical details=
This section deals with details applicable to all wireless systems, constrained by physics, economics, and ubiquitous use.
==Frequencies==
===Effect on antenna===
In order to get information from a circuit board into the air, it must pass through an antenna. Antennas only work at certain frequencies - the higher the frequency, the smaller the antenna can be. Microwave frequencies allow antennas to be small enough to mount onto an access point, small satellite dish, or on a tower. Frequencies lower than microwave frequencies can be used, but the antennas must be larger.

There is a trade off between antenna size and gain. The larger the antenna, the higher the gain, if frequency is held constant. If the antenna size is held constant, the higher the frequency, the higher the gain. If both frequency and gain are specified, the antenna size is then dictated. Antenna size and frequency really are proportional. Antennas can be either smaller than an inch, or miles, depending on the corresponding frequency.

===Effect on propagation===
Besides determining details of the size of the antenna, different frequencies propagate differently. In general, lower frequencies penetrate buildings, foliage, and other obstacles more easily. Very low frequencies, such as used by some ham radios, even bounce off the ionosphere, and can reach around the globe. High frequencies can be absorbed more easily by obstacles. Because higher frequencies can be more easily directed because they need smaller antennas, they are usually more directional too.

===Legal regulations===
Frequency use is extremely regulated. Because of this, only certain frequencies can be used for certain purposes. One important thing to remember is that even though low frequencies can penetrate well, there is less bandwidth available (there is only 500 MHz available from 0 - 500 MHz, however from 5 - 10 GHz there is 5 GHz available). For all intensive purposes, we are interested in the ISM and UNII bands - 900 MHz, 2.4 - 2.5 GHz, and 5 - 5.8 GHz. In the near future, 60 GHz and 700 MHz may be available to the public (technically they are available, but the hardware isn't readily available, cheap, or ubiquitous).

Those with an amateur radio license enjoy the use of frequencies not available to the public, and are also allowed to operate their own hardware without it being certified by the FCC beforehand. Amateur radio licenses are relatively easy to get compared to the amount of freedom they give.

===Range===
Generally, in a line of sight situation, higher frequencies can create longer links, due to increased gains in the antennas. For a ubiquitous signal that reaches everywhere, a low frequency signal will have farther range because it goes through buildings and foliage more easily.

==Antennas==
There are various types of antennas for various applications. At microwave frequencies, there are two main types: directional and omni directional. Directional is either used in point-to-point links, or in point-to-multipoint links (on the client side). Omni directional antennas are used in general devices such as laptops and cell phones, and specifically for access points trying to cover a broad area, for example in a living room or on a tower serving a valley.

Common directional antennas are yagis, parabolic grids, and parabolic dishes. Common omni directional antennas are dipoles and sectorized antennas.

Generally linear polarization is used except in satellite systems.

==High-level transceiver architecture==
A transceiver is a transmitter + a receiver.

A transmitter takes a modulated baseband signal and mixes it with an RF carrier (continuous sine wave or CW), using a mixer. The baseband can either be an analog signal or a digital signal. In the case of a digital signal, generally bits encoded with forward error correction are transformed into the frequency domain via an FFT operation carried out in dedicated ASIC hardware (or in the case of a soft radio, just dsp). Then DACs convert to a signal which is mixed.

Receivers work the same way but in reverse. First the tiny received signal is run through a filter to get rid of adjacent channel noise. The received signal is down-converted with a local RF carrier (the frequency of this carrier is the "tuning"). Then ADCs get the digital bits, and it is decoded.

Generally, the same baseband signal can be unconverted or down converted to any frequency.

==Link budget==
To determine how far two radios can communicate with each other, whats done is called a link budget calculation. This calculation takes all losses and gains, in dB, and subtracts and adds them to get the net result. There are plenty of link budget calculators that can be used, including the Ligowave calculator which downloads terrain data to find obstacles.

==Hardware cost==
RF hardware is expensive. It must be geometrically very accurate, and the materials used must be pristine. Luckily, highly refined silicon manufacturing techniques has dramatically reduced the cost, and made wireless a reality in the home. This applies only to commoditized wireless hardware, such as 802.11, Bluetooth, and cell phones, that implement mass produced RFICs. Specialized RF hardware, such as highly sensitive, high-power, or using uncommon licensed frequencies is still very expensive. Lower frequency hardware is generally cheaper though, such as ham radios or CBs.

Today, in quantity, 802.11 modules are less than $10, and Bluetooth modules are less than $5. Of course, when integrated into a product, the cost will be higher - additional circuitry, driver software, regulatory and industry certification, and marketing will all add to the cost.

=Wireless communications technologies=
==Modulations==
There are quite a few different modulations, as described by Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulation]. For digital communications, the two most important are spread spectrum and ofdm. Spread spectrum multiplies the original signal by a pseudo random code resembling noise. The code is much larger than the information it is carrying. On the receiving side, the same code is used and correlated to the received signal. The correlation function has an associated "gain" that takes a signal that seems to be in the noise brings it up to a higher signal to noise ratio. 802.11b uses spread spectrum (dsss). One benefit is that if the code used to receive is different than the code used to transmit, the signal will look more like noise. So if there are multiple transmitters and receivers on the same channel, it may be possible to communicate regardless.

One problem with spread spectrum is it is more susceptible to fading and multipath.

OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) is a more recent technology than spread spectrum. It uses many narrow subcarriers/channels within the operating channel to transmit many parallel data streams. The benefit of this is high spectral efficiency and robustness against fading and other problems with the channel. The reason it is more robust is because it is composed of many slow streams instead of one very fast stream. Also, if a piece of the channel has interference, ''some'' data will still get through. One challenge of ofdm is it requires amplifiers which are linear over a larger range, because of the high peak to average ratio of the signal. It is also more dsp intensive, though nowadays that usually isn't an issue.

Most new wireless technologies use ofdm - 802.11n, LTE, and WiMax. It is generally viewed as the best.

==Media access==
Media access refers to how the communications medium is accessed - in this case the air (as opposed to copper or fiber). There are special circumstances for an air medium, such as hidden nodes.

There are a number of medium access technologies, and it is important to understand them.
===CSMA/CA===
'''Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance''' - This is what 802.11 uses, and is similar to how ethernet works. Essentially, the receiver listens to the channel. If the channel is in use, it waits. Once the channel is clear, it waits for a random time (within a specified min/max range) and if the channel is still clear, transmits. If another client transmits within the countdown period, it resets the timer to a new random value. This is efficient for small networks of heterogeneous devices because it uses available airtime and doesn't need a central scheduler or master.

As the number of clients grow however, the model starts to break down and there are too many collisions.
===TDMA===
'''Time Division Multiple Access''' - Divides time up into many different time slots, and then allocates time slots to clients as needed. Precise timing is required when a large network like a cellular network uses this method. GSM is a TDMA technology. It has tighter control over bandwidth allocation and avoids collisions with large numbers of clients.
===CDMA===
'''Code Division Multiple Access''' - Differentiates clients by each client using an orthogonal code. In other words, this is spread spectrum with each pseudo random code being orthogonal. When the correlation function is run, orthogonal codes have no interference or affect on the ability to receive the desired code, as long as all the received signal levels are relatively the same between clients. CDMA cell networks use this.
===OFDMA===
'''Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access''' - Divides the entire band into orthogonal subcarriers, which can be assigned to specific clients. In other words, the 'parallel subcarriers' mentioned above now cover not only a single channel, but the entire band. And not just one device uses them at a time, but different devices are assigned subcarriers. LTE and WiMax use this.

==MIMO==
MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) is a mathematical technology which codes signals in a more complex way inside of the dsp, and feeds the digital outputs to multiple baseband tx chains. These baseband signals are transmitted simultaneously and received on multiple rx chains on the other side. The digital hardware then takes these multiple received bits and combines them. Using this special coding, it is possible to multiply the bandwidth by the number of spacial paths taken by the signal. In a building, there may be many paths, and therefore the bandwidth can be multiplied by 2 or 3 times (alternatively, if the bandwidth is the same then the entire message takes less air time, and a denser network can be used. alternately, if the first two are held constant, a more reliable network can be used).

For point to point links, dual polarized, high-gain antennas are used to attempt to get two separate data streams in both available polarizations.

MIMO is strictly a digital technology because of the math involved on bits.

It should be noted that generally regulations specify that each separate tx chain has an output power such that the entire device does not exceed regulations as a whole - for example, a single transmitter may be able to transmit 100 mW, but a 2x2 mimo unit can transmit a maximum of 50 mW on each transmitter.

Another thing to note is that MIMO can still be beneficial when the other side (transmitter or receiver) is a legacy device or has a single antenna. The benefit is beamforming on the tx side, and maximal ratio combining on the rx side. Note not all radios implement all aspects of mimo.

==Protocols==
Wireless protocols can be complicated. Generally, the firmware on a chipset is an extremely highly guarded piece of code. The firmware in combination with the driver implement the wireless protocol. Much of the complexity comes from all the features that wireless protocols contain, including roaming, power save, qos, and edge cases to prevent poor performance. Another factor is that different manufacturers must test their wireless devices with devices of other manufacturers, to make sure they all actually implemented the standard in a compatible way.

In general, if one wanted to make a completely open source radio design, the hardware portion would probably be pretty easy, but the software portion would be difficult.

Bluetooth low energy might be an exception here - there are only 5 states in the state diagram.

===Mesh networks===
It must be noted here that the only thing separating normal wifi or other devices from forming mesh networks is the lack of a protocol (one that is widely implemented anyway). The hardware is cheap and available, it is the mesh protocol. Currently, an IEEE task force is working on a mesh networking standard - 802.11s.

There are other mesh network protocols in existence such as Zigbee.
More at about Mesh Networks at [[Point To Peer]]

=Network topologies and technologies=
=Point to point links=
=Point to multi-point links=
=Mesh networks=
=Security=
=Health risks and environmental impact=

Talk:Factor e Farm

2012-03-27T14:54:08Z

Capiscuas:

Someone needs to add the embed tag to the whitelisted tags for embedded youtube videos to work.
http://www.helge.at/2006/07/embed-flash-into-mediawiki/
Changed back to regular hyperlinks for now.

We should also add the premises for the Internet. (capiscuas. 27March2012)

Factor e Farm

2012-03-27T14:52:07Z

Capiscuas: Added OSM view.

=Introduction=

The [[Factor e Farm]] '''(FeF)''' experiment aims to take everything that civilization has learned to date, to create a working blueprint for communities that work. Starting with 30 acres of raw land in rural Missouri, we are building a path to [[Evolve to freedom]].

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'''Name'''
Factor e Farm is not a [http://www.sustainabletable.org/issues/factoryfarming/ factory farm]. But a place where we create the technology for ecology.

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor Factor] => Enabling action.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_(mathematical_constant) e] => The transcendental number.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm Farm] => Where we begin.

Those coming for [[Dedicated Project Visits]] are advised to be aware of the [[Factor e Farm Participation Standards]] and [[Rules of Conduct]].

==Infrastructure==
[[Image:Cordwood_Structure.jpg|thumb|Cordwood structure]]
[[image:Outside_Hexayurt.JPG|thumb|Hexayurt]]
[[image:Hexacube1.jpg|thumb|Hexacube]]

*Shelter
**Workshop
**Tents
**[[Hexayurt]]
**[[Earthbag hut]]
**[[Cordwood hut]]

*Workshops
**Main Workshop
**Lathe Workshop

*[[Greenhouse]]

*''In progress''
**[[Hab Lab]]
**[[Shop]]

*Utilities
*Water
**Rainwater catchment
**1000 Gallon tank
**Pressurized tank.
**Shower
*Sanitation
*[[Composting Toilet|composting toilets]]
*3 compost bins
*Heating/Cooling
**Wood stoves
**Thermal mass earth roofs.
*Kitchen
**Stove
**Sink
*Electricity
**[[Solar Panels at Factor e Farm|Solar Panels]] - 1.4 kW peak
**Generators
**[[Power Cubes]] - 20 kW
**Inverter Chargers
**Forklift Battery
*Communications
**3 bar cell phone signal
**Wireless Internet

*Food
**400 tree fruit, nut, and berry orchard (still growing)
**Grapes, tomatoes
**Free-range chickens - [[Incubator | eggs]];
**We buy food that we don't grow on the farm
**We try to eat together

==Finances==
*Finances and food are handled individually.
*[[1000 True Fans]] campaign provides ongoing funding.
**We have {{True Fans}}

==Governance==
*Priorities of the [[Global Village Construction Set]] determine direction, time investment and funding allocation.

==Legal==
*Legal structure and land tenure is discussed at [[Transparency]]

==Learning==
*We are a learning community, and we are all expected to help each other grow in practical, mental, emotional, and spiritual techniques.
*Highly value [[Education]]

==Tools==
See [[Factor e Farm Tools]]

==Location==

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</html>

OpenStreetMap View

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==Climate==
[http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KMOMAYSV2 Nearby weather station]

See also [[Temperature]]

==What to Bring==
Think "Camping with Power Tools".

*Safety
**Safety Glasses
**Ear Plugs
**Workshop clothing (jeans, long sleeves, steel-toed boots)

*Clothing
**Pack appropriately for the season.
***Temperatures [http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KMOMAYSV2 can vary wildly],
***Summers are hot and humid.
***Winters are freezing.

*Electronics
**Camera
**Laptop (low-power if possible)
**Flashlight

*Tools

*Food
**Favor stove-cooked, dry goods, and non-GMO organic.
**2011, hiring full time chef and a farmer!

Embed
*http://www.youtube.com/p/FF0B396794CE6CDE&hl=en
*http://www.youtube.com/p/8222E33C29B683CE&hl=en

==See also==
*[[Factor E Farm Site Plan]]
*[[Distillations]]
*[[History]]

[http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2012recent Blog Presentation]:

See the [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/ weblog] for the latest updates.

You can view videos from Factor e Farm on our [http://www.youtube.com/user/marcinose Youtube Channel.]

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/11113094@N03/ Pictures] from Factor e Farm.

[[Category:Factor e Farm]]
[[Category: Resilient Communities]]
[[Category:Places]]

True Fans

2012-03-26T05:53:37Z

Capiscuas:

{{OrigLang}}
[[Image:100fans.jpg|thumb|600px|True Fans]]

=Introduction=

See the original blog post about the [http://blog.opensourceecology.org/2009/01/towards-1000-global-villages-factor-e-live-distillations-part-1/ 1000 True Fans Campaign]

We are able to work on the [[GVCS]] full-time thanks to the generosity of your donations. Kevin Kelly's influential essay [http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fans.php 1000 True Fans] suggested a funding structure in which 1000 supporters each donate a small amount to sustain a project they really believe in. We are looking for 1000 True Fans to each pledge $10 per month as part of the [[1000 Squared]] Campaign.

On this page, you can read why people like you have joined the campaign. We are at {{True Fans}}

We have also had requests for larger donation options. In response, we created Gold, Gold Extra, Platinum, and Angel subscriptions at $20, $30, $50, and $100 per month, respectively, in addition to the Standard subscription of $10/month.

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=Video Introductions=
*Marcin Jakubowski - August, 2010 - <html><object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14161032&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14161032&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/14161032">Marcin's Personal Introduction to the True Fans</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user2016419">Marcin Jakubowski</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p></html>

=True Fans=

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| '''Jenny Jones''', Boston, MA, USA, jjpeppercat (at) gmail dot com<br />

I love the '''Open Source Ecology''' project for a ton of reasons, not the least of which is encouraging the idea that independence, sustainability, and vibrant living can be had for all, not for just a few. OOE is an example of small groups solving big conundrums and having a blast while doing so. Using experimentation, collaboration and shared interest as the vehicle for learning -- who couldn't love that??

|[[File:Jenny_jones.jpg|thumb|Jenny Jones.<br />Joined February 26, 2012.]]
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| '''Matt Maier''', Colorado Springs, CO, USA, blueback (at) gmail dot com

Where to begin...I stumbled into open source 3D printers by accident and never looked back. From there I started investigating any and all open source projects. After a while I found OSE, which is like the open source project to end all open source projects!

I am strongly motivated to help OSE succeed because, as silly as it might sound, I take it personally when things don't work as well as they could. At the moment, pretty much the entire global system of "stuff" doesn't work as well as it could. I've never believed that any amount of singing, or protesting, or personal examples can change the world. I love Gandhi's quote, "Be the change you want to see in the world" but I've never been convinced that it's enough. You can't inspire the world to change, and you can't force the world to change, but you can present the world with a new option that is inherently superior to all the previous options. Once that option exists, and is replicate-able, the world will naturally gravitate towards it without any need for anything else.

Based on everything I've ever seen in my life, OSE is the closest-to-ideal implementation of that philosophy. Open sourcing the "mechanism" that humans use to transform dirt and sunlight into food and houses, so that people simply don't NEED as large a life-support structure anymore, is a game changer. It's the inverse of the profit motive. Instead of figuring out how to make more money, we figure out how to erase the reason money was created in the first place.

If you think of wealth as the difference between what you have and what you need, then Warren Buffett is wealthy because he has far more than he needs. However, a hobo is also wealthy because he doesn't need anything (think [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah]). Why can't everyone in between be we wealthy too? I think that if the global system of "stuff" worked as well as it could, that all humans could be wealthy; in the sense that their ability to obtain what they needed would exceed their need.

It's a matter of building better tools. I believe OSE can provide a structure for pooling creativity and focusing it on building those tools.

|[[Image:Matt Maier.jpg|thumb|Matt Maier<br />Joined January 2012.]]
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| '''Simon Walter-Hansen''', Portland, OR, USA, TriSimon (at) gmail dot com

I joined the True Fans campaign because I believe the Global Village Construction Set to be an investment that will pay dividends to humanity in perpetuity. I watched Marcin introduce the GVCS on TED.com in April 2011. My thoughts were mixed. I loved the open-sourced, integrated system, but I had questions about the need for some of the tools, like a robotic arm. At that time, I was living on a permaculture homestead in NW Washington. When I left, 8 months later, I began researching what appropriate and human-scale technologies would be necessary to start a small-scale resilient community. That led me back to the GVCS; re-watching the TED video in December 2011.

Eureka! What I had first passed off as too industrial-laden, began to make more and more sense. After all, "appropriate" literally means, "to make one's own." How many of the tools in-use today are made in our communities by people we know? While the question remains as to what level of recursion can be realized locally, I am elated to see so many new people coming to the open-source hardware community and working to designing long-lived, reduced complexity tools for direct application in meeting the basic needs of the world population.

Of particular interest to me are the steam engine, solar concentrator, wind turbine, bio-plastic extruder and well-drilling rig. With impending scarcity of water and cheap, non-renewable energy, it's about time we decentralize the lifeblood of civilization and put the knowledge to meet one's own needs in the hands of everyone. I am willing to put my time, money, and energy towards the development and release of the GVCS to the world. The sooner, the better! I am truly inspired by the comprehensive system of machines described and the proposition of using the GVCS to implement a sustainable, resilient community as a demonstration to the world that an equanimous civilization is possible and can thrive when information and technology are freely available to all. The GVCS is simply brilliant!

|[[Image:SimonWalter-Hansen.jpg|thumb|Simon Walter-Hansen.<br />Joined December 26, 2011.]]
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| '''Pablo Gonzalez''', Spain

The whole purpose of the Open Source idea is not to create a wave of fanatics against commercial products. But instead, the Open Source can inspire the people to think in terms of resources and real solutions.
The Open Source Ecology is the first project that combines the ''Open Source'' and ''Resource Based Economy'' concepts into doing something material. Unlike most of the other projects that are all about wishful thinking and empty words, OSE comes with solutions, using those concepts into everyday life.
It is such a big privilege for me to have the opportunity to participate into building long-term, reliable solutions !

|[[File:800px-Eichhörnchen Düsseldorf Hofgarten edit.jpg|thumb|Pablo Gonzalez. Joined November 2011.]]
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| '''Robert Winterton''', Utah, USA, r.w.winterton at gmail dot com
I saw Marcin's TED talk last April (2011) and when I watched it, it was like my soul was filled with fire! It resonated with what I've been looking for, for so many years!

I grew up on a farm/ranch in Utah and since I was a kid I've been concerned about the massively complex infrastructure the modern day farm depends on in order to operate. I've always been interested in figuring out how to bring more sustainability to the local level and I believe Open Source Ecology is an important step in moving toward this and in moving the cause of liberty. I graduated from George Wythe University (a classical liberal arts school in Cedar City, Utah) with a BA in Statesmanship (a combination of Philosophy, Political Science, Political Economy, History, and Literature). I went back to school to get degrees in Engineering and Construction Management when halfway through I felt the urgent need to not only be working with my head but with my hands also. I stopped my course in those programs and am now currently studying Hydraulics, Electrical Systems on Mobile Equipment, Welding Technology, and Machining at Utah State University where I am getting more hands-on-training.

I feel the need to help push Marcin's vision forward because what he is doing I feel is the answer to what I've been looking for. I hope to be part of this great work and to be of use in pushing it forward. Call upon me if I may be of any assistance.

|[[Image:Robert_Winterton.jpg|thumb|Robert Winterton. Joined 11/11/11.]]
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| '''Gil Hopson'''
After seeing Marcin's story I can certainly identify with some of his frustrations of dealing with the standard commercial model of industrial machines. As a matter of fact my tractor is currently "broke" and I am in the third week of waiting around for my local dealer to be able to fit me in to get it worked on! The concept of being able to fabricate and repair my own set of these innovative "LEGO blocks" really appeals to me. While I'm a novice at several of the fabrication techniques and have zero practical experience with other skills like using a torch or welding, I am excited about trying to replicate the open source building process. I hope my small contribution will help this process grow to fruition and look forward to the day I'll be able to visit the Factor e Farm and practice on my skills as a Modern-day-Renaissance-man-to-be!
|[[Image:Gil_Hopson.jpg|thumb|Gil Hopson. Joined November 2011.]]
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| '''Liam Bucci'''
I am a huge proponent of everything open source and I think you have an incredibly worthy cause. I appreciate that you are not only making the tools available, but you are conscious of being sustainable. I am an engineer (my degree is in mechanical, but I am currently doing embedded/electrical engineering at a robotics lab at UC Irvine). I am incredibly busy right now at work (hence the monetary donation), but someday I would like to offer my skills in any way they could be used. Keep up the good work and I hope to hear more!
|[[Image:Liam_Bucci.png|thumb|Liam Bucci. Joined October 2011.]]
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| '''Chris Haughton'''
i was so inspired to see what you are doing. i work in fair trade and spend much of my time in the developing world and i can see how important what you are doing could be there. i would LOVE to see this really taking off.
|[[Image:Chris_Haughton.jpg‎|thumb|Chris Haughton. Joined October 2011.]]
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| '''Lex'''
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." -- John Calvin Coolidge
|[[Image:Lex.jpg|thumb|Lex. Joined October 2011.]]
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| '''[[Jalil Wahdatehagh]]'''
You do such an amazing and important job there!<br/>
The implications of this, once fully developed are immeasurable... Imagine thousands of small villages and towns becoming independent by replicating (and ultimately developing) these Open Source designs. The potential for real change within this is huge and i deeply thank You guys at OSE for getting Your hands dirty and for working so hard towards Your vision.
|[[Image:Jalil_Wahdatehagh.jpeg|thumb|Jalil Wahdatehagh. Joined September 2011.]]
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| '''[[Robert Holder]]'''
OSE is a fascinating and important effort to address some very thorny issues both in the industrialized First World, as well as the developing Third World. I can't even have popcorn, soda pop and see a movie for 10 dollars, and yet here I can make my small contribution to an innovative and worthy effort for that amount every month! I will be telling my friends about this project, and you should too! :-)
|[[Image:RobertHolderPortrait.jpg|thumb|Robert Holder. Joined September 2011.]]
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| '''Jane ni Dhulchaointigh'''
I'm in LOVE with your project - congratulations it is one of the coolest things I have heard of in a very long time.
|[[Image:Jane_Delehanty.jpg|thumb|Jane ni Dhulchaointigh. Joined September 2011.]]
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| '''Tom Duesund'''
I saw your talk and immediately felt that the idea of open source DIY blueprints could change the world in areas that are not considered markets by the big companies. It's also amazing that you are actually working and living the project.

I do not have funds for investments or time or tech skills to contribute, but you certainly have my support. When I saw the opportunity to contribute with a small amount of money I knew I had to take part in this. "1000 true fans" is an excellent idea in itself, and I'm happy to be one of them.

What I wish to see come out of your work? I want to hear stories about people who create their own tractor factory or start their own entrepreneur business. I want to see increased food production and prosperity for small scale farmers in poor countries.

I truly believe that you can change the world.
Keep up the good work.
Also, keep making videos!
|[[Image:Tom_Duesund.jpg|thumb|Tom Duesund. Joined September 2011.]]
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| '''Matthew Tyler'''
As a family, we are always looking for methods and means to lead us to contribute, not to function as a unit of consumers. My wife and I consider ourselves to be pretty down to earth, we want our kids to learn to be self-sufficient and capable. We desire that they know how the world around them works. We want to live life fully, richly, and to our potential. This is where I find my connection to this project rooted, in the practicality of it, the true DIY aspect. I agree that this is a "pioneering" endeavor, I feel a tremendous sense of excitement about it - I want to do all I can to explore the potential.

We will assist you to the very extents of our time and efforts.
|[[Image:Matthew_Tyler.jpg|thumb|Matthew Tyler. Joined April 2011.]]
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| '''Rylan Peery'''
We started the [http://colab.coop CoLab CoOp] in order to find new ways to support use of Internet Technology to move us towards a sustainable and just society. When we came upon the work of the Open Source Ecology project it was like discovering a kindred spirit also using technology for positive change but at a more fundamental level.
We are excited to support the important work of Open Source Ecology and to humbly participate in bringing its ambitious plans to fruition.
|[[Image:Rylanpeery.jpg|thumb|Rylan Peery. Joined July 2011.]]
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| '''Jay Kinzie'''
I first heard about the project via the make blog. I have always been interested in the open source movement and the sharing of information. I believe in the power of the creation potential and the growth opportunities that the GVCS will create.
|[[Image:jaykinzie.jpg|thumb|Jay Kinzie. Joined June 2011.]]
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| '''Erick Lavoie'''
I think your work in incredibly inspiring. It echoes thought I had about empowerment of citizens but in a more articulate, clear and pragmatic way than what I had been able to come up with so far.

I first heard about your project in your TED talk and was incredibly excited about it. I learned about the current state of digital fabrication robots and the whole 'makers' movement about 3-4 weeks ago and have since been documenting myself on the numerous ongoing projects and available technologies (RepRap, Thing-o-matic, Ultimaker, ShopBots, etc.). I've read the RepRap PhD thesis and I am truly excited by the exponential growing potential of replicating machines. What I like about your project is that you are trying to completely bootstrap the system from raw materials and in taking into account every relevent dimension (technical, social, environmental, etc.), therefore pushing the self-replication to its limit.
|[[Image:Erick_lavoie.jpg|thumb|Erick Lavoie. Joined May 2011.]]
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| '''Ilya Tabakh'''
I found you through your TED speech. I've generally been interested in the open hardware model. Having done quite a bit of work in the biofuels and renewable energy arenas, it becomes quite apparent what a large contribution hardware plays; thus the excitement about items like your gasifier, power cube and wind turbine.
|[[Image:Ilya_tabakh.jpg‎|thumb|Ilya Tabakh. Joined May 2011.]]
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| '''Haren Rajathurai''', Christchurch, New Zealand.
Hello, Kia Ora, Apa Khabar and Vanakkam,

I am a Software Tester by profession and have interest in the Open Source and DIY projects/communities. I bumped into Marcin's TED talk video on YouTube while I was researching stuff on the Resource Based Economy movements. Was really excited and happy knowing that something is being done in the present time to change people's lives. Since the discovery of OSE I cannot stop talking about it to my family and friends, and have been following the progress.

With the recent earthquakes (7.1 magnitude on Sept 2010 and 6.3 magnitude on Feb 2011) here in Christchurch, I have learned firsthand that we as a city got through hard times by people collaborating together rather then competing. I fully support OSE because of the collaboration factor and the positive things that it would bring.

I am happy to be a True Fan of this project!

Peace,<br>
Haren
|[[Image:Haren.jpg|thumb|Haren. Joined May 2011.]]
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| '''Bruce Lambert'''
Congratulations on your great ideas and on your great work. I saw your
Ted talk and was totally inspired. I was immediately committed to
supporting you financially. And I am committed to continuing and even
increasing my support if you keep up the good work.

What I'd like to see come out of your work is more equitable
distribution of wealth and opportunity by democratizing the means of
production. I think the greatest threat to the world is corporate
power run amok, and I see your program as a way of undermining
corporate power by empowering ordinary people.

I wish I had more skills to help you directly. I have modest handyman
skills, but no experience as a welder, and I'm a crappy electrician.
|[[Image:Bruce_Lambert_head_shot_2007.jpg‎|thumb|Bruce Lambert. Joined May 2011.]]
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| '''Craig Ambrose'''
I'm one of several people at Atamai Ecovillage (atamai.co.nz) who are following your project with great interest. We have a machine shop on site, running as an independent small business, and are very interested in building the sort of projects that you're involved with. Many of them we could use directly. Our machinist is perhaps not as personally interested in some of your tech as I would be (I'm a computer programmer, so understand open source a little better). Particularly, while he's excited about the tractors and things, he already has the metalworking machinery, so is less interested in the fabrication stuff.

We also already have a brick press, so we're perhaps not immediately interested in that either. When the tractor hits the final version though, I'm keen to build one.
|[[Image:Craigambrose.jpg‎|thumb|Craig Ambrose. Joined April 2011.]]
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| '''Jeff Kinzer'''
I found out about OSE last week when a friend showed me your TED talk and I was very interested, because what you described fits my personal goals and ideals with striking similarity. I have been a strong follower and supporter of the Open Source movement since the mid '90s and similarly with the wiki web concept which I find to be extremely powerful and effective means of information sharing. The wealth of video documentation combined with the interactivity and familiarity of a wiki, plus the viral nature of Open Source, really makes me think you have an actual viable means of making some significant change to the current unsustainable system of broken capitalism and false scarcity.

I have a Bachelor's degree in computer science and have studied digital electronics, but currently I do general construction and metal fabrication. I am studying manufacturing technology as well. In the past I worked on a medium-large scale organic farm. I would very much love to join your group because it is exactly what I want to be doing. However I am currently pretty content here in idyllic northern California, so donating money is a more realistic contribution at the moment.

What I would like to see come out of your work is
1. continue and improve written and video documentation. Having organized, clear and complete documentation for a project really gets more people trying it on their own and is a wonderful asset for all of humanity.
2. For the Open Source philosophy to be spread and made aware of outside the computer software realm. The competitive, violent, greedy, shortsighted mindset held currently by most people cannot and will not survive. The human race needs sharing and collaboration and the end of all war.

|[[Image:JeffKinzer.JPG|thumb|Jeff Kinzer. Joined April 2011.]]
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| '''Gabriel Perez'''
A friend of mine sent me a link to your awesome Ted talk. Then I visited your wiki, read some stuff, got really excited and decided to donate :) I hope you are able to get a full length Ted talk so that you can get the word out about this incredible project to even more people. I had been dreaming of seeing a project like this after I found out about 3D printers and read a really inspiring essay on Make magazine titled "At last, Tolkien meets capitalism" (I've attached a copy just in case you haven't read it, it's pretty short).

I would like to see the Civilization starter kit developed as much as possible. Also I think it would be great if eventually communities on poor countries started using this technology. I think that this is a great way to help a lot of people to get out of poverty and help them live healthy, independent and sustainable lives. I really have lost all faith in our current system, modern big corporation state sponsored capitalism. It is destroying our planet, corrupting our politicians and destroying our spirits and just plain making us slaves to consumerism.
|[[Image:Gabriel_perez.jpg|thumb|Gabriel Perez. Joined April 2011.]]
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| '''Josh Arrowsmith'''
I've been thoroughly worried about the state of the world lately and am so glad to have come across open source ecology as it is something I think can have a huge positive impact on many peoples lives. I think it is very exciting not being so dependent on, as you said, products designed for obsolescence. I am really happy to subscribe to you because I know what you're doing is GOOD!
|[[Image:Josh_arrowsmith.jpg‎|thumb|Josh Arrowsmith. Joined April 2011.]]
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| '''Antonius Stoiculescu''', Brasov, Romania
I've found your presentation movie on youtube about a year ago and was impressed. Right now, by the knowledge I have gained I would like to see GVCS a solution to raise the standards of living by means of easily available hand tools and elbow grease. The trick here, imo, is to get all those machinery built by someone who has never had any practical experience in building them (e.g. I can't weld or use a torch). How does one pull that off?

The things I'm personally most interested in are a solution for portable (if possible by hand) well drilling + water extraction (e.g. wind-mill) and a heating solution that works well even in the midst of the coldest winter (and not by wood as this is a resource that's getting scarce).
|[[Image:Antonius_stoiculescu.JPG‎|thumb|Antonius Stoiculescu. Joined April 2011.]]
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| '''Rafa Font'''
I support open source and free software, I am an IT engineer, and I also support it politically within the Greens in Spain, where I am from. Although I live in Brussels and I work in the European Parliament.

I would like to see real examples of people using your technologies. I would like to see a basic set of tools with their specifications and "how-to-build" in the web, and a community of people helping improve the designs and contributing to them. I would like to see companies complaining that your work interfere in their business (although that won't be true), and I'd like to see them lowering their prices. I would like to see how an open source community grows around the project.
|[[Image:Rafa_font.jpg|thumb|Rafa Font. Joined April 2011.]]
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| '''Steve Hepting'''
I saw the TED Talk at work and was instantly interested. It stirred up the realization that a group of people really can build pretty much anything given some foundational tools and a decent bit of effort. I was more and more impressed the more videos I watched and blog posts I read discussing the merits of different designs and what would be changed in the next prototype. I realized that there would be no "finished" state but just a better and better set of open and free tools.

It's also great to see the push this creates for better open-source CAD tools and motor drivers etc. I look forward to the day I can look back and see all the progress that has been made since the day I first became a "True Fan."
|[[Image:Steve_hepting.png‎|thumb|Steve Hepting. Joined April 2011.]]
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| '''Bob Waldrop''', Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
If we want to live in freedom and justice, we must have the tools that we need to declare our independence from the large system of corruption and greed. Some of those tools are invisible structures, like the design discipline of permaculture, but others are real world tools, like the microcombine and tractor projects, which provide actual physical tools that enable people to do productive work independent of corporations and structures of domination. I am involved with many organizations and activities, but this project is one of the most important liberation projects on planet earth right now. That's why I'm putting my money where my heart is by becoming a True Fan.
|[[Image:Bob_waldrop.jpg‎|thumb|Bob Waldrop. Joined April 2011.]]
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| '''Nick Sissons'''
I saw your talk on TED, it was totally great. I'm really interested to see how your tools get picked up in developing economies, particularly South America where our family is involved in farming. We're going to live there (Bahia, Brazil) in July, so will look out for a potential markets.
|[[Image:Nick_sissons.jpg‎|thumb|Nick Sissons. Joined April 2011.]]
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| '''Karl Botha'''
I want the plans to build some of your machines to help the people in South Africa! I get the TED update and vid was on it.
|[[Image:Karl_botha.jpg‎|thumb|Karl Botha. Joined April 2011.]]
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| '''Walter Wood''', Location
I saw the piece you did for TED and was very intrigued. Over the past two days I've poured over your websites and like what you're doing so I thought I'd chip in a bit to help out.

Things I'm interested in:
- sustainable agriculture (something more like the concepts promoted by Polyface Farm as described in Michael Pollan's book, The Omnivore's Dilemma)
- low-impact/natural building construction and supporting systems
- implementing a more sustainable, greener economy (e.g. shift to renewable sources of energy, design for reuse/recycling, sustainable production, etc)
- promotion of global democracy and more equitable wealth-sharing
|[[Image:Walter wood.jpg|thumb|Walter Wood. Joined April 2011.]]
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| '''Matthew Smaus'''
I found out about Factor E Farm from your interview with Frank of the Agroinnovations podcast, which I listen to at work. What compels me most strongly about Open Source Ecology and the work happening at Factor E Farm is the reskilling of people to be more resilient, adaptive, creative, and engaged with their immediate world and its possibilities. As someone who works with youth, I think there are many youth for whom these sorts of skills and the lifestyle they invite would be much more compelling than formal education. I would have most certainly been one of those youth. Thankfully, it's never to late to re-engage with the world on that level.
|[[Image:Matthew_smaus.jpg‎|thumb|Matthew Smaus. Joined April 2011.]]
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| '''Luis Ospina'''
I believe you are doing an amazing job with the Open Source Ecology project. I saw your video presentation on TED.com and was blown away with what you and others are doing. I share the same passion, to become self sufficient and sustainable. That is why I immediately felt a need to contribute to your project. What you are doing now will undoubtedly change the future of the world. If there is anything else that I can do other than what I can manage financially please let me know. Something that I would love to see come out of your project is a blueprint on how to build or convert a gas driven automotive vehicle into a water fueled car, electric car, or a combination of both. An example of this technology is shown by the Japanese company "Genepax." I believe information like these will help break the chains that many oil companies have on citizens and have a tremendous ripple effect.
|[[Image:Luis_Ospina.JPG|thumb|Luis Ospina. Joined April 2011.]]
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| '''Matthew Clark'''
I had been searching for something I could get involved in that I thought could truly save/change the world. I am having a hard time being able to go about life as usual when I know that things really need changing. I see OSE as the wave of the future, and I knew I needed to catch that wave!
I have been telling more and more people about your efforts. I would like to help all I can. I've currently got 1 year left for my masters of fine art, but once I graduate next spring I would love to really jump in.
I would like to see a cultural revolution come out of this... individual pockets of culture and tradition growing from each community... I know that's a ways away (we've got to get community #1 going), but that's what I imagine. A cultural rebirth.
|[[Image:MatthewClarkTrueFan.jpg|thumb|Matthew Clark. Joined April 2011.]]
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| '''Stuart Perera'''
I think a set of open source DIY construction tools is a terrific way to empower individuals and level out living standards across the planet.
|[[Image:Stu_perera.jpg|thumb|Stu Perera. Joined April 2011.]]
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| '''Brett Irish''', USA
I would like to see all of the 50 technologies developed and shared through open source... so great! I love the idea of creating a DVD with all the info on it to create a small civilization for free! So wonderfully generous and needed!
I would love to see training locations throughout the world where people can be taught how to build the global construction set and help them got started on their plot of land. I hope this helps birth an emergence of an interconnected web of sustainable communities with open business models and a proliferation of open source everything.
I live in NJ, and would love to one day buy a piece of land with a group and grow our own food, and build our own buildings, etc.
|[[Image:Brett_Irish.jpg|thumb|Brett Irish. Joined April 2011.]]
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| '''Antoine Malouin''', St-Marc-Sur-Richelieu, Canada
I've always believed in open-source culture and Open Source Ecology is another great ramification of this beautiful tree!
I think that by sharing the knowledge of industrial disciplines (agriculture, architecture, construction, etc.), people will be able to become more autonomous/less dependent from the markets and their owners. I truly hope that with projects like OSE, people will realize that a true community is based not on sharing incomes, but on sharing ideas and innovations. Long life to Open Source Ecology, long life to the Open Source Culture.
|[[Image:Antoine_Malouin.jpg|thumb|Antoine Malouin. Joined April 2011.]]
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| '''Danzig Andersson'''
The first time I heard about OSE was when I was doing research on Aquaponics farms and found a really good guides in your wiki.
I have very high hopes for OSE, especially for the developing world, and one of them is that the concept of planned obsolescence becomes completely obsolete :)
|[[Image:Danzigandersson.jpg|thumb|Danzig Andersson. Joined May 2011.]]
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| '''Ricardo Pereira Filho''', Brazil
I think that a project like yours has such a huge relevance to what is needed in order to get over with our "current system". My comprehension of agriculture is limited. Not only that but every aspect that a confortable life offers to "well suceed" citizens in a big city, kind of blinds and avoids you from been able to see the whole picture in wich you are attached to. The things that you depend like electricity, communication, shelter, food. I mean, we may know all the importance of that but we take that for granted, like it always will be available thanks to corporations and governments.
Well, I discovered that we are very next to collapse and now I am trying to learn everything I can, what I consider to be relevant. I hope in a few years move away from a big city and I´ve just decided start to learn more about permaculture. I think most of people should be doing this, but unfortunatelly, their capacity to see beyond their "day after day" way of living is limited by tv advertisements, tv films, tv series and all kinds of entertainment, generating this current behavior.

I can´t wait to see the possibility of constructing an electric car. But its more than that, I think that allow this kind of information and for free, opens the main door to explore the core of what you and your team are doing. It is the most direct way to make people realize what is possible. Not everyone wants to live in a different place but a lot of people wants to be able to move from point "A" to point "B". And that doesn´t require a lot of luxury, especially in not so rich societies that will depend more and more of a commoditie that is scarce like oil.

|[[Image:Ricardo_pereira_filho.jpg‎|thumb|Ricardo Pereira Filho. Joined February 2011.]]
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| '''Ted Mosher'''

|[[Image:Ted_mosher.JPG|thumb|Ted Mosher. Joined April 2011.]]
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| '''[http://monda.hu László Monda]''', Szeged, Hungary
My name is László Monda and I'm a Free and Open Source Software /
Hardware enthusiast and a professional software developer. In the
recent years I've became familiar with various technologies such as 3D
printing, electronics, printed circuit board design, microcontroller
programming and such which made me realize the vast potential that all
these technologies can offer to people.

Out of all the different projects I not only think that OSE is the
most ambitious one, but I think it truly has the potential to change
the world for the better. We shouldn't depend on companies who are
primarily concerned about themselves when we can depend on ourselves
and be concerned with each other and with the environment.

I'm proud to be a part of this effort and look forward of what the
future can bring.
|[[Image:Laszlo_Monda.png|thumb|László Monda. Joined May 2011.]]
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| '''[[User:Mjn|Mark Norton]]''', Willseyville, NY, USA
A friend of mine pointed me at Marcin's TED talk. After watching it, there was no turning back. I've been fascinated by the Maker movement for years now but never quite had the motivation to jump in, in spite of being handy with tools. I live on a small farm (Phase 3 Farm) that my wife and I are turning into a self-sufficient homestead that we hope will supply all of our needs one day. Farms need tools and it struck me that the GVCS was a great way to get what I needed - by literally building them myself. By profession, I am a software developer and I've worked on several major open source efforts over the years, so I understand quite well why the work of OSE is so important and also some of the challenges it faces, especially around sustainability. As such, I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is and became a True Fan.
|[[Image:flannel_sm.JPG|thumb|Mark Norton. Joined April 2011.]]
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| '''[[Dan Miner]]''', New York City, USA
I'm glad that as of spring 2011, after the release of Marcin's TED talk, OSE is getting at least a small fraction of the attention it deserves. If more people understood that what fuel depletion, international resource wars, and climate change will do to globalized manufacturing and distribution, they'd be, ah, very disturbed - and would rush to place orders for their own Global Village Construction Sets. Not sure whether OSE will become more popular than Lady Gaga - but let's get ready to scale up production now! - Dan Miner, New York City - www.beyondoilnyc.org
|[[Image:Dan_Miner-waterfront-5-10.JPG‎|thumb|Dan Miner. Joined February 2011.]]
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| '''Javier Rivera''', Spain

Want to see a world Resources Based Economy, support The Venus Project ([[Zeitgeist]]) and became a True Fan of OSE in February 2011. Joined in the wiki days after, trying to help with such a great work. I see OSE as a true step in a RBE direction - This is just a needed project to make a open world. Keep up!

|[[Image:javier.jpg|thumb|200px|Javier Riviera. Joined February 2011.]]
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| '''Etienne Duport''', France

I wish I discovered the OSE project long ago. It's very exciting ! Hopefully one day everyone will be able to replicate these tools to live their own autonomous lives. Being that far from the mother ship in Missouri, donation is a smart solution to prop up OSE. May the Force be with you ;-)"

|[[Image:etienne.jpg|thumb|200px|Etienne. Joined February 2011.]]
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| '''Rasmus Kiehl''', Toronto, Canada

Let's take back the economy ! (more details [[Tim-Rasmus_Kiehl|on my page ]] in the team culturing section).

|[[Image:Rasmus_Kiehl2010.jpg|thumb|200px|Rasmus. Joined February 2009.]]
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| '''Steffen Lemmerzahl''', Zurich, Switzerland

The Global Village Construction Set fits very well in a set of works
that I appreciate very much, such as the projects of D55.dk and Atelier
Van Lieshout in art or Paolo Soleri in architecture.
Beeing an architect myself (http://www.slik.ch) with a background in
CNC-built structures and parametric architecture
(http://www.caad.arch.ethz.ch) I'm thinking in a similar direction as
you do, so I'm happy to be able to support your great project with my
small donation!

|[[Image:steffenlemmerzahl.jpg|thumb|200px|Steffen Lemmerzahl. Joined February, 2011.]]
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| '''Angela''', Colorado, USA

So many could truly benefit from what your group has accomplished and the things yet to come. Bravo! Keep it going, PLEASE! We look at your success and know that your work is very important and it couldn't be happening at a more critical time. There are so many people in so many areas that will thrive with the tools your work will provide. Besides maybe someday we might need them too! We have property that has a lot of trees down and need to be cut. Areas that need to be leveled , and trails re-established, etc. Good Luck and our best wishes for all of you.

|[[Image:angelah.jpg|thumb|200px|Angela. Joined February, 2011.]]
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| '''Charles Kraus''', United Kingdom

The work you are doing (and I shall quote my Facebook status) is “Literally the most amazing project I have ever seen”.

For a long time I have been interested in the idea of being self-sufficient, and in fact have had a dream of one day buying my own island and starting up a completely self-sufficient, live off the land society. It’s obviously never going to happen but without our dreams what else is there to live for?

So when I see an entire group of individuals dedicating their time and effort to quite literally the foundations of my dreams I felt like I had to contribute something, in fact you’re the first cause I have ever given to on a monthly basis!

What I would love to see is a number of completely self-sufficient towns being set up, I have over the years visited some communal farming projects in Israel however most of these have had to close so I’m hoping with your construction set you will be able to improve on projects that have come before. I also think that with some work your tools could be very useful in the third world Africa etc, so seeing your tools being put into practise would be great.

|[[Image:charleskraus.jpg|thumb|200px|Charles Kraus. Joined February, 2011.]]
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| '''Joe Ventura''', California, USA

I was extremely excited to learn about Open Source Ecology's work, especially [http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/Global_Village_Construction_Set The Global Village Construction Set]. I'm a communications professional for NGOs and nonprofit organizations. Through my work, I've traveled around the world, including large parts of Asia and Africa. These experiences overseas convinced me of the need for thoughtful planning around the coming transition from a fossil fuel-based economy. I'm hoping that my small monthly contribution will enable this project to continue and expand its impact.
|[[Image:joeventura.jpg|thumb|200px|Joe Ventura. Joined February, 2011.]]
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| '''Hans Sendelbach''', Washington State, USA

The core issues underneath all this are really quite serious in nature. In my heart I have known for years what is happening, but the momentum in society is so powerful that it makes it easy to ignore the truth. A few months ago I watched the documentary Collapse, which is a long interview with Michael Ruppert. It shook me out of my state of denial.

In my mind this all comes down to a simple science experiment. If you put bacteria on a growth medium like agar in a petri dish, the population will explode exponentially until the food runs out. The population will plateau and drop off. The plateau and drop off are from two factors, the lack of food and poisoning from waste build up. With humans we need to broaden the definition of food and waste to include the food and waste of our infrastructure such as oil and the waste products from its consumption that leak into the air, soil and water. We are in the same position as the bacteria.

Thankfully organisms are smart and can sense there environment and adjust their growth according to the availability of nutrients or other factors. They are also adaptable and can even evolve new methods of metabolism in order to survive and thrive. Bacteria for example exchange rings of RNA with each other that allow them to generate novel enzymes, so they may adjust their function to match their environment.

RNA is coded information that controls chemical behavior. This sentence is also coded information. Your organism and mine are exchanging data, so that we may tailor our personal and infrastructural metabolism to better fit the ecological limitations we are sensing. This is the heart of what natural systems do.

Open Source Ecology has the potential to facilitate the rapid adaptation of our infrastructural metabolism. My hope is that we will learn how to weave our communities back into the complex fabric of life.

Thank you Marcin et al. for stepping forward with the concept for this movement.

|[[Image:hanssendelbach.jpg|thumb|200px|Hans Sendelbach. Joined January, 2011.]]
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| '''Judith Katz''', California, USA

I joined because I think it's high time we develop more sustainable ways to live on this planet and OSE is a viable step in that direction.

|[[Image:judithkatz.jpg|thumb|200px|Judith Katz. Joined January, 2011.]]
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| '''Giulia Vianello''', Italy

I think that the [present] economy isn't the right way to run the world. I'm talking about people who can lose everything for more money, even their life. So, maybe that's the most important reason why i have decided to subscribe to your project. I'm sad because the life of many people i know, depends on money. And i want to change this. I think that all environmental problems we actually have on the earth are initially caused by ignorance, and the ignorance is a convenient way to earn. So from your work i would like to see come out free knowledge for all people, so they would be able to better this world through the knowledge and consequent skills acquired from the open source mind!
In this way everyone would understand that we can be free in every aspect of our life, and a free man is a good man. The kit you're building is fantastic and I'm happy to be able to benefit from your work in the future. Thank you very much.

|[[Image:giulia.jpg|thumb|200px|Giulia Vianello. Joined January, 2011.]]
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| '''Marcu Knoesen''', Cape Town, South Africa

I can clearly see the need to attain all the goals as set out in OSE. The future has to be more localised. The path we are on at the moment will not end well. It is time to make a course correction in a big way.

|[[Image:marcu.jpg|thumb|200px|Marcu Knoesen. Joined January, 2011.]]
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| '''Robert Morris'''

I saw the [http://www.grist.org/article/food-2010-12-29-farmer-scientists-want-to-hack-society article in Grist] today, and have spent the past couple hours looking through your materials. Fascinating stuff.

I have often said that all you need for paradise on earth for 100 people is 5 engineers and a couple doctors. It is gratifying to see that someone is attempting to put it into practice.

My work is not similar at all. My last semester of law school starts on Monday, and I will be embarking on a soul-crushing cubicle-dwelling existence this fall. Happy to be contributing to a new approach, if only in a small way.

|[[Image:robertmorris.jpg|thumb|200px|Robert Morris. Joined December, 2010.]]
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| '''Floyd Earl Smith''', San Francisco Bay Area, California

I’m proud to join my fellow True Fans of Open Source Ecology. The Global Village Construction Set embodies human creativity and potential, and at the same time unleashes it. Together we True Fans are supporting less use of fossil fuels for farming, better use of precious fresh water, and slowing and surviving climate change, while improving, not damaging, the land.

|[[Image:floydsmith.jpg|thumb|200px|Floyd Earl Smith. Joined December, 2010.]]
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| '''Jonathan Rivera''', Houston, Texas

The work you guys are doing is great! And you guys all deserve support from everyone with a conviction for this cause. I know my contribution is not much but I hope to continue to support any way I can. The resource based economy is an idea that has given me motivation to change my life for the best.

|[[Image:jonathanrivera.jpg|thumb|200px|Jonathan Rivera. Joined December, 2010.]]
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| '''Georgy Korablev''', Vancouver, Canada

I am a mathematics student; I support OSE project because it is an audacious step towards the true freedom and liberation of people. I am tired to see countries like Canada spending $35 billion on interest payments annually, and only $3 billion on infrastructure and technology development. I'm tired to see debt growing. I'm tired to see roads broken, schools closed, human rights violated, wars started, technology restrained, people starved, taxes grown, education made into a business, income gap grown, secrets kept from the people, fake government, mindless jobs in corporations competing for a market share, overproduction, manufactured demand and overconsumption, low quality products, inflation, fake research and fake research based on fake research, dollar signs in people's eyes, greed, lies.

People, look around and realize that all the improvement that we had in our lives is due to industrial revolution and rapid development of technology that made things 1000-fold cheaper or more; it is not due lawyers in the government; not due to stock growth, bank loans or corporations.
It is due to people MAKING THINGS, NOT PROFITS. And these people shall have our full support.
|[[Image:georgy.jpg|thumb|200px|Georgy Korablev. Joined December, 2010.]]
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| '''Julia Valentine''', California, USA

I recently became a True Fan as a financial supporter. I am a mother, teacher, Permaculturist, and inhabitant of Planet Earth. All of these endeavors require a sense of hope and a belief in the resilience of our species and of Nature as a whole. Where we stand as a society today, in the midst of the industrial growth machine, leaves us lacking in both hope and resilience. I have a base need to foster these qualities, and to create a more livable future for the children I care for and guide into adulthood. I have a true belief in the ingenuity and flexibility of our species to create a new paradigm. OSE is the actual physical manifestation of our amazing capacity to change. To truly change, we must imagine and then create. The humans behind Factor e Farm and Open Source Ecology have imagined and created. They are on their way - leading by example - to this fruitful future I also work to manifest. I am pleased to have the hard work and creative genius of OSE be open to me as a tool to use for building my abundant future and the future of my community. Thank you for daring to both imagine and create.

|[[Image:Juliavalentine.jpg|thumb|200px|Julia Valentine. Joined November, 2010.]]
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| '''Amanda Packard''', Missouri, USA

I am intrigued and inspired by people offering viable solutions to the challenges facing humanity. And above that, people manifesting those solutions ''now'' – Open Source Ecology is doing just that.

I have had the honor of visiting Factor e Farm and seeing some of the tools of GVCS in action – I am deeply moved by this vision and the people behind it, who value not only tangible exhibitions of development, but also a holistic spiritual/meditation practice. I am excited to proudly join others in supporting Open Source Ecology in this paradigm-shifting revolution.
|[[Image:amanda.jpg|thumb|Amanda Packard. Joined November, 2010.]]
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| '''Christian Shearer''', Pacific Northwest, USA
Originally from the Pacific Northwest of the United States, Christian Shearer is the founder and Managing Director of the Panya Project (www.panyaproject.org). He has over six years of permaculture experience, working and living at Lost Valley Education Center outside of Eugene, Oregon, and now residing at the Panya Project in northern Thailand for over five years. He is a permaculture consultant with Terra Genesis International (www.terra-genesis.com), an advisory board member of We Forest (www.weforest.com), a natural builder, a food forest enthusiast, a musician, a certified educator and has extensive knowledge of tropical permaculture systems. He teaches permaculture around the world (Thailand, Malaysia, India, Taiwan, and even Missouri!) and is excited to continue sharing his passion for a better world and learning from all involved!

He is excited to be a True Fan of Open Ecology, because the ultimate goal of what the people at Open Ecology are doing is perfectly in line with the intentions of Permaculture. The synergy between the two could be very powerful in helping to usher in a new way of being for people on this planet based on local production, resiliency and an engaged populace, with more of a focus on the well-being and health of people rather than the economic progress of the wealthy. Christian is proud to lend his support to a movement like Open Ecology that fills such an important niche in helping to bring about the vision of a Permanent Culture.
|[[Image:christiansprofile.jpg|thumb|Christian Shearer, joined November, 2010.]]
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| '''Nathanael Dinwiddie''', Lawrence, KS, USA
I attended a presentation given by Marcin at the Lawrence Public Library on November 22, 2010. I appreciate Marcin's effort and enthusiasm for this compelling project. I have long been inspired by the vision of Jacque Fresco, and Marcin is generally preparing the beginning stages for the achievement of that grand vision. We must evolve in the way of this project.
|[[File:P1010717.JPG|thumb|Nathanael Dinwiddie. Joined November 2011.]]
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| '''Isaiah Saxon''', Aptos, USA
I'm a filmmaker, technologist, and one of the instigators of an egalitarian community of 17 people, called Trout Gulch, where we are building a studio, village, farm, and maker space inspired by the actions of Christopher Alexander, Will Allen, Sepp Holzer, and Marcin. My film team, [http://www.esquire.com/features/best-and-brightest-2009/encyclopedia-pictura-1209 Encyclopedia Pictura], is working with hollywood to create a new populist heroic myth for the maker movement.

I'm anticipating that the entire GVCS will be created and documented, then replicated by mechanics, geeks, hippies, weekend warriors, and tough guys that are into their trucks. I think OSE is contributing tangibly and symbolically to the greater cultural shift toward localism, authenticity, and DIY green tech.
|[[Image:Isaiah.jpg|thumb|Isaiah Saxon. Joined August 4, 2010.]]
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| '''David Crary''', Seattle, USA
I have been really searching to find people out there who are actually experimenting with new forms of social organization where it is possible to create advanced culture - that is thriving in abundance and largely autonomous, creating a model for everyone...so kudos to you guys. Keep up the great work!
|[[Image:davidcrary.jpg|thumb|David Crary, Seattle, USA. Joined July, 2010.]]
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| '''Benjamin Kaplin'''
I'm a mechanical engineering student, and I support the OSE because a completed Open Source Village kit would represent several orders of magnitude of improvement over existing projects to improve living conditions around the globe with technology. I grew up reading Stephenson, and one of the most powerful images in his book <em>Diamond Age</em> is The Seed, a nanotechnology McGuffin that one of the main characters devotes his life to that would take the control of production and self-determination out of the hands of the McCorporations and put it into the hands of revolutionaries and the impoverished.
Needless to say, nanotech is still several decades away from that dream, and contributing to the True Fans campaign helps a realistic Seed program without pulling me away from my studies.
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| '''Paul D. Mamigonian'''
The Open Source Ecology group are making self sufficient living real. Through the Zeitgeist movement and groups like the Open Source Ecology the example is being set that we can come away from the corrupt monetary system. How many times do you hear people say " BUT WHAT CAN WE DO?". There IS SO MUCH THAT can be done and IS BEING DONE. THE TIME IS RIGHT, THE METHODS ARE HERE AND SO IS THE TECHNOLOGY. Please see my site www.livegreenliveclean.org. The Open Source Ecology group are leading the way, and it's up to us all to follow their lead.
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| '''Marcin Jakubowski''', opensourceecology at gmail dot com, marcin_ose on Skype
I started the campaign because I have observed how little of humanity's true potential has been tapped. Everyone slaves their life away to a system that is crumbling at the seams. I believe that we can all reach absolute prosperity and evolve to freedom - by becoming skilled and productive [[Integrated Humans]], and by helping anyone else to do the same. History has shown that this is a general formula for lasting prosperity. As long as we're wise, it should be trivial to get beyond the economics of scarcity. We need to show the world how to build the world's first, replicable, open source Global Village.
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| '''Scott Akridge'''
As I get older I'm more and more interested in helping people. A couple weeks back I enlisted the help of a friend to help in developing a CEB press when I began doing research and found www.openfarmtech.org with the open source CEB press. I continued looking for more information but kept coming back to this site for more info and learned more about the project and found I wanted to get involved. I started by becoming a member and donating $10 a month with plans to build the CEB press and build a couple structures then make the effort a cooperative. After reading more I've decided to also build a sawmill, assuming I can recruit some help. I think this is a great project and am excited to be a part of it in a small way.
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| '''Toby Martin'''
I support OSE because...
* It's an intelligent and direct effort to address some of the most serious problems we face as individuals and as a society.
* It's one of the most interesting and creative projects I've ever heard of.
* I see no reason in principle that it can't improve people's lives.
* It's actually happening.
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| '''Lucas González''', imagina (dot) canarias at gmail dot com [[Image:lucas.JPG|thumb|Lucas Gonzalez]]
I support OSE because both the model and the elements add some important missing pieces to what I perceive is going on.
* I think it's important to have local possibilities for water, food and energy everywhere. Not just at the household level but more importantly at the village or more aggregated levels. Even if you end up buying stuff from elsewhere, it's best if that happens by choice, not by necessity. It was not by choice when things were local by default and it's not by choice now that things are global by default.
* The whole process of open sharing of ideas, processes, know-how is intriguing and, at the very least, extremely fun to watch. (I really wish I had more time to join in myself, but I'm doing things that need doing. So I [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Video_translation translate], [http://imagina-canarias.blogspot.com/search/label/open%20farm%20tech tell others], and chip in with a little cash, less than what others spend in smoking. My choice.)
* I'm particularly interested in some items for specific locations. Energy for water in sunny places is a must. Shelter and water collection systems. You name it.
* Do we really know how far and how fast this can go? I think there's bound to be a catalitic process so that more and more technologies will come out openly, in an exciting incarnation of the Stone Soup story. So I want to help keep the fire going.
* It really looks like this can be done, should be done, will be done in 2 years. Less than 2 years now. The whole world now has a sense of urgency, I feel. I'd like to see what we can do after this. But the time is ripe for this, now.
* It's interesting to note how open content gives us a sense of ownership. Many have felt that with software. I want to see that with hardware.
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'''Joseph Zarr''', joseph.zarr@gmail.com [[Image:DSC_0169.JPG|thumb|Joseph Zarr]]

I am an anthropologist, a farmer, and a permaculturist by training. I support OSE because, well, let's be frank: This is arguably the coolest project on the planet. I am most attracted to Factor E Farm and OSE because of the overall themes of personal improvement (via daily spiritual and physical discipline - in whatever forms a person deems appropriate), human production, and an intertwined personal and community growth. We must collaboratively market the ownership of our futures.

"For less than the price of one coffee per week, for less than the price of one first class stamp per day, you can help change the world. Subscribe!"

As our resource pool dwindles globally, largely due to corporate theft and errant industrial practices, we will have to produce locally and 'in-source'. With a dwindling petroleum base, our dream of cheap energy will disappear. These are simple facts. We must invest human energies in locally-based solutions. We must ignore our propagandized 'reality' and create a meaningful existence together.
With drastically increasing populations (estimated 70 million per year), we must teach ourselves the merits of collaboration, co-housing, and SHARING. My opinion is the era of individualized ownership is archaic and ill-advised. Only by sharing and producing what we actually need, and sharing what we already have (be it skills, books, resources etc.), will we experience the next stage of cultural progress. Hopefully, in the not so distant future our children's hands will not deform due to excessive playing of video games but, rather, they will callous, strengthen and scar due to meaningful labor and a 'hands-on' reality; i.e. literacy, numeracy, production = freedom. The only debts we owe are to ourselves and our community. Let's pay up.

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| '''Josef Davies-Coates'''
I'm founder United Diversity and co-founder of The Open Co-op and support this project because of all the many many VERY cool projects I follow, this is perhaps the most inspiring and important. I can't think of a better way I could possibly spend my money.
|[[Image:jdaviescoates.jpg|thumb|Josef Davies-Coates]]
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| '''Reto Stauss''', reto.stauss(at)gmail.com, rstauss on Skype

I am mainly attracted by the momentum this projects develops. And of course because it is not talking but doing. My hope is that inspires my own little project (actually it already did): [http://manufakturingruendung.ch/en open source goods produced by small, agile manufactories]. Lucas, Joseph, sign your points.
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| '''Geoff Capper''', geoff (at) floodstreetfarmlet.net
I am supporting OSE because it is showing us that it is possible to regain control over the complex systems that to an extent have come to rule our lives. We can build our own machinery, we can build our own future, we can be free. The activity at Factor e Farm is truly inspiring, and I hope to use many of the products building up our own small farm, which may hopefully inspire others locally.
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| '''Tom Lindsey''', thomas.lindsey at gmail dot com
I support OSE because I want Factor e Farm to succeed so I can use the tools they are developing, replicate Factor e Farm, and create a future of freedom for myself and loved ones.
|[[Image:tomlindsey.jpg|thumb|Tom Lindsey and Boomer]]
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| '''Edward Miller''', embraceunity -at- gmail dot com
I became a true fan because I would like to see our civilization become more resilient by using decentralized technological solutions, and to evolve towards a post-scarcity society.
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| '''Jussi Haverinen''', haverinen.jussi at gmail dot com
I'm a strong believer in power of free software approach to technology and very interested in transformative technology and it's effect on society. Politically I'm an social ecologist and I do think that the main task that has to be done is to abolish capitalism and the state through direct democracy in the cities and neighbourhoods (confederated together of course). My skills: mostly computer knowledge, relatively good unix admin skills, and some language skills but that's about it. I only have limited knowledge of farming, construction, electronics, handcraft, but I'm willing to learn.
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| '''Mark Thomas''', factore at thomastechcon dot com
My wife and I are serial homesteaders--we built up a goat dairy from scratch in South Africa, a [http://thomasphotos.wordpress.com small livestock farm in Appalachia], and are just starting on a lambing operation in Southside Virginia.

Politically, I base my ethics on the [[Nonaggression Axiom]] and I do think that the main task that has to be done is to abolish democracy and the state through direct capitalism. Apologies to Jussi above! I do my political writing at [http://distributedrepublic.net/blog/mark Distributed Republic] and much of my reading at [http://mises.org/ the Ludwig von Mises Institute].
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| '''David Voeller''', carefulwiththat at gmail dot com
Open Source Ecology is applying knowledge and skill in the most effective way possible, to create a livable future. The convergence of Permaculture principles and Open Source methodology has been a long time coming. Open Source has shown us that technological advancement need not be encumbered by destructive and wasteful hierarchical control. Permaculture has taught us that a fulfilling and ethical life is not only possible, but realistic in a variety of climates and conditions. Open Source Ecology's work has the possibility to allow many more people to live within their resources; and to drastically increase the quality of life for those already doing so.
|[[Image:David Voeller.jpg|thumb|David Voeller]]
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| '''Eric Hunting''', TheMillennialProject at gmail.com
We are on the cusp of a transformation in the nature of our civilization. A fundamental shift in the way just about everything works in our society predicated on the evolution of the processes and technologies by which just about everything in our habitat is made. Emerging digital fabrication technology combined with emerging awareness of the factors of industrial sustainability are not only changing how we make things but who is making them and where. Industrial Age paradigms that have been concentrating industrial, economic, and political power for a century are failing in the face of a progressive shrinking, smartening, and demassifying of the tools of production and communication. Open Source Ecology is on the cutting edge of this transformation, pursuing and cultivating a spectrum of tools, new and old, that can realize a radical new level of sustainable community self-sufficiency with the intent of disseminating these tools globally. The Factor E Farm project is an incubator for a nascent movement with world-sweeping potential.
|[[Image:EricHuntingAv.jpg|thumb|Eric Hunting]]
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| '''[http://blog.erikdebruijn.nl/ Erik de Bruijn]''', ose at erikdebruijn.nl
We've heard about, or even experienced, the collaborative power of passionate individuals around the world. When they join hands, contributing their energy, freely sharing their ideas and building on them, this mode of production can be highly productive. It may well outperform the traditionally closed 'institutional' mode of production, like Wikipedia is giving us an abundance of knowledge at no cost. OSE attempts, and is actually very successful at extending this notion of knowledge sharing into a way of living.
They codify and freely reveal their knowledge into design files and rich instructional material such as video tutorials. Those serve to inspire, but also to practically make this concept replicable and effective.
|[[Image:erikdebruijn.jpg|thumb|Erik de Bruijn]]
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| '''A. N. Alias''', anon23bf at nyx dot net
I support OSE because we need viable alternatives to the military-industrial complex as a foundation for survival in the near future, particularly if predictions about the coming hyperinflationary depression turn out to be well founded.
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| '''[http://ollehost.dk/blog/ Olle Jonsson]''', olle.jonsson at gmail dot com
I had seen the impressive LifeTrac project on the web, but when I heard about the [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=1254 RepLab] initiative, I was hooked. I'm just a random web developer, but I want to help push toward a generalized, open digital fabrication toolkit. When each hackerspace, lab, and interested individual has access to equipment like that, things get really interesting.
|[[Image:olleolleolle.jpg|thumb|Olle Jonsson]]
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| '''Maureen''', baubo at dishmail.net
I support factor E open source farm because when the cheap industrial food machine breaks down for lack of diesel fuel and capital, people are going to be shocked, angry and then desperate to learn a new way of living. OSE is not just a theory, a book or a blue print. It’s an open source physical model of a DIY food, energy and shelter producing system. Large-scale industrialization was largely a wrong turn for humanity. By shrinking the scale, localizing throughputs, working smarter and sharing information globally we can create a bright new future – a true renaissance. Factor E farm is breaking trail for us all. I can’t think of a better investment.
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| '''[http://bit.ly/elifarley-buzz Elifarley]''', ''my first name'' @opensourceecology.org

I found out about Open Source Ecology after watching the Zeitgeist Addendum movie. That movie sparkled my curiosity and I started a quest to understand the problems and possible solutions to our society's needs.

In this quest, I found out some very exciting ideas, groups and people, like the Transition Towns movement (concerned with peak oil), The Venus Project and RBE Foundation (moneyless, cybernated society), Common Good Bank (alternative currency system), RepRap (self-replicating, open source 3D printer), the P2P Foundation, and the OSE site, to name a few.

You may have noticed that all these projects and movements seem to have a common goal, they all seem to propose that we forget all artificial limitations (and scarcity) and we all seek union to improve our lives and sustainability. Without artificial limitations, we all can have much much better lives. That's the message I can hear all these people and movements resounding.

I'd say that The Venus Project champions ideas, whereas OSE materializes them, performing concrete actions that will move our world forward.

I'm confident that our small contributions to this cause will add up and have a tremendous positive result for everybody.

''(In Portuguese)''

Descobri o site da Open Source Ecology depois de assistir ao filme Zeitgeist Addendum. Esse filme despertou minha curiosidade e então comecei uma busca para entender os problemas e as possíveis soluções para a nossa sociedade.

Nessa busca, descobri algumas ideias, grupos e pessoas muito interessantes, como o movimento Transition Towns (preocupado com a dependência ao petróleo), o Venus Project e a RBE Foundation (sociedade sem uso do dinheiro, automatizada), Banco do Bem Comum (sistema de moeda alternativa), RepRap (impressora 3D de desenho aberto, auto-replicante), a Fundação P2P, e o site OSE, dentro vários outros.

Vocês podem ter notado que todos esses projetos e movimentos parecem ter um objetivo comum, eles parecem propor que esqueçamos todas as limitações artificiais (e escassez) e que todos busquemos união para melhorar nossas vidas e sustentabilidade. Sem limitações artificiais, todos nós podemos viver muito melhor. Essa é a mensagem que eu posso escutar todas essas pessoas e movimentos ressoando.

Eu diria que o Venus Project dissemina ideias, enquanto que a OSE as materializa, realizando ações concretas que irão avançar o nosso mundo.

Estou confiante que nossas pequenas contribuições a essa causa irão se juntar e terão um resultado tremendamente positivo para todo o mundo.
|[[Image:Ecruz.jpg|thumb|Elifarley Cruz]]
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| '''Shaun Warkentin'''
What money buys is technology, luxury. What technology and luxury buy are pleasure, physical health, and free time for the intellectual, spiritual, relational, creative pursuits that are the constitutive properties of real wealth (a widening of awareness and knowledge) unavailable within a purely subsistence economy. The equation linking money to wealth must be broken (along with the power structures that encroach upon the agency and freedom of most of humanity and the biosphere). OSE appears to be demonstrating how this might be achieved.
|[[Image:Shaun_jump.jpg|thumb|Shaun Warkentin]]
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| '''Aigars Brūvelis''', abruvelis at gmail dot com
This is it. Linux will fully replace windows and in 50 years Open Source Harware will replace most of the commerce. Get on with it.
|[[Image:aigarsbruvelis.jpg|thumb|Aigars Bruvelis from Latvia/UK]]
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| '''Lucas''',
I contribute to OSE because I got tired of all the organizations that claim to be "promoting" sustainability through advocacy and lobbying, which usually merely contributes to the inertia and complexity of our current patently unsustainable society without producing any truly meaningful effect on regular peoples' relation to the economy and planet. We need tangible means and methods to take our lives into our own hands and reduce our reliance on global industrial market structures, not rhetoric and posturing. OSE is one of the few operations that has taken up the task of rebuilding and redesigning material existence to cope with the inevitability of a resource-scarce future. The advancements made at this important project are setting precedents that simply are not being set anywhere else, and I hope to personally be using some of the methods and technologies being developed; from that standpoint, I view my financial contribution as an investment, not a gift. At some point in time those of us who philosophically stand opposed to the dominant paradigms of mass consumerism and ecological exceptionalism must stop talking and starting acting, and OSE is doing just that.
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| '''Peter Koeleman'''
I would love to see the Factor e Farm evolve into a self-sufficient, renewable and socially superior society.

The technological steps towards freedom that the Factor e Farm project take are very interesting to me because I am an IT specialist. I had a taste of gcode a long while back and work with Linux every day as my primairy OS. The modular hardware design makes this technology easy to comprehend and use, even for non-engineers like myself.

The freedom part of this project is what I think will be the most important part of the near future in escaping a corporate ruled society of ever more money spending (=debt building) consumers. The need for economic growth simply isn't sustainable. Those who manufacture and manage their own resources are the only ones who know the real cost of things.
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| '''Daniel Slate''', danieldavidslate + gmail and the rest
This is the real thing, and what you're doing is absolutely necessary. The numerous possibilities that can grow from this...general resilience, a reboot/revision of kibbutzim/moshavim in America or elsewhere, so many other possibilities...building the platform is worth doing. Ideas become real through action. What I see coming out of this work is a way to test out applied philosophies of responsible liberty.
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| '''Adam Mitchell''', mitch dot ad at gmail dot com
If organizations were measured in terms of ''relevancy'' of work, ''loftiness'' of their goals and their ability to ''inspire'' others, Open Source Ecology --''no doubt''-- would be at the top of anyone's list. I am proud to support their endeavor, however small, in hopes that together we can build a better world and encourage others to become more [[Integrated Humans]].
|[[Image:Fiji.jpg|thumb|Adam Mitchell]]
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| '''Anna Przychodzki'''
I was very excited to discover the work of Open Source Ecology; I had no idea people were doing this. I stopped taking science class in my second year of high school so the technical stuff goes way over my head... what I do understand is the intent of the work and the implications of success. The life I want is out of reach for now... but if I support OSE, maybe I can have it in the future. OSE seems to bring us closer to what I believe are our birth-rights: sustainability, economic freedom and quality of life by way of human ingenuity and cooperation, not competition.
|[[Image:annaprzychodzki.jpg|thumb|Anna Przychodzki]]
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| '''Nathan Luedtke'''

I think I found out about Factor E Farm through John Robb's blog Global Guerillas, or at least through that general section of the net, which I am interested in and have been following for some time. I have been tracking your project for a little over a year, and was inspired to contribute when i saw that recently you seem to have hit a tipping point and have been making quick progress which probably will require a little more cashflow.

In terms of what I would like to see come out of it- exactly what you are doing. All of the positive movements that I see out there- Permaculture, Open Source, Transition, etc etc- all of them are integrated in your program. With OSE/FEF, you have a very scientific/rational approach that I appreciate. Long term, I would love to see OSE ideas spread and populate worldwide, and see the technology package implemented and developed further at other sites, both in the USA and as a more successful "technology transfer" to the third world.
|[[Image:nathanluedtke.jpg|thumb|Nathan Luedtke.]]
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'''Devin Balkind'''
An abundant future is dependent on open technologies that fulfill people's most basic needs: food, water and shelter. The fact that this type of work isn't widely recognized as the foundation of a more efficient, equitable and enlightened civilization is a testament to the confusion of our times. Consider me at your service.
|[[Image:DevinProfile.jpg|thumb|Devin Balkind, Since August 2010]]
|[[Image:DevinProfile2.jpg|thumb|Devin Balkind for real.]]
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| '''[[Ivan Garcia]]''', capiscuas at gmail DOT com
I've been a OSS programmer for like 8 years now and I love the idea of OS Hardware and the great suistaniblity revolution that the OSE guys are doing. I'm also a supporter of the Zeitgeist Movement in Spain and they both share very similar goals. What you are doing is absolutelly necessary and meaningful for our future!
|[[Image:ivangarcia.jpg|thumb|Ivan Garcia]]
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| [http://permakent.com/ '''J. Kent Hastings'''], USA
The OSE (Open Source Ecology) "True Fan" program is a grass roots way to crowdsource funding for the goal to develop the essential 40 pieces required to make up the complete "Resilient Community Construction Set," an advanced industrial economy in a box that can be deployed inexpensively anywhere in the world.

The cost is reduced to one tenth normal thanks to the savings from using open source software and hardware designs. The components are essential to life and work in the system rather than just decorative knick knacks or toys that Makers like to dabble with and are "designed for disassembly" so each component, like the Life Trac tractor for example, is easy to repair with bolts and simple tools such as wrenches, and easy to modify and improve.
|[[Image:permakent.jpg|thumb|J. Kent Hastings,since August 2010]]
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| '''Søren Poulsen''', Denmark
Words like ''empowerment'' or ''freedom'' get a whole new meaning when you talk about
having the skill set, to create everything you need from nothing.
|[[Image:Soeren_Poulsen.jpg|thumb|Søren Poulsen|130px]]
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| [[Nikolay Georgiev]], Karlsruhe, Germany
Open Source Ecology is based on Natural Principles which consequences have been shown to be positive for a lot of natural and technological systems.

* Decentralization (instead of Centralization) of Power – proven pattern in a lot of networks, like technology (internet, web site development, …) and human relationships (politics, religion/spirituality, family, …).
* Self-Sufficiency – basic needs for living are covered and produced by the local people. No need for dependence. In the future if there is dependency it will be in the form of collaboration.
* Openness – sharing documentation, product design and development process. Being able to change and adapt the products.
* Product Quality – life-time, modular and systems Design.
* Collaboration (instead of using other people for self-interest) – getting people together by purpose and values, and not by force, is much better for the producers and the consumers as well.
* Replicability – giving birth of open sourced, modern-living villages is just amazing! Having the choice of replicability saves a lot of time and work.

It is crucially important that we go beyond life of survival. Survival mode is pushing everyone to take resources from other people, not considering their allowance, health and their community. When we are in survival mode we often neglect our own values and push other people in order to survive.

When we reach the state of living where all basic needs are covered, every person on this planet will have much bigger possibility to develop his own potential. Right now only a very small percentage of the human population have the time and possibilities to develop themselves – to guide their own life in the direction they want, to contribute to the society by using their abilities in their fullness. Most people in the world are fighting, struggling, working only for their own survival or that of their own families, and higher goals and desires like developing themselves and contributing to society are not possible and of low priority.

We need new models of economy and living based on openness, giving and sharing. Open Source Ecology is headed clearly in this direction, giving back freedom to where it belongs.

|[[Image:Nikolaygeorgiev-tall.jpg‎|thumb|Nikolay Georgiev, since Sep. 2010]]
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| '''Dario Figueira''', Portugal, wurmdario at gmail dot com
I became a true fan simply because I was already monetarily supporting a NGO. And for me, you seem to be doing better work, or more important work than they were. So please continue XD.
[[User:WurmD|WurmD]] 23 August 2010 (UTC)
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| '''Matthias''', neodynos-at-googlemail-dot-com
Thinking about what's wrong with the world, I found that huge aggregations of power and of money are the main tools we as humans use to oppress and exploit. That led me to support Open Source Ecology as a decentralized alternative.

And while I am convinced that the ultimate solution (one that transcends even death) is not to be found through technology but rather through sound theology -- I am also convinced that the work of OSE can provide all of us with a better world ''until'' death.
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| '''Chris Berry''', France
What immediately impressed me about what you are doing is that...... well, this is something that could actually work. Much of the ecology movement seems to really depend on shifting human nature (ie modern capitalism will work just fine so long as people breed a bit less, consume a bit less, etc- its never going to work, at best we'll destroy the planet in the next 200 years instead of the next 50).

People need to be offered something genuinely
better. And really, when you look at it, it shouldn't be difficult to beat this modern lifestyle based on greed and envy and selfishness, with rampant crime and suicide and mental illness, people drowning in debt, and every system we depend on falling to pieces in front of us.
|[[Image:chrisberry.jpg|thumb|Chris Berry, joined October, 2010.]]
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| '''Stewart Easton''', Vancouver, Canada
I was exposed your work through listening to VTV’s show in the archives. I have a background in biology, but I work in finance, so I have taken the route of “those who can not do, help”. The help in my case is money and I will spread the word of your work as I spend much time on other forums debating the merits of an RBE, and I always use your organization as an example of people building the technology to advance the concept.

I am part of the Vancouver Chapter of the Zeitgeist movement and I think the work you are doing is great and we as a movement need to do more to help you with your goals. You are building the technology that is going to make an RBE possible.
|[[Image:stewarteaston.jpg|thumb|Stewart Easton, joined September, 2010.]]
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| '''Daniel Morlan''', Indiana, USA

I will be watching you folks closely. I heard you on the V-Radio show a couple of times, and your methodology is far more inspiring to me than the mere lip-service that most put out, including myself. (I am the “editor in chief” of the Indiana Zeitgeist Newsletter.) and an acquaintance of Neil Kiernan, and I am enthralled with what you folks are doing.
|[[Image:danielmorlan.jpg|thumb|Daniel Morlan, joined August, 2010.]]
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| '''Shakti Saraswati''', Brisbane, Australia (mail at shakti dot id dot au)

I have come to the Open Source Ecology, from the Zeitgeist movement and see this as a natural transition from something quite absurd to a more practical way to live our lives. By doing nothing we have allowed this silly profit system overrule common sense and go so viral as to be totally dysfunctional. Society spends all of its time solving problems that are symptomatic and never go any deeper to find causal remedy.

The fact that people can earn money without actually contributing anything of substance is an unbelievable waste of potential usefulness. 80% of the population do this while fiddling the figures, they are totally consumed. Imagine if that problem solving potential was put to good use.

As a musician I find it an incredible distraction living in a society that has not, after 5000 years of civilisation, actually become civilised yet. A lot of the mental energy that I need to improve myself as a musician is wasted basically trying to survive. I have learned to live off the smell of an oily rag, and my priority is improving myself to the detriment of living comfort, and that is because society does not work efficiently.

I see Open source Ecology as the first rung in the ladder to improving all that ails the world. The important thing to mention here is the fact that everything that each individual knows is the collection of their experience of everyone else around them, so they have no right to exclusivity and have a duty to share. There is no reason why all land and resources should not benefit all people. The understanding of this will eliminate all the unnecessary conflict that we have today. The challenge is to put it into practice for the greater good without sacrificing the individual. This will happen when we share the workload and become responsible.

Fulfilment in life comes from hands on achievement and when everybody is contributing instead of building locks and walls while fiddling figures, I bet we have a much more harmonious and luxurious lifestyle without the fear. The real challenges will be then what will affect us all as a human species, rather than just individual survival.

So thank you Open Source Ecology for putting the wheels in motion of the ground-up transition to self-sustaining systems open for the improvement of all who contribute, not just those who wish to profit and exploit.

|[[Image:Shakti.jpg|thumb|Shakti Saraswati. Joined Nov., 2009.]]
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'''Carolyn Phillips''', Adelaide, Australia [[File:Cari.jpg |thumb|Carolyn]]

I’ve always liked smart, lean design and this project seems both smart and lean. I hope you make some headway without the bureaucratic bloat that seems to ultimately spoil good ideas.
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'''Ben Diedrich''', Maryland, USA [[File:BenDiedrich.jpg|thumb|Ben Diedrich. Joined October, 2011.]]

How many more hard problems can be solved and impossible dreams fulfilled if people can meet their own material needs and unleash their creativity without asking for permission and resources from governments, companies, and society? I see great things coming of this project.
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==See Also==
[http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fans.php Kevin Kelly - True Fans]

Ivan Garcia

2012-03-26T05:50:25Z

Capiscuas:

[[Image:Ivangarcia.jpg‎|thumb|Ivan Garcia]]

=Team Culturing Information=

last updated: 22. April, 2011

==='''WHO''' are you?===
*''Name/Nationality/Ethnicity'' - Ivan Garcia / Spain

*''Location'' – Bangkok, THailand

*''Contact Information'' – capiscuas AT gmail DOT com

*''Introductory Video'' -

*''Resume/CV'' – Worked in Spain and Singapore as a software developer (Python/Django) and I have past 7 years of freelance experience as a opensource software developer and consultant.

*''Hobbies and Pastimes'' - Writing software, learning languages, DIY, open-source, learning, and having fun.

==='''WHY''' are you motivated to support/develop this work?===
*''Do you endorse open source culture?''
Yes. Totally, I've beeen inside the open source software movement for the past 10 years since my first Linux and developing software for the community.

*''Why are you interested in this work?''
I think OSE is changing the world in many ways people don't yet envision to see, but the idea of open knowledge about creating a civilization from scratch is a key to the liberation of the rural and city areas from the money dependency.

*''Are you interested in teaching about the GVCS?''
Maybe one day when my workload lightens.

*Are you interested in economic relocalization possibilities arising from the GVCS?'

*''Do you want to use the GVCS technologies yourself? Do you want to build them yourself?''
Yeah in the future when I have the personal need.

*''Are you interested in starting up enterprise using the GVCS technologies?''

*''Are you interested in having the GVCS technologies fabricated by your local custom fabricator?''

*''Are you interested in applying the GVCS to third world development? To redevelopment of crisis areas? To development of derelict areas in the developed world?''
I am very interested in the application of the GVCS to aid in the development of many pover areas around the world, mainly since I like travelling/living and I don't have a fix place.

*''Are you interested in starting up Industry 2.0 flexible fabrication enterprises for your local community, by drawing from a global repository of freely down-loadable designs and fabricating using open source fabrication equipment?''

*''Are you interested in the potential of the GVCS for developing local food systems?''
Definetelly, using DIY hydroponics and permaculture.

*''Are you interested in doing academic studies/papers, publishing books, or doing other analysis of our efforts?''
Yes if the need arises for me to contribute I would be willing to do so.

*Are you interested in financial investment opportunities arising from our work?
Possibly, if it made sense for me.

*''Are you interested in the distributive economic aspects of our work, and if so, how do you see this playing out?''

*''Are you interested in building renewable energy production facilities based on open hardware (solar concentrator electric, wind, biomass power).''
Yes, I am very interested in renewable energy production. In particular the small scale aspect of it.

*''Are you interested in building resilient communities based on access to the GVCS?''
Yes.

*''Are you interested in creating a bug-out hut using GVCS technologies?''

*''How do you think that the GVCS can help alleviate the instabilities of global monetary systems?''
It can free the world of the high dependency on external how-to and money. Areas with resources won't have anymore to beg for help or let themselve steal those resources just because they have to buy stuff they don't know how to make by themselves.

*''How do you think that the GVCS can address issues related to resource conflicts?''
It will also change the culture about not being so property-minded and it will open the communities to sharing and collaboration.

*''How do you think that the GVCS can address issues of overpopulation?''
Overpopulation it won't be a problem if the resources are managed 'economically'(not like the current anti-economy we see in the capitalist world), efficiently I think we can feed all the people in this world, we have the resources but not to the money(no need for it)

*''How do you think that the GVCS can address issues of resource depletion and environmental degradation?''
By the use of renewal energies and taking always consideration on the carrying capacity of the Earth during the expense of its resources.

*''Other comments''
I am very happy to be a part of this. This will change the world in a short term already.

==='''WHAT'''===
*''What have you already contributed to the OSE project? (technical contributions, blogging about us, financial support, organizing events, translations, interviews, video editing, publications, publicity work, behind-the-scenes work, CAD work, wiki contributions, computer support, etc)''
I'm a true-fan and collaborated a bit in the OSE-Europe mailing list, I'm starting to advice remotely about IT some of the members of FeF onsite.

'''Computer Support'''
*I could help writing open source software or gluing some devices with arduino-code/python, etc.

==='''HOW''' can you help?''===
*''How are you interested in contributing to the work of GVCS development?''
Writing software and IT remote help.

*''Can you volunteer to work with us, and if so, how many hours per week?''
I can't decide the time but as much as my freetime allows me.

*''Are you interested in working with us for pay? If so, what services can you offer, and what is your hourly or per-project rate?''
That could be an interesting option if OSE thinks I am needed for some software development (maybe for FreeCad or so), but I'm happy to doing the contributions for free.

*''Are you interested in purchasing equipment from us to help bootstrap development?''
Not at this time.

*''Are you interested in bidding for consulting/design/prototyping work?''
Not at this time.

*''Are you a [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=True_Fans True Fan]? If not, why not?''
Yes, already.

*''Would you like to see yourself working with us on a full-time basis?''
Possibly, if the time was right and it made sense.

*''Are you interested in using the technologies that we are developing directly?''
Possibly.

*''Are you interested in being part of the world's first, open source, resilient community? The GVCS is the preparatory step for the OSE Village Experiment – a 2 year, immersion experiment (2013-2014) for testing whether a real, thriving, modern-day prototype community of 200 people can be built on 200 acres using local resources and open access to information? We are looking for approximately 200 people to fill a diverse array of roles, according to the Social Contract that is being developed. This may be the boldest social experiment on earth - a pioneering community whose goal is to extend the index of possibilities regarding harmonious existence of humans, ecology, and technology – as a beacon of light to benefit of all people on Earth.
It could be a nice experiment in life.

[[Category:Team Culturing]]

Ivan Garcia

2012-03-26T05:49:38Z

Capiscuas:

[[Image:Ivan_Garcia.jpg‎|thumb|Ivan Garcia]]

=Team Culturing Information=

last updated: 22. April, 2011

==='''WHO''' are you?===
*''Name/Nationality/Ethnicity'' - Ivan Garcia / Spain

*''Location'' – Bangkok, THailand

*''Contact Information'' – capiscuas AT gmail DOT com

*''Introductory Video'' -

*''Resume/CV'' – Worked in Spain and Singapore as a software developer (Python/Django) and I have past 7 years of freelance experience as a opensource software developer and consultant.

*''Hobbies and Pastimes'' - Writing software, learning languages, DIY, open-source, learning, and having fun.

==='''WHY''' are you motivated to support/develop this work?===
*''Do you endorse open source culture?''
Yes. Totally, I've beeen inside the open source software movement for the past 10 years since my first Linux and developing software for the community.

*''Why are you interested in this work?''
I think OSE is changing the world in many ways people don't yet envision to see, but the idea of open knowledge about creating a civilization from scratch is a key to the liberation of the rural and city areas from the money dependency.

*''Are you interested in teaching about the GVCS?''
Maybe one day when my workload lightens.

*Are you interested in economic relocalization possibilities arising from the GVCS?'

*''Do you want to use the GVCS technologies yourself? Do you want to build them yourself?''
Yeah in the future when I have the personal need.

*''Are you interested in starting up enterprise using the GVCS technologies?''

*''Are you interested in having the GVCS technologies fabricated by your local custom fabricator?''

*''Are you interested in applying the GVCS to third world development? To redevelopment of crisis areas? To development of derelict areas in the developed world?''
I am very interested in the application of the GVCS to aid in the development of many pover areas around the world, mainly since I like travelling/living and I don't have a fix place.

*''Are you interested in starting up Industry 2.0 flexible fabrication enterprises for your local community, by drawing from a global repository of freely down-loadable designs and fabricating using open source fabrication equipment?''

*''Are you interested in the potential of the GVCS for developing local food systems?''
Definetelly, using DIY hydroponics and permaculture.

*''Are you interested in doing academic studies/papers, publishing books, or doing other analysis of our efforts?''
Yes if the need arises for me to contribute I would be willing to do so.

*Are you interested in financial investment opportunities arising from our work?
Possibly, if it made sense for me.

*''Are you interested in the distributive economic aspects of our work, and if so, how do you see this playing out?''

*''Are you interested in building renewable energy production facilities based on open hardware (solar concentrator electric, wind, biomass power).''
Yes, I am very interested in renewable energy production. In particular the small scale aspect of it.

*''Are you interested in building resilient communities based on access to the GVCS?''
Yes.

*''Are you interested in creating a bug-out hut using GVCS technologies?''

*''How do you think that the GVCS can help alleviate the instabilities of global monetary systems?''
It can free the world of the high dependency on external how-to and money. Areas with resources won't have anymore to beg for help or let themselve steal those resources just because they have to buy stuff they don't know how to make by themselves.

*''How do you think that the GVCS can address issues related to resource conflicts?''
It will also change the culture about not being so property-minded and it will open the communities to sharing and collaboration.

*''How do you think that the GVCS can address issues of overpopulation?''
Overpopulation it won't be a problem if the resources are managed 'economically'(not like the current anti-economy we see in the capitalist world), efficiently I think we can feed all the people in this world, we have the resources but not to the money(no need for it)

*''How do you think that the GVCS can address issues of resource depletion and environmental degradation?''
By the use of renewal energies and taking always consideration on the carrying capacity of the Earth during the expense of its resources.

*''Other comments''
I am very happy to be a part of this. This will change the world in a short term already.

==='''WHAT'''===
*''What have you already contributed to the OSE project? (technical contributions, blogging about us, financial support, organizing events, translations, interviews, video editing, publications, publicity work, behind-the-scenes work, CAD work, wiki contributions, computer support, etc)''
I'm a true-fan and collaborated a bit in the OSE-Europe mailing list, I'm starting to advice remotely about IT some of the members of FeF onsite.

'''Computer Support'''
*I could help writing open source software or gluing some devices with arduino-code/python, etc.

==='''HOW''' can you help?''===
*''How are you interested in contributing to the work of GVCS development?''
Writing software and IT remote help.

*''Can you volunteer to work with us, and if so, how many hours per week?''
I can't decide the time but as much as my freetime allows me.

*''Are you interested in working with us for pay? If so, what services can you offer, and what is your hourly or per-project rate?''
That could be an interesting option if OSE thinks I am needed for some software development (maybe for FreeCad or so), but I'm happy to doing the contributions for free.

*''Are you interested in purchasing equipment from us to help bootstrap development?''
Not at this time.

*''Are you interested in bidding for consulting/design/prototyping work?''
Not at this time.

*''Are you a [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=True_Fans True Fan]? If not, why not?''
Yes, already.

*''Would you like to see yourself working with us on a full-time basis?''
Possibly, if the time was right and it made sense.

*''Are you interested in using the technologies that we are developing directly?''
Possibly.

*''Are you interested in being part of the world's first, open source, resilient community? The GVCS is the preparatory step for the OSE Village Experiment – a 2 year, immersion experiment (2013-2014) for testing whether a real, thriving, modern-day prototype community of 200 people can be built on 200 acres using local resources and open access to information? We are looking for approximately 200 people to fill a diverse array of roles, according to the Social Contract that is being developed. This may be the boldest social experiment on earth - a pioneering community whose goal is to extend the index of possibilities regarding harmonious existence of humans, ecology, and technology – as a beacon of light to benefit of all people on Earth.
It could be a nice experiment in life.

[[Category:Team Culturing]]

Ivan Garcia

2012-03-26T05:49:13Z

Capiscuas: Created page with "Ivan Garcia =Team Culturing Information= last updated: 22. April, 2011 ==='''WHO''' are you?=== *''Name/Nationality/Ethnicity'' - Ivan Garc..."

[[Image:AJ_Manoulian.jpg‎|thumb|Ivan Garcia]]

=Team Culturing Information=

last updated: 22. April, 2011

==='''WHO''' are you?===
*''Name/Nationality/Ethnicity'' - Ivan Garcia / Spain

*''Location'' – Bangkok, THailand

*''Contact Information'' – capiscuas AT gmail DOT com

*''Introductory Video'' -

*''Resume/CV'' – Worked in Spain and Singapore as a software developer (Python/Django) and I have past 7 years of freelance experience as a opensource software developer and consultant.

*''Hobbies and Pastimes'' - Writing software, learning languages, DIY, open-source, learning, and having fun.

==='''WHY''' are you motivated to support/develop this work?===
*''Do you endorse open source culture?''
Yes. Totally, I've beeen inside the open source software movement for the past 10 years since my first Linux and developing software for the community.

*''Why are you interested in this work?''
I think OSE is changing the world in many ways people don't yet envision to see, but the idea of open knowledge about creating a civilization from scratch is a key to the liberation of the rural and city areas from the money dependency.

*''Are you interested in teaching about the GVCS?''
Maybe one day when my workload lightens.

*Are you interested in economic relocalization possibilities arising from the GVCS?'

*''Do you want to use the GVCS technologies yourself? Do you want to build them yourself?''
Yeah in the future when I have the personal need.

*''Are you interested in starting up enterprise using the GVCS technologies?''

*''Are you interested in having the GVCS technologies fabricated by your local custom fabricator?''

*''Are you interested in applying the GVCS to third world development? To redevelopment of crisis areas? To development of derelict areas in the developed world?''
I am very interested in the application of the GVCS to aid in the development of many pover areas around the world, mainly since I like travelling/living and I don't have a fix place.

*''Are you interested in starting up Industry 2.0 flexible fabrication enterprises for your local community, by drawing from a global repository of freely down-loadable designs and fabricating using open source fabrication equipment?''

*''Are you interested in the potential of the GVCS for developing local food systems?''
Definetelly, using DIY hydroponics and permaculture.

*''Are you interested in doing academic studies/papers, publishing books, or doing other analysis of our efforts?''
Yes if the need arises for me to contribute I would be willing to do so.

*Are you interested in financial investment opportunities arising from our work?
Possibly, if it made sense for me.

*''Are you interested in the distributive economic aspects of our work, and if so, how do you see this playing out?''

*''Are you interested in building renewable energy production facilities based on open hardware (solar concentrator electric, wind, biomass power).''
Yes, I am very interested in renewable energy production. In particular the small scale aspect of it.

*''Are you interested in building resilient communities based on access to the GVCS?''
Yes.

*''Are you interested in creating a bug-out hut using GVCS technologies?''

*''How do you think that the GVCS can help alleviate the instabilities of global monetary systems?''
It can free the world of the high dependency on external how-to and money. Areas with resources won't have anymore to beg for help or let themselve steal those resources just because they have to buy stuff they don't know how to make by themselves.

*''How do you think that the GVCS can address issues related to resource conflicts?''
It will also change the culture about not being so property-minded and it will open the communities to sharing and collaboration.

*''How do you think that the GVCS can address issues of overpopulation?''
Overpopulation it won't be a problem if the resources are managed 'economically'(not like the current anti-economy we see in the capitalist world), efficiently I think we can feed all the people in this world, we have the resources but not to the money(no need for it)

*''How do you think that the GVCS can address issues of resource depletion and environmental degradation?''
By the use of renewal energies and taking always consideration on the carrying capacity of the Earth during the expense of its resources.

*''Other comments''
I am very happy to be a part of this. This will change the world in a short term already.

==='''WHAT'''===
*''What have you already contributed to the OSE project? (technical contributions, blogging about us, financial support, organizing events, translations, interviews, video editing, publications, publicity work, behind-the-scenes work, CAD work, wiki contributions, computer support, etc)''
I'm a true-fan and collaborated a bit in the OSE-Europe mailing list, I'm starting to advice remotely about IT some of the members of FeF onsite.

'''Computer Support'''
*I could help writing open source software or gluing some devices with arduino-code/python, etc.

==='''HOW''' can you help?''===
*''How are you interested in contributing to the work of GVCS development?''
Writing software and IT remote help.

*''Can you volunteer to work with us, and if so, how many hours per week?''
I can't decide the time but as much as my freetime allows me.

*''Are you interested in working with us for pay? If so, what services can you offer, and what is your hourly or per-project rate?''
That could be an interesting option if OSE thinks I am needed for some software development (maybe for FreeCad or so), but I'm happy to doing the contributions for free.

*''Are you interested in purchasing equipment from us to help bootstrap development?''
Not at this time.

*''Are you interested in bidding for consulting/design/prototyping work?''
Not at this time.

*''Are you a [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=True_Fans True Fan]? If not, why not?''
Yes, already.

*''Would you like to see yourself working with us on a full-time basis?''
Possibly, if the time was right and it made sense.

*''Are you interested in using the technologies that we are developing directly?''
Possibly.

*''Are you interested in being part of the world's first, open source, resilient community? The GVCS is the preparatory step for the OSE Village Experiment – a 2 year, immersion experiment (2013-2014) for testing whether a real, thriving, modern-day prototype community of 200 people can be built on 200 acres using local resources and open access to information? We are looking for approximately 200 people to fill a diverse array of roles, according to the Social Contract that is being developed. This may be the boldest social experiment on earth - a pioneering community whose goal is to extend the index of possibilities regarding harmonious existence of humans, ecology, and technology – as a beacon of light to benefit of all people on Earth.
It could be a nice experiment in life.

[[Category:Team Culturing]]

Point To Peer

2012-03-25T20:57:06Z

Capiscuas: /* More info / Links */

{{Template:Category=Wireless mesh networking}}

=The Theory=

We propose that the development of a peer-to-peer internet and communications infrastructure, delivered essentially '''at cost''', is feasible today. It is merely a question of organization to get it implemented. Regulatory and structural barriers are likely to crumble via wide, popular support.

=Existing Problems=

Today, the internet and communication backbones are controlled by centralized interests. This does not favor a long-lasting democratic environment for human communication.

=Proposed Way to Apply the Theory=

We aim to test our theory (feasibility of P2P, physical communication infratructure) by building the infrastructure for peer, decentralized internet.

The core of a peer-based internet system proposal is the building of a physical infrastructure, where internet service is delivered at-cost. Such an infrastructure may be implemented most easily via a network of wireless towers. User nodes store content in a distributed fashion.

Key technical issues are:

#Development of communication and storage protocol based on peer-to-peer strategies
##Storage on peer computer nodes
#Building of wireless emitter/receiver nodes
#Building towers
#Powering wireless nodes

Key social issues:

#Organize a large support base of future user owners simply by concerted effort and by sustaining focus
#Attempts to stop this by the centralized power system can succeed only if people support the centralized power system, with its higher costs for internet and communications systems. This is unlikely to happen by simple dollar and cents arguments.
#Breakthrough application of [[User Owner]] concept.

=Related existing work that verifies feasibility=

*Paul is working on a protocol for decentralized communication.
*Marcin is working on solar energy production, circuit fabrication, aluminum production.
*Sam can align a wide support base for getting the proposal funded directly by stakeholders.
*Natural law: all empires crumble after some time

==Development Team==

*Marcin Jakubowski
*Sam Rose
*Paul B. Hartzog
*Keith Smith

==Infrastructure==

*[[PeerNet]]

=Related existing data or facts that support theory=

* The [[User Owner]] concept
* Various un-money, free internet, free communications, and related efforts
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXyVqk3EbwE
==Examples - please fill in here==

*[http://freenetproject.org/whatis.html Freenet]
*[http://guifi.net/en Guifi.net] (Spain, +15.000 free nodes interconnected)
*http://melbourne.wireless.org.au/ - a free community broadband network, using inexpensive off-the-shelf wireless network hardware.
**I believe they have been working on storage and communications protocols for some years. [[User:Mark Elliott|Mark Elliott]] 16:15, 30 March 2008 (PDT)
*[http://wirelessafrica.meraka.org.za/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Africa_Home_Page Wireless Africa]

=Existing constraints and barriers to deployment=

*Costly off-grid energy systems
*Regulatory issues in communication infrastructures
*Land base for setting up towers
*Peer to peer communication protocol
*Peer to peer data storage
*Cost of erecting towers
*Opposition from centralized interests

=Facts and data that support arguments against=

Centralized control of information efforts include lawsuits of the Motion Pictures Association, Recording Artists Association

=Relevance to OSE core values=

Decentralized and effective provision of needs is essential to OSE's philosophy.

----

=Implementation=

#Development of communication and storage protocol is a tractable problem
#Capitalization may be obtained readily by involving a large number of internet users, paying perhaps $25/year or whatever the at-cost price may be
##1 node every 10 miles, or every 100 sq miles (ex: 30,000 nodes for 3M sq miles of the USA
##Assume 10M initial subscribers- $2.5 billion in startup revenue available
##Each node has $100k allotment available

=Strategy=

Cost reduction for a project of this magnitude is feasible. $100k/node provides for feasibility using off-shelf technology. However, we want to go for open source components to assure maximum value. I propose we use $1-10M to develop open source, at-cost production facilities for hardware:
*wireless nodes - via CNC routers
*mobile, onsite aluminum production for towers from on-site clay - '''feasibility has not been evaluated'''
*open source protocol and code
*open source solar concentrator or OS PV production (ribbon PV is an immediate candidate)
*storage battery production - sealed lead acid
*power electronics - inverter and power conditioning for tower

[[Category:Zero_Hour]]

=Project Status=

*Zero Hour began at 5 PM, Wednesday, February 26, 2008
*Initial business plan to be drafted by March 26, 2008
**Due diligence required: dedicated email list, publicity via networks
**Dedicated webspace; opensourceecology.org volunteered at present
*Refined business plan to be drafted by April 26, 2008
**Due diligence required:
***Economic feasibility of mobile aluminum smelting unit
***Economic analysis of node hardware fabrication
***Economic analysis of solar energy production
***Economic analysis of energy storage production
*Final business plan to be drafted by May 26, 2008
*Technical development period: June - December 1, 2008
*Fundraising, PR, begun December 1
*Deployment begun January 1, 2009

=Feedback=

We welcome your feedback on any points of this project. -The Neomanagement

=More info / Links =
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networking
* PDF http://ecbiz103.inmotionhosting.com/~jrbald5/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/MeshKit_jrbaldwin.pdf
* [http://wirelessafrica.meraka.org.za/wiki/index.php/DIY_Mesh_Guide Wireless Mesh DIY guide]

Point To Peer

2012-03-25T20:56:09Z

Capiscuas: /* Examples - please fill in here */

{{Template:Category=Wireless mesh networking}}

=The Theory=

We propose that the development of a peer-to-peer internet and communications infrastructure, delivered essentially '''at cost''', is feasible today. It is merely a question of organization to get it implemented. Regulatory and structural barriers are likely to crumble via wide, popular support.

=Existing Problems=

Today, the internet and communication backbones are controlled by centralized interests. This does not favor a long-lasting democratic environment for human communication.

=Proposed Way to Apply the Theory=

We aim to test our theory (feasibility of P2P, physical communication infratructure) by building the infrastructure for peer, decentralized internet.

The core of a peer-based internet system proposal is the building of a physical infrastructure, where internet service is delivered at-cost. Such an infrastructure may be implemented most easily via a network of wireless towers. User nodes store content in a distributed fashion.

Key technical issues are:

#Development of communication and storage protocol based on peer-to-peer strategies
##Storage on peer computer nodes
#Building of wireless emitter/receiver nodes
#Building towers
#Powering wireless nodes

Key social issues:

#Organize a large support base of future user owners simply by concerted effort and by sustaining focus
#Attempts to stop this by the centralized power system can succeed only if people support the centralized power system, with its higher costs for internet and communications systems. This is unlikely to happen by simple dollar and cents arguments.
#Breakthrough application of [[User Owner]] concept.

=Related existing work that verifies feasibility=

*Paul is working on a protocol for decentralized communication.
*Marcin is working on solar energy production, circuit fabrication, aluminum production.
*Sam can align a wide support base for getting the proposal funded directly by stakeholders.
*Natural law: all empires crumble after some time

==Development Team==

*Marcin Jakubowski
*Sam Rose
*Paul B. Hartzog
*Keith Smith

==Infrastructure==

*[[PeerNet]]

=Related existing data or facts that support theory=

* The [[User Owner]] concept
* Various un-money, free internet, free communications, and related efforts
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXyVqk3EbwE
==Examples - please fill in here==

*[http://freenetproject.org/whatis.html Freenet]
*[http://guifi.net/en Guifi.net] (Spain, +15.000 free nodes interconnected)
*http://melbourne.wireless.org.au/ - a free community broadband network, using inexpensive off-the-shelf wireless network hardware.
**I believe they have been working on storage and communications protocols for some years. [[User:Mark Elliott|Mark Elliott]] 16:15, 30 March 2008 (PDT)
*[http://wirelessafrica.meraka.org.za/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Africa_Home_Page Wireless Africa]

=Existing constraints and barriers to deployment=

*Costly off-grid energy systems
*Regulatory issues in communication infrastructures
*Land base for setting up towers
*Peer to peer communication protocol
*Peer to peer data storage
*Cost of erecting towers
*Opposition from centralized interests

=Facts and data that support arguments against=

Centralized control of information efforts include lawsuits of the Motion Pictures Association, Recording Artists Association

=Relevance to OSE core values=

Decentralized and effective provision of needs is essential to OSE's philosophy.

----

=Implementation=

#Development of communication and storage protocol is a tractable problem
#Capitalization may be obtained readily by involving a large number of internet users, paying perhaps $25/year or whatever the at-cost price may be
##1 node every 10 miles, or every 100 sq miles (ex: 30,000 nodes for 3M sq miles of the USA
##Assume 10M initial subscribers- $2.5 billion in startup revenue available
##Each node has $100k allotment available

=Strategy=

Cost reduction for a project of this magnitude is feasible. $100k/node provides for feasibility using off-shelf technology. However, we want to go for open source components to assure maximum value. I propose we use $1-10M to develop open source, at-cost production facilities for hardware:
*wireless nodes - via CNC routers
*mobile, onsite aluminum production for towers from on-site clay - '''feasibility has not been evaluated'''
*open source protocol and code
*open source solar concentrator or OS PV production (ribbon PV is an immediate candidate)
*storage battery production - sealed lead acid
*power electronics - inverter and power conditioning for tower

[[Category:Zero_Hour]]

=Project Status=

*Zero Hour began at 5 PM, Wednesday, February 26, 2008
*Initial business plan to be drafted by March 26, 2008
**Due diligence required: dedicated email list, publicity via networks
**Dedicated webspace; opensourceecology.org volunteered at present
*Refined business plan to be drafted by April 26, 2008
**Due diligence required:
***Economic feasibility of mobile aluminum smelting unit
***Economic analysis of node hardware fabrication
***Economic analysis of solar energy production
***Economic analysis of energy storage production
*Final business plan to be drafted by May 26, 2008
*Technical development period: June - December 1, 2008
*Fundraising, PR, begun December 1
*Deployment begun January 1, 2009

=Feedback=

We welcome your feedback on any points of this project. -The Neomanagement

=More info / Links =
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networking
* PDF http://ecbiz103.inmotionhosting.com/~jrbald5/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/MeshKit_jrbaldwin.pdf

Point To Peer

2012-03-25T20:55:43Z

Capiscuas: /* More info / Links */

{{Template:Category=Wireless mesh networking}}

=The Theory=

We propose that the development of a peer-to-peer internet and communications infrastructure, delivered essentially '''at cost''', is feasible today. It is merely a question of organization to get it implemented. Regulatory and structural barriers are likely to crumble via wide, popular support.

=Existing Problems=

Today, the internet and communication backbones are controlled by centralized interests. This does not favor a long-lasting democratic environment for human communication.

=Proposed Way to Apply the Theory=

We aim to test our theory (feasibility of P2P, physical communication infratructure) by building the infrastructure for peer, decentralized internet.

The core of a peer-based internet system proposal is the building of a physical infrastructure, where internet service is delivered at-cost. Such an infrastructure may be implemented most easily via a network of wireless towers. User nodes store content in a distributed fashion.

Key technical issues are:

#Development of communication and storage protocol based on peer-to-peer strategies
##Storage on peer computer nodes
#Building of wireless emitter/receiver nodes
#Building towers
#Powering wireless nodes

Key social issues:

#Organize a large support base of future user owners simply by concerted effort and by sustaining focus
#Attempts to stop this by the centralized power system can succeed only if people support the centralized power system, with its higher costs for internet and communications systems. This is unlikely to happen by simple dollar and cents arguments.
#Breakthrough application of [[User Owner]] concept.

=Related existing work that verifies feasibility=

*Paul is working on a protocol for decentralized communication.
*Marcin is working on solar energy production, circuit fabrication, aluminum production.
*Sam can align a wide support base for getting the proposal funded directly by stakeholders.
*Natural law: all empires crumble after some time

==Development Team==

*Marcin Jakubowski
*Sam Rose
*Paul B. Hartzog
*Keith Smith

==Infrastructure==

*[[PeerNet]]

=Related existing data or facts that support theory=

* The [[User Owner]] concept
* Various un-money, free internet, free communications, and related efforts
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXyVqk3EbwE
==Examples - please fill in here==

*[http://freenetproject.org/whatis.html Freenet]
*[http://guifi.net/en Guifi.net] (Spain, +15.000 free nodes interconnected)
*http://melbourne.wireless.org.au/ - a free community broadband network, using inexpensive off-the-shelf wireless network hardware.
**I believe they have been working on storage and communications protocols for some years. [[User:Mark Elliott|Mark Elliott]] 16:15, 30 March 2008 (PDT)

=Existing constraints and barriers to deployment=

*Costly off-grid energy systems
*Regulatory issues in communication infrastructures
*Land base for setting up towers
*Peer to peer communication protocol
*Peer to peer data storage
*Cost of erecting towers
*Opposition from centralized interests

=Facts and data that support arguments against=

Centralized control of information efforts include lawsuits of the Motion Pictures Association, Recording Artists Association

=Relevance to OSE core values=

Decentralized and effective provision of needs is essential to OSE's philosophy.

----

=Implementation=

#Development of communication and storage protocol is a tractable problem
#Capitalization may be obtained readily by involving a large number of internet users, paying perhaps $25/year or whatever the at-cost price may be
##1 node every 10 miles, or every 100 sq miles (ex: 30,000 nodes for 3M sq miles of the USA
##Assume 10M initial subscribers- $2.5 billion in startup revenue available
##Each node has $100k allotment available

=Strategy=

Cost reduction for a project of this magnitude is feasible. $100k/node provides for feasibility using off-shelf technology. However, we want to go for open source components to assure maximum value. I propose we use $1-10M to develop open source, at-cost production facilities for hardware:
*wireless nodes - via CNC routers
*mobile, onsite aluminum production for towers from on-site clay - '''feasibility has not been evaluated'''
*open source protocol and code
*open source solar concentrator or OS PV production (ribbon PV is an immediate candidate)
*storage battery production - sealed lead acid
*power electronics - inverter and power conditioning for tower

[[Category:Zero_Hour]]

=Project Status=

*Zero Hour began at 5 PM, Wednesday, February 26, 2008
*Initial business plan to be drafted by March 26, 2008
**Due diligence required: dedicated email list, publicity via networks
**Dedicated webspace; opensourceecology.org volunteered at present
*Refined business plan to be drafted by April 26, 2008
**Due diligence required:
***Economic feasibility of mobile aluminum smelting unit
***Economic analysis of node hardware fabrication
***Economic analysis of solar energy production
***Economic analysis of energy storage production
*Final business plan to be drafted by May 26, 2008
*Technical development period: June - December 1, 2008
*Fundraising, PR, begun December 1
*Deployment begun January 1, 2009

=Feedback=

We welcome your feedback on any points of this project. -The Neomanagement

=More info / Links =
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networking
* PDF http://ecbiz103.inmotionhosting.com/~jrbald5/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/MeshKit_jrbaldwin.pdf

Point To Peer

2012-03-25T20:44:37Z

Capiscuas: /* Feedback */

{{Template:Category=Wireless mesh networking}}

=The Theory=

We propose that the development of a peer-to-peer internet and communications infrastructure, delivered essentially '''at cost''', is feasible today. It is merely a question of organization to get it implemented. Regulatory and structural barriers are likely to crumble via wide, popular support.

=Existing Problems=

Today, the internet and communication backbones are controlled by centralized interests. This does not favor a long-lasting democratic environment for human communication.

=Proposed Way to Apply the Theory=

We aim to test our theory (feasibility of P2P, physical communication infratructure) by building the infrastructure for peer, decentralized internet.

The core of a peer-based internet system proposal is the building of a physical infrastructure, where internet service is delivered at-cost. Such an infrastructure may be implemented most easily via a network of wireless towers. User nodes store content in a distributed fashion.

Key technical issues are:

#Development of communication and storage protocol based on peer-to-peer strategies
##Storage on peer computer nodes
#Building of wireless emitter/receiver nodes
#Building towers
#Powering wireless nodes

Key social issues:

#Organize a large support base of future user owners simply by concerted effort and by sustaining focus
#Attempts to stop this by the centralized power system can succeed only if people support the centralized power system, with its higher costs for internet and communications systems. This is unlikely to happen by simple dollar and cents arguments.
#Breakthrough application of [[User Owner]] concept.

=Related existing work that verifies feasibility=

*Paul is working on a protocol for decentralized communication.
*Marcin is working on solar energy production, circuit fabrication, aluminum production.
*Sam can align a wide support base for getting the proposal funded directly by stakeholders.
*Natural law: all empires crumble after some time

==Development Team==

*Marcin Jakubowski
*Sam Rose
*Paul B. Hartzog
*Keith Smith

==Infrastructure==

*[[PeerNet]]

=Related existing data or facts that support theory=

* The [[User Owner]] concept
* Various un-money, free internet, free communications, and related efforts
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXyVqk3EbwE
==Examples - please fill in here==

*[http://freenetproject.org/whatis.html Freenet]
*[http://guifi.net/en Guifi.net] (Spain, +15.000 free nodes interconnected)
*http://melbourne.wireless.org.au/ - a free community broadband network, using inexpensive off-the-shelf wireless network hardware.
**I believe they have been working on storage and communications protocols for some years. [[User:Mark Elliott|Mark Elliott]] 16:15, 30 March 2008 (PDT)

=Existing constraints and barriers to deployment=

*Costly off-grid energy systems
*Regulatory issues in communication infrastructures
*Land base for setting up towers
*Peer to peer communication protocol
*Peer to peer data storage
*Cost of erecting towers
*Opposition from centralized interests

=Facts and data that support arguments against=

Centralized control of information efforts include lawsuits of the Motion Pictures Association, Recording Artists Association

=Relevance to OSE core values=

Decentralized and effective provision of needs is essential to OSE's philosophy.

----

=Implementation=

#Development of communication and storage protocol is a tractable problem
#Capitalization may be obtained readily by involving a large number of internet users, paying perhaps $25/year or whatever the at-cost price may be
##1 node every 10 miles, or every 100 sq miles (ex: 30,000 nodes for 3M sq miles of the USA
##Assume 10M initial subscribers- $2.5 billion in startup revenue available
##Each node has $100k allotment available

=Strategy=

Cost reduction for a project of this magnitude is feasible. $100k/node provides for feasibility using off-shelf technology. However, we want to go for open source components to assure maximum value. I propose we use $1-10M to develop open source, at-cost production facilities for hardware:
*wireless nodes - via CNC routers
*mobile, onsite aluminum production for towers from on-site clay - '''feasibility has not been evaluated'''
*open source protocol and code
*open source solar concentrator or OS PV production (ribbon PV is an immediate candidate)
*storage battery production - sealed lead acid
*power electronics - inverter and power conditioning for tower

[[Category:Zero_Hour]]

=Project Status=

*Zero Hour began at 5 PM, Wednesday, February 26, 2008
*Initial business plan to be drafted by March 26, 2008
**Due diligence required: dedicated email list, publicity via networks
**Dedicated webspace; opensourceecology.org volunteered at present
*Refined business plan to be drafted by April 26, 2008
**Due diligence required:
***Economic feasibility of mobile aluminum smelting unit
***Economic analysis of node hardware fabrication
***Economic analysis of solar energy production
***Economic analysis of energy storage production
*Final business plan to be drafted by May 26, 2008
*Technical development period: June - December 1, 2008
*Fundraising, PR, begun December 1
*Deployment begun January 1, 2009

=Feedback=

We welcome your feedback on any points of this project. -The Neomanagement

=More info / Links =
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networking

Point To Peer

2012-03-25T20:43:32Z

Capiscuas: /* Related existing data or facts that support theory */

{{Template:Category=Wireless mesh networking}}

=The Theory=

We propose that the development of a peer-to-peer internet and communications infrastructure, delivered essentially '''at cost''', is feasible today. It is merely a question of organization to get it implemented. Regulatory and structural barriers are likely to crumble via wide, popular support.

=Existing Problems=

Today, the internet and communication backbones are controlled by centralized interests. This does not favor a long-lasting democratic environment for human communication.

=Proposed Way to Apply the Theory=

We aim to test our theory (feasibility of P2P, physical communication infratructure) by building the infrastructure for peer, decentralized internet.

The core of a peer-based internet system proposal is the building of a physical infrastructure, where internet service is delivered at-cost. Such an infrastructure may be implemented most easily via a network of wireless towers. User nodes store content in a distributed fashion.

Key technical issues are:

#Development of communication and storage protocol based on peer-to-peer strategies
##Storage on peer computer nodes
#Building of wireless emitter/receiver nodes
#Building towers
#Powering wireless nodes

Key social issues:

#Organize a large support base of future user owners simply by concerted effort and by sustaining focus
#Attempts to stop this by the centralized power system can succeed only if people support the centralized power system, with its higher costs for internet and communications systems. This is unlikely to happen by simple dollar and cents arguments.
#Breakthrough application of [[User Owner]] concept.

=Related existing work that verifies feasibility=

*Paul is working on a protocol for decentralized communication.
*Marcin is working on solar energy production, circuit fabrication, aluminum production.
*Sam can align a wide support base for getting the proposal funded directly by stakeholders.
*Natural law: all empires crumble after some time

==Development Team==

*Marcin Jakubowski
*Sam Rose
*Paul B. Hartzog
*Keith Smith

==Infrastructure==

*[[PeerNet]]

=Related existing data or facts that support theory=

* The [[User Owner]] concept
* Various un-money, free internet, free communications, and related efforts
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXyVqk3EbwE
==Examples - please fill in here==

*[http://freenetproject.org/whatis.html Freenet]
*[http://guifi.net/en Guifi.net] (Spain, +15.000 free nodes interconnected)
*http://melbourne.wireless.org.au/ - a free community broadband network, using inexpensive off-the-shelf wireless network hardware.
**I believe they have been working on storage and communications protocols for some years. [[User:Mark Elliott|Mark Elliott]] 16:15, 30 March 2008 (PDT)

=Existing constraints and barriers to deployment=

*Costly off-grid energy systems
*Regulatory issues in communication infrastructures
*Land base for setting up towers
*Peer to peer communication protocol
*Peer to peer data storage
*Cost of erecting towers
*Opposition from centralized interests

=Facts and data that support arguments against=

Centralized control of information efforts include lawsuits of the Motion Pictures Association, Recording Artists Association

=Relevance to OSE core values=

Decentralized and effective provision of needs is essential to OSE's philosophy.

----

=Implementation=

#Development of communication and storage protocol is a tractable problem
#Capitalization may be obtained readily by involving a large number of internet users, paying perhaps $25/year or whatever the at-cost price may be
##1 node every 10 miles, or every 100 sq miles (ex: 30,000 nodes for 3M sq miles of the USA
##Assume 10M initial subscribers- $2.5 billion in startup revenue available
##Each node has $100k allotment available

=Strategy=

Cost reduction for a project of this magnitude is feasible. $100k/node provides for feasibility using off-shelf technology. However, we want to go for open source components to assure maximum value. I propose we use $1-10M to develop open source, at-cost production facilities for hardware:
*wireless nodes - via CNC routers
*mobile, onsite aluminum production for towers from on-site clay - '''feasibility has not been evaluated'''
*open source protocol and code
*open source solar concentrator or OS PV production (ribbon PV is an immediate candidate)
*storage battery production - sealed lead acid
*power electronics - inverter and power conditioning for tower

[[Category:Zero_Hour]]

=Project Status=

*Zero Hour began at 5 PM, Wednesday, February 26, 2008
*Initial business plan to be drafted by March 26, 2008
**Due diligence required: dedicated email list, publicity via networks
**Dedicated webspace; opensourceecology.org volunteered at present
*Refined business plan to be drafted by April 26, 2008
**Due diligence required:
***Economic feasibility of mobile aluminum smelting unit
***Economic analysis of node hardware fabrication
***Economic analysis of solar energy production
***Economic analysis of energy storage production
*Final business plan to be drafted by May 26, 2008
*Technical development period: June - December 1, 2008
*Fundraising, PR, begun December 1
*Deployment begun January 1, 2009

=Feedback=

We welcome your feedback on any points of this project. -The Neomanagement

Point To Peer

2012-03-25T20:19:27Z

Capiscuas: /* Examples - please fill in here */

{{Template:Category=Wireless mesh networking}}

=The Theory=

We propose that the development of a peer-to-peer internet and communications infrastructure, delivered essentially '''at cost''', is feasible today. It is merely a question of organization to get it implemented. Regulatory and structural barriers are likely to crumble via wide, popular support.

=Existing Problems=

Today, the internet and communication backbones are controlled by centralized interests. This does not favor a long-lasting democratic environment for human communication.

=Proposed Way to Apply the Theory=

We aim to test our theory (feasibility of P2P, physical communication infratructure) by building the infrastructure for peer, decentralized internet.

The core of a peer-based internet system proposal is the building of a physical infrastructure, where internet service is delivered at-cost. Such an infrastructure may be implemented most easily via a network of wireless towers. User nodes store content in a distributed fashion.

Key technical issues are:

#Development of communication and storage protocol based on peer-to-peer strategies
##Storage on peer computer nodes
#Building of wireless emitter/receiver nodes
#Building towers
#Powering wireless nodes

Key social issues:

#Organize a large support base of future user owners simply by concerted effort and by sustaining focus
#Attempts to stop this by the centralized power system can succeed only if people support the centralized power system, with its higher costs for internet and communications systems. This is unlikely to happen by simple dollar and cents arguments.
#Breakthrough application of [[User Owner]] concept.

=Related existing work that verifies feasibility=

*Paul is working on a protocol for decentralized communication.
*Marcin is working on solar energy production, circuit fabrication, aluminum production.
*Sam can align a wide support base for getting the proposal funded directly by stakeholders.
*Natural law: all empires crumble after some time

==Development Team==

*Marcin Jakubowski
*Sam Rose
*Paul B. Hartzog
*Keith Smith

==Infrastructure==

*[[PeerNet]]

=Related existing data or facts that support theory=

* The [[User Owner]] concept
* Various un-money, free internet, free communications, and related efforts

==Examples - please fill in here==

*[http://freenetproject.org/whatis.html Freenet]
*[http://guifi.net/en Guifi.net] (Spain, +15.000 free nodes interconnected)
*http://melbourne.wireless.org.au/ - a free community broadband network, using inexpensive off-the-shelf wireless network hardware.
**I believe they have been working on storage and communications protocols for some years. [[User:Mark Elliott|Mark Elliott]] 16:15, 30 March 2008 (PDT)

=Existing constraints and barriers to deployment=

*Costly off-grid energy systems
*Regulatory issues in communication infrastructures
*Land base for setting up towers
*Peer to peer communication protocol
*Peer to peer data storage
*Cost of erecting towers
*Opposition from centralized interests

=Facts and data that support arguments against=

Centralized control of information efforts include lawsuits of the Motion Pictures Association, Recording Artists Association

=Relevance to OSE core values=

Decentralized and effective provision of needs is essential to OSE's philosophy.

----

=Implementation=

#Development of communication and storage protocol is a tractable problem
#Capitalization may be obtained readily by involving a large number of internet users, paying perhaps $25/year or whatever the at-cost price may be
##1 node every 10 miles, or every 100 sq miles (ex: 30,000 nodes for 3M sq miles of the USA
##Assume 10M initial subscribers- $2.5 billion in startup revenue available
##Each node has $100k allotment available

=Strategy=

Cost reduction for a project of this magnitude is feasible. $100k/node provides for feasibility using off-shelf technology. However, we want to go for open source components to assure maximum value. I propose we use $1-10M to develop open source, at-cost production facilities for hardware:
*wireless nodes - via CNC routers
*mobile, onsite aluminum production for towers from on-site clay - '''feasibility has not been evaluated'''
*open source protocol and code
*open source solar concentrator or OS PV production (ribbon PV is an immediate candidate)
*storage battery production - sealed lead acid
*power electronics - inverter and power conditioning for tower

[[Category:Zero_Hour]]

=Project Status=

*Zero Hour began at 5 PM, Wednesday, February 26, 2008
*Initial business plan to be drafted by March 26, 2008
**Due diligence required: dedicated email list, publicity via networks
**Dedicated webspace; opensourceecology.org volunteered at present
*Refined business plan to be drafted by April 26, 2008
**Due diligence required:
***Economic feasibility of mobile aluminum smelting unit
***Economic analysis of node hardware fabrication
***Economic analysis of solar energy production
***Economic analysis of energy storage production
*Final business plan to be drafted by May 26, 2008
*Technical development period: June - December 1, 2008
*Fundraising, PR, begun December 1
*Deployment begun January 1, 2009

=Feedback=

We welcome your feedback on any points of this project. -The Neomanagement

Point To Peer

2012-03-25T20:16:38Z

Capiscuas: /* Related existing data or facts that support theory */

{{Template:Category=Wireless mesh networking}}

=The Theory=

We propose that the development of a peer-to-peer internet and communications infrastructure, delivered essentially '''at cost''', is feasible today. It is merely a question of organization to get it implemented. Regulatory and structural barriers are likely to crumble via wide, popular support.

=Existing Problems=

Today, the internet and communication backbones are controlled by centralized interests. This does not favor a long-lasting democratic environment for human communication.

=Proposed Way to Apply the Theory=

We aim to test our theory (feasibility of P2P, physical communication infratructure) by building the infrastructure for peer, decentralized internet.

The core of a peer-based internet system proposal is the building of a physical infrastructure, where internet service is delivered at-cost. Such an infrastructure may be implemented most easily via a network of wireless towers. User nodes store content in a distributed fashion.

Key technical issues are:

#Development of communication and storage protocol based on peer-to-peer strategies
##Storage on peer computer nodes
#Building of wireless emitter/receiver nodes
#Building towers
#Powering wireless nodes

Key social issues:

#Organize a large support base of future user owners simply by concerted effort and by sustaining focus
#Attempts to stop this by the centralized power system can succeed only if people support the centralized power system, with its higher costs for internet and communications systems. This is unlikely to happen by simple dollar and cents arguments.
#Breakthrough application of [[User Owner]] concept.

=Related existing work that verifies feasibility=

*Paul is working on a protocol for decentralized communication.
*Marcin is working on solar energy production, circuit fabrication, aluminum production.
*Sam can align a wide support base for getting the proposal funded directly by stakeholders.
*Natural law: all empires crumble after some time

==Development Team==

*Marcin Jakubowski
*Sam Rose
*Paul B. Hartzog
*Keith Smith

==Infrastructure==

*[[PeerNet]]

=Related existing data or facts that support theory=

* The [[User Owner]] concept
* Various un-money, free internet, free communications, and related efforts

==Examples - please fill in here==

*[http://freenetproject.org/whatis.html Freenet]
*[http://guifi.net/en Guifi.net] (Spain, +10.000 free nodes interconnected)
*http://melbourne.wireless.org.au/ - a free community broadband network, using inexpensive off-the-shelf wireless network hardware.
**I believe they have been working on storage and communications protocols for some years. [[User:Mark Elliott|Mark Elliott]] 16:15, 30 March 2008 (PDT)

=Existing constraints and barriers to deployment=

*Costly off-grid energy systems
*Regulatory issues in communication infrastructures
*Land base for setting up towers
*Peer to peer communication protocol
*Peer to peer data storage
*Cost of erecting towers
*Opposition from centralized interests

=Facts and data that support arguments against=

Centralized control of information efforts include lawsuits of the Motion Pictures Association, Recording Artists Association

=Relevance to OSE core values=

Decentralized and effective provision of needs is essential to OSE's philosophy.

----

=Implementation=

#Development of communication and storage protocol is a tractable problem
#Capitalization may be obtained readily by involving a large number of internet users, paying perhaps $25/year or whatever the at-cost price may be
##1 node every 10 miles, or every 100 sq miles (ex: 30,000 nodes for 3M sq miles of the USA
##Assume 10M initial subscribers- $2.5 billion in startup revenue available
##Each node has $100k allotment available

=Strategy=

Cost reduction for a project of this magnitude is feasible. $100k/node provides for feasibility using off-shelf technology. However, we want to go for open source components to assure maximum value. I propose we use $1-10M to develop open source, at-cost production facilities for hardware:
*wireless nodes - via CNC routers
*mobile, onsite aluminum production for towers from on-site clay - '''feasibility has not been evaluated'''
*open source protocol and code
*open source solar concentrator or OS PV production (ribbon PV is an immediate candidate)
*storage battery production - sealed lead acid
*power electronics - inverter and power conditioning for tower

[[Category:Zero_Hour]]

=Project Status=

*Zero Hour began at 5 PM, Wednesday, February 26, 2008
*Initial business plan to be drafted by March 26, 2008
**Due diligence required: dedicated email list, publicity via networks
**Dedicated webspace; opensourceecology.org volunteered at present
*Refined business plan to be drafted by April 26, 2008
**Due diligence required:
***Economic feasibility of mobile aluminum smelting unit
***Economic analysis of node hardware fabrication
***Economic analysis of solar energy production
***Economic analysis of energy storage production
*Final business plan to be drafted by May 26, 2008
*Technical development period: June - December 1, 2008
*Fundraising, PR, begun December 1
*Deployment begun January 1, 2009

=Feedback=

We welcome your feedback on any points of this project. -The Neomanagement

Point To Peer

2012-03-25T20:15:54Z

Capiscuas: /* P2P Network examples */

{{Template:Category=Wireless mesh networking}}

=The Theory=

We propose that the development of a peer-to-peer internet and communications infrastructure, delivered essentially '''at cost''', is feasible today. It is merely a question of organization to get it implemented. Regulatory and structural barriers are likely to crumble via wide, popular support.

=Existing Problems=

Today, the internet and communication backbones are controlled by centralized interests. This does not favor a long-lasting democratic environment for human communication.

=Proposed Way to Apply the Theory=

We aim to test our theory (feasibility of P2P, physical communication infratructure) by building the infrastructure for peer, decentralized internet.

The core of a peer-based internet system proposal is the building of a physical infrastructure, where internet service is delivered at-cost. Such an infrastructure may be implemented most easily via a network of wireless towers. User nodes store content in a distributed fashion.

Key technical issues are:

#Development of communication and storage protocol based on peer-to-peer strategies
##Storage on peer computer nodes
#Building of wireless emitter/receiver nodes
#Building towers
#Powering wireless nodes

Key social issues:

#Organize a large support base of future user owners simply by concerted effort and by sustaining focus
#Attempts to stop this by the centralized power system can succeed only if people support the centralized power system, with its higher costs for internet and communications systems. This is unlikely to happen by simple dollar and cents arguments.
#Breakthrough application of [[User Owner]] concept.

=Related existing work that verifies feasibility=

*Paul is working on a protocol for decentralized communication.
*Marcin is working on solar energy production, circuit fabrication, aluminum production.
*Sam can align a wide support base for getting the proposal funded directly by stakeholders.
*Natural law: all empires crumble after some time

==Development Team==

*Marcin Jakubowski
*Sam Rose
*Paul B. Hartzog
*Keith Smith

==Infrastructure==

*[[PeerNet]]

=Related existing data or facts that support theory=

* The [[User Owner]] concept
*Various un-money, free internet, free communications, and related efforts
**Examples - please fill in here:
**http://melbourne.wireless.org.au/ - a free community broadband network, using inexpensive off-the-shelf wireless network hardware.
***I believe they have been working on storage and communications protocols for some years. [[User:Mark Elliott|Mark Elliott]] 16:15, 30 March 2008 (PDT)

=Existing constraints and barriers to deployment=

*Costly off-grid energy systems
*Regulatory issues in communication infrastructures
*Land base for setting up towers
*Peer to peer communication protocol
*Peer to peer data storage
*Cost of erecting towers
*Opposition from centralized interests

=Facts and data that support arguments against=

Centralized control of information efforts include lawsuits of the Motion Pictures Association, Recording Artists Association

=Relevance to OSE core values=

Decentralized and effective provision of needs is essential to OSE's philosophy.

----

=Implementation=

#Development of communication and storage protocol is a tractable problem
#Capitalization may be obtained readily by involving a large number of internet users, paying perhaps $25/year or whatever the at-cost price may be
##1 node every 10 miles, or every 100 sq miles (ex: 30,000 nodes for 3M sq miles of the USA
##Assume 10M initial subscribers- $2.5 billion in startup revenue available
##Each node has $100k allotment available

=Strategy=

Cost reduction for a project of this magnitude is feasible. $100k/node provides for feasibility using off-shelf technology. However, we want to go for open source components to assure maximum value. I propose we use $1-10M to develop open source, at-cost production facilities for hardware:
*wireless nodes - via CNC routers
*mobile, onsite aluminum production for towers from on-site clay - '''feasibility has not been evaluated'''
*open source protocol and code
*open source solar concentrator or OS PV production (ribbon PV is an immediate candidate)
*storage battery production - sealed lead acid
*power electronics - inverter and power conditioning for tower

[[Category:Zero_Hour]]

=Project Status=

*Zero Hour began at 5 PM, Wednesday, February 26, 2008
*Initial business plan to be drafted by March 26, 2008
**Due diligence required: dedicated email list, publicity via networks
**Dedicated webspace; opensourceecology.org volunteered at present
*Refined business plan to be drafted by April 26, 2008
**Due diligence required:
***Economic feasibility of mobile aluminum smelting unit
***Economic analysis of node hardware fabrication
***Economic analysis of solar energy production
***Economic analysis of energy storage production
*Final business plan to be drafted by May 26, 2008
*Technical development period: June - December 1, 2008
*Fundraising, PR, begun December 1
*Deployment begun January 1, 2009

=Feedback=

We welcome your feedback on any points of this project. -The Neomanagement

Point To Peer

2012-03-25T20:14:58Z

Capiscuas: /* P2P Networks examples */

{{Template:Category=Wireless mesh networking}}

=The Theory=

We propose that the development of a peer-to-peer internet and communications infrastructure, delivered essentially '''at cost''', is feasible today. It is merely a question of organization to get it implemented. Regulatory and structural barriers are likely to crumble via wide, popular support.

=Existing Problems=

Today, the internet and communication backbones are controlled by centralized interests. This does not favor a long-lasting democratic environment for human communication.

=Proposed Way to Apply the Theory=

We aim to test our theory (feasibility of P2P, physical communication infratructure) by building the infrastructure for peer, decentralized internet.

The core of a peer-based internet system proposal is the building of a physical infrastructure, where internet service is delivered at-cost. Such an infrastructure may be implemented most easily via a network of wireless towers. User nodes store content in a distributed fashion.

Key technical issues are:

#Development of communication and storage protocol based on peer-to-peer strategies
##Storage on peer computer nodes
#Building of wireless emitter/receiver nodes
#Building towers
#Powering wireless nodes

Key social issues:

#Organize a large support base of future user owners simply by concerted effort and by sustaining focus
#Attempts to stop this by the centralized power system can succeed only if people support the centralized power system, with its higher costs for internet and communications systems. This is unlikely to happen by simple dollar and cents arguments.
#Breakthrough application of [[User Owner]] concept.

=Related existing work that verifies feasibility=

*Paul is working on a protocol for decentralized communication.
*Marcin is working on solar energy production, circuit fabrication, aluminum production.
*Sam can align a wide support base for getting the proposal funded directly by stakeholders.
*Natural law: all empires crumble after some time

==Development Team==

*Marcin Jakubowski
*Sam Rose
*Paul B. Hartzog
*Keith Smith

==Infrastructure==

*[[PeerNet]]

==P2P Network examples ==
*[http://freenetproject.org/whatis.html Freenet]
*[http://guifi.net/en Guifi.net] (Spain, +10.000 free nodes interconnected)

=Related existing data or facts that support theory=

* The [[User Owner]] concept
*Various un-money, free internet, free communications, and related efforts
**Examples - please fill in here:
**http://melbourne.wireless.org.au/ - a free community broadband network, using inexpensive off-the-shelf wireless network hardware.
***I believe they have been working on storage and communications protocols for some years. [[User:Mark Elliott|Mark Elliott]] 16:15, 30 March 2008 (PDT)

=Existing constraints and barriers to deployment=

*Costly off-grid energy systems
*Regulatory issues in communication infrastructures
*Land base for setting up towers
*Peer to peer communication protocol
*Peer to peer data storage
*Cost of erecting towers
*Opposition from centralized interests

=Facts and data that support arguments against=

Centralized control of information efforts include lawsuits of the Motion Pictures Association, Recording Artists Association

=Relevance to OSE core values=

Decentralized and effective provision of needs is essential to OSE's philosophy.

----

=Implementation=

#Development of communication and storage protocol is a tractable problem
#Capitalization may be obtained readily by involving a large number of internet users, paying perhaps $25/year or whatever the at-cost price may be
##1 node every 10 miles, or every 100 sq miles (ex: 30,000 nodes for 3M sq miles of the USA
##Assume 10M initial subscribers- $2.5 billion in startup revenue available
##Each node has $100k allotment available

=Strategy=

Cost reduction for a project of this magnitude is feasible. $100k/node provides for feasibility using off-shelf technology. However, we want to go for open source components to assure maximum value. I propose we use $1-10M to develop open source, at-cost production facilities for hardware:
*wireless nodes - via CNC routers
*mobile, onsite aluminum production for towers from on-site clay - '''feasibility has not been evaluated'''
*open source protocol and code
*open source solar concentrator or OS PV production (ribbon PV is an immediate candidate)
*storage battery production - sealed lead acid
*power electronics - inverter and power conditioning for tower

[[Category:Zero_Hour]]

=Project Status=

*Zero Hour began at 5 PM, Wednesday, February 26, 2008
*Initial business plan to be drafted by March 26, 2008
**Due diligence required: dedicated email list, publicity via networks
**Dedicated webspace; opensourceecology.org volunteered at present
*Refined business plan to be drafted by April 26, 2008
**Due diligence required:
***Economic feasibility of mobile aluminum smelting unit
***Economic analysis of node hardware fabrication
***Economic analysis of solar energy production
***Economic analysis of energy storage production
*Final business plan to be drafted by May 26, 2008
*Technical development period: June - December 1, 2008
*Fundraising, PR, begun December 1
*Deployment begun January 1, 2009

=Feedback=

We welcome your feedback on any points of this project. -The Neomanagement

Point To Peer

2012-03-25T20:14:47Z

Capiscuas: /* Related existing work that verifies feasibility */

{{Template:Category=Wireless mesh networking}}

=The Theory=

We propose that the development of a peer-to-peer internet and communications infrastructure, delivered essentially '''at cost''', is feasible today. It is merely a question of organization to get it implemented. Regulatory and structural barriers are likely to crumble via wide, popular support.

=Existing Problems=

Today, the internet and communication backbones are controlled by centralized interests. This does not favor a long-lasting democratic environment for human communication.

=Proposed Way to Apply the Theory=

We aim to test our theory (feasibility of P2P, physical communication infratructure) by building the infrastructure for peer, decentralized internet.

The core of a peer-based internet system proposal is the building of a physical infrastructure, where internet service is delivered at-cost. Such an infrastructure may be implemented most easily via a network of wireless towers. User nodes store content in a distributed fashion.

Key technical issues are:

#Development of communication and storage protocol based on peer-to-peer strategies
##Storage on peer computer nodes
#Building of wireless emitter/receiver nodes
#Building towers
#Powering wireless nodes

Key social issues:

#Organize a large support base of future user owners simply by concerted effort and by sustaining focus
#Attempts to stop this by the centralized power system can succeed only if people support the centralized power system, with its higher costs for internet and communications systems. This is unlikely to happen by simple dollar and cents arguments.
#Breakthrough application of [[User Owner]] concept.

=Related existing work that verifies feasibility=

*Paul is working on a protocol for decentralized communication.
*Marcin is working on solar energy production, circuit fabrication, aluminum production.
*Sam can align a wide support base for getting the proposal funded directly by stakeholders.
*Natural law: all empires crumble after some time

==Development Team==

*Marcin Jakubowski
*Sam Rose
*Paul B. Hartzog
*Keith Smith

==Infrastructure==

*[[PeerNet]]

==P2P Networks examples ==
*[http://freenetproject.org/whatis.html Freenet]
*[http://guifi.net/en Guifi.net] (Spain, +10.000 free nodes interconnected)

=Related existing data or facts that support theory=

* The [[User Owner]] concept
*Various un-money, free internet, free communications, and related efforts
**Examples - please fill in here:
**http://melbourne.wireless.org.au/ - a free community broadband network, using inexpensive off-the-shelf wireless network hardware.
***I believe they have been working on storage and communications protocols for some years. [[User:Mark Elliott|Mark Elliott]] 16:15, 30 March 2008 (PDT)

=Existing constraints and barriers to deployment=

*Costly off-grid energy systems
*Regulatory issues in communication infrastructures
*Land base for setting up towers
*Peer to peer communication protocol
*Peer to peer data storage
*Cost of erecting towers
*Opposition from centralized interests

=Facts and data that support arguments against=

Centralized control of information efforts include lawsuits of the Motion Pictures Association, Recording Artists Association

=Relevance to OSE core values=

Decentralized and effective provision of needs is essential to OSE's philosophy.

----

=Implementation=

#Development of communication and storage protocol is a tractable problem
#Capitalization may be obtained readily by involving a large number of internet users, paying perhaps $25/year or whatever the at-cost price may be
##1 node every 10 miles, or every 100 sq miles (ex: 30,000 nodes for 3M sq miles of the USA
##Assume 10M initial subscribers- $2.5 billion in startup revenue available
##Each node has $100k allotment available

=Strategy=

Cost reduction for a project of this magnitude is feasible. $100k/node provides for feasibility using off-shelf technology. However, we want to go for open source components to assure maximum value. I propose we use $1-10M to develop open source, at-cost production facilities for hardware:
*wireless nodes - via CNC routers
*mobile, onsite aluminum production for towers from on-site clay - '''feasibility has not been evaluated'''
*open source protocol and code
*open source solar concentrator or OS PV production (ribbon PV is an immediate candidate)
*storage battery production - sealed lead acid
*power electronics - inverter and power conditioning for tower

[[Category:Zero_Hour]]

=Project Status=

*Zero Hour began at 5 PM, Wednesday, February 26, 2008
*Initial business plan to be drafted by March 26, 2008
**Due diligence required: dedicated email list, publicity via networks
**Dedicated webspace; opensourceecology.org volunteered at present
*Refined business plan to be drafted by April 26, 2008
**Due diligence required:
***Economic feasibility of mobile aluminum smelting unit
***Economic analysis of node hardware fabrication
***Economic analysis of solar energy production
***Economic analysis of energy storage production
*Final business plan to be drafted by May 26, 2008
*Technical development period: June - December 1, 2008
*Fundraising, PR, begun December 1
*Deployment begun January 1, 2009

=Feedback=

We welcome your feedback on any points of this project. -The Neomanagement

Point To Peer

2012-03-25T20:13:43Z

Capiscuas: /* Related existing work that verifies feasibility */

{{Template:Category=Wireless mesh networking}}

=The Theory=

We propose that the development of a peer-to-peer internet and communications infrastructure, delivered essentially '''at cost''', is feasible today. It is merely a question of organization to get it implemented. Regulatory and structural barriers are likely to crumble via wide, popular support.

=Existing Problems=

Today, the internet and communication backbones are controlled by centralized interests. This does not favor a long-lasting democratic environment for human communication.

=Proposed Way to Apply the Theory=

We aim to test our theory (feasibility of P2P, physical communication infratructure) by building the infrastructure for peer, decentralized internet.

The core of a peer-based internet system proposal is the building of a physical infrastructure, where internet service is delivered at-cost. Such an infrastructure may be implemented most easily via a network of wireless towers. User nodes store content in a distributed fashion.

Key technical issues are:

#Development of communication and storage protocol based on peer-to-peer strategies
##Storage on peer computer nodes
#Building of wireless emitter/receiver nodes
#Building towers
#Powering wireless nodes

Key social issues:

#Organize a large support base of future user owners simply by concerted effort and by sustaining focus
#Attempts to stop this by the centralized power system can succeed only if people support the centralized power system, with its higher costs for internet and communications systems. This is unlikely to happen by simple dollar and cents arguments.
#Breakthrough application of [[User Owner]] concept.

=Related existing work that verifies feasibility=

*Paul is working on a protocol for decentralized communication.
*Marcin is working on solar energy production, circuit fabrication, aluminum production.
*Sam can align a wide support base for getting the proposal funded directly by stakeholders.
*Natural law: all empires crumble after some time
*[http://freenetproject.org/whatis.html Freenet] [http://guifi.net/en Guifi.net (Spain, +10.000 free nodes interconnected)]

==Development Team==

*Marcin Jakubowski
*Sam Rose
*Paul B. Hartzog
*Keith Smith

==Infrastructure==

*[[PeerNet]]

=Related existing data or facts that support theory=

* The [[User Owner]] concept
*Various un-money, free internet, free communications, and related efforts
**Examples - please fill in here:
**http://melbourne.wireless.org.au/ - a free community broadband network, using inexpensive off-the-shelf wireless network hardware.
***I believe they have been working on storage and communications protocols for some years. [[User:Mark Elliott|Mark Elliott]] 16:15, 30 March 2008 (PDT)

=Existing constraints and barriers to deployment=

*Costly off-grid energy systems
*Regulatory issues in communication infrastructures
*Land base for setting up towers
*Peer to peer communication protocol
*Peer to peer data storage
*Cost of erecting towers
*Opposition from centralized interests

=Facts and data that support arguments against=

Centralized control of information efforts include lawsuits of the Motion Pictures Association, Recording Artists Association

=Relevance to OSE core values=

Decentralized and effective provision of needs is essential to OSE's philosophy.

----

=Implementation=

#Development of communication and storage protocol is a tractable problem
#Capitalization may be obtained readily by involving a large number of internet users, paying perhaps $25/year or whatever the at-cost price may be
##1 node every 10 miles, or every 100 sq miles (ex: 30,000 nodes for 3M sq miles of the USA
##Assume 10M initial subscribers- $2.5 billion in startup revenue available
##Each node has $100k allotment available

=Strategy=

Cost reduction for a project of this magnitude is feasible. $100k/node provides for feasibility using off-shelf technology. However, we want to go for open source components to assure maximum value. I propose we use $1-10M to develop open source, at-cost production facilities for hardware:
*wireless nodes - via CNC routers
*mobile, onsite aluminum production for towers from on-site clay - '''feasibility has not been evaluated'''
*open source protocol and code
*open source solar concentrator or OS PV production (ribbon PV is an immediate candidate)
*storage battery production - sealed lead acid
*power electronics - inverter and power conditioning for tower

[[Category:Zero_Hour]]

=Project Status=

*Zero Hour began at 5 PM, Wednesday, February 26, 2008
*Initial business plan to be drafted by March 26, 2008
**Due diligence required: dedicated email list, publicity via networks
**Dedicated webspace; opensourceecology.org volunteered at present
*Refined business plan to be drafted by April 26, 2008
**Due diligence required:
***Economic feasibility of mobile aluminum smelting unit
***Economic analysis of node hardware fabrication
***Economic analysis of solar energy production
***Economic analysis of energy storage production
*Final business plan to be drafted by May 26, 2008
*Technical development period: June - December 1, 2008
*Fundraising, PR, begun December 1
*Deployment begun January 1, 2009

=Feedback=

We welcome your feedback on any points of this project. -The Neomanagement

Lessons Learned

2012-02-05T17:35:01Z

Capiscuas: /* Team Wikispeed */

This page is for specific lessons that have been learned in one area that can be applied to other areas. If it's a lesson learned that only applies to the area it was learned in, then it's better to document it in that specific area.

=Team Wikispeed=
[http://www.wikispeed.com/ Wikispeed] is a team of volunteers that formed around the work of [http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=4583874&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=y3gN&locale=en_US&srchid=f5fc9cc6-0258-4503-b0b3-92382aac28b1-0&srchindex=1&srchtotal=1&goback=%2Efps_PBCK_joe+justice+wikispeed_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*2_*1_Y_*1_*1_*1_false_1_R_*1_*51_*1_*51_true_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2&pvs=ps&trk=pp_profile_name_link Joe Justice] as he competed in the [http://www.progressiveautoxprize.org/teams/wikispeed Progressive Insurance Automotive X-Prize]. His greatest innovation was applying [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development) lean/agile/SCRUM] software program management to hardware, specifically the iterative design of a 100+ mpg passenger vehicle.

The dramatic success of Team Wikispeed's activities pretty much demands listening to what Joe has to say.

==TED talk:==
<html><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8jdx-lf2Dw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

===General===
* First functional prototype built in 3 months.
* Existing manufacturing processes are slow to change because they're exceptionally expensive to change.
** Major manufacturers typically operate on 10-25 year design cycles.
* Wikispeed uses 7-day design cycles.
* Iterated a process that brought the cost/time of a full structural carbon fiber car body down from $36,000/3 months to $800/3 days.
* Went from 1 guy in his garage to 100+ volunteers, in 8 countries, and a production-ready car in 6 months.

===Specific===
* Modularity.
** Every system in the car can be separated from every other system as quickly and easily as changing a tire.
* Test-based.
** The customer-value standard, and the test for it, is designed BEFORE the solution is designed.
* Use less stuff.
** The parts for the frame of the car can be built with stock 4" aluminum tube, an $80 band saw, and a used-kit-built CNC milling machine.
** Reduce costs in tooling, machinery and complexity wherever possible. This allows for improvements to be incorporated into the design immediately because there are so few sunk costs.
* Distributed, collaborative teams.
** Use free online tools.
* Morale for velocity.
** It's not additive or subtractive, it's a multiplier.
* Work in pairs.
** Put a newbie with a pro and the newbie learns AS the job gets done. This eliminates time devoted to training. The pro gets help, the newbie gets hands-on experience.
** Also eliminates the need for most types of documentation.
* Visualize workflow to eliminate any time spent not creatively solving problems.

==Keynote American Council of Engineering Companies==
<html><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed//I3HXw0Ruz9M" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Open Source Washing Machine Project

2011-10-06T19:25:55Z

Capiscuas: /* And a third: */

{{Category=Home fittings}}
Washing machines are arguably the most liberating machine that poor people can attain. Five billion people do not have access to washing machines (see [http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_machine.html Hans Rosling's TED talk]); that means that women (and it is nearly always women) are spending tens of billions of hours doing boring, hard labour. By making a cheap, open-source washing machine, we can create billions of hours of free time for these women to do the things they really want to.

== About the OSWash project ==
OSWASH website: http://www.oswash.org/ . This was a project aiming to build a cheap open-source washing machine, but nothing seems to have come of it. There are no designs on the website, and no updates for the past year. The biketech projects below are more active.

Project Presentation:
*ODF:http://www.craslab.org/persojn/bricolabs/OSwash.odp
*PDF:http://www.craslab.org/persojn/bricolabs/OSwash.pdf

The open source washing machine project aims to rethink the way we wash clothes around the world, in accordance with economical, sociological, cultural and environmental aspects. Around the planet, most people - mostly women - wash clothes by hand in harsh conditions because of poverty, lack of sanitation, water or energy.

The project was born in spring 2008 during an Open Source Hardware workshop for artists in Craslab Paris. The Freeduino board is a piece of low-cost Open Source Hardware created to replace the systems that manage sensors, actuators or data acquisition in many devices. This electronic board is used by artists, designers, architects...

”A 12 $ freeduino could replace the programmer in any washing machine, because it can manage the keyboard of the washing machine. It can manage the heat and pressure sensors of the machine, and it can manage all the hardware like the heater, pumps or valves, and you could program your washing cycles yourself."

The idea of a DIY electronic washing machine using recycling parts and an open source microcontroller was born. “Let’s do it!”. But immediately, we knew that this was a Western-style project for rich countries only. Here in rich countries, we are able to use industrialised washing machines because we have electricity, running water, sanitation and detergents. But for more than 2 billion people, there is little or no water, no running water, no energy and no opportunity to buy and maintain a Western-style washing machine - even one made with recycled parts.

We had to find something different.

We had to rethink the economical, sociological and technical concepts of washing clothes from a mindset of sustainable development and respect of the natural and human environment.

We had to rethink the role of technology in day-to-day life, particularly as applied to the laborious activity of washing clothes.

How can we use open source technologies to solve both global and local issues? How can the exchange of knowledge, through open resources and open source communities, create the organisational model for such projects? How can the model of self-organisation and technological autarchy save us in the coming years, when the effects of the petrol/climate crisis will deeply affect all civilisation?

=== Communications ===

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kurt Van Houtte <kurt@hexmatic.com>
Date: Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:19 AM
Subject: [dorkbotgent-announce] OSWASH: bring your dirty underwear!
To: dorkbotgent-announce <dorkbotgent-announce@dorkbot.org>

---please spread

OSWASH | Open Source Washing Machine Project

A four day workshop this july (14-15-16-17) at the Summercamp
Electrified in Ghent (Belgium) where we'll be rethinking, designing
and developing open source washing machines.
Using recycled parts and sustainable energy we'll be building working
washing machine prototypes.

Bring your dirty underwear and join this workshop by sending a mail to
summercamp@timelab.org!

cost: €5/day for the workshop. €20/day extra for lunch & diner (optional)

clickedieclick > http://www.timelab.org/summercamp09/workshops/oswash/

"The open source washing machine project aims to rethink the way we
wash clothes around the world...

The idea of a DIY electronic washing machine using recycling parts and
Open source microcontroller was born in spring 2008 during an Open
Source Hardware workshop for artists in Craslab Paris.

Workshop by Jean-Noël Montagné. French artist and activist born in
1963. Creates interactive installations with sensing technologies
since 1991. Last installation: “Je te parlerai dans un reflet de
lumière”, 2006/2007, an interactive installation on the subject of the
walls for separating rich and poor. Founder of the non-profit NGO “Art
Sensitif ” related to relations between art and science for
interactive art. Founder and director of CRAS ressource center for
interactive technologies in Paris-Saint Ouen."

mailto:summercamp@timelab.org

Spread the word!
/thx

==Factor e Farm Happenings==

We are considering making an industrial-scale washing machine by attaching the hydraulics of [[LifeTrac]] to the [[Universal Rotor]] to spin a vat full of clothes. This is one implementation using available power sources.

==Open-source washing machine using [[Bicycle technology|biketech]]==
[http://www.mayapedal.org/machines.html Maya Pedal] are developing an open-source pedal-powered washing machine. It is in the prototype phase and there are no plans online yet (March 2011).

And another one: [http://www.cyclean.biz/mainmenu.html The Cyclean]. As of March 23rd 2011, it says, "Update: We are currently working on getting some plans up on here so you will be able to make your own".

====And a third: ====
[[Image:Projects-washer.jpg|thumb|right]]

http://orgs.utulsa.edu/senea/projects/

'''Email reply from Andrew Lowe (''andrew-lowe AT utulsa.edu'' ):'''

My name is Andrew Lowe and myself and another TU student are in charge of the Pedal Powered Washing Machine product. We've nearly completed the first prototype, but unfortunate we didn't make any detailed plans. I can, however, give you some of the details of what we built and how we built it:

-We designed our machine primarily from videos we found on youtube of other machines that have already been built.

-The tub is made of two rain barrels. For the outside, we used a 55 gallon barrel. The only modification you have to make to this one is cut a hole in the top large enough to get your second barrel in. For the inside, we used a 30 gallon barrel and drilled small holes all around it to let the water in and also keep the clothes in. On this barrel we cut out a door and attached it with hinges and a latch. These barrels ended up being much too large and took too much water. When we rebuild it we're going to use smaller barrels.

-The outside barrel is mounted on a frame, keeping it from moving. The inside barrel has a shaft coming out of each side of the large barrel. This connects it to the drive shaft from the bike.

-For the drive shaft we just mounted bike pedals on a separate frame and connected that to a bike gear that turned the inside barrel directly.

-At the bottom of the larger barrel we put a valve to drain the water after washing

-We plan on adding a gear shifter to make it easier to get up to higher speeds for spin-drying the clothes.

Like I said, the first model has a few problems and we're going to try to rebuild it on a smaller scale. Next time we'll make more detailed plans.

Open Source Washing Machine Project

2011-10-06T19:24:33Z

Capiscuas: /* And a third: */

{{Category=Home fittings}}
Washing machines are arguably the most liberating machine that poor people can attain. Five billion people do not have access to washing machines (see [http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_machine.html Hans Rosling's TED talk]); that means that women (and it is nearly always women) are spending tens of billions of hours doing boring, hard labour. By making a cheap, open-source washing machine, we can create billions of hours of free time for these women to do the things they really want to.

== About the OSWash project ==
OSWASH website: http://www.oswash.org/ . This was a project aiming to build a cheap open-source washing machine, but nothing seems to have come of it. There are no designs on the website, and no updates for the past year. The biketech projects below are more active.

Project Presentation:
*ODF:http://www.craslab.org/persojn/bricolabs/OSwash.odp
*PDF:http://www.craslab.org/persojn/bricolabs/OSwash.pdf

The open source washing machine project aims to rethink the way we wash clothes around the world, in accordance with economical, sociological, cultural and environmental aspects. Around the planet, most people - mostly women - wash clothes by hand in harsh conditions because of poverty, lack of sanitation, water or energy.

The project was born in spring 2008 during an Open Source Hardware workshop for artists in Craslab Paris. The Freeduino board is a piece of low-cost Open Source Hardware created to replace the systems that manage sensors, actuators or data acquisition in many devices. This electronic board is used by artists, designers, architects...

”A 12 $ freeduino could replace the programmer in any washing machine, because it can manage the keyboard of the washing machine. It can manage the heat and pressure sensors of the machine, and it can manage all the hardware like the heater, pumps or valves, and you could program your washing cycles yourself."

The idea of a DIY electronic washing machine using recycling parts and an open source microcontroller was born. “Let’s do it!”. But immediately, we knew that this was a Western-style project for rich countries only. Here in rich countries, we are able to use industrialised washing machines because we have electricity, running water, sanitation and detergents. But for more than 2 billion people, there is little or no water, no running water, no energy and no opportunity to buy and maintain a Western-style washing machine - even one made with recycled parts.

We had to find something different.

We had to rethink the economical, sociological and technical concepts of washing clothes from a mindset of sustainable development and respect of the natural and human environment.

We had to rethink the role of technology in day-to-day life, particularly as applied to the laborious activity of washing clothes.

How can we use open source technologies to solve both global and local issues? How can the exchange of knowledge, through open resources and open source communities, create the organisational model for such projects? How can the model of self-organisation and technological autarchy save us in the coming years, when the effects of the petrol/climate crisis will deeply affect all civilisation?

=== Communications ===

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kurt Van Houtte <kurt@hexmatic.com>
Date: Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:19 AM
Subject: [dorkbotgent-announce] OSWASH: bring your dirty underwear!
To: dorkbotgent-announce <dorkbotgent-announce@dorkbot.org>

---please spread

OSWASH | Open Source Washing Machine Project

A four day workshop this july (14-15-16-17) at the Summercamp
Electrified in Ghent (Belgium) where we'll be rethinking, designing
and developing open source washing machines.
Using recycled parts and sustainable energy we'll be building working
washing machine prototypes.

Bring your dirty underwear and join this workshop by sending a mail to
summercamp@timelab.org!

cost: €5/day for the workshop. €20/day extra for lunch & diner (optional)

clickedieclick > http://www.timelab.org/summercamp09/workshops/oswash/

"The open source washing machine project aims to rethink the way we
wash clothes around the world...

The idea of a DIY electronic washing machine using recycling parts and
Open source microcontroller was born in spring 2008 during an Open
Source Hardware workshop for artists in Craslab Paris.

Workshop by Jean-Noël Montagné. French artist and activist born in
1963. Creates interactive installations with sensing technologies
since 1991. Last installation: “Je te parlerai dans un reflet de
lumière”, 2006/2007, an interactive installation on the subject of the
walls for separating rich and poor. Founder of the non-profit NGO “Art
Sensitif ” related to relations between art and science for
interactive art. Founder and director of CRAS ressource center for
interactive technologies in Paris-Saint Ouen."

mailto:summercamp@timelab.org

Spread the word!
/thx

==Factor e Farm Happenings==

We are considering making an industrial-scale washing machine by attaching the hydraulics of [[LifeTrac]] to the [[Universal Rotor]] to spin a vat full of clothes. This is one implementation using available power sources.

==Open-source washing machine using [[Bicycle technology|biketech]]==
[http://www.mayapedal.org/machines.html Maya Pedal] are developing an open-source pedal-powered washing machine. It is in the prototype phase and there are no plans online yet (March 2011).

And another one: [http://www.cyclean.biz/mainmenu.html The Cyclean]. As of March 23rd 2011, it says, "Update: We are currently working on getting some plans up on here so you will be able to make your own".

====And a third: ====
[[File:Projects-washer.jpg|thumb|right]]

http://orgs.utulsa.edu/senea/projects/

'''Email reply from Andrew Lowe (''andrew-lowe AT utulsa.edu'' ):'''

My name is Andrew Lowe and myself and another TU student are in charge of the Pedal Powered Washing Machine product. We've nearly completed the first prototype, but unfortunate we didn't make any detailed plans. I can, however, give you some of the details of what we built and how we built it:

-We designed our machine primarily from videos we found on youtube of other machines that have already been built.

-The tub is made of two rain barrels. For the outside, we used a 55 gallon barrel. The only modification you have to make to this one is cut a hole in the top large enough to get your second barrel in. For the inside, we used a 30 gallon barrel and drilled small holes all around it to let the water in and also keep the clothes in. On this barrel we cut out a door and attached it with hinges and a latch. These barrels ended up being much too large and took too much water. When we rebuild it we're going to use smaller barrels.

-The outside barrel is mounted on a frame, keeping it from moving. The inside barrel has a shaft coming out of each side of the large barrel. This connects it to the drive shaft from the bike.

-For the drive shaft we just mounted bike pedals on a separate frame and connected that to a bike gear that turned the inside barrel directly.

-At the bottom of the larger barrel we put a valve to drain the water after washing

-We plan on adding a gear shifter to make it easier to get up to higher speeds for spin-drying the clothes.

Like I said, the first model has a few problems and we're going to try to rebuild it on a smaller scale. Next time we'll make more detailed plans.

File:Projects-washer.jpg

2011-10-06T19:13:08Z

Capiscuas: Pedal-Powered Wash Machine from http://orgs.utulsa.edu/senea/projects/

Pedal-Powered Wash Machine from http://orgs.utulsa.edu/senea/projects/

Open Source Washing Machine Project

2011-10-06T19:11:10Z

Capiscuas: /* Open-source washing machine using biketech */

{{Category=Home fittings}}
Washing machines are arguably the most liberating machine that poor people can attain. Five billion people do not have access to washing machines (see [http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_machine.html Hans Rosling's TED talk]); that means that women (and it is nearly always women) are spending tens of billions of hours doing boring, hard labour. By making a cheap, open-source washing machine, we can create billions of hours of free time for these women to do the things they really want to.

== About the OSWash project ==
OSWASH website: http://www.oswash.org/ . This was a project aiming to build a cheap open-source washing machine, but nothing seems to have come of it. There are no designs on the website, and no updates for the past year. The biketech projects below are more active.

Project Presentation:
*ODF:http://www.craslab.org/persojn/bricolabs/OSwash.odp
*PDF:http://www.craslab.org/persojn/bricolabs/OSwash.pdf

The open source washing machine project aims to rethink the way we wash clothes around the world, in accordance with economical, sociological, cultural and environmental aspects. Around the planet, most people - mostly women - wash clothes by hand in harsh conditions because of poverty, lack of sanitation, water or energy.

The project was born in spring 2008 during an Open Source Hardware workshop for artists in Craslab Paris. The Freeduino board is a piece of low-cost Open Source Hardware created to replace the systems that manage sensors, actuators or data acquisition in many devices. This electronic board is used by artists, designers, architects...

”A 12 $ freeduino could replace the programmer in any washing machine, because it can manage the keyboard of the washing machine. It can manage the heat and pressure sensors of the machine, and it can manage all the hardware like the heater, pumps or valves, and you could program your washing cycles yourself."

The idea of a DIY electronic washing machine using recycling parts and an open source microcontroller was born. “Let’s do it!”. But immediately, we knew that this was a Western-style project for rich countries only. Here in rich countries, we are able to use industrialised washing machines because we have electricity, running water, sanitation and detergents. But for more than 2 billion people, there is little or no water, no running water, no energy and no opportunity to buy and maintain a Western-style washing machine - even one made with recycled parts.

We had to find something different.

We had to rethink the economical, sociological and technical concepts of washing clothes from a mindset of sustainable development and respect of the natural and human environment.

We had to rethink the role of technology in day-to-day life, particularly as applied to the laborious activity of washing clothes.

How can we use open source technologies to solve both global and local issues? How can the exchange of knowledge, through open resources and open source communities, create the organisational model for such projects? How can the model of self-organisation and technological autarchy save us in the coming years, when the effects of the petrol/climate crisis will deeply affect all civilisation?

=== Communications ===

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kurt Van Houtte <kurt@hexmatic.com>
Date: Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:19 AM
Subject: [dorkbotgent-announce] OSWASH: bring your dirty underwear!
To: dorkbotgent-announce <dorkbotgent-announce@dorkbot.org>

---please spread

OSWASH | Open Source Washing Machine Project

A four day workshop this july (14-15-16-17) at the Summercamp
Electrified in Ghent (Belgium) where we'll be rethinking, designing
and developing open source washing machines.
Using recycled parts and sustainable energy we'll be building working
washing machine prototypes.

Bring your dirty underwear and join this workshop by sending a mail to
summercamp@timelab.org!

cost: €5/day for the workshop. €20/day extra for lunch & diner (optional)

clickedieclick > http://www.timelab.org/summercamp09/workshops/oswash/

"The open source washing machine project aims to rethink the way we
wash clothes around the world...

The idea of a DIY electronic washing machine using recycling parts and
Open source microcontroller was born in spring 2008 during an Open
Source Hardware workshop for artists in Craslab Paris.

Workshop by Jean-Noël Montagné. French artist and activist born in
1963. Creates interactive installations with sensing technologies
since 1991. Last installation: “Je te parlerai dans un reflet de
lumière”, 2006/2007, an interactive installation on the subject of the
walls for separating rich and poor. Founder of the non-profit NGO “Art
Sensitif ” related to relations between art and science for
interactive art. Founder and director of CRAS ressource center for
interactive technologies in Paris-Saint Ouen."

mailto:summercamp@timelab.org

Spread the word!
/thx

==Factor e Farm Happenings==

We are considering making an industrial-scale washing machine by attaching the hydraulics of [[LifeTrac]] to the [[Universal Rotor]] to spin a vat full of clothes. This is one implementation using available power sources.

==Open-source washing machine using [[Bicycle technology|biketech]]==
[http://www.mayapedal.org/machines.html Maya Pedal] are developing an open-source pedal-powered washing machine. It is in the prototype phase and there are no plans online yet (March 2011).

And another one: [http://www.cyclean.biz/mainmenu.html The Cyclean]. As of March 23rd 2011, it says, "Update: We are currently working on getting some plans up on here so you will be able to make your own".

====And a third: ====

http://orgs.utulsa.edu/senea/projects/

'''Email reply from Andrew Lowe (''andrew-lowe AT utulsa.edu'' ):'''

My name is Andrew Lowe and myself and another TU student are in charge of the Pedal Powered Washing Machine product. We've nearly completed the first prototype, but unfortunate we didn't make any detailed plans. I can, however, give you some of the details of what we built and how we built it:

-We designed our machine primarily from videos we found on youtube of other machines that have already been built.

-The tub is made of two rain barrels. For the outside, we used a 55 gallon barrel. The only modification you have to make to this one is cut a hole in the top large enough to get your second barrel in. For the inside, we used a 30 gallon barrel and drilled small holes all around it to let the water in and also keep the clothes in. On this barrel we cut out a door and attached it with hinges and a latch. These barrels ended up being much too large and took too much water. When we rebuild it we're going to use smaller barrels.

-The outside barrel is mounted on a frame, keeping it from moving. The inside barrel has a shaft coming out of each side of the large barrel. This connects it to the drive shaft from the bike.

-For the drive shaft we just mounted bike pedals on a separate frame and connected that to a bike gear that turned the inside barrel directly.

-At the bottom of the larger barrel we put a valve to drain the water after washing

-We plan on adding a gear shifter to make it easier to get up to higher speeds for spin-drying the clothes.

Like I said, the first model has a few problems and we're going to try to rebuild it on a smaller scale. Next time we'll make more detailed plans.

Mumble

2011-07-26T09:10:36Z

Capiscuas: /* OSE Mumble Server */

==Introduction==

http://mumble.sourceforge.net/

Mumble is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software, similar to the proprietary [http://www.teamspeak.com/ TeamSpeak] software.

==OSE Mumble Server==
We have a Mumble server capable of connecting 50 simultaneous users on voice chat.

*'''Server:''' mumble.openfarmtech.org (Note: Inactive)
*'''Port :''' 56605

[[Category: Software]]

OSE Europe/Vision

2011-07-04T08:51:05Z

Capiscuas: /* Idea on Sharing the Vision */

= Idea on Sharing the Vision =

The vision of OSE Europe. It is great when there are loads of people, willing to support and fund the project of creating a vital and healthy Open Source Ecology Movement in Europe. But the more people contribute, the more difficulties arise, when one wants to find a strategy to start, and how to get things running.

Doing Mail contacts and Skype conferences help very much to clarify thoughts and ideas, but as this always depends on peer-to-peer communication it will never converge as fast as it hast to, and there will be loads of misunderstandings, false hopes and wrong believes. Just because the people never told each other the whole picture without details what they want to achieve. Often of course the people didn't tell each other because they had no clear vision, they just had this itching feeling in the head, this nifty lightheadedness and fast bumping heart when trying to focus on the problem.

On the other hand, there are the people with very clear visions, ideas an plans who exactly know where to go and what to do next. This is great, but when the communication lacks severe problems arise. Often the communication done by this people is incomplete or one-sided. It never matters why the communication is like that. Because of wrong assumption what the others know, the feeling of having the same goal or just difficulties in make oneself clear. It happens to everyone and all the time, especially when one is not familiar with the prevailing culture the language in use or other conventions.

As OSE Europe will include many people from different countries with different background, different ages, different knowledge, different goals, different capabilities, different motivations and so one there is the need to form a foundation. A foundation on which the European Source Ecology Community can grow and evolve. For this purpose I strongly recommend the people interested in OSE Europe to make a Vision Paper.

= So what is a Vision Paper? =

The first time I encountered the idea was in Holistic Management by Allan Savory and since then I'm a true fan of it. A Vision Paper is a possibility to express ones Vision about an endeavor or project one starts or participates. It is not so much about the path how to achieve the results, it is more something like How will it be in three years? What will be achieved? Where will I and we be there?

It's very personal statement about the ideas, visions and dreams leading oneself. But is should not be to far of reality. Of course, in a Vision Paper will be very much that never sees the light of day, but also there will be everything essential that leads one and motivates one. Also a Vision Paper is not static. You will have to rewrite it from time to time. Also it is very surprising to look back to ones early visions of the project, just to see how far away oneself or the project hast evolved. Normally not to the bad.

So in short, a Vision Paper is a possibility to express all the expectations of a project. The project can be virtually everything, and it is great for a team to have a Vision Paper together, as well as it is great for every single person to have its Vision Paper. And there we are, to get a stable fundament on which OSE Europe can rest I think there has to be something like a Vision Paper written by the participating people. And to get to this Vision Paper it won't be enough to meet once ore make some calls, unless there are loads of Vision Papers available to everyone to get the spirit.

OSE Europe/Vision

2011-07-04T08:50:30Z

Capiscuas: /* Idea on Sharing the Vision */

= Idea on Sharing the Vision =

The vision of OSE Europe. It is great when there are loads of people, willing to support and fund the project of creating a vital and healthy Open Source Ecology Movement in Europe. But the more people contribute, the more difficulties arise, when one wants to find a strategy to start, and how to get things running.

Doing Mail contacts and Skype conferences help very much to clarify thoughts and ideas, but as this always depends on peer-to-peer communication it will never converge as fast as it hast to, and there will be loads of misunderstandings, false hopes and wrong believes. Just because the people never told each other the whole picture without details what they want to achieve. Often of course the people didn't tell each other because they had no clear vision, they just had this itching feeling in the head, this nifty lightheadedness and fast bumping heart when trying to focus on the problem.

On the other hand, there are the people with very clear visions, ideas an plans who exactly know where to go and what to do next. This is great, but when the communication lacks severe problems arise. Often the communication done by this people is incomplete or one-sided. It never matters why the communication is like that. Because of wrong assumption what the others know, the feeling of having the same goal or just difficulties in make oneself clear. It happens to everyone and all the time, especially when one is not familiar with the prevailing culture the language in use or other conventions.

As OSE Europe will include many people from different countries with different background, different ages, different knowledge, different goals, different capabilities, different motivations and so one there is the need to form a foundation. A foundation on which the European Source Ecology Community can grow and evolve. For this purpose I strongly recommend the people interested in OSE Europe to make a Vision Paper.

'''So what is a Vision Paper?'''

The first time I encountered the idea was in Holistic Management by Allan Savory and since then I'm a true fan of it. A Vision Paper is a possibility to express ones Vision about an endeavor or project one starts or participates. It is not so much about the path how to achieve the results, it is more something like How will it be in three years? What will be achieved? Where will I and we be there?

It's very personal statement about the ideas, visions and dreams leading oneself. But is should not be to far of reality. Of course, in a Vision Paper will be very much that never sees the light of day, but also there will be everything essential that leads one and motivates one. Also a Vision Paper is not static. You will have to rewrite it from time to time. Also it is very surprising to look back to ones early visions of the project, just to see how far away oneself or the project hast evolved. Normally not to the bad.

So in short, a Vision Paper is a possibility to express all the expectations of a project. The project can be virtually everything, and it is great for a team to have a Vision Paper together, as well as it is great for every single person to have its Vision Paper. And there we are, to get a stable fundament on which OSE Europe can rest I think there has to be something like a Vision Paper written by the participating people. And to get to this Vision Paper it won't be enough to meet once ore make some calls, unless there are loads of Vision Papers available to everyone to get the spirit.

OSE Europe/Vision

2011-07-04T08:47:45Z

Capiscuas: /* Idea on Sharing the Vision */

= Idea on Sharing the Vision =

The vision of OSE Europe. It is great when there are loads of people, willing to support and fund the project of creating a vital and healthy Open Source Ecology Movement in Europe. But the more people contribute, the more difficulties arise, when one wants to find a strategy to start, and how to get things running.

Doing Mail contacts and Skype conferences help very much to clarify thoughts and ideas, but as this always depends on peer-to-peer communication it will never converge as fast as it hast to, and there will be loads of misunderstandings, false hopes and wrong believes. Just because the people never told each other the whole picture without details what they want to achieve. Often of course the people didn't tell each other because they had no clear vision, they just had this itching feeling in the head, this nifty lightheadedness and fast bumping heart when trying to focus on the problem.

On the other hand, there are the people with very clear visions, ideas an plans who exactly know where to go and what to do next. This is great, but when the communication lacks severe problems arise. Often the communication done by this people is incomplete or one-sided. It never matters why the communication is like that. Because of wrong assumption what the others know, the feeling of having the same goal or just difficulties in make oneself clear. It happens to everyone and all the time, especially when one is not familiar with the prevailing culture the language in use or other conventions.

As OSE Europe will include many people from different countries with different background, different ages, different knowledge, different goals, different capabilities, different motivations and so one there is the need to form a foundation. A foundation on which the European Source Ecology Community can grow and evolve. For this purpose I strongly recommend the people interested in OSE Europe to make a Vision Paper.

So what is a Vision Paper? The first time I encountered the idea was in Holistic Management by Allan Savory and since then I'm a true fan of it. A Vision Paper is a possibility to express ones Vision about an endeavor or project one starts or participates. It is not so much about the path how to achieve the results, it is more something like How will it be in three years? What will be achieved? Where will I and we be there? It's very personal statement about the ideas, visions and dreams leading oneself. But is should not be to far of reality. Of course, in a Vision Paper will be very much that never sees the light of day, but also there will be everything essential that leads one and motivates one. Also a Vision Paper is not static. You will have to rewrite it from time to time. Also it is very surprising to look back to ones early visions of the project, just to see how far away oneself or the project hast evolved. Normally not to the bad. So in short, a Vision Paper is a possibility to express all the expectations of a project. The project can be virtually everything, and it is great for a team to have a Vision Paper together, as well as it is great for every single person to have its Vision Paper. And there we are, to get a stable fundament on which OSE Europe can rest I think there has to be something like a Vision Paper written by the participating people. And to get to this Vision Paper it won't be enough to meet once ore make some calls, unless there are loads of Vision Papers available to everyone to get the spirit.

OSE Europe

2011-06-21T16:22:11Z

Capiscuas:

This page will contain the information on people and projects connected to Open Source Ecology from Europe.

=First OSE community in Europe=
If you are interested in creating the first Open Source Ecology community in Europe, please add your name and contacts to the list:

{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|+ First OSE community in Europe
|-
! scope="col" | User page
! scope="col" | Email
! scope="col" | Skype
! scope="col" | Origin (country)
! scope="col" | Living in (country)
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Comments
|-
| [[Nikolay Georgiev]] || nikolay (at) opensourceecology.org || nikolay.h.georgiev || Bulgaria || Germany || x
|-
| [[Stefan Raabe]] || raabe.stefan (at) googlemail.com || || Germany || Germany || http://kombinatg.org
|-
| [[Alvaro Bahls]] || alvarobahls (at) googlemail.com || || Brazil || Czech Republic || x
|-
| [[Andreas Gmeiner]] || GmeinerAndreas (at) gmx.de || || Germany || Germany || [http://www.uharc.net/wiki/planraum:ose planraum->ose]
|-
| [http://www.youtube.com/user/Willcleaver?feature=mhee Will Cleaver] || willcleaver (at) gmail.com || williamcleaver || England || England || x
|-
| [[Alex Ford]] || alex665321 (at) hotmail.com || || United Kingdom || Bulgaria || x
|-
| [[Robin Bäckman]] || robinbackman (at) gmail.com || || Finland || Finland || x
|-
| [[Robert Anteau]] || anteau (at) hushmail (dot) com || || Netherlands || Netherlands || x
|-
| [[Alvaro F Boirac]] || alphydan (at) gmail (dot) com || || Europe || United Kingdom || x
|-
| [[Ino D. Fleischmann]] || ino.fleischmann (at) gmail (dot) com || || Germany || Germany, Berlin || x
|-
| [[Miquel Torres]] || tobami (at) gmail (dot) com || || Spain || Germany || x
|-
| [[Alexander F. Lieders]] || cicnos (at) gmail.com || || Brazil || Czech Republic || x
|-
| [[Evgeni Pandurski]] || epandurski (at) gmail (dot) com || || Bulgaria || Bulgaria || x
|-
| [[Eerik Wissenz]] || wissenz (at) gmail (dot) com || || Finland || Finland || x
|-
| [[Angel Imaz]] || angel (at) hiruki (dot) eu || angel.imaz || Spain || Spain || True Fan, OSE Evangelist
|-
| [[User:javipk|Javier Rivera]] || javipk (at) gmail (dot) com || || Spain || Spain || already true fan
|-
| [http://www.jeremyblum.com Jeremy Blum] || jeremy (at) jeremyblum (dot) com || || USA || USA || happy to provide advice remotely!
|-
| [[Johan van der Hoek]] || jvanderhoek (at) gmail (dot) com || || Netherlands || Netherlands || x
|-
| [[Arthur Kulik]] || arthur (dot) kulik (at) gmail (dot) com || || Ukraine || Ukraine || x
|-
| [[Denis Mongin]] || denis (dot) mongin (at) gmail (dot) com || || France || France || x
|-
| [[Nicol Andre Berdelle]] || info (at) prototype-creation (dot) de || || Germany || Germany || http://www.prototype-creation.de
|-
| [[Joe Hudson]] || joe (dot) hudson (at) gmail (dot) com || || United Kingdom || United Kingdom || x
|-
| [[Denis Durmishi]] || zdenman (at) gmail (dot) com || denis.durmisi || Macedonia || Germany || x
|-
| [[Florin Birgu]] || florin.birgu (at) cyburg (dot) eu || cyburg.eu || Romania || Romania || http://www.cyburg.eu
|-
| [[Edward Hines]] || Edward (at) tmafrance(dot) com|| edwardhai || England|| France|| http://www.tmafrance.com
|-
| Andres G. Aragoneses || knocte [at] gmail [dot] com || knocte || Spain || United Kingdom || Awesome idea!!!
|-
| Claudia Bosch || claudiabosch [at] daad-alumni [dot] de || claudia.bosch || Germany || United Kingdom ||
|-
| Samuel Rodrigues || samuel(dot)gros(at)gmail(dot)com || samuel.gros.rodrigues || Portugal || Portugal || [http://www.sitiocoop.com/]
|-
| Eduardo Riesco || eduardo(dot)riesco(at)gmail(dot)com || eduardo.riesco || Spain || Spain || eduardo.riesco.org
|-
| Tomaž Žlender || tomaz(dot)zlender(at)gmail.com || tomazzlender || Slovenia || Slovenia || x
|-
| Josef Davies-Coates || josef(at)uniteddiversity.com || jdaviescoates || London, UK || London, UK || I've got 5 acres of land in Spain to contribute to this project! See http://buildingman.org
|-
| Matthieu Laneuville || mlaneuville _at_ gmail _dot _ com || mlaneuville || France || France || -
|-
| Ivan Garcia || capiscuas _at_ gmail _dot _ com || ivangarcia1982 || Spain || VietNam || already true fan
|-
| Add yourself as a copy of this entry || With your email || Skype || Origin || Living || Comments
|}

Join the [https://www.facebook.com/OpenSourceEcologyEurope Facebook Page].

=Communication=
We are preparing for a conference call, as announced in [http://blog.opensourceecology.org/2011/06/o-s-e-europe-launch-and-jeremy-blum-o-s-electronics-london-interview/ the blog] by Will Cleaver. More information will be published here.

==Goals==

What will be the goals of OSE Europe? There are several possibilities, not mutually exclusive:

* OSE Advocacy and "Publicity" in Europe
* An open business, where people can work for a living building and selling products using OSE technology
* A FactoreFarm for Europe: Means developing tools in parallel with the current Factor e Farm.
* A community: creating a self sustaining village using the GVCS

[[Category:People]]

OSE Europe

2011-06-21T16:21:27Z

Capiscuas: /* First OSE community in Europe */

This page will contain the information on people and projects connected to Open Source Ecology from Europe.

=First OSE community in Europe=
If you are interested in creating the first Open Source Ecology community in Europe, please add your name and contacts to the list:

{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|+ First OSE community in Europe
|-
! scope="col" | User page
! scope="col" | Email
! scope="col" | Skype
! scope="col" | Origin (country)
! scope="col" | Living in (country)
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Comments
|-
| [[Nikolay Georgiev]] || nikolay (at) opensourceecology.org || nikolay.h.georgiev || Bulgaria || Germany || x
|-
| [[Stefan Raabe]] || raabe.stefan (at) googlemail.com || || Germany || Germany || http://kombinatg.org
|-
| [[Alvaro Bahls]] || alvarobahls (at) googlemail.com || || Brazil || Czech Republic || x
|-
| [[Andreas Gmeiner]] || GmeinerAndreas (at) gmx.de || || Germany || Germany || [http://www.uharc.net/wiki/planraum:ose planraum->ose]
|-
| [http://www.youtube.com/user/Willcleaver?feature=mhee Will Cleaver] || willcleaver (at) gmail.com || williamcleaver || England || England || x
|-
| [[Alex Ford]] || alex665321 (at) hotmail.com || || United Kingdom || Bulgaria || x
|-
| [[Robin Bäckman]] || robinbackman (at) gmail.com || || Finland || Finland || x
|-
| [[Robert Anteau]] || anteau (at) hushmail (dot) com || || Netherlands || Netherlands || x
|-
| [[Alvaro F Boirac]] || alphydan (at) gmail (dot) com || || Europe || United Kingdom || x
|-
| [[Ino D. Fleischmann]] || ino.fleischmann (at) gmail (dot) com || || Germany || Germany, Berlin || x
|-
| [[Miquel Torres]] || tobami (at) gmail (dot) com || || Spain || Germany || x
|-
| [[Alexander F. Lieders]] || cicnos (at) gmail.com || || Brazil || Czech Republic || x
|-
| [[Evgeni Pandurski]] || epandurski (at) gmail (dot) com || || Bulgaria || Bulgaria || x
|-
| [[Eerik Wissenz]] || wissenz (at) gmail (dot) com || || Finland || Finland || x
|-
| [[Angel Imaz]] || angel (at) hiruki (dot) eu || angel.imaz || Spain || Spain || True Fan, OSE Evangelist
|-
| [[User:javipk|Javier Rivera]] || javipk (at) gmail (dot) com || || Spain || Spain || already true fan
|-
| [http://www.jeremyblum.com Jeremy Blum] || jeremy (at) jeremyblum (dot) com || || USA || USA || happy to provide advice remotely!
|-
| [[Johan van der Hoek]] || jvanderhoek (at) gmail (dot) com || || Netherlands || Netherlands || x
|-
| [[Arthur Kulik]] || arthur (dot) kulik (at) gmail (dot) com || || Ukraine || Ukraine || x
|-
| [[Denis Mongin]] || denis (dot) mongin (at) gmail (dot) com || || France || France || x
|-
| [[Nicol Andre Berdelle]] || info (at) prototype-creation (dot) de || || Germany || Germany || http://www.prototype-creation.de
|-
| [[Joe Hudson]] || joe (dot) hudson (at) gmail (dot) com || || United Kingdom || United Kingdom || x
|-
| [[Denis Durmishi]] || zdenman (at) gmail (dot) com || denis.durmisi || Macedonia || Germany || x
|-
| [[Florin Birgu]] || florin.birgu (at) cyburg (dot) eu || cyburg.eu || Romania || Romania || http://www.cyburg.eu
|-
| [[Edward Hines]] || Edward (at) tmafrance(dot) com|| edwardhai || England|| France|| http://www.tmafrance.com
|-
| Andres G. Aragoneses || knocte [at] gmail [dot] com || knocte || Spain || United Kingdom || Awesome idea!!!
|-
| Claudia Bosch || claudiabosch [at] daad-alumni [dot] de || claudia.bosch || Germany || United Kingdom ||
|-
| Samuel Rodrigues || samuel(dot)gros(at)gmail(dot)com || samuel.gros.rodrigues || Portugal || Portugal || [http://www.sitiocoop.com/]
|-
| Eduardo Riesco || eduardo(dot)riesco(at)gmail(dot)com || eduardo.riesco || Spain || Spain || eduardo.riesco.org
|-
| Tomaž Žlender || tomaz(dot)zlender(at)gmail.com || tomazzlender || Slovenia || Slovenia || x
|-
| Josef Davies-Coates || josef(at)uniteddiversity.com || jdaviescoates || London, UK || London, UK || I've got 5 acres of land in Spain to contribute to this project! See http://buildingman.org
|-
| Matthieu Laneuville || mlaneuville _at_ gmail _dot _ com || mlaneuville || France || France || -
|-
| Ivan Garcia || capiscuas _at_ gmail _dot _ com || cpaiscuas || Spain || VietNam || already true fan
|-
| Add yourself as a copy of this entry || With your email || Skype || Origin || Living || Comments
|}

Join the [https://www.facebook.com/OpenSourceEcologyEurope Facebook Page].

=Communication=
We are preparing for a conference call, as announced in [http://blog.opensourceecology.org/2011/06/o-s-e-europe-launch-and-jeremy-blum-o-s-electronics-london-interview/ the blog] by Will Cleaver. More information will be published here.

==Goals==

What will be the goals of OSE Europe? There are several possibilities, not mutually exclusive:

* OSE Advocacy and "Publicity" in Europe
* An open business, where people can work for a living building and selling products using OSE technology
* A FactoreFarm for Europe: Means developing tools in parallel with the current Factor e Farm.
* A community: creating a self sustaining village using the GVCS

[[Category:People]]

CEB Vaults

2010-11-29T23:29:12Z

Capiscuas: /* Comments */

== From Abe Connally: ==
Marcin,

Have you been able to do any research on ferrocement? I found a slightly different way of doing ceilings and roofs that you might be interested in. It is called '''timbrel vaults''' or Catalan vaults.

Basically, it consists of creating a vault using tiles, and it requires very little formwork. The tiles then become the form for the roof, so you place your insulation on top of the tile vault, then a ferro-cement cap that could be sprayed on or applied by hand. It removes the need to stucco from below, which is a major pain with ferro-cement ceilings. Also, it reduces the need for steel in the ceiling, which saves a lot on building cost and complexity. You guys could make a tile machine similar to the Liberator CEB press, and use the tiles for the ceiling and the floor, making a building almost completely out of CEB-type material.

We are trying this method out on a small building in the next few weeks, and I will let you know how it goes. The method appears to be very promising, and it would make ferro-cement roofs very easy and fast to do.

Here are some links to look at:
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guastavino_tile
*http://www.guastavino.net/
*http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/11/tiles-vaults.html
*http://crossway.tumblr.com/

Good luck,
Abe

== Comments ==
(from: Rasmus) There is almost zero experience with using CEBs in Guastavino-type masonry. The unresolved question is whether CEB tiles will deliver adequate structural performance, similar to fired tiles. There certainly is no long-term experience. This can only be addressed with side-by-side comparisons of fired tiles vs. CEB tiles. One example that used pressed tiles is the Mapungubwe National Park Interpretive Centre in South Africa, which won the Holcim Awards in 2008:
*http://web.mit.edu/masonry/projects/projects_mapungubwe.html
*http://www.holcimfoundation.org/T873/A08AMack-gallery.htm
Another option would be to use [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php/Geopolymers geopolymer] tiles, which would require a relatively low (~450C) kiln temperature and may have structural properties similar to regular fired tiles. But that's really terra incognita.

When building larger communities, the possibility of building standardized components should be considered, such as ceilings and window frames. These can be mass-produced and then transported to the construction site. This would bring down cost and increase workplace safety.

In page 18 of http://www.atdforum.org/journal/pdf/ATDF-Journal-2010-Issue1,2-Architecture-October2010.pdf you can find the image of the manual CEB Tile developed for that African project.

Image1: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1599184/others/ceb_tile.png

Image2: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1599184/others/ceb_tile2.png

==See Also==
* http://www.notechmagazine.com/2009/12/timbrel-vaulting-in-south-africa-by-peter-rich-architects.html

[[Category:CEB]]
[[Category:Housing and construction]]

CEB Vaults

2010-11-29T23:27:28Z

Capiscuas:

== From Abe Connally: ==
Marcin,

Have you been able to do any research on ferrocement? I found a slightly different way of doing ceilings and roofs that you might be interested in. It is called '''timbrel vaults''' or Catalan vaults.

Basically, it consists of creating a vault using tiles, and it requires very little formwork. The tiles then become the form for the roof, so you place your insulation on top of the tile vault, then a ferro-cement cap that could be sprayed on or applied by hand. It removes the need to stucco from below, which is a major pain with ferro-cement ceilings. Also, it reduces the need for steel in the ceiling, which saves a lot on building cost and complexity. You guys could make a tile machine similar to the Liberator CEB press, and use the tiles for the ceiling and the floor, making a building almost completely out of CEB-type material.

We are trying this method out on a small building in the next few weeks, and I will let you know how it goes. The method appears to be very promising, and it would make ferro-cement roofs very easy and fast to do.

Here are some links to look at:
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guastavino_tile
*http://www.guastavino.net/
*http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/11/tiles-vaults.html
*http://crossway.tumblr.com/

Good luck,
Abe

== Comments ==
(from: Rasmus) There is almost zero experience with using CEBs in Guastavino-type masonry. The unresolved question is whether CEB tiles will deliver adequate structural performance, similar to fired tiles. There certainly is no long-term experience. This can only be addressed with side-by-side comparisons of fired tiles vs. CEB tiles. One example that used pressed tiles is the Mapungubwe National Park Interpretive Centre in South Africa, which won the Holcim Awards in 2008:
*http://web.mit.edu/masonry/projects/projects_mapungubwe.html
*http://www.holcimfoundation.org/T873/A08AMack-gallery.htm
Another option would be to use [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php/Geopolymers geopolymer] tiles, which would require a relatively low (~450C) kiln temperature and may have structural properties similar to regular fired tiles. But that's really terra incognita.

When building larger communities, the possibility of building standardized components should be considered, such as ceilings and window frames. These can be mass-produced and then transported to the construction site. This would bring down cost and increase workplace safety.

In page 18 of http://www.atdforum.org/journal/pdf/ATDF-Journal-2010-Issue1,2-Architecture-October2010.pdf you can find the image of the manual CEB Tile developed for that African project.
Image1: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1599184/others/ceb_tile.png
Image2: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1599184/others/ceb_tile2.png

==See Also==
* http://www.notechmagazine.com/2009/12/timbrel-vaulting-in-south-africa-by-peter-rich-architects.html

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[[Category:Housing and construction]]

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2010-11-29T22:13:23Z

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True Fans

2010-08-10T20:09:26Z

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=Introduction=

True Fans are supporters of the [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=458 1000 True Fans - 1000 Global Villages campaign ]. Here you can read why people have joined the campaign, as a motivation for you to join if you're not already signed up.

=True Fans=

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| '''Isaiah Saxon''', Aptos, USA
I'm a filmmaker, technologist, and one of the instigators of an egalitarian community of 17 people, called Trout Gulch, where we are building a studio, village, farm, and maker space inspired by the actions of Christopher Alexander, Will Allen, Sepp Holzer, and Marcin. My film team, [http://www.esquire.com/features/best-and-brightest-2009/encyclopedia-pictura-1209 Encyclopedia Pictura], is working with hollywood to create a new populist heroic myth for the maker movement.

I'm anticipating that the entire GVCS will be created and documented, then replicated by mechanics, geeks, hippies, weekend warriors, and tough guys that are into their trucks. I think OSE is contributing tangibly and symbolically to the greater cultural shift toward localism, authenticity, and DIY green tech.
|[[Image:Isaiah.jpg|thumb|Isaiah Saxon. Joined August 4, 2010.]]
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| '''David Crary''', Seattle, USA
I have been really searching to find people out there who are actually experimenting with new forms of social organization where it is possible to create advanced culture - that is thriving in abundance and largely autonomous, creating a model for everyone...so kudos to you guys. Keep up the great work!
|[[Image:davidcrary.jpg|thumb|David Crary, Seattle, USA. Joined July, 2010.]]
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| '''Benjamin Kaplin'''
I'm a mechanical engineering student, and I support the OSE because a completed Open Source Village kit would represent several orders of magnitude of improvement over existing projects to improve living conditions around the globe with technology. I grew up reading Stephenson, and one of the most powerful images in his book <em>Diamond Age</em> is The Seed, a nanotechnology McGuffin that one of the main characters devotes his life to that would take the control of production and self-determination out of the hands of the McCorporations and put it into the hands of revolutionaries and the impoverished.
Needless to say, nanotech is still several decades away from that dream, and contributing to the True Fans campaign helps a realistic Seed program without pulling me away from my studies.
|[[Image:0213090948.jpg|thumb|Benjamin Kaplin]]
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[[Category:1000 Squared]]

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| '''Paul D. Mamigonian'''
The Open Source Ecology group are making self sufficient living real. Through the Zeitgeist movement and groups like the Open Source Ecology the example is being set that we can come away from the corrupt monetary system. How many times do you hear people say " BUT WHAT CAN WE DO?". There IS SO MUCH THAT can be done and IS BEING DONE. THE TIME IS RIGHT, THE METHODS ARE HERE AND SO IS THE TECHNOLOGY. Please see my site www.livegreenliveclean.org. The Open Source Ecology group are leading the way, and it's up to us all to follow their lead.
|[[Image:paulm.jpg|thumb|Paul D. Mamigonian]]
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| '''Marcin Jakubowski''', opensourceecology at gmail dot com, marcin_ose on Skype
I started the campaign because I have observed how little of humanity's true potential has been tapped. Everyone slaves their life away to a system that is crumbling at the seams. I believe that we can all reach absolute prosperity and evolve to freedom - by becoming skilled and productive [[Integrated Humans]], and by helping anyone else to do the same. History has shown that this is a general formula for lasting prosperity. As long as we're wise, it should be trivial to get beyond the economics of scarcity. We need to show the world how to build the world's first, replicable, open source Global Village.
|[[Image:marcin.jpg|thumb|Marcin Jakubowski]]
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| '''Scott Akridge'''
As I get older I'm more and more interested in helping people. A couple weeks back I enlisted the help of a friend to help in developing a CEB press when I began doing research and found www.openfarmtech.org with the open source CEB press. I continued looking for more information but kept coming back to this site for more info and learned more about the project and found I wanted to get involved. I started by becoming a member and donating $10 a month with plans to build the CEB press and build a couple structures then make the effort a cooperative. After reading more I've decided to also build a sawmill, assuming I can recruit some help. I think this is a great project and am excited to be a part of it in a small way.
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| '''Toby Martin'''
I support OSE because...
* It's an intelligent and direct effort to address some of the most serious problems we face as individuals and as a society.
* It's one of the most interesting and creative projects I've ever heard of.
* I see no reason in principle that it can't improve people's lives.
* It's actually happening.
|[[Image:TF2.jpg|thumb|Toby Martin]]
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| '''Lucas González''', imagina (dot) canarias at gmail dot com [[Image:lucas.JPG|thumb|Lucas Gonzalez]]
I support OSE because both the model and the elements add some important missing pieces to what I perceive is going on.
* I think it's important to have local possibilities for water, food and energy everywhere. Not just at the household level but more importantly at the village or more aggregated levels. Even if you end up buying stuff from elsewhere, it's best if that happens by choice, not by necessity. It was not by choice when things were local by default and it's not by choice now that things are global by default.
* The whole process of open sharing of ideas, processes, know-how is intriguing and, at the very least, extremely fun to watch. (I really wish I had more time to join in myself, but I'm doing things that need doing. So I translate, tell others, and chip in with a little cash, less than what others spend in smoking. My choice.)
* I'm particularly interested in some items for specific locations. Energy for water in sunny places is a must. Shelter and water collection systems. You name it.
* Do we really know how far and how fast this can go? I think there's bound to be a catalitic process so that more and more technologies will come out openly, in an exciting incarnation of the Stone Soup story. So I want to help keep the fire going.
* It really looks like this can be done, should be done, will be done in 2 years. Less than 2 years now. The whole world now has a sense of urgency, I feel. I'd like to see what we can do after this. But the time is ripe for this, now.
* It's interesting to note how open content gives us a sense of ownership. Many have felt that with software. I want to see that with hardware.
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'''Joseph Zarr''', joseph.zarr@gmail.com [[Image:DSC_0169.JPG|thumb|Joseph Zarr]]

I am an anthropologist, a farmer, and a permaculturist by training. I support OSE because, well, let's be frank: This is arguably the coolest project on the planet. I am most attracted to Factor E Farm and OSE because of the overall themes of personal improvement (via daily spiritual and physical discipline - in whatever forms a person deems appropriate), human production, and an intertwined personal and community growth. We must collaboratively market the ownership of our futures.

"For less than the price of one coffee per week, for less than the price of one first class stamp per day, you can help change the world. Subscribe!"

As our resource pool dwindles globally, largely due to corporate theft and errant industrial practices, we will have to produce locally and 'in-source'. With a dwindling petroleum base, our dream of cheap energy will disappear. These are simple facts. We must invest human energies in locally-based solutions. We must ignore our propagandized 'reality' and create a meaningful existence together.
With drastically increasing populations (estimated 70 million per year), we must teach ourselves the merits of collaboration, co-housing, and SHARING. My opinion is the era of individualized ownership is archaic and ill-advised. Only by sharing and producing what we actually need, and sharing what we already have (be it skills, books, resources etc.), will we experience the next stage of cultural progress. Hopefully, in the not so distant future our children's hands will not deform due to excessive playing of video games but, rather, they will callous, strengthen and scar due to meaningful labor and a 'hands-on' reality; i.e. literacy, numeracy, production = freedom. The only debts we owe are to ourselves and our community. Let's pay up.

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| '''Josef Davies-Coates'''
I'm founder United Diversity and co-founder of The Open Co-op and support this project because of all the many many VERY cool projects I follow, this is perhaps the most inspiring and important. I can't think of a better way I could possibly spend my money.
|[[Image:jdaviescoates.jpg|thumb|Josef Davies-Coates]]
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| '''Reto Stauss''', reto.stauss(at)gmail.com, rstauss on Skype

I am mainly attracted by the momentum this projects develops. And of course because it is not talking but doing. My hope is that inspires my own little project (actually it already did): [http://manufakturingruendung.ch/en open source goods produced by small, agile manufactories]. Lucas, Joseph, sign your points.
|[[Image:Reto.jpg|thumb|Reto Stauss]]
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| '''Geoff Capper''', geoff (at) floodstreetfarmlet.net
I am supporting OSE because it is showing us that it is possible to regain control over the complex systems that to an extent have come to rule our lives. We can build our own machinery, we can build our own future, we can be free. The activity at Factor e Farm is truly inspiring, and I hope to use many of the products building up our own small farm, which may hopefully inspire others locally.
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| '''Tom Lindsey''', thomas.lindsey at gmail dot com
I support OSE because I want Factor e Farm to succeed so I can use the tools they are developing, replicate Factor e Farm, and create a future of freedom for myself and loved ones.
|[[Image:tomlindsey.jpg|thumb|Tom Lindsey and Boomer]]
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| '''Edward Miller''', embraceunity -at- gmail dot com
I became a true fan because I would like to see our civilization become more resilient by using decentralized technological solutions, and to evolve towards a post-scarcity society. I plan to move on site soon to help build a RepRap machine.
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| '''Jussi Haverinen''', haverinen.jussi at gmail dot com
I'm a strong believer in power of free software approach to technology and very interested in transformative technology and it's effect on society. Politically I'm an social ecologist and I do think that the main task that has to be done is to abolish capitalism and the state through direct democracy in the cities and neighbourhoods (confederated together of course). My skills: mostly computer knowledge, relatively good unix admin skills, and some language skills but that's about it. I only have limited knowledge of farming, construction, electronics, handcraft, but I'm willing to learn.
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| '''Mark Thomas''', factore at thomastechcon dot com
My wife and I are serial homesteaders--we built up a goat dairy from scratch in South Africa, a [http://thomasphotos.wordpress.com small livestock farm in Appalachia], and are just starting on a lambing operation in Southside Virginia.

Politically, I base my ethics on the [[Nonaggression Axiom]] and I do think that the main task that has to be done is to abolish democracy and the state through direct capitalism. Apologies to Jussi above! I do my political writing at [http://distributedrepublic.net/blog/mark Distributed Republic] and much of my reading at [http://mises.org/ the Ludwig von Mises Institute].
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| '''David Voeller''', carefulwiththat at gmail dot com
Open Source Ecology is applying knowledge and skill in the most effective way possible, to create a livable future. The convergence of Permaculture principles and Open Source methodology has been a long time coming. Open Source has shown us that technological advancement need not be encumbered by destructive and wasteful hierarchical control. Permaculture has taught us that a fulfilling and ethical life is not only possible, but realistic in a variety of climates and conditions. Open Source Ecology's work has the possibility to allow many more people to live within their resources; and to drastically increase the quality of life for those already doing so.
|[[Image:davidvoeller.jpg|thumb|David Voeller]]
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| '''Eric Hunting''', TheMillennialProject at gmail.com
We are on the cusp of a transformation in the nature of our civilization. A fundamental shift in the way just about everything works in our society predicated on the evolution of the processes and technologies by which just about everything in our habitat is made. Emerging digital fabrication technology combined with emerging awareness of the factors of industrial sustainability are not only changing how we make things but who is making them and where. Industrial Age paradigms that have been concentrating industrial, economic, and political power for a century are failing in the face of a progressive shrinking, smartening, and demassifying of the tools of production and communication. Open Source Ecology is on the cutting edge of this transformation, pursuing and cultivating a spectrum of tools, new and old, that can realize a radical new level of sustainable community self-sufficiency with the intent of disseminating these tools globally. The Factor E Farm project is an incubator for a nascent movement with world-sweeping potential.
|[[Image:EricHuntingAv.jpg|thumb|Eric Hunting]]
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| '''[http://blog.erikdebruijn.nl/ Erik de Bruijn]''', ose at erikdebruijn.nl
We've heard about, or even experienced, the collaborative power of passionate individuals around the world. When they join hands, contributing their energy, freely sharing their ideas and building on them, this mode of production can be highly productive. It may well outperform the traditionally closed 'institutional' mode of production, like Wikipedia is giving us an abundance of knowledge at no cost. OSE attempts, and is actually very successful at extending this notion of knowledge sharing into a way of living.
They codify and freely reveal their knowledge into design files and rich instructional material such as video tutorials. Those serve to inspire, but also to practically make this concept replicable and effective.
|[[Image:erikdebruijn.jpg|thumb|Erik de Bruijn]]
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| '''A. N. Alias''', anon23bf at nyx dot net
I support OSE because we need viable alternatives to the military-industrial complex as a foundation for survival in the near future, particularly if predictions about the coming hyperinflationary depression turn out to be well founded.
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| '''[http://ollehost.dk/blog/ Olle Jonsson]''', olle.jonsson at gmail dot com
I had seen the impressive LifeTrac project on the web, but when I heard about the [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=1254 RepLab] initiative, I was hooked. I'm just a random web developer, but I want to help push toward a generalized, open digital fabrication toolkit. When each hackerspace, lab, and interested individual has access to equipment like that, things get really interesting.
|[[Image:olleolleolle.jpg|thumb|Olle Jonsson]]
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| '''Maureen''', baubo at dishmail.net
I support factor E open source farm because when the cheap industrial food machine breaks down for lack of diesel fuel and capital, people are going to be shocked, angry and then desperate to learn a new way of living. OSE is not just a theory, a book or a blue print. It’s an open source physical model of a DIY food, energy and shelter producing system. Large-scale industrialization was largely a wrong turn for humanity. By shrinking the scale, localizing throughputs, working smarter and sharing information globally we can create a bright new future – a true renaissance. Factor E farm is breaking trail for us all. I can’t think of a better investment.
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| '''[http://bit.ly/elifarley-buzz Elifarley]''', elifarley # gmail.com

I found out about Open Source Ecology after watching the Zeitgeist Addendum movie. That movie sparkled my curiosity and I started a quest to understand the problems and possible solutions to our society's needs.

In this quest, I found out some very exciting ideas, groups and people, like the Transition Towns movement (concerned with peak oil), The Venus Project and RBE Foundation (moneyless, cybernated society), Common Good Bank (alternative currency system), RepRap (self-replicating, open source 3D printer), the P2P Foundation, and the OSE site, to name a few.

You may have noticed that all these projects and movements seem to have a common goal, they all seem to propose that we forget all artificial limitations (and scarcity) and we all seek union to improve our lives and sustainability. Without artificial limitations, we all can have much much better lives. That's the message I can hear all these people and movements resounding.

I'd say that The Venus Project champions ideas, whereas OSE materializes them, performing concrete actions that will move our world forward.

I'm confident that our small contributions to this cause will add up and have a tremendous positive result for everybody.

''(In Portuguese)''

Descobri o site da Open Source Ecology depois de assistir ao filme Zeitgeist Addendum. Esse filme despertou minha curiosidade e então comecei uma busca para entender os problemas e as possíveis soluções para a nossa sociedade.

Nessa busca, descobri algumas ideias, grupos e pessoas muito interessantes, como o movimento Transition Towns (preocupado com a dependência ao petróleo), o Venus Project e a RBE Foundation (sociedade sem uso do dinheiro, automatizada), Banco do Bem Comum (sistema de moeda alternativa), RepRap (impressora 3D de desenho aberto, auto-replicante), a Fundação P2P, e o site OSE, dentro vários outros.

Vocês podem ter notado que todos esses projetos e movimentos parecem ter um objetivo comum, eles parecem propor que esqueçamos todas as limitações artificiais (e escassez) e que todos busquemos união para melhorar nossas vidas e sustentabilidade. Sem limitações artificiais, todos nós podemos viver muito melhor. Essa é a mensagem que eu posso escutar todas essas pessoas e movimentos ressoando.

Eu diria que o Venus Project dissemina ideias, enquanto que a OSE as materializa, realizando ações concretas que irão avançar o nosso mundo.

Estou confiante que nossas pequenas contribuições a essa causa irão se juntar e terão um resultado tremendamente positivo para todo o mundo.
|[[Image:Ecruz.jpg|thumb|Elifarley Cruz]]
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| '''Shaun Warkentin'''
What money buys is technology, luxury. What technology and luxury buy are pleasure, physical health, and free time for the intellectual, spiritual, relational, creative pursuits that are the constitutive properties of real wealth (a widening of awareness and knowledge) unavailable within a purely subsistence economy. The equation linking money to wealth must be broken (along with the power structures that encroach upon the agency and freedom of most of humanity and the biosphere). OSE appears to be demonstrating how this might be achieved.
|[[Image:Shaun_jump.jpg|thumb|Shaun Warkentin]]
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| '''Aigars Brūvelis''', abruvelis at gmail dot com
This is it. Linux will fully replace windows and in 50 years Open Source Harware will replace most of the commerce. Get on with it.
|[[Image:aigarsbruvelis.jpg|thumb|Aigars Bruvelis from Latvia/UK]]
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| '''Lucas''',
I contribute to OSE because I got tired of all the organizations that claim to be "promoting" sustainability through advocacy and lobbying, which usually merely contributes to the inertia and complexity of our current patently unsustainable society without producing any truly meaningful effect on regular peoples' relation to the economy and planet. We need tangible means and methods to take our lives into our own hands and reduce our reliance on global industrial market structures, not rhetoric and posturing. OSE is one of the few operations that has taken up the task of rebuilding and redesigning material existence to cope with the inevitability of a resource-scarce future. The advancements made at this important project are setting precedents that simply are not being set anywhere else, and I hope to personally be using some of the methods and technologies being developed; from that standpoint, I view my financial contribution as an investment, not a gift. At some point in time those of us who philosophically stand opposed to the dominant paradigms of mass consumerism and ecological exceptionalism must stop talking and starting acting, and OSE is doing just that.
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| '''Peter Koeleman'''
I would love to see the Factor e Farm evolve into a self-sufficient, renewable and socially superior society.

The technological steps towards freedom that the Factor e Farm project take are very interesting to me because I am an IT specialist. I had a taste of gcode a long while back and work with Linux every day as my primairy OS. The modular hardware design makes this technology easy to comprehend and use, even for non-engineers like myself.

The freedom part of this project is what I think will be the most important part of the near future in escaping a corporate ruled society of ever more money spending (=debt building) consumers. The need for economic growth simply isn't sustainable. Those who manufacture and manage their own resources are the only ones who know the real cost of things.
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| '''Daniel Slate''', danieldavidslate + gmail and the rest
This is the real thing, and what you're doing is absolutely necessary. The numerous possibilities that can grow from this...general resilience, a reboot/revision of kibbutzim/moshavim in America or elsewhere, so many other possibilities...building the platform is worth doing. Ideas become real through action. What I see coming out of this work is a way to test out applied philosophies of responsible liberty.
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| '''Andrew Cook''', apcook816@gmail.com
Technology applied with wisdom is like creating a new dance partner in the celebration of life.
|[[Image:apcook.jpg|thumb|Andrew Cook]]
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| '''Adam Mitchell''', mitch dot ad at gmail dot com
If organizations were measured in terms of ''relevancy'' of work, ''loftiness'' of their goals and their ability to ''inspire'' others, Open Source Ecology --''no doubt''-- would be at the top of anyone's list. I am proud to support their endeavor, however small, in hopes that together we can build a better world and encourage others to become more [[Integrated Humans]].
|[[Image:Fiji.jpg|thumb|Adam Mitchell]]
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| '''Anna Przychodzki'''
I was very excited to discover the work of Open Source Ecology; I had no idea people were doing this. I stopped taking science class in my second year of high school so the technical stuff goes way over my head... what I do understand is the intent of the work and the implications of success. The life I want is out of reach for now... but if I support OSE, maybe I can have it in the future. OSE seems to bring us closer to what I believe are our birth-rights: sustainability, economic freedom and quality of life by way of human ingenuity and cooperation, not competition.
|[[Image:annaprzychodzki.jpg|thumb|Anna Przychodzki]]
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| '''Nathan Luedtke'''

I think I found out about Factor E Farm through John Robb's blog Global Guerillas, or at least through that general section of the net, which I am interested in and have been following for some time. I have been tracking your project for a little over a year, and was inspired to contribute when i saw that recently you seem to have hit a tipping point and have been making quick progress which probably will require a little more cashflow.

In terms of what I would like to see come out of it- exactly what you are doing. All of the positive movements that I see out there- Permaculture, Open Source, Transition, etc etc- all of them are integrated in your program. With OSE/FEF, you have a very scientific/rational approach that I appreciate. Long term, I would love to see OSE ideas spread and populate worldwide, and see the technology package implemented and developed further at other sites, both in the USA and as a more successful "technology transfer" to the third world.
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'''Devin Balkind'''
An abundant future is dependent on open technologies that fulfill people's most basic needs: food, water and shelter. The fact that this type of work isn't widely recognized as the foundation of a more efficient, equitable and enlightened civilization is a testament to the confusion of our times. Consider me at your service. Since August 2010.

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| '''Ivan Garcia''', ivan at movimientozeitgeist dot org
I've been a OSS programmer for like 8 years now and I love the idea of OS Hardware and the great suistaniblity revolution that the OSE guys are doing. I'm also a supporter of the Zeitgeist Movement in Spain and they both share very similar goals. What you are doing is absolutelly necessary and meaningful for our future!
|[[Image:ivangarcia.jpg|thumb|Ivan Garcia]]
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2010-08-10T20:07:33Z

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