Open Source Ecology - User contributions [en]

Wiki maintenance

2011-06-23T15:19:40Z

Dave Menninger: /* See also */

{{Warn|Read [[Wiki instructions]] first!|This page discusses the maintenance of this wiki.<br/>
It assumes that you have already read and familiarized yourself with [[Wiki instructions]].<br/>
If you have not, kindly do so before continuing. :)}}

On Wikipedia there are the content creation, and then there is the organizational work. Content creators should try to do as much of the organizational work as they can and remember to, but some always remains undone.

The forces of chaos must be held back on an ongoing basis. When users add new pages etc. they are rarely acquainted with how to use a wiki, and how the specific one of concern is organized etc. Secondly, trying to get users to correctly categorize pages or wikify links etc. every single time they make changes is a lost cause.

The Wiki curation team [[Development Team#wiki curators]] helps with this. This page is a resource for the team and other wiki users including a list of standard routines and practices that are followed for maintaining good structure around this particular wiki, as well as some useful tools to make them easier.

== Issue Listings ==

The following pages are useful lists that track areas for improvement all around the wiki. Most of them can be seen in [[Special:SpecialPages|Special pages]]. (You should be able to see a link to [[Special:SpecialPages|Special pages]] on the Toolbox panel on the left side of your screen.) In a nutshell, we should aim to clean up these listings as often as we can.

* Redirects: [[Special:BrokenRedirects|Broken Redirects]], [[Special:DoubleRedirects|Double Redirects]]
* Problematic pages: [[Special:DeadendPages|Dead-end Pages]], [[Special:LonelyPages|Orphaned Pages]], [[Special:LongPages|Long Pages]], [[Special:ShortPages|Short Pages]]
* Uncategorized content (see [[Using Categories]] for more information on how to deal with these properly): [[Special:UncategorizedCategories|Categories]], [[Special:UncategorizedFiles|Files]], [[Special:UncategorizedPages|Pages]], [[Special:UncategorizedTemplates|Templates]]
* Unused content: [[Special:UnusedCategories|Categories]], [[Special:UnusedFiles|Files]], [[Special:UnusedTemplates|Templates]]
* Wanted content: [[Special:WantedCategories|Categories]], [[Special:WantedFiles|Files]], [[Special:WantedPages|Pages]], [[Special:WantedTemplates|Templates]]
* [[Wiki maintenance#Tagging|Tagged]] articles: [[:Category:Pages to merge|Pages to merge]], [[:Category:Requests|Requests]], [[:Category:Candidates for speedy deletion|Candidates for speedy deletion]]

The following categories contain possibly relevant pages that need better integration into the wiki:

* [[:Category: Notes|Notes]]
* [[:Category: Links|Links]]

== Pages to monitor ==

The following pages should be checked every now and then to make sure that proper structure is maintained throughout the wiki.

* [[Special:Categories|Categories]]
* [[Special:CategoryTree|Category Tree]]
* [[Special:Disambiguations|Disambiguations]]
* [[Special:ListRedirects|List of Redirects]]
* [[Special:NewFiles|New Files]]
* [[Special:RecentChanges|Recent Changes]]
* [[:Category:Under construction|Under construction]]

== Tagging ==

The following templates are used for tagging articles that could be improved.

* [[Template:Wanted|Wanted]]
* [[Template:Stub|Stub]] and [[Template:Linkstub|Linkstub]]
* [[Template:Mergeto|Merge to]] and [[Template:Mergefrom|Merge from]]
* [[Template:Under construction|Under construction]]
* [[Template:Delete|Delete]]
* [[Template:Split|Split]]

Here are other useful templates for managing content:

* The [[Template:Warn|Warn]] template is used for cautionary messages to readers.
* The [[Template:Tip|Tip]] template is used for emphasizing helpful information.

== Useful tools ==

* '''What links here''' - If you'd like to find out what other pages on the wiki link to a certain page, click [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Wiki_maintenance|What links here]] in the Toolbox panel on the left side of the screen. This should provide you with more context when making decisions about a page's content and relevance.

* '''[[Watching Pages]]''' - for monitoring changes to certain pages

===Bots===
There are a lot of free open source bots that may help. You need to have the right user rights to run a bot.

=Useful tips and tricks an reading on how we use the WikiMedia software=

*Capitalization matters. Category:Steam_Engine is not the same category as Category:Steam_engine. Same deal for page titles.

*The current approach to organizing things on the OSE wike depends on categorization.

-To put a page in a category, add <nowiki>[[category:whatever]]</nowiki> to the top of the page.

- To create a subcategory within another category, simply go to the subcategory-to-be page, click edit and add <nowiki>[[category:anothercategory]]</nowiki> to the page.

- Pages can be in as many different categories as you wish.

- Categories are created automatically whenever you put a page more than one page in a category.

The wikimedia software used for OSE is the same open source software used on wikipedia. It looks
simple but it is a vast and powerful piece of software with many built in tools and the capacity to plugin more.

At http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Category and similar pages on the mediawiki metawiki, you can find good information on nearly anything you want to do.

==user levels==
You may be interested in how the wikimeda software does user privilege management. See
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:User_rights
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Assigning_permissions
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bureaucrat (especially the template at the bottom of the page which lists the different user permission levels)

= See also =

[[Wiki instructions]]

[[Category: Wiki]]

Documentation Team

2011-06-23T13:04:02Z

Dave Menninger:

==Documentation Team==
See Blog Post

==Collaborators==
Interested in collaborating with us to upgrade the documentation to meet the OSE [[Fabrication Procedure Standards]]?.

Please list your name, hyperlinked to your [[team culturing]] page. Please fill one out if you have not done so already. From there we'll get everyone together for some Skype sessions where we work out our workflow strategy.

===Documentation Team===

* [[Chris Fornof]]
* [[Mark J Norton]]
* [[Dave Menninger]]

User:Dave Menninger

2011-06-22T21:41:41Z

Dave Menninger: /* future work areas */

Hello,

I'm Dave Menninger. I'm interested in contributing to the documentation of the project.

I'd especially like to work on Templates and Categorization.

The tool that I've found to be invaluable in this regard is [http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki Semantic MediaWiki].

If there is anything else I can do to help, let me know.

~Dave

= future work areas =

* [[Widget:Google Viewer]] ( http://www.mediawikiwidgets.org/Google_Viewer ) I am unable to create pages in the Widget namespace. :(
* [[Template:HOWTO]]
* [[Template:OSHW]]
* [[:Category:Wiki]]
* [[Template:Wiki Curation]]
* [[Template:Split]]
* [[HOWTO Edit the Wiki]]

=Team Culturing Information=

last updated: 22. June, 2011

==='''WHO''' are you?===
*''Name'' - Dave Menninger

*''Location (city, country)'' - Cincinnati, USA

*''Contact Information (email, phone, Skype)'' - dave (dot) menninger (at) gmail (dot) com

*''Introductory Video'' -

*''Resume/CV'' - President, co-founder of Hive13 hackerspace in Cincinnati.

==='''WHY''' are you motivated to support/develop this work?===
*''Do you endorse open source culture?''
Yes, very much so.

*''Why are you interested in collaborating with us?''
I'd like to see the documentation deliverables become easier to use.

*''How do you think that the GVCS can address pressing world issues?''
Giving people Access To Tools.

*''What should happen so that you become more involved with the project?''
Install SemanticMediaWiki plugin into the OSE wiki.

*''What are you missing in the project?''
Feedback loops to communities not within the project itself.

*''What are your suggestions for improvement of the project?''
Better instructions, howto's.

==='''WHAT'''===
*''List all of your skills in these areas: Communications - Organizational - Computer Support - Finances - Design - Natural Building - Electronics - Automation - Metallurgy - Engineering - Fabrication - Agriculture - Energy - Architecture - Video/Graphics/Art - PR/Marketing - Education - Construction - Industry - CNC - Chemistry - Product Design - Other''

*''How have you already contributed to the project?''

==='''HOW''' can you help?''===
*''How are you interested in contributing to the work of GVCS development?''
I'd like to spend a lot of time working on cleaning up the wiki and making the progress and entry points for new users more obvious.

*''Can you volunteer to work with us, and if so, how many hours per week?''

*''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?''

*''Are you interested in [http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/Dedicated_Project_Visit Dedicated Project Visit]?''

*''Are you interested in purchasing equipment from us to help bootstrap development?''

*''Are you interested in bidding for consulting/design/prototyping work?''

*''Are you a [http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/True_Fans True Fan]? If not, why not?''

*''Would you like to see yourself working with us on a full-time basis?''

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

*''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.

[[Category:Wiki Curators]]
[[Category:Team Culturing]]

User:Dave Menninger

2011-06-22T21:40:44Z

Dave Menninger:

Hello,

I'm Dave Menninger. I'm interested in contributing to the documentation of the project.

I'd especially like to work on Templates and Categorization.

The tool that I've found to be invaluable in this regard is [http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki Semantic MediaWiki].

If there is anything else I can do to help, let me know.

~Dave

= future work areas =

* [[Widget:Google Viewer]]
* [[Template:HOWTO]]
* [[Template:OSHW]]
* [[:Category:Wiki]]
* [[Template:Wiki Curation]]
* [[Template:Split]]
* [[HOWTO Edit the Wiki]]

=Team Culturing Information=

last updated: 22. June, 2011

==='''WHO''' are you?===
*''Name'' - Dave Menninger

*''Location (city, country)'' - Cincinnati, USA

*''Contact Information (email, phone, Skype)'' - dave (dot) menninger (at) gmail (dot) com

*''Introductory Video'' -

*''Resume/CV'' - President, co-founder of Hive13 hackerspace in Cincinnati.

==='''WHY''' are you motivated to support/develop this work?===
*''Do you endorse open source culture?''
Yes, very much so.

*''Why are you interested in collaborating with us?''
I'd like to see the documentation deliverables become easier to use.

*''How do you think that the GVCS can address pressing world issues?''
Giving people Access To Tools.

*''What should happen so that you become more involved with the project?''
Install SemanticMediaWiki plugin into the OSE wiki.

*''What are you missing in the project?''
Feedback loops to communities not within the project itself.

*''What are your suggestions for improvement of the project?''
Better instructions, howto's.

==='''WHAT'''===
*''List all of your skills in these areas: Communications - Organizational - Computer Support - Finances - Design - Natural Building - Electronics - Automation - Metallurgy - Engineering - Fabrication - Agriculture - Energy - Architecture - Video/Graphics/Art - PR/Marketing - Education - Construction - Industry - CNC - Chemistry - Product Design - Other''

*''How have you already contributed to the project?''

==='''HOW''' can you help?''===
*''How are you interested in contributing to the work of GVCS development?''
I'd like to spend a lot of time working on cleaning up the wiki and making the progress and entry points for new users more obvious.

*''Can you volunteer to work with us, and if so, how many hours per week?''

*''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?''

*''Are you interested in [http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/Dedicated_Project_Visit Dedicated Project Visit]?''

*''Are you interested in purchasing equipment from us to help bootstrap development?''

*''Are you interested in bidding for consulting/design/prototyping work?''

*''Are you a [http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/True_Fans True Fan]? If not, why not?''

*''Would you like to see yourself working with us on a full-time basis?''

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

*''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.

[[Category:Wiki Curators]]
[[Category:Team Culturing]]

Global Village Construction Set

2011-06-22T21:38:30Z

Dave Menninger: /* The tools */ added blank cells to the rest of the rows in the table

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= Introduction =

'''See http://opensourceecology.org for the official definition of the [http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs.php 50 GVCS Tools].'''

'''The [[Global Village Construction Set]]''' is a set of 50 [[wikipedia:Open Source Appropriate Technology|Open Source Appropriate Technology]] tools for building post-scarcity, resilient communities.

In this page, you will get an overview of each one of them, together with corresponding wiki pages, blog posts and forums.

See also the [[Crash Course]].

== Ideas ==

The ideas that guide the GVCS are:

'''Open Source''' - we freely publish our 3d designs, schematics, instructional videos, budgets, and product manuals on our open source wiki and we harness open collaboration with technical contributors.

'''Low-Cost''' - The cost of making or buying our machines are, on average, 8x cheaper than buying from an Industrial Manufacturer, including an average labor cost of $15 hour for a GVCS fabricator.

'''Modular''' - Motors, parts, assemblies, and power units can interchange, where units can be grouped together to diversify the functionality that is achievable from a small set of units.

'''User-Serviceable''' - Design-for-disassembly allows the user to take apart, maintain, and fix tools readily without the need to rely on expensive repairmen.

'''DIY''' - (do-it-yourself) The user gains control of designing, producing, and modifying the GVCS tool set.

'''Closed Loop Manufacturing''' - Metal is an essential component of advanced civilization, and our platform allows for recycling metal into virgin feedstock for producing further GVCS technologies - thereby allowing for cradle-to-cradle manufacturing cycles

'''High Performance''' - Performance standards must match or exceed those of industrial counterparts for the GVCS to be viable.

'''Flexible Fabrication''' - It has been demonstrated that the flexible use of generalized machinery in appropriate-scale production is a viable alternative to centralized production.

'''Distributive Economics''' - We encourage the replication of enterprises that derive from the GVCS platform as a route to truly free enterprise - along the ideals of Jeffersonian democracy.

'''Industrial Efficiency''' - In order to provide a viable choice for a resilient lifestyle, the GVCS platform matches or exceeds productivity standards of industrial counterparts.

= The tools =
{| style="width:100%;" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1" align="left"
! TOOL
! DESCRIPTION
! IMAGE
! STATUS
! FORUM DISCUSSION
! BLOG
! OTHER WIKI ARTICLES

|-
! '''[[CEB Press]]'''
! A high-performance Compresssed Earth Block press. Compresssed Earth Block building is the highest quality natural building method. The page [[CEB intro]] contains introductory information on compressed earth blocks
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/compressed-earth-brick-press.png
! <font color=green>COMPLETE AND TESTED!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/ceb-press/ ceb-press]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/compressed-earth-block-press/ compressed-earth-block-press]
! [[:Category: CEB]]

|-align="left"
! '''[[LifeTrac|Tractor]]'''
! A versatile, 4-wheel drive, hydraulically-driven, skid-steering tractor with 18 to 200 horsepower capacity for agriculture, construction and other utility duties.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/lifetrac.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/lifetrac/ lifetrac]
!
! [[:Category: LifeTrac]]

|-align="left"
! '''[[Microtractor]]'''
! a small, 18 hp version of the full-sized tractor for powering a wide range of implements in agricultural and utility duties
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/microtrac.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
!
!
! [[:Category: MicroTrac]]

|-align="left"
! '''[[Bulldozer]]'''
! A high-traction, heavy earth-moving machine indispensible for building ponds, berms, and other permacultural earthforms, as well as for other tasks such as building roads or clearing land
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/bulldozer.png
! STATUS
!
!
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Power Cube]]'''
! A multipurpose, self-contained, hydraulic power power unit that consisting of an engine coupled to a hydraulic pump
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/powercube.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/power-cube/ power-cube]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/power-cube/ power-cube]
! [[:Category: Power Cube]]

|-align="left"
! '''CNC Precision Multimachine'''
! A multipurpose, precision CNC machining and metal cutting device for milling, lathing, drilling to make precision parts; includes surface grinding and cold-cut metal sawing
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/multimachine.png
! STATUS
!
!
!

|-align="left"
! '''Ironworker Machine'''
! A device that can instantly cut steel and punch holes in metal one inch thick
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/ironworker.png
! STATUS
!
!
!

|-align="left"
! '''CNC Torch/Router Table'''
! A computer-controlled cutting table for metal where a moving torch head is used to produce precision metal parts in a fraction of the time that it takes to do so manually
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/torch-table.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
!
!
! [[:Category: Torch Table]]

|-align="left"
! '''3D Printer'''
! An additive manufacturing technology where a three dimensional object is printed by laying down successive layers of material, just like a printer except in 3D
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-printer.png
! <font color=green>COMPLETE AND TESTED!</font>
!
!
!

|-align="left"
! '''3D Scanner'''
! A device that can generate a 3D digital scan from a real-life object, where the file can be used to reproduce the object in 3D with a device such as the 3D printer or CNC Precision Multimachine
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-scanner.png
! STATUS
!
!
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[CNC Circuit Mill]]'''
! A computer-controlled device that can produce electrical circuits by milling and drilling on copper-clad circuit boards
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/circuit-mill.png
! STATUS
!
!
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Industrial Robot]]'''
! A robotic arm which can perform certain human tasks - such as welding or milling – for performing tasks that are not better done by humans
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/robotic-arm.png
! STATUS
!
!
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Laser Cutter]]'''
! An industrial machine that can make precision, finish cuts in a wide array of substrates, such as metal, wood, or plastic
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/laser-cutter.png
! STATUS
!
!
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Open Source Welder]]'''
! A device used to make strong, permanent bonds in metal by melting and fusing the metal
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/mig-welder.png
! STATUS
!
!
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Plasma Cutter]]'''
! A device to cut metal using a plasma torch
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/plasma-cutter.png
! STATUS
!
!
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Induction Furnace]]'''
! An electrical furnace in which the heat is applied by induction heating of metal, providing clean, versatile, compact, energy-efficient, and well-controlled melting compared to flame furnaces
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/induction-furnace.png
! <font color=orange>IN DEVELOPMENT</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/induction-furnace/ induction-furnace]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/induction-furnace/ induction-furnace]
! [[:Category: Induction Furnace]]

|-align="left"
! '''Metal Rolling'''
! A metal forming process in which metal stock is passed through a pair of rolls to produce a desired shape, such as flat bar, angle, or u-channel
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/metal-rolling-machine.png
! STATUS
!
!
!

|-align="left"
! '''Rod and Wire Mill'''
! A subset of metal rolling, used to make shafts, rebar, thin rods, and down to wire.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/wire-n-rod-mill.png
! STATUS
!
!
!

|-align="left"
! '''Press Forge'''
! A device for shaping metal by the application of a shaping die and a continuous pressure or force.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/forge.png
! STATUS
!
!
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Modern Steam Engine]]'''
! A modern engine where an external heat source is used to turn water into steam, and the steam in turn moves reciprocating pistons to provide shaft power
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/steam-engine.png
! <font color=orange>IN DEVELOPMENT</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/steam-engine-construction-set/ steam-engine-construction-set]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/steam-engine-construction-set/ steam-engine-construction-set]
! [[:Category: Steam Engine]]

|-align="left"
! '''Gasifier burner'''
! A clean and efficient burner that gasifies the material that is being burned prior to combustion
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/gasifier-burner.png
! STATUS
!
!
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Steam Generator]]'''
! A device that generates steam from water that is passed through externally-heated coils
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/steam-generator.png
! STATUS
!
!
!

|-align="left"
! '''Solar Concentrator'''
! An array of mirrors to concentrate sunlight so it can boil water and drive a steam engine.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/solar-concentrator.png
! STATUS
!
!
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Wind Turbine]]'''
! A device that produces electrical power from wind energy
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/wind-turbine.png
! STATUS
!
!
!

|-align="left"
! '''Aluminum Extractor from Clay'''
! A device that produces aluminum from clay by dissolving the aluminum from aluminosilicate (clay), and then electrolyzing the resulting compound to form pure aluminum
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/alluminum-extractor.png
!
!
!
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Pelletizer]]'''
! A device that compresses shredded pieces of biomass or other substances to compact, flowable pellets
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/pelletizer.png
!
!
!
!

|-align="left"
! '''Universal Seeder'''
! A tractor-pulled seeder than can plant any seed, from small seeds like clover to large seeds such as potatoes
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-seeder.png
!
!
!
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Rototiller]] and [[Soil Pulverizer]]'''
! A tractor implement that tills soil with blades via rotary action
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/pulverizer-tiller.png
!
!
!
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Spader]]'''
! A set of mechanical shovels that prepare soil for planting without causing a hardpan typical of rototiller tilling
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/spader.png
!
!
!
!

|-align="left"
! '''Microcombine'''
! A small-scale harvester-thresher for mechanical harvesting of any grain crops, with a cutting swath of about 3 feet in width
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/microcombine.png
!
!
!
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Universal Rotor]]'''
! A tractor-mounted rotor that can be fitted with a wide array of toolheads, such as string trimmer, posthole digger, tree planting auger, slurry mixer, and many others
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-rotor.png
!
!
!
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Baler]]'''
! A device that compresses hay and other light and dispersed materials into more compact bales
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/baler.png
!
!
!
!

|-align="left"
! '''Hay Rake'''
! A mechanical implement for a tractor that rakes hay or other light materials into windrows or other formations for drying or baling
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hay-rake.png
!
!
!
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Hay Cutter]]'''
! A device that cuts grass, hay, straw, or other light biomass for haying, baling, or combining
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hay-cutter.png
!
!
!
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Backhoe]]'''
! A piece of excavating equipment or digger consisting of a digging bucket on the end of a two-part articulated arm for digging trenches or large holes
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/backhoe.png
!
!
!
!

|-align="left"
! '''Chipper/Hammermill'''
! A machine used for reducing wood or other materials into smaller parts, such as chips or shreds
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/chipper-hammermill.png
!
!
!
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Trencher]]'''
! A piece of construction equipment that uses a cutting wheel for digging trenches, laying pipe, cable, or drainage
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/trencher.png
!
!
!
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Open Source Car]]'''
! A wheeled motor vehicle for transporting people
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! A larger version of an automobile with a bed for trasporting loads
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! '''[[Sawmill|Dimensional Sawmill]]'''
! A dimensional sawmill is a circular blade sawmill with 2 blades that is used for producing dimensional lumber in one pass
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! '''[[Cement Mixer]]'''
! A device that homogeneously combines cement, aggregate such as sand or gravel, and water to form concrete
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! A device for digging deep water wells
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! '''Bakery Oven'''
! A device for heating various forms of dough into breads and other baked goods
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! '''Dairy Milker'''
! A device which harvests milk automatically from milk-producing livestock
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! '''Electric Motor/Generator'''
! A device that functions as a motor when energized with a voltage, which can also function as an electrical generator when it is spun.
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! '''Hydraulic Motors'''
! A mechanical actuator that converts high-pressure fluid flow into rotation
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! '''[[Bioplastic Extruder]]'''
! An extruder takes a charge of plastic and extrudes a sheet or other profile of useful form, such as greenhouse glazing or water tubing
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! '''Universal Power Supply'''
! This is a combination power supply for applications from off-grid power to supplying power to welders, induction furnaces, and plasma cutters.
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! '''[[Nickel Iron Batteries]]'''
! Long-life batteries that have a track record of lasting 50 or more years
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===Want to add another tool?===
If you think another technology belongs on the GVCS list, follow this procedure -
#Read the [[OSE Specifications]] and answer the [[OSE Specifications#Questionnaire|questionnaire]].
#If the tool scores highly on the questionnaire and meets most of the OSE specifications, start a thread on the [http://openfarmtech.org/forum/ forum] with a title beginning "Proposed Tool:" (e.g. "Proposed Tool: Washing Machine"). You may be challenged, and will have to convince the community that it is realistic and worth pursuing.
#If the consensus on the forum is in favor of adding the tool to the GVCS, feel free to edit the list above to add the new tool
#By proposing the tool, you take responsibility for it. You become project manager for that tool, and will have to build and prototype it yourself, or else recruit and manage someone who can.

====Proposed tools====
*'''Loader''' - an attachment for the [[LifeTrac]] tractor
*'''Village-scale washing machine''' - powered by the universal rotor
*'''Fridge''' - see the page on [[refrigeration]]
*'''Reversible heat pump''' - for controlling the temperature of homes and greenhouses, refrigerating food and medicine, harnessing solar and geothermal heat
*'''[[Stirling engine]]''' - transforms heat into mechanical energy
*'''[[Spectrometer]]''' and '''computer oscilloscope''' - adding these to the GVCS would form a complete Fab Lab. Most of the work will be done by other open-source groups.
*'''[[Juice Press]]''' - A juice press powered by the [[Power Cube]].
*'''[[Log Splitter]]''' - A log splitter powered by the [[Power Cube]].

= Videos =

See a 2 minute video explainer about the GVCS:

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* [[H+ Presentation]]
* Overview presentation at [[Linz Slides]]

See latest presentation on the GVCS (as of June, 2010)
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Economy creates culture and culture creates politics. The politics we seek are freedom, voluntary contract, and human evolution in harmony with life support systems. Note that resource conflicts and overpopulation are eliminated by design. We are after the creation of new society, one which has learned from the past and moves forward with ancient wisdom and modern technology.

This is a real experiment, and product selection is based on us living with the given technologies. First, it is the development of real, economically significant hardware, product, and engineering. Second, this entire set is being compiled into one setting, and land is being populated with the respective productive agents. The aim is to define a new form of social organization where it is possible to create advanced culture, thriving in abundance and largely autonomous, on the scale of a village, not nation or state.

Here is a talk by [[Marcin Jakubowski]] on the GVCS at the 4th Oekonux Conference. <html>You can download the slides and see a transcript <a href="http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Oekonux_4" target="_blank">here</a>.

First is an introduction by Franz Nahrada, leader of the <a href="http://globalvillages.ning.com/" target="_blank">Globally Integrated Village Environment</a>:<br>

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A video presentation on the [[first year at Factor e Farm]] and the GVCS from 2007-2008 [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-710075551990473235#20m24s here].

And you can also view a GVCS [[UM_Presentation|slide show presentation]] for more information.

=Product Selection Criteria=

See [[OSE Specifications]]

= Enterprise Community Contract =

We are proposing the formation of Global Villages in the form of productive enterprise communities that strive for unprecedented quality of life:
* material abundance
* freedom from bureacracy and unnecessary activity
* total focus on one's true interests

For our particular OSE prototype implementation, we are interested in the following general essence of an ''Enterprise Community Contract'':

* 2 hours of productive activity daily, such that 100% of the community's food, energy, housing, transportation, and technology essentials are produced for subsistence, with surplus production for market
** Agriculture base follows permaculture design, and includes production of water soluble organic fertilizer, orchard, nursery, and crops, as well as certain food processing and value added propositions
** Flexible fabrication produces advanced technologies ''at the cost of materials''
** Cost of living is reduced dramatically, from $20,000/year in the industrialized world, to negligible income requirements, under the assumption of high-tech self-providing
* Each participant undertakes a study program of full stewardship of the community, including:
** Agricultural production capacity
** Technological literacy to operate and maintain flex fab equipment and other machinery
** Numeracy to facilitate design
** Study of the mind and body to expand one's consciousness, skills, and abilities, and to disseminate such human augmentation widely towards eliminating mind control of the masses
* Entry of new people can be negotiated by the new participants providing skills and productive contribution to the community
* Beyond the 2 hour requirement, participants follow a research lifestyle to promote further development of the community or of the greater world

= Enabling Technology - Salient Features of Technology Base =

Without going into details, the main features for the comprehensive technology base are:

* ''Hybridization of power devices'' - decoupling of power source from the working unit in order to produce electrical drive is a formula for increasing integrated efficiency of electromechanical devices such as electric [[vehicle]]s, tools, heavy equipment, etc. For example, the hybrid car decouples the engine from its wheels by using an electrical generator to feed electric wheel motors. Note that this eliminates the clutch, transmission, crank case and its oil, differential, drive train, and other parts, and replaces these items with electric wire from the generator to electric motor. This is a huge efficiency leap, one in fuel efficiency, and two, in eliminating billions of dollars of industry which is outdated today due to the hybridization option. As such, we can talk of complex machines with huge simplification, assuming easy access to infinitely scaleable and controllable, low cost electric motors (these do not exist today). For example, we can envision an agricultural combine where each moving part is powered by its own electric motor - producing a leap in simplification and maintenance of the overall machine - as all belts, pulleys, gears, and other power transmission components driven by a single engine - are all replaced by electric wire. One can point to many examples where such strategy would provide leapfrog advance in device simplicity and maintenance.

* ''Solar turbine power generation including heat storage - look at [[Solar Turbine CHP System]]

* ''Open source fab lab'' - combine and expand the [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/multimachine/Multimachine] with xyz table as in RepRap (http://reprap.org/), and you can envision a robust fabrication device that integrates open source computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM). This device would perform a large variety of machining and fabrication operations, and would be producible at the cost of materials if metal casting is available. When deployed, we are talking of '''''producing any advanced object or device at the cost of materials'''''. ''Would you like to fabricate an electric motor for your personal transport vehicle? Here, I'll email you a file to make on your local village fabber''. In practice, one could conceptualize a single or several Multimachines, with their milling-drilling-lathing functions, surrounding an xyz motion platform with interchangeable heads. These heads could include acetylene torch attachment, plasma cutter, CO2 laser, router, hot wire, or additive heads such as a plastic extruder found in RepRap. This overall fab lab concept could start with a basic machine such as the Multimachine, with computer controls and table added in time. As such, this is a realistic proposition - with supporting open source knowhow with significant advancement already available. This propels civilization to new levels of decentralized material prosperity, and implies significant reduction of resource conflicts, especially if material feedstocks are sourced locally - as in the next point.

Here is an initial Fab Lab design:
[[Image:Fab_Lab.jpg]]

Here is a sample Product Matrix that falls right out of Fab Lab capacities:
[[Image:Product_Matrix.jpg]]

* ''Production of local feedstocks''-
** Wood and structural masonry compressed earth block (CEB) for construction - produced from on-site trees and soils
** [[Compressed Fuel Gas]] for cooking or melting metal - gas produced from trees
** [[Bioplastics]] - such as cellophane from trees
** Biofuels - [[Fuel Alcohol]] in temperate zones, palm oil in tropical zones
** Industrial detritus (waste materials) processing - includes [[Metal Casting and Extrusion]] or [[Plastic Extrusion & Molding]]
** [[Aluminum Extraction From Clays]]

= Sample Scenario =

Imagine a village with buildings of dirt (CEB) with year-round [[Greenhouses|greenhouses]] (sawmill, CEB, bioplastics from local trees), with all facility energy produced by a solar turbine, where people drive hybrid cars with car bodies (bioplastics) made from local weeds, with critical motors and metal structures (aluminum) extracted from on-site clay, which are fueled by alcohol produced on-site, on a wireless network linked to the greater world. That's just a sampling of the technology base. Food, energy, housing sufficiency. There are no poor among us - because we are all evolving human beings and farmer scientists.

= Development process =
[[GVCS Development Template]]

[[Product Cycle]]

[[Image:Engineering_Strategy.jpg]]

= Definition of Open Source Hardware and OSE Specifications =

See the updated entry for OSE Spec [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=OSE_Specifications here].

We like to be clear about the meaning of ''open,'' or ''open source,''' as used in this work for items of physical production. By ''open source,'' we mean documented to the point where one may replicate a given item, ''without even consulting with the developers.'' To us, this embodies the most complete form of documentation possible, where sufficient detail is provided to enable independent replication. This is ''open source'' embodied in ''OSE Specifications''. Other features of OSE Specificationsare:

# Freely downloadable documentation
# DfD, lifetime design
# Simplicity and low cost are of prime importance
# Replaceable components
# Modular Design
# Scaleability
# Localization
## Level 1 - product fabrication or production is local
## Level 2 - material sourcing is local
# Product evolution - phases and versions are pursued
# Concrete Flexible Fabrication mechanism exists for others to purchase the product at reasonable cost
# Open franchising - replicable enterprise design is available, and training exists for entrepreneurs

Thus, these features are meant to promote ''[http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/dn/vol4/fotopoulos_technology.htm#_ftn2 liberatory technology]'' - open, replicable, essential, optimal, and ecological goods and services for humankind living in harmony with natural life support systems.

= Working Assumptions =

Here is a partial list of assumptions that we are making as we go about the development work of this wiki. These assumptions help one to understand our motivations and approach.
# Civilization are shaped by their resource base. The resource base is what gives people power. By controlling others through an economic or social hierarchy, we can control resources, and thus gain power. Resource conflicts occur because people have not yet learned to manage resources without stealing. Society has not transcended the brute struggle for survival. We remain on the bottom steps of Maslow's pyramid. Transcending resource conflicts by creating abundance, first for hundreds, then for thousands of people, is now possible if knowledge flows openly and advanced technology is applied to produce goods.
# Today, most humans are controlled not by a commercial force (armies) but by information and social engineering that feeds the commerce itself. Understanding means of social control; understanding the mechanics of one's mind, body, and spirit; learning to discern mechanics of mind control and propaganda as they are used in controlling agendas; and applying learnings to meditation, expansion of consciousness, and evolution of one's awareness and powers are all crucial if civilization is to escape the control of commercialism and is to give up its dependence on a centralized, planned economy.
# Said propaganda and conditioning has successfully removed the notion of self-sufficiency as a viable means of livelihood. Most people are afraid of self-sufficiency and consider it a return to the stone age. Most people cannot envision that advanced civilization can be created in small (100-1000 person), self-sufficient, highly skilled communities. Furthermore, most people do not realize that it is possible to educate, skill, and evolve human beings such that an integrated, self-sufficient lifestyle option that promotes advanced civilization on a small scale of human organization is created. It it possible to achieve this level of excellence if people are taught real knowledge and wisdom, as opposed to undergoing global workforce training.
# Education curricula have typically deleted practical applications deliberately, to produce subjects of the global workforce. If education is reinstated then self-sufficiency will emerge as a natural option.
# Self-sufficiency is not an antisocial behavior, but a means to full individual and community accountability for resource conflicts, foul politics, and other corruptions of large-scale endeavors. (review works of Gandhi, Schumacher, Fuller) Self-sufficiency is a means to highest quality life by definition, one is in control of one's destiny when one is self-sufficient. The assumption of self-sufficiency is that its practitioners must be highly skilled, and not products of centralist education.
# By self-sufficient, we mean in full control of providing one's needs. Note that self-sufficiency refers to needs - those things that allow one to survive in absolute health - and not wants. Self-sufficiency does not imply a solo, isolationist endeavor. Self-sufficiency may be accomplished with the help of as many people as it is possible to maintain full accountability, transparency, and sound ethics within that group. This group may be dispersed globally. Historically, sociology of human settlements has shown that this scale of self-sufficiency is a few hundred people. (see E.F. Schumacher; other references)
# The State promotes well-paid incompetence, largely through specialization, such that subjects produce sufficient surplus to pay for their own oppression.
# Education, media, and social engineering programs have subjugated human integrity to passive consumerism, with its related problems (resource conflicts, loss of freedom such as wage slavery). The only way out of this is creating a framework within which humans can prosper: provision of true education, learning of practical skills, stewardship of land, advanced technology for the people, and open access to economically significant know-how.
# Import substitution is reducing dependence on external feedstocks and replacing them with local ones. People in control of their resources control their own destiny. Thus, to localize the essential parts of an economy completely is the prime formula for social stability. Localization should not be considered a struggle, but merely a possibility. It is a possibility that is not recognized because most people, as specialists, lack integrated technical literacy and skills that make a local economy feasible.

= See also =

* [[Product Ecologies]] - illustrates how the different components of the GVCS relate with one another

[[Category: GVCS]]

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Global Village Construction Set

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= Introduction =

'''See http://opensourceecology.org for the official definition of the [http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs.php 50 GVCS Tools].'''

'''The [[Global Village Construction Set]]''' is a set of 50 [[wikipedia:Open Source Appropriate Technology|Open Source Appropriate Technology]] tools for building post-scarcity, resilient communities.

In this page, you will get an overview of each one of them, together with corresponding wiki pages, blog posts and forums.

See also the [[Crash Course]].

== Ideas ==

The ideas that guide the GVCS are:

'''Open Source''' - we freely publish our 3d designs, schematics, instructional videos, budgets, and product manuals on our open source wiki and we harness open collaboration with technical contributors.

'''Low-Cost''' - The cost of making or buying our machines are, on average, 8x cheaper than buying from an Industrial Manufacturer, including an average labor cost of $15 hour for a GVCS fabricator.

'''Modular''' - Motors, parts, assemblies, and power units can interchange, where units can be grouped together to diversify the functionality that is achievable from a small set of units.

'''User-Serviceable''' - Design-for-disassembly allows the user to take apart, maintain, and fix tools readily without the need to rely on expensive repairmen.

'''DIY''' - (do-it-yourself) The user gains control of designing, producing, and modifying the GVCS tool set.

'''Closed Loop Manufacturing''' - Metal is an essential component of advanced civilization, and our platform allows for recycling metal into virgin feedstock for producing further GVCS technologies - thereby allowing for cradle-to-cradle manufacturing cycles

'''High Performance''' - Performance standards must match or exceed those of industrial counterparts for the GVCS to be viable.

'''Flexible Fabrication''' - It has been demonstrated that the flexible use of generalized machinery in appropriate-scale production is a viable alternative to centralized production.

'''Distributive Economics''' - We encourage the replication of enterprises that derive from the GVCS platform as a route to truly free enterprise - along the ideals of Jeffersonian democracy.

'''Industrial Efficiency''' - In order to provide a viable choice for a resilient lifestyle, the GVCS platform matches or exceeds productivity standards of industrial counterparts.

= The tools =
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! '''[[CEB Press]]'''
! A high-performance Compresssed Earth Block press. Compresssed Earth Block building is the highest quality natural building method. The page [[CEB intro]] contains introductory information on compressed earth blocks
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/compressed-earth-brick-press.png
! <font color=green>COMPLETE AND TESTED!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/ceb-press/ ceb-press]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/compressed-earth-block-press/ compressed-earth-block-press]
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! '''[[LifeTrac|Tractor]]'''
! A versatile, 4-wheel drive, hydraulically-driven, skid-steering tractor with 18 to 200 horsepower capacity for agriculture, construction and other utility duties.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/lifetrac.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/lifetrac/ lifetrac]
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! '''[[Microtractor]]'''
! a small, 18 hp version of the full-sized tractor for powering a wide range of implements in agricultural and utility duties
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/microtrac.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
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!
! [[:Category: MicroTrac]]

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! '''[[Bulldozer]]'''
! A high-traction, heavy earth-moving machine indispensible for building ponds, berms, and other permacultural earthforms, as well as for other tasks such as building roads or clearing land
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/bulldozer.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Power Cube]]'''
! A multipurpose, self-contained, hydraulic power power unit that consisting of an engine coupled to a hydraulic pump
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/powercube.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/power-cube/ power-cube]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/power-cube/ power-cube]
! [[:Category: Power Cube]]

|-align="left"
! '''CNC Precision Multimachine'''
! A multipurpose, precision CNC machining and metal cutting device for milling, lathing, drilling to make precision parts; includes surface grinding and cold-cut metal sawing
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/multimachine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Ironworker Machine'''
! A device that can instantly cut steel and punch holes in metal one inch thick
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/ironworker.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''CNC Torch/Router Table'''
! A computer-controlled cutting table for metal where a moving torch head is used to produce precision metal parts in a fraction of the time that it takes to do so manually
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/torch-table.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
!
!
! [[:Category: Torch Table]]

|-align="left"
! '''3D Printer'''
! An additive manufacturing technology where a three dimensional object is printed by laying down successive layers of material, just like a printer except in 3D
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-printer.png
! <font color=green>COMPLETE AND TESTED!</font>

|-align="left"
! '''3D Scanner'''
! A device that can generate a 3D digital scan from a real-life object, where the file can be used to reproduce the object in 3D with a device such as the 3D printer or CNC Precision Multimachine
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-scanner.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[CNC Circuit Mill]]'''
! A computer-controlled device that can produce electrical circuits by milling and drilling on copper-clad circuit boards
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/circuit-mill.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Industrial Robot]]'''
! A robotic arm which can perform certain human tasks - such as welding or milling – for performing tasks that are not better done by humans
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/robotic-arm.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Laser Cutter]]'''
! An industrial machine that can make precision, finish cuts in a wide array of substrates, such as metal, wood, or plastic
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/laser-cutter.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Open Source Welder]]'''
! A device used to make strong, permanent bonds in metal by melting and fusing the metal
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/mig-welder.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Plasma Cutter]]'''
! A device to cut metal using a plasma torch
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/plasma-cutter.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Induction Furnace]]'''
! An electrical furnace in which the heat is applied by induction heating of metal, providing clean, versatile, compact, energy-efficient, and well-controlled melting compared to flame furnaces
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/induction-furnace.png
! <font color=orange>IN DEVELOPMENT</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/induction-furnace/ induction-furnace]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/induction-furnace/ induction-furnace]
! [[:Category: Induction Furnace]]

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! '''Metal Rolling'''
! A metal forming process in which metal stock is passed through a pair of rolls to produce a desired shape, such as flat bar, angle, or u-channel
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/metal-rolling-machine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Rod and Wire Mill'''
! A subset of metal rolling, used to make shafts, rebar, thin rods, and down to wire.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/wire-n-rod-mill.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Press Forge'''
! A device for shaping metal by the application of a shaping die and a continuous pressure or force.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/forge.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Modern Steam Engine]]'''
! A modern engine where an external heat source is used to turn water into steam, and the steam in turn moves reciprocating pistons to provide shaft power
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/steam-engine.png
! <font color=orange>IN DEVELOPMENT</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/steam-engine-construction-set/ steam-engine-construction-set]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/steam-engine-construction-set/ steam-engine-construction-set]
! [[:Category: Steam Engine]]

|-align="left"
! '''Gasifier burner'''
! A clean and efficient burner that gasifies the material that is being burned prior to combustion
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/gasifier-burner.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Steam Generator]]'''
! A device that generates steam from water that is passed through externally-heated coils
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/steam-generator.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Solar Concentrator'''
! An array of mirrors to concentrate sunlight so it can boil water and drive a steam engine.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/solar-concentrator.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Wind Turbine]]'''
! A device that produces electrical power from wind energy
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/wind-turbine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Aluminum Extractor from Clay'''
! A device that produces aluminum from clay by dissolving the aluminum from aluminosilicate (clay), and then electrolyzing the resulting compound to form pure aluminum
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/alluminum-extractor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Pelletizer]]'''
! A device that compresses shredded pieces of biomass or other substances to compact, flowable pellets
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/pelletizer.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Universal Seeder'''
! A tractor-pulled seeder than can plant any seed, from small seeds like clover to large seeds such as potatoes
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-seeder.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Rototiller]] and [[Soil Pulverizer]]'''
! A tractor implement that tills soil with blades via rotary action
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/pulverizer-tiller.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Spader]]'''
! A set of mechanical shovels that prepare soil for planting without causing a hardpan typical of rototiller tilling
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/spader.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Microcombine'''
! A small-scale harvester-thresher for mechanical harvesting of any grain crops, with a cutting swath of about 3 feet in width
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/microcombine.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Universal Rotor]]'''
! A tractor-mounted rotor that can be fitted with a wide array of toolheads, such as string trimmer, posthole digger, tree planting auger, slurry mixer, and many others
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-rotor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Baler]]'''
! A device that compresses hay and other light and dispersed materials into more compact bales
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/baler.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Hay Rake'''
! A mechanical implement for a tractor that rakes hay or other light materials into windrows or other formations for drying or baling
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hay-rake.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Hay Cutter]]'''
! A device that cuts grass, hay, straw, or other light biomass for haying, baling, or combining
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hay-cutter.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Backhoe]]'''
! A piece of excavating equipment or digger consisting of a digging bucket on the end of a two-part articulated arm for digging trenches or large holes
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/backhoe.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Chipper/Hammermill'''
! A machine used for reducing wood or other materials into smaller parts, such as chips or shreds
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/chipper-hammermill.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Trencher]]'''
! A piece of construction equipment that uses a cutting wheel for digging trenches, laying pipe, cable, or drainage
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/trencher.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Open Source Car]]'''
! A wheeled motor vehicle for transporting people
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/automobile.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Open Source Truck'''
! A larger version of an automobile with a bed for trasporting loads
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/truck.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Sawmill|Dimensional Sawmill]]'''
! A dimensional sawmill is a circular blade sawmill with 2 blades that is used for producing dimensional lumber in one pass
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/sawmill.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Cement Mixer]]'''
! A device that homogeneously combines cement, aggregate such as sand or gravel, and water to form concrete
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/cement-mixer.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Well-drilling Rig]]'''
! A device for digging deep water wells
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/well-drilling-rig.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Bakery Oven'''
! A device for heating various forms of dough into breads and other baked goods
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/industrial-bread-oven.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Dairy Milker'''
! A device which harvests milk automatically from milk-producing livestock
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/milking-machine.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Electric Motor/Generator'''
! A device that functions as a motor when energized with a voltage, which can also function as an electrical generator when it is spun.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/electric-motor-generator.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Hydraulic Motors'''
! A mechanical actuator that converts high-pressure fluid flow into rotation
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hydraulic-motor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Bioplastic Extruder]]'''
! An extruder takes a charge of plastic and extrudes a sheet or other profile of useful form, such as greenhouse glazing or water tubing
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/plastic-extruder.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Universal Power Supply'''
! This is a combination power supply for applications from off-grid power to supplying power to welders, induction furnaces, and plasma cutters.
!http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-power-supply.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Nickel Iron Batteries]]'''
! Long-life batteries that have a track record of lasting 50 or more years
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/nickel-iron-batteries.png
!

|-align="left"
! Drill press
!
! [[File:Multimachineicon.jpg|100px]]
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/drill-press/ drill-press]
!
! [[:Category: Drill Press]]
|-
|}

===Want to add another tool?===
If you think another technology belongs on the GVCS list, follow this procedure -
#Read the [[OSE Specifications]] and answer the [[OSE Specifications#Questionnaire|questionnaire]].
#If the tool scores highly on the questionnaire and meets most of the OSE specifications, start a thread on the [http://openfarmtech.org/forum/ forum] with a title beginning "Proposed Tool:" (e.g. "Proposed Tool: Washing Machine"). You may be challenged, and will have to convince the community that it is realistic and worth pursuing.
#If the consensus on the forum is in favor of adding the tool to the GVCS, feel free to edit the list above to add the new tool
#By proposing the tool, you take responsibility for it. You become project manager for that tool, and will have to build and prototype it yourself, or else recruit and manage someone who can.

====Proposed tools====
*'''Loader''' - an attachment for the [[LifeTrac]] tractor
*'''Village-scale washing machine''' - powered by the universal rotor
*'''Fridge''' - see the page on [[refrigeration]]
*'''Reversible heat pump''' - for controlling the temperature of homes and greenhouses, refrigerating food and medicine, harnessing solar and geothermal heat
*'''[[Stirling engine]]''' - transforms heat into mechanical energy
*'''[[Spectrometer]]''' and '''computer oscilloscope''' - adding these to the GVCS would form a complete Fab Lab. Most of the work will be done by other open-source groups.
*'''[[Juice Press]]''' - A juice press powered by the [[Power Cube]].
*'''[[Log Splitter]]''' - A log splitter powered by the [[Power Cube]].

= Videos =

See a 2 minute video explainer about the GVCS:

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* Overview presentation at [[Linz Slides]]

See latest presentation on the GVCS (as of June, 2010)
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Economy creates culture and culture creates politics. The politics we seek are freedom, voluntary contract, and human evolution in harmony with life support systems. Note that resource conflicts and overpopulation are eliminated by design. We are after the creation of new society, one which has learned from the past and moves forward with ancient wisdom and modern technology.

This is a real experiment, and product selection is based on us living with the given technologies. First, it is the development of real, economically significant hardware, product, and engineering. Second, this entire set is being compiled into one setting, and land is being populated with the respective productive agents. The aim is to define a new form of social organization where it is possible to create advanced culture, thriving in abundance and largely autonomous, on the scale of a village, not nation or state.

Here is a talk by [[Marcin Jakubowski]] on the GVCS at the 4th Oekonux Conference. <html>You can download the slides and see a transcript <a href="http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Oekonux_4" target="_blank">here</a>.

First is an introduction by Franz Nahrada, leader of the <a href="http://globalvillages.ning.com/" target="_blank">Globally Integrated Village Environment</a>:<br>

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A video presentation on the [[first year at Factor e Farm]] and the GVCS from 2007-2008 [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-710075551990473235#20m24s here].

And you can also view a GVCS [[UM_Presentation|slide show presentation]] for more information.

=Product Selection Criteria=

See [[OSE Specifications]]

= Enterprise Community Contract =

We are proposing the formation of Global Villages in the form of productive enterprise communities that strive for unprecedented quality of life:
* material abundance
* freedom from bureacracy and unnecessary activity
* total focus on one's true interests

For our particular OSE prototype implementation, we are interested in the following general essence of an ''Enterprise Community Contract'':

* 2 hours of productive activity daily, such that 100% of the community's food, energy, housing, transportation, and technology essentials are produced for subsistence, with surplus production for market
** Agriculture base follows permaculture design, and includes production of water soluble organic fertilizer, orchard, nursery, and crops, as well as certain food processing and value added propositions
** Flexible fabrication produces advanced technologies ''at the cost of materials''
** Cost of living is reduced dramatically, from $20,000/year in the industrialized world, to negligible income requirements, under the assumption of high-tech self-providing
* Each participant undertakes a study program of full stewardship of the community, including:
** Agricultural production capacity
** Technological literacy to operate and maintain flex fab equipment and other machinery
** Numeracy to facilitate design
** Study of the mind and body to expand one's consciousness, skills, and abilities, and to disseminate such human augmentation widely towards eliminating mind control of the masses
* Entry of new people can be negotiated by the new participants providing skills and productive contribution to the community
* Beyond the 2 hour requirement, participants follow a research lifestyle to promote further development of the community or of the greater world

= Enabling Technology - Salient Features of Technology Base =

Without going into details, the main features for the comprehensive technology base are:

* ''Hybridization of power devices'' - decoupling of power source from the working unit in order to produce electrical drive is a formula for increasing integrated efficiency of electromechanical devices such as electric [[vehicle]]s, tools, heavy equipment, etc. For example, the hybrid car decouples the engine from its wheels by using an electrical generator to feed electric wheel motors. Note that this eliminates the clutch, transmission, crank case and its oil, differential, drive train, and other parts, and replaces these items with electric wire from the generator to electric motor. This is a huge efficiency leap, one in fuel efficiency, and two, in eliminating billions of dollars of industry which is outdated today due to the hybridization option. As such, we can talk of complex machines with huge simplification, assuming easy access to infinitely scaleable and controllable, low cost electric motors (these do not exist today). For example, we can envision an agricultural combine where each moving part is powered by its own electric motor - producing a leap in simplification and maintenance of the overall machine - as all belts, pulleys, gears, and other power transmission components driven by a single engine - are all replaced by electric wire. One can point to many examples where such strategy would provide leapfrog advance in device simplicity and maintenance.

* ''Solar turbine power generation including heat storage - look at [[Solar Turbine CHP System]]

* ''Open source fab lab'' - combine and expand the [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/multimachine/Multimachine] with xyz table as in RepRap (http://reprap.org/), and you can envision a robust fabrication device that integrates open source computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM). This device would perform a large variety of machining and fabrication operations, and would be producible at the cost of materials if metal casting is available. When deployed, we are talking of '''''producing any advanced object or device at the cost of materials'''''. ''Would you like to fabricate an electric motor for your personal transport vehicle? Here, I'll email you a file to make on your local village fabber''. In practice, one could conceptualize a single or several Multimachines, with their milling-drilling-lathing functions, surrounding an xyz motion platform with interchangeable heads. These heads could include acetylene torch attachment, plasma cutter, CO2 laser, router, hot wire, or additive heads such as a plastic extruder found in RepRap. This overall fab lab concept could start with a basic machine such as the Multimachine, with computer controls and table added in time. As such, this is a realistic proposition - with supporting open source knowhow with significant advancement already available. This propels civilization to new levels of decentralized material prosperity, and implies significant reduction of resource conflicts, especially if material feedstocks are sourced locally - as in the next point.

Here is an initial Fab Lab design:
[[Image:Fab_Lab.jpg]]

Here is a sample Product Matrix that falls right out of Fab Lab capacities:
[[Image:Product_Matrix.jpg]]

* ''Production of local feedstocks''-
** Wood and structural masonry compressed earth block (CEB) for construction - produced from on-site trees and soils
** [[Compressed Fuel Gas]] for cooking or melting metal - gas produced from trees
** [[Bioplastics]] - such as cellophane from trees
** Biofuels - [[Fuel Alcohol]] in temperate zones, palm oil in tropical zones
** Industrial detritus (waste materials) processing - includes [[Metal Casting and Extrusion]] or [[Plastic Extrusion & Molding]]
** [[Aluminum Extraction From Clays]]

= Sample Scenario =

Imagine a village with buildings of dirt (CEB) with year-round [[Greenhouses|greenhouses]] (sawmill, CEB, bioplastics from local trees), with all facility energy produced by a solar turbine, where people drive hybrid cars with car bodies (bioplastics) made from local weeds, with critical motors and metal structures (aluminum) extracted from on-site clay, which are fueled by alcohol produced on-site, on a wireless network linked to the greater world. That's just a sampling of the technology base. Food, energy, housing sufficiency. There are no poor among us - because we are all evolving human beings and farmer scientists.

= Development process =
[[GVCS Development Template]]

[[Product Cycle]]

[[Image:Engineering_Strategy.jpg]]

= Definition of Open Source Hardware and OSE Specifications =

See the updated entry for OSE Spec [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=OSE_Specifications here].

We like to be clear about the meaning of ''open,'' or ''open source,''' as used in this work for items of physical production. By ''open source,'' we mean documented to the point where one may replicate a given item, ''without even consulting with the developers.'' To us, this embodies the most complete form of documentation possible, where sufficient detail is provided to enable independent replication. This is ''open source'' embodied in ''OSE Specifications''. Other features of OSE Specificationsare:

# Freely downloadable documentation
# DfD, lifetime design
# Simplicity and low cost are of prime importance
# Replaceable components
# Modular Design
# Scaleability
# Localization
## Level 1 - product fabrication or production is local
## Level 2 - material sourcing is local
# Product evolution - phases and versions are pursued
# Concrete Flexible Fabrication mechanism exists for others to purchase the product at reasonable cost
# Open franchising - replicable enterprise design is available, and training exists for entrepreneurs

Thus, these features are meant to promote ''[http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/dn/vol4/fotopoulos_technology.htm#_ftn2 liberatory technology]'' - open, replicable, essential, optimal, and ecological goods and services for humankind living in harmony with natural life support systems.

= Working Assumptions =

Here is a partial list of assumptions that we are making as we go about the development work of this wiki. These assumptions help one to understand our motivations and approach.
# Civilization are shaped by their resource base. The resource base is what gives people power. By controlling others through an economic or social hierarchy, we can control resources, and thus gain power. Resource conflicts occur because people have not yet learned to manage resources without stealing. Society has not transcended the brute struggle for survival. We remain on the bottom steps of Maslow's pyramid. Transcending resource conflicts by creating abundance, first for hundreds, then for thousands of people, is now possible if knowledge flows openly and advanced technology is applied to produce goods.
# Today, most humans are controlled not by a commercial force (armies) but by information and social engineering that feeds the commerce itself. Understanding means of social control; understanding the mechanics of one's mind, body, and spirit; learning to discern mechanics of mind control and propaganda as they are used in controlling agendas; and applying learnings to meditation, expansion of consciousness, and evolution of one's awareness and powers are all crucial if civilization is to escape the control of commercialism and is to give up its dependence on a centralized, planned economy.
# Said propaganda and conditioning has successfully removed the notion of self-sufficiency as a viable means of livelihood. Most people are afraid of self-sufficiency and consider it a return to the stone age. Most people cannot envision that advanced civilization can be created in small (100-1000 person), self-sufficient, highly skilled communities. Furthermore, most people do not realize that it is possible to educate, skill, and evolve human beings such that an integrated, self-sufficient lifestyle option that promotes advanced civilization on a small scale of human organization is created. It it possible to achieve this level of excellence if people are taught real knowledge and wisdom, as opposed to undergoing global workforce training.
# Education curricula have typically deleted practical applications deliberately, to produce subjects of the global workforce. If education is reinstated then self-sufficiency will emerge as a natural option.
# Self-sufficiency is not an antisocial behavior, but a means to full individual and community accountability for resource conflicts, foul politics, and other corruptions of large-scale endeavors. (review works of Gandhi, Schumacher, Fuller) Self-sufficiency is a means to highest quality life by definition, one is in control of one's destiny when one is self-sufficient. The assumption of self-sufficiency is that its practitioners must be highly skilled, and not products of centralist education.
# By self-sufficient, we mean in full control of providing one's needs. Note that self-sufficiency refers to needs - those things that allow one to survive in absolute health - and not wants. Self-sufficiency does not imply a solo, isolationist endeavor. Self-sufficiency may be accomplished with the help of as many people as it is possible to maintain full accountability, transparency, and sound ethics within that group. This group may be dispersed globally. Historically, sociology of human settlements has shown that this scale of self-sufficiency is a few hundred people. (see E.F. Schumacher; other references)
# The State promotes well-paid incompetence, largely through specialization, such that subjects produce sufficient surplus to pay for their own oppression.
# Education, media, and social engineering programs have subjugated human integrity to passive consumerism, with its related problems (resource conflicts, loss of freedom such as wage slavery). The only way out of this is creating a framework within which humans can prosper: provision of true education, learning of practical skills, stewardship of land, advanced technology for the people, and open access to economically significant know-how.
# Import substitution is reducing dependence on external feedstocks and replacing them with local ones. People in control of their resources control their own destiny. Thus, to localize the essential parts of an economy completely is the prime formula for social stability. Localization should not be considered a struggle, but merely a possibility. It is a possibility that is not recognized because most people, as specialists, lack integrated technical literacy and skills that make a local economy feasible.

= See also =

* [[Product Ecologies]] - illustrates how the different components of the GVCS relate with one another

[[Category: GVCS]]

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= Introduction =

'''See http://opensourceecology.org for the official definition of the [http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs.php 50 GVCS Tools].'''

'''The [[Global Village Construction Set]]''' is a set of 50 [[wikipedia:Open Source Appropriate Technology|Open Source Appropriate Technology]] tools for building post-scarcity, resilient communities.

In this page, you will get an overview of each one of them, together with corresponding wiki pages, blog posts and forums.

See also the [[Crash Course]].

== Ideas ==

The ideas that guide the GVCS are:

'''Open Source''' - we freely publish our 3d designs, schematics, instructional videos, budgets, and product manuals on our open source wiki and we harness open collaboration with technical contributors.

'''Low-Cost''' - The cost of making or buying our machines are, on average, 8x cheaper than buying from an Industrial Manufacturer, including an average labor cost of $15 hour for a GVCS fabricator.

'''Modular''' - Motors, parts, assemblies, and power units can interchange, where units can be grouped together to diversify the functionality that is achievable from a small set of units.

'''User-Serviceable''' - Design-for-disassembly allows the user to take apart, maintain, and fix tools readily without the need to rely on expensive repairmen.

'''DIY''' - (do-it-yourself) The user gains control of designing, producing, and modifying the GVCS tool set.

'''Closed Loop Manufacturing''' - Metal is an essential component of advanced civilization, and our platform allows for recycling metal into virgin feedstock for producing further GVCS technologies - thereby allowing for cradle-to-cradle manufacturing cycles

'''High Performance''' - Performance standards must match or exceed those of industrial counterparts for the GVCS to be viable.

'''Flexible Fabrication''' - It has been demonstrated that the flexible use of generalized machinery in appropriate-scale production is a viable alternative to centralized production.

'''Distributive Economics''' - We encourage the replication of enterprises that derive from the GVCS platform as a route to truly free enterprise - along the ideals of Jeffersonian democracy.

'''Industrial Efficiency''' - In order to provide a viable choice for a resilient lifestyle, the GVCS platform matches or exceeds productivity standards of industrial counterparts.

= The tools =
{| style="width:100%;" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1" align="left"
! TOOL
! DESCRIPTION
! IMAGE
! STATUS
! FORUM DISCUSSION
! BLOG
! OTHER WIKI ARTICLES

|-
! '''[[CEB Press]]'''
! A high-performance Compresssed Earth Block press. Compresssed Earth Block building is the highest quality natural building method. The page [[CEB intro]] contains introductory information on compressed earth blocks
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/compressed-earth-brick-press.png
! <font color=green>COMPLETE AND TESTED!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/ceb-press/ ceb-press]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/compressed-earth-block-press/ compressed-earth-block-press]
! [[:Category: CEB]]

|-align="left"
! '''[[LifeTrac|Tractor]]'''
! A versatile, 4-wheel drive, hydraulically-driven, skid-steering tractor with 18 to 200 horsepower capacity for agriculture, construction and other utility duties.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/lifetrac.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/lifetrac/ lifetrac]
!
! [[:Category: LifeTrac]]

|-align="left"
! '''[[Microtractor]]'''
! a small, 18 hp version of the full-sized tractor for powering a wide range of implements in agricultural and utility duties
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/microtrac.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
!
!
! [[:Category: MicroTrac]]

|-align="left"
! '''[[Bulldozer]]'''
! A high-traction, heavy earth-moving machine indispensible for building ponds, berms, and other permacultural earthforms, as well as for other tasks such as building roads or clearing land
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/bulldozer.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Power Cube]]'''
! A multipurpose, self-contained, hydraulic power power unit that consisting of an engine coupled to a hydraulic pump
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/powercube.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/power-cube/ power-cube]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/power-cube/ power-cube]
! [[:Category: Power Cube]]

|-align="left"
! '''CNC Precision Multimachine'''
! A multipurpose, precision CNC machining and metal cutting device for milling, lathing, drilling to make precision parts; includes surface grinding and cold-cut metal sawing
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/multimachine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Ironworker Machine'''
! A device that can instantly cut steel and punch holes in metal one inch thick
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/ironworker.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''CNC Torch/Router Table'''
! A computer-controlled cutting table for metal where a moving torch head is used to produce precision metal parts in a fraction of the time that it takes to do so manually
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/torch-table.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
!
!
! [[:Category: Torch Table]]

|-align="left"
! '''3D Printer'''
! An additive manufacturing technology where a three dimensional object is printed by laying down successive layers of material, just like a printer except in 3D
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-printer.png
! <font color=green>COMPLETE AND TESTED!</font>

|-align="left"
! '''3D Scanner'''
! A device that can generate a 3D digital scan from a real-life object, where the file can be used to reproduce the object in 3D with a device such as the 3D printer or CNC Precision Multimachine
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-scanner.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[CNC Circuit Mill]]'''
! A computer-controlled device that can produce electrical circuits by milling and drilling on copper-clad circuit boards
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/circuit-mill.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Industrial Robot]]'''
! A robotic arm which can perform certain human tasks - such as welding or milling – for performing tasks that are not better done by humans
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/robotic-arm.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Laser Cutter]]'''
! An industrial machine that can make precision, finish cuts in a wide array of substrates, such as metal, wood, or plastic
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/laser-cutter.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Open Source Welder]]'''
! A device used to make strong, permanent bonds in metal by melting and fusing the metal
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/mig-welder.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Plasma Cutter]]'''
! A device to cut metal using a plasma torch
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/plasma-cutter.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Induction Furnace]]'''
! An electrical furnace in which the heat is applied by induction heating of metal, providing clean, versatile, compact, energy-efficient, and well-controlled melting compared to flame furnaces
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/induction-furnace.png
! <font color=orange>IN DEVELOPMENT</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/induction-furnace/ induction-furnace]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/induction-furnace/ induction-furnace]
! [[:Category: Induction Furnace]]

|-align="left"
! '''Metal Rolling'''
! A metal forming process in which metal stock is passed through a pair of rolls to produce a desired shape, such as flat bar, angle, or u-channel
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/metal-rolling-machine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Rod and Wire Mill'''
! A subset of metal rolling, used to make shafts, rebar, thin rods, and down to wire.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/wire-n-rod-mill.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Press Forge'''
! A device for shaping metal by the application of a shaping die and a continuous pressure or force.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/forge.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Modern Steam Engine]]'''
! A modern engine where an external heat source is used to turn water into steam, and the steam in turn moves reciprocating pistons to provide shaft power
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/steam-engine.png
! <font color=orange>IN DEVELOPMENT</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/steam-engine-construction-set/ steam-engine-construction-set]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/steam-engine-construction-set/ steam-engine-construction-set]
! [[:Category: Steam Engine]]

|-align="left"
! '''Gasifier burner'''
! A clean and efficient burner that gasifies the material that is being burned prior to combustion
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/gasifier-burner.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Steam Generator]]'''
! A device that generates steam from water that is passed through externally-heated coils
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/steam-generator.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Solar Concentrator'''
! An array of mirrors to concentrate sunlight so it can boil water and drive a steam engine.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/solar-concentrator.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Wind Turbine]]'''
! A device that produces electrical power from wind energy
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/wind-turbine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Aluminum Extractor from Clay'''
! A device that produces aluminum from clay by dissolving the aluminum from aluminosilicate (clay), and then electrolyzing the resulting compound to form pure aluminum
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/alluminum-extractor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Pelletizer]]'''
! A device that compresses shredded pieces of biomass or other substances to compact, flowable pellets
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/pelletizer.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Universal Seeder'''
! A tractor-pulled seeder than can plant any seed, from small seeds like clover to large seeds such as potatoes
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-seeder.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Rototiller]] and [[Soil Pulverizer]]'''
! A tractor implement that tills soil with blades via rotary action
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/pulverizer-tiller.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Spader]]'''
! A set of mechanical shovels that prepare soil for planting without causing a hardpan typical of rototiller tilling
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/spader.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Microcombine'''
! A small-scale harvester-thresher for mechanical harvesting of any grain crops, with a cutting swath of about 3 feet in width
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/microcombine.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Universal Rotor]]'''
! A tractor-mounted rotor that can be fitted with a wide array of toolheads, such as string trimmer, posthole digger, tree planting auger, slurry mixer, and many others
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-rotor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Baler]]'''
! A device that compresses hay and other light and dispersed materials into more compact bales
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/baler.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Hay Rake'''
! A mechanical implement for a tractor that rakes hay or other light materials into windrows or other formations for drying or baling
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hay-rake.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Hay Cutter]]'''
! A device that cuts grass, hay, straw, or other light biomass for haying, baling, or combining
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hay-cutter.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Backhoe]]'''
! A piece of excavating equipment or digger consisting of a digging bucket on the end of a two-part articulated arm for digging trenches or large holes
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/backhoe.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Chipper/Hammermill'''
! A machine used for reducing wood or other materials into smaller parts, such as chips or shreds
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/chipper-hammermill.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Trencher]]'''
! A piece of construction equipment that uses a cutting wheel for digging trenches, laying pipe, cable, or drainage
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/trencher.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Open Source Car]]'''
! A wheeled motor vehicle for transporting people
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/automobile.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Open Source Truck'''
! A larger version of an automobile with a bed for trasporting loads
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/truck.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Sawmill|Dimensional Sawmill]]'''
! A dimensional sawmill is a circular blade sawmill with 2 blades that is used for producing dimensional lumber in one pass
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/sawmill.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Cement Mixer]]'''
! A device that homogeneously combines cement, aggregate such as sand or gravel, and water to form concrete
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/cement-mixer.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Well-drilling Rig]]'''
! A device for digging deep water wells
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/well-drilling-rig.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Bakery Oven'''
! A device for heating various forms of dough into breads and other baked goods
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/industrial-bread-oven.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Dairy Milker'''
! A device which harvests milk automatically from milk-producing livestock
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/milking-machine.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Electric Motor/Generator'''
! A device that functions as a motor when energized with a voltage, which can also function as an electrical generator when it is spun.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/electric-motor-generator.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Hydraulic Motors'''
! A mechanical actuator that converts high-pressure fluid flow into rotation
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hydraulic-motor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Bioplastic Extruder]]'''
! An extruder takes a charge of plastic and extrudes a sheet or other profile of useful form, such as greenhouse glazing or water tubing
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/plastic-extruder.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Universal Power Supply'''
! This is a combination power supply for applications from off-grid power to supplying power to welders, induction furnaces, and plasma cutters.
!http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-power-supply.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Nickel Iron Batteries]]'''
! Long-life batteries that have a track record of lasting 50 or more years
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/nickel-iron-batteries.png
!

|-align="left"
! Drill press
!
! [[File:Multimachineicon.jpg|100px]]
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/drill-press/ drill-press]
!
! [[:Category: Drill Press]]
|-
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===Want to add another tool?===
If you think another technology belongs on the GVCS list, follow this procedure -
#Read the [[OSE Specifications]] and answer the [[OSE Specifications#Questionnaire|questionnaire]].
#If the tool scores highly on the questionnaire and meets most of the OSE specifications, start a thread on the [http://openfarmtech.org/forum/ forum] with a title beginning "Proposed Tool:" (e.g. "Proposed Tool: Washing Machine"). You may be challenged, and will have to convince the community that it is realistic and worth pursuing.
#If the consensus on the forum is in favor of adding the tool to the GVCS, feel free to edit the list above to add the new tool
#By proposing the tool, you take responsibility for it. You become project manager for that tool, and will have to build and prototype it yourself, or else recruit and manage someone who can.

====Proposed tools====
*'''Loader''' - an attachment for the [[LifeTrac]] tractor
*'''Village-scale washing machine''' - powered by the universal rotor
*'''Fridge''' - see the page on [[refrigeration]]
*'''Reversible heat pump''' - for controlling the temperature of homes and greenhouses, refrigerating food and medicine, harnessing solar and geothermal heat
*'''[[Stirling engine]]''' - transforms heat into mechanical energy
*'''[[Spectrometer]]''' and '''computer oscilloscope''' - adding these to the GVCS would form a complete Fab Lab. Most of the work will be done by other open-source groups.
*'''[[Juice Press]]''' - A juice press powered by the [[Power Cube]].
*'''[[Log Splitter]]''' - A log splitter powered by the [[Power Cube]].

= Videos =

See a 2 minute video explainer about the GVCS:

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* [[H+ Presentation]]
* Overview presentation at [[Linz Slides]]

See latest presentation on the GVCS (as of June, 2010)
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Economy creates culture and culture creates politics. The politics we seek are freedom, voluntary contract, and human evolution in harmony with life support systems. Note that resource conflicts and overpopulation are eliminated by design. We are after the creation of new society, one which has learned from the past and moves forward with ancient wisdom and modern technology.

This is a real experiment, and product selection is based on us living with the given technologies. First, it is the development of real, economically significant hardware, product, and engineering. Second, this entire set is being compiled into one setting, and land is being populated with the respective productive agents. The aim is to define a new form of social organization where it is possible to create advanced culture, thriving in abundance and largely autonomous, on the scale of a village, not nation or state.

Here is a talk by [[Marcin Jakubowski]] on the GVCS at the 4th Oekonux Conference. <html>You can download the slides and see a transcript <a href="http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Oekonux_4" target="_blank">here</a>.

First is an introduction by Franz Nahrada, leader of the <a href="http://globalvillages.ning.com/" target="_blank">Globally Integrated Village Environment</a>:<br>

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A video presentation on the [[first year at Factor e Farm]] and the GVCS from 2007-2008 [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-710075551990473235#20m24s here].

And you can also view a GVCS [[UM_Presentation|slide show presentation]] for more information.

=Product Selection Criteria=

See [[OSE Specifications]]

= Enterprise Community Contract =

We are proposing the formation of Global Villages in the form of productive enterprise communities that strive for unprecedented quality of life:
* material abundance
* freedom from bureacracy and unnecessary activity
* total focus on one's true interests

For our particular OSE prototype implementation, we are interested in the following general essence of an ''Enterprise Community Contract'':

* 2 hours of productive activity daily, such that 100% of the community's food, energy, housing, transportation, and technology essentials are produced for subsistence, with surplus production for market
** Agriculture base follows permaculture design, and includes production of water soluble organic fertilizer, orchard, nursery, and crops, as well as certain food processing and value added propositions
** Flexible fabrication produces advanced technologies ''at the cost of materials''
** Cost of living is reduced dramatically, from $20,000/year in the industrialized world, to negligible income requirements, under the assumption of high-tech self-providing
* Each participant undertakes a study program of full stewardship of the community, including:
** Agricultural production capacity
** Technological literacy to operate and maintain flex fab equipment and other machinery
** Numeracy to facilitate design
** Study of the mind and body to expand one's consciousness, skills, and abilities, and to disseminate such human augmentation widely towards eliminating mind control of the masses
* Entry of new people can be negotiated by the new participants providing skills and productive contribution to the community
* Beyond the 2 hour requirement, participants follow a research lifestyle to promote further development of the community or of the greater world

= Enabling Technology - Salient Features of Technology Base =

Without going into details, the main features for the comprehensive technology base are:

* ''Hybridization of power devices'' - decoupling of power source from the working unit in order to produce electrical drive is a formula for increasing integrated efficiency of electromechanical devices such as electric [[vehicle]]s, tools, heavy equipment, etc. For example, the hybrid car decouples the engine from its wheels by using an electrical generator to feed electric wheel motors. Note that this eliminates the clutch, transmission, crank case and its oil, differential, drive train, and other parts, and replaces these items with electric wire from the generator to electric motor. This is a huge efficiency leap, one in fuel efficiency, and two, in eliminating billions of dollars of industry which is outdated today due to the hybridization option. As such, we can talk of complex machines with huge simplification, assuming easy access to infinitely scaleable and controllable, low cost electric motors (these do not exist today). For example, we can envision an agricultural combine where each moving part is powered by its own electric motor - producing a leap in simplification and maintenance of the overall machine - as all belts, pulleys, gears, and other power transmission components driven by a single engine - are all replaced by electric wire. One can point to many examples where such strategy would provide leapfrog advance in device simplicity and maintenance.

* ''Solar turbine power generation including heat storage - look at [[Solar Turbine CHP System]]

* ''Open source fab lab'' - combine and expand the [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/multimachine/Multimachine] with xyz table as in RepRap (http://reprap.org/), and you can envision a robust fabrication device that integrates open source computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM). This device would perform a large variety of machining and fabrication operations, and would be producible at the cost of materials if metal casting is available. When deployed, we are talking of '''''producing any advanced object or device at the cost of materials'''''. ''Would you like to fabricate an electric motor for your personal transport vehicle? Here, I'll email you a file to make on your local village fabber''. In practice, one could conceptualize a single or several Multimachines, with their milling-drilling-lathing functions, surrounding an xyz motion platform with interchangeable heads. These heads could include acetylene torch attachment, plasma cutter, CO2 laser, router, hot wire, or additive heads such as a plastic extruder found in RepRap. This overall fab lab concept could start with a basic machine such as the Multimachine, with computer controls and table added in time. As such, this is a realistic proposition - with supporting open source knowhow with significant advancement already available. This propels civilization to new levels of decentralized material prosperity, and implies significant reduction of resource conflicts, especially if material feedstocks are sourced locally - as in the next point.

Here is an initial Fab Lab design:
[[Image:Fab_Lab.jpg]]

Here is a sample Product Matrix that falls right out of Fab Lab capacities:
[[Image:Product_Matrix.jpg]]

* ''Production of local feedstocks''-
** Wood and structural masonry compressed earth block (CEB) for construction - produced from on-site trees and soils
** [[Compressed Fuel Gas]] for cooking or melting metal - gas produced from trees
** [[Bioplastics]] - such as cellophane from trees
** Biofuels - [[Fuel Alcohol]] in temperate zones, palm oil in tropical zones
** Industrial detritus (waste materials) processing - includes [[Metal Casting and Extrusion]] or [[Plastic Extrusion & Molding]]
** [[Aluminum Extraction From Clays]]

= Sample Scenario =

Imagine a village with buildings of dirt (CEB) with year-round [[Greenhouses|greenhouses]] (sawmill, CEB, bioplastics from local trees), with all facility energy produced by a solar turbine, where people drive hybrid cars with car bodies (bioplastics) made from local weeds, with critical motors and metal structures (aluminum) extracted from on-site clay, which are fueled by alcohol produced on-site, on a wireless network linked to the greater world. That's just a sampling of the technology base. Food, energy, housing sufficiency. There are no poor among us - because we are all evolving human beings and farmer scientists.

= Development process =
[[GVCS Development Template]]

[[Product Cycle]]

[[Image:Engineering_Strategy.jpg]]

= Definition of Open Source Hardware and OSE Specifications =

See the updated entry for OSE Spec [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=OSE_Specifications here].

We like to be clear about the meaning of ''open,'' or ''open source,''' as used in this work for items of physical production. By ''open source,'' we mean documented to the point where one may replicate a given item, ''without even consulting with the developers.'' To us, this embodies the most complete form of documentation possible, where sufficient detail is provided to enable independent replication. This is ''open source'' embodied in ''OSE Specifications''. Other features of OSE Specificationsare:

# Freely downloadable documentation
# DfD, lifetime design
# Simplicity and low cost are of prime importance
# Replaceable components
# Modular Design
# Scaleability
# Localization
## Level 1 - product fabrication or production is local
## Level 2 - material sourcing is local
# Product evolution - phases and versions are pursued
# Concrete Flexible Fabrication mechanism exists for others to purchase the product at reasonable cost
# Open franchising - replicable enterprise design is available, and training exists for entrepreneurs

Thus, these features are meant to promote ''[http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/dn/vol4/fotopoulos_technology.htm#_ftn2 liberatory technology]'' - open, replicable, essential, optimal, and ecological goods and services for humankind living in harmony with natural life support systems.

= Working Assumptions =

Here is a partial list of assumptions that we are making as we go about the development work of this wiki. These assumptions help one to understand our motivations and approach.
# Civilization are shaped by their resource base. The resource base is what gives people power. By controlling others through an economic or social hierarchy, we can control resources, and thus gain power. Resource conflicts occur because people have not yet learned to manage resources without stealing. Society has not transcended the brute struggle for survival. We remain on the bottom steps of Maslow's pyramid. Transcending resource conflicts by creating abundance, first for hundreds, then for thousands of people, is now possible if knowledge flows openly and advanced technology is applied to produce goods.
# Today, most humans are controlled not by a commercial force (armies) but by information and social engineering that feeds the commerce itself. Understanding means of social control; understanding the mechanics of one's mind, body, and spirit; learning to discern mechanics of mind control and propaganda as they are used in controlling agendas; and applying learnings to meditation, expansion of consciousness, and evolution of one's awareness and powers are all crucial if civilization is to escape the control of commercialism and is to give up its dependence on a centralized, planned economy.
# Said propaganda and conditioning has successfully removed the notion of self-sufficiency as a viable means of livelihood. Most people are afraid of self-sufficiency and consider it a return to the stone age. Most people cannot envision that advanced civilization can be created in small (100-1000 person), self-sufficient, highly skilled communities. Furthermore, most people do not realize that it is possible to educate, skill, and evolve human beings such that an integrated, self-sufficient lifestyle option that promotes advanced civilization on a small scale of human organization is created. It it possible to achieve this level of excellence if people are taught real knowledge and wisdom, as opposed to undergoing global workforce training.
# Education curricula have typically deleted practical applications deliberately, to produce subjects of the global workforce. If education is reinstated then self-sufficiency will emerge as a natural option.
# Self-sufficiency is not an antisocial behavior, but a means to full individual and community accountability for resource conflicts, foul politics, and other corruptions of large-scale endeavors. (review works of Gandhi, Schumacher, Fuller) Self-sufficiency is a means to highest quality life by definition, one is in control of one's destiny when one is self-sufficient. The assumption of self-sufficiency is that its practitioners must be highly skilled, and not products of centralist education.
# By self-sufficient, we mean in full control of providing one's needs. Note that self-sufficiency refers to needs - those things that allow one to survive in absolute health - and not wants. Self-sufficiency does not imply a solo, isolationist endeavor. Self-sufficiency may be accomplished with the help of as many people as it is possible to maintain full accountability, transparency, and sound ethics within that group. This group may be dispersed globally. Historically, sociology of human settlements has shown that this scale of self-sufficiency is a few hundred people. (see E.F. Schumacher; other references)
# The State promotes well-paid incompetence, largely through specialization, such that subjects produce sufficient surplus to pay for their own oppression.
# Education, media, and social engineering programs have subjugated human integrity to passive consumerism, with its related problems (resource conflicts, loss of freedom such as wage slavery). The only way out of this is creating a framework within which humans can prosper: provision of true education, learning of practical skills, stewardship of land, advanced technology for the people, and open access to economically significant know-how.
# Import substitution is reducing dependence on external feedstocks and replacing them with local ones. People in control of their resources control their own destiny. Thus, to localize the essential parts of an economy completely is the prime formula for social stability. Localization should not be considered a struggle, but merely a possibility. It is a possibility that is not recognized because most people, as specialists, lack integrated technical literacy and skills that make a local economy feasible.

= See also =

* [[Product Ecologies]] - illustrates how the different components of the GVCS relate with one another

[[Category: GVCS]]

GVCS tools

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==Introduction==
'''The [[Global Village Construction Set]]''' is a set of 50 [[wikipedia:Open Source Appropriate Technology|Open Source Appropriate Technology]] tools for building post-scarcity, resilient communities.

In this page, you will get an overview of each one of them, together with corresponding wiki pages, blog posts and forums.

See also the [[Crash Course]].

== Tools ==

The table that was here has been merged with the table found at: [[Global_Village_Construction_Set#The_tools]].

[[Category: GVCS]]

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Global Village Construction Set

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/></div>'''See http://opensourceecology.org for the official definition of the [http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs.php 50 GVCS Tools].'''

The ideas that guide the GVCS are:

'''Open Source''' - we freely publish our 3d designs, schematics, instructional videos, budgets, and product manuals on our open source wiki and we harness open collaboration with technical contributors.

'''Low-Cost''' - The cost of making or buying our machines are, on average, 8x cheaper than buying from an Industrial Manufacturer, including an average labor cost of $15 hour for a GVCS fabricator.

'''Modular''' - Motors, parts, assemblies, and power units can interchange, where units can be grouped together to diversify the functionality that is achievable from a small set of units.

'''User-Serviceable''' - Design-for-disassembly allows the user to take apart, maintain, and fix tools readily without the need to rely on expensive repairmen.

'''DIY''' - (do-it-yourself) The user gains control of designing, producing, and modifying the GVCS tool set.

'''Closed Loop Manufacturing''' - Metal is an essential component of advanced civilization, and our platform allows for recycling metal into virgin feedstock for producing further GVCS technologies - thereby allowing for cradle-to-cradle manufacturing cycles

'''High Performance''' - Performance standards must match or exceed those of industrial counterparts for the GVCS to be viable.

'''Flexible Fabrication''' - It has been demonstrated that the flexible use of generalized machinery in appropriate-scale production is a viable alternative to centralized production.

'''Distributive Economics''' - We encourage the replication of enterprises that derive from the GVCS platform as a route to truly free enterprise - along the ideals of Jeffersonian democracy.

'''Industrial Efficiency''' - In order to provide a viable choice for a resilient lifestyle, the GVCS platform matches or exceeds productivity standards of industrial counterparts.

==The tools==
{| style="width:100%;" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1" align="left"
! TOOL
! DESCRIPTION
! IMAGE
! STATUS
! FORUM DISCUSSION
! BLOG
! OTHER WIKI ARTICLES

|-
! '''[[CEB Press]]'''
! A high-performance Compresssed Earth Block press. Compresssed Earth Block building is the highest quality natural building method. The page [[CEB intro]] contains introductory information on compressed earth blocks
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/compressed-earth-brick-press.png
! <font color=green>COMPLETE AND TESTED!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/ceb-press/ ceb-press]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/compressed-earth-block-press/ compressed-earth-block-press]
! [[:Category: CEB]]

|-align="left"
! '''[[LifeTrac|Tractor]]'''
! A versatile, 4-wheel drive, hydraulically-driven, skid-steering tractor with 18 to 200 horsepower capacity for agriculture, construction and other utility duties.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/lifetrac.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/lifetrac/ lifetrac]
!
! [[:Category: LifeTrac]]

|-align="left"
! '''[[Microtractor]]'''
! a small, 18 hp version of the full-sized tractor for powering a wide range of implements in agricultural and utility duties
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/microtrac.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
!
!
! [[:Category: MicroTrac]]

|-align="left"
! '''[[Bulldozer]]'''
! A high-traction, heavy earth-moving machine indispensible for building ponds, berms, and other permacultural earthforms, as well as for other tasks such as building roads or clearing land
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/bulldozer.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Power Cube]]'''
! A multipurpose, self-contained, hydraulic power power unit that consisting of an engine coupled to a hydraulic pump
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/powercube.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/power-cube/ power-cube]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/power-cube/ power-cube]
! [[:Category: Power Cube]]

|-align="left"
! '''CNC Precision Multimachine'''
! A multipurpose, precision CNC machining and metal cutting device for milling, lathing, drilling to make precision parts; includes surface grinding and cold-cut metal sawing
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/multimachine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Ironworker Machine'''
! A device that can instantly cut steel and punch holes in metal one inch thick
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/ironworker.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''CNC Torch/Router Table'''
! A computer-controlled cutting table for metal where a moving torch head is used to produce precision metal parts in a fraction of the time that it takes to do so manually
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/torch-table.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
!
!
! [[:Category: Torch Table]]

|-align="left"
! '''3D Printer'''
! An additive manufacturing technology where a three dimensional object is printed by laying down successive layers of material, just like a printer except in 3D
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-printer.png
! <font color=green>COMPLETE AND TESTED!</font>

|-align="left"
! '''3D Scanner'''
! A device that can generate a 3D digital scan from a real-life object, where the file can be used to reproduce the object in 3D with a device such as the 3D printer or CNC Precision Multimachine
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-scanner.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[CNC Circuit Mill]]'''
! A computer-controlled device that can produce electrical circuits by milling and drilling on copper-clad circuit boards
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/circuit-mill.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Industrial Robot]]'''
! A robotic arm which can perform certain human tasks - such as welding or milling – for performing tasks that are not better done by humans
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/robotic-arm.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Laser Cutter]]'''
! An industrial machine that can make precision, finish cuts in a wide array of substrates, such as metal, wood, or plastic
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/laser-cutter.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Open Source Welder]]'''
! A device used to make strong, permanent bonds in metal by melting and fusing the metal
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/mig-welder.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Plasma Cutter]]'''
! A device to cut metal using a plasma torch
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/plasma-cutter.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Induction Furnace]]'''
! An electrical furnace in which the heat is applied by induction heating of metal, providing clean, versatile, compact, energy-efficient, and well-controlled melting compared to flame furnaces
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/induction-furnace.png
! <font color=orange>IN DEVELOPMENT</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/induction-furnace/ induction-furnace]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/induction-furnace/ induction-furnace]
! [[:Category: Induction Furnace]]

|-align="left"
! '''Metal Rolling'''
! A metal forming process in which metal stock is passed through a pair of rolls to produce a desired shape, such as flat bar, angle, or u-channel
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/metal-rolling-machine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Rod and Wire Mill'''
! A subset of metal rolling, used to make shafts, rebar, thin rods, and down to wire.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/wire-n-rod-mill.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Press Forge'''
! A device for shaping metal by the application of a shaping die and a continuous pressure or force.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/forge.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Modern Steam Engine]]'''
! A modern engine where an external heat source is used to turn water into steam, and the steam in turn moves reciprocating pistons to provide shaft power
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/steam-engine.png
! <font color=orange>IN DEVELOPMENT</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/steam-engine-construction-set/ steam-engine-construction-set]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/steam-engine-construction-set/ steam-engine-construction-set]
! [[:Category: Steam Engine]]

|-align="left"
! '''Gasifier burner'''
! A clean and efficient burner that gasifies the material that is being burned prior to combustion
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/gasifier-burner.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Steam Generator]]'''
! A device that generates steam from water that is passed through externally-heated coils
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/steam-generator.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Solar Concentrator'''
! An array of mirrors to concentrate sunlight so it can boil water and drive a steam engine.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/solar-concentrator.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Wind Turbine]]'''
! A device that produces electrical power from wind energy
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/wind-turbine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Aluminum Extractor from Clay'''
! A device that produces aluminum from clay by dissolving the aluminum from aluminosilicate (clay), and then electrolyzing the resulting compound to form pure aluminum
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/alluminum-extractor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Pelletizer]]'''
! A device that compresses shredded pieces of biomass or other substances to compact, flowable pellets
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/pelletizer.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Universal Seeder'''
! A tractor-pulled seeder than can plant any seed, from small seeds like clover to large seeds such as potatoes
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-seeder.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Rototiller]] and [[Soil Pulverizer]]'''
! A tractor implement that tills soil with blades via rotary action
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/pulverizer-tiller.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Spader]]'''
! A set of mechanical shovels that prepare soil for planting without causing a hardpan typical of rototiller tilling
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/spader.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Microcombine'''
! A small-scale harvester-thresher for mechanical harvesting of any grain crops, with a cutting swath of about 3 feet in width
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/microcombine.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Universal Rotor]]'''
! A tractor-mounted rotor that can be fitted with a wide array of toolheads, such as string trimmer, posthole digger, tree planting auger, slurry mixer, and many others
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-rotor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Baler]]'''
! A device that compresses hay and other light and dispersed materials into more compact bales
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/baler.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Hay Rake'''
! A mechanical implement for a tractor that rakes hay or other light materials into windrows or other formations for drying or baling
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hay-rake.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Hay Cutter]]'''
! A device that cuts grass, hay, straw, or other light biomass for haying, baling, or combining
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hay-cutter.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Backhoe]]'''
! A piece of excavating equipment or digger consisting of a digging bucket on the end of a two-part articulated arm for digging trenches or large holes
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/backhoe.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Chipper/Hammermill'''
! A machine used for reducing wood or other materials into smaller parts, such as chips or shreds
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/chipper-hammermill.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Trencher]]'''
! A piece of construction equipment that uses a cutting wheel for digging trenches, laying pipe, cable, or drainage
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/trencher.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Open Source Car]]'''
! A wheeled motor vehicle for transporting people
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/automobile.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Open Source Truck'''
! A larger version of an automobile with a bed for trasporting loads
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/truck.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Sawmill|Dimensional Sawmill]]'''
! A dimensional sawmill is a circular blade sawmill with 2 blades that is used for producing dimensional lumber in one pass
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/sawmill.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Cement Mixer]]'''
! A device that homogeneously combines cement, aggregate such as sand or gravel, and water to form concrete
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/cement-mixer.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Well-drilling Rig]]'''
! A device for digging deep water wells
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/well-drilling-rig.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Bakery Oven'''
! A device for heating various forms of dough into breads and other baked goods
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/industrial-bread-oven.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Dairy Milker'''
! A device which harvests milk automatically from milk-producing livestock
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/milking-machine.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Electric Motor/Generator'''
! A device that functions as a motor when energized with a voltage, which can also function as an electrical generator when it is spun.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/electric-motor-generator.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Hydraulic Motors'''
! A mechanical actuator that converts high-pressure fluid flow into rotation
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hydraulic-motor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Bioplastic Extruder]]'''
! An extruder takes a charge of plastic and extrudes a sheet or other profile of useful form, such as greenhouse glazing or water tubing
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/plastic-extruder.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Universal Power Supply'''
! This is a combination power supply for applications from off-grid power to supplying power to welders, induction furnaces, and plasma cutters.
!http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-power-supply.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Nickel Iron Batteries]]'''
! Long-life batteries that have a track record of lasting 50 or more years
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/nickel-iron-batteries.png
!

|-align="left"
! Drill press
!
! [[File:Multimachineicon.jpg|100px]]
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/drill-press/ drill-press]
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===Want to add another tool?===
If you think another technology belongs on the GVCS list, follow this procedure -
#Read the [[OSE Specifications]] and answer the [[OSE Specifications#Questionnaire|questionnaire]].
#If the tool scores highly on the questionnaire and meets most of the OSE specifications, start a thread on the [http://openfarmtech.org/forum/ forum] with a title beginning "Proposed Tool:" (e.g. "Proposed Tool: Washing Machine"). You may be challenged, and will have to convince the community that it is realistic and worth pursuing.
#If the consensus on the forum is in favor of adding the tool to the GVCS, feel free to edit the list above to add the new tool
#By proposing the tool, you take responsibility for it. You become project manager for that tool, and will have to build and prototype it yourself, or else recruit and manage someone who can.

====Proposed tools====
*'''Loader''' - an attachment for the [[LifeTrac]] tractor
*'''Village-scale washing machine''' - powered by the universal rotor
*'''Fridge''' - see the page on [[refrigeration]]
*'''Reversible heat pump''' - for controlling the temperature of homes and greenhouses, refrigerating food and medicine, harnessing solar and geothermal heat
*'''[[Stirling engine]]''' - transforms heat into mechanical energy
*'''[[Spectrometer]]''' and '''computer oscilloscope''' - adding these to the GVCS would form a complete Fab Lab. Most of the work will be done by other open-source groups.
*'''[[Juice Press]]''' - A juice press powered by the [[Power Cube]].
*'''[[Log Splitter]]''' - A log splitter powered by the [[Power Cube]].

== Videos ==

See a 2 minute video explainer about the GVCS:

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* [[H+ Presentation]]
* Overview presentation at [[Linz Slides]]

See latest presentation on the GVCS (as of June, 2010)
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Economy creates culture and culture creates politics. The politics we seek are freedom, voluntary contract, and human evolution in harmony with life support systems. Note that resource conflicts and overpopulation are eliminated by design. We are after the creation of new society, one which has learned from the past and moves forward with ancient wisdom and modern technology.

This is a real experiment, and product selection is based on us living with the given technologies. First, it is the development of real, economically significant hardware, product, and engineering. Second, this entire set is being compiled into one setting, and land is being populated with the respective productive agents. The aim is to define a new form of social organization where it is possible to create advanced culture, thriving in abundance and largely autonomous, on the scale of a village, not nation or state.

Here is a talk by [[Marcin Jakubowski]] on the GVCS at the 4th Oekonux Conference. <html>You can download the slides and see a transcript <a href="http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Oekonux_4" target="_blank">here</a>.

First is an introduction by Franz Nahrada, leader of the <a href="http://globalvillages.ning.com/" target="_blank">Globally Integrated Village Environment</a>:<br>

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A video presentation on the [[first year at Factor e Farm]] and the GVCS from 2007-2008 [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-710075551990473235#20m24s here].

And you can also view a GVCS [[UM_Presentation|slide show presentation]] for more information.

=Product Selection Criteria=

See [[OSE Specifications]]

=Enterprise Community Contract=

We are proposing the formation of Global Villages in the form of productive enterprise communities that strive for unprecedented quality of life:
* material abundance
* freedom from bureacracy and unnecessary activity
* total focus on one's true interests

For our particular OSE prototype implementation, we are interested in the following general essence of an ''Enterprise Community Contract'':

* 2 hours of productive activity daily, such that 100% of the community's food, energy, housing, transportation, and technology essentials are produced for subsistence, with surplus production for market
** Agriculture base follows permaculture design, and includes production of water soluble organic fertilizer, orchard, nursery, and crops, as well as certain food processing and value added propositions
** Flexible fabrication produces advanced technologies ''at the cost of materials''
** Cost of living is reduced dramatically, from $20,000/year in the industrialized world, to negligible income requirements, under the assumption of high-tech self-providing
* Each participant undertakes a study program of full stewardship of the community, including:
** Agricultural production capacity
** Technological literacy to operate and maintain flex fab equipment and other machinery
** Numeracy to facilitate design
** Study of the mind and body to expand one's consciousness, skills, and abilities, and to disseminate such human augmentation widely towards eliminating mind control of the masses
* Entry of new people can be negotiated by the new participants providing skills and productive contribution to the community
* Beyond the 2 hour requirement, participants follow a research lifestyle to promote further development of the community or of the greater world

= Enabling Technology - Salient Features of Technology Base =

Without going into details, the main features for the comprehensive technology base are:

* ''Hybridization of power devices'' - decoupling of power source from the working unit in order to produce electrical drive is a formula for increasing integrated efficiency of electromechanical devices such as electric [[vehicle]]s, tools, heavy equipment, etc. For example, the hybrid car decouples the engine from its wheels by using an electrical generator to feed electric wheel motors. Note that this eliminates the clutch, transmission, crank case and its oil, differential, drive train, and other parts, and replaces these items with electric wire from the generator to electric motor. This is a huge efficiency leap, one in fuel efficiency, and two, in eliminating billions of dollars of industry which is outdated today due to the hybridization option. As such, we can talk of complex machines with huge simplification, assuming easy access to infinitely scaleable and controllable, low cost electric motors (these do not exist today). For example, we can envision an agricultural combine where each moving part is powered by its own electric motor - producing a leap in simplification and maintenance of the overall machine - as all belts, pulleys, gears, and other power transmission components driven by a single engine - are all replaced by electric wire. One can point to many examples where such strategy would provide leapfrog advance in device simplicity and maintenance.

* ''Solar turbine power generation including heat storage - look at [[Solar Turbine CHP System]]

* ''Open source fab lab'' - combine and expand the [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/multimachine/Multimachine] with xyz table as in RepRap (http://reprap.org/), and you can envision a robust fabrication device that integrates open source computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM). This device would perform a large variety of machining and fabrication operations, and would be producible at the cost of materials if metal casting is available. When deployed, we are talking of '''''producing any advanced object or device at the cost of materials'''''. ''Would you like to fabricate an electric motor for your personal transport vehicle? Here, I'll email you a file to make on your local village fabber''. In practice, one could conceptualize a single or several Multimachines, with their milling-drilling-lathing functions, surrounding an xyz motion platform with interchangeable heads. These heads could include acetylene torch attachment, plasma cutter, CO2 laser, router, hot wire, or additive heads such as a plastic extruder found in RepRap. This overall fab lab concept could start with a basic machine such as the Multimachine, with computer controls and table added in time. As such, this is a realistic proposition - with supporting open source knowhow with significant advancement already available. This propels civilization to new levels of decentralized material prosperity, and implies significant reduction of resource conflicts, especially if material feedstocks are sourced locally - as in the next point.

Here is an initial Fab Lab design:
[[Image:Fab_Lab.jpg]]

Here is a sample Product Matrix that falls right out of Fab Lab capacities:
[[Image:Product_Matrix.jpg]]

* ''Production of local feedstocks''-
** Wood and structural masonry compressed earth block (CEB) for construction - produced from on-site trees and soils
** [[Compressed Fuel Gas]] for cooking or melting metal - gas produced from trees
** [[Bioplastics]] - such as cellophane from trees
** Biofuels - [[Fuel Alcohol]] in temperate zones, palm oil in tropical zones
** Industrial detritus (waste materials) processing - includes [[Metal Casting and Extrusion]] or [[Plastic Extrusion & Molding]]
** [[Aluminum Extraction From Clays]]

= Sample Scenario =

Imagine a village with buildings of dirt (CEB) with year-round [[Greenhouses|greenhouses]] (sawmill, CEB, bioplastics from local trees), with all facility energy produced by a solar turbine, where people drive hybrid cars with car bodies (bioplastics) made from local weeds, with critical motors and metal structures (aluminum) extracted from on-site clay, which are fueled by alcohol produced on-site, on a wireless network linked to the greater world. That's just a sampling of the technology base. Food, energy, housing sufficiency. There are no poor among us - because we are all evolving human beings and farmer scientists.

= Development process =
[[GVCS Development Template]]

[[Product Cycle]]

[[Image:Engineering_Strategy.jpg]]

= Definition of Open Source Hardware and OSE Specifications =

See the updated entry for OSE Spec [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=OSE_Specifications here].

We like to be clear about the meaning of ''open,'' or ''open source,''' as used in this work for items of physical production. By ''open source,'' we mean documented to the point where one may replicate a given item, ''without even consulting with the developers.'' To us, this embodies the most complete form of documentation possible, where sufficient detail is provided to enable independent replication. This is ''open source'' embodied in ''OSE Specifications''. Other features of OSE Specificationsare:

# Freely downloadable documentation
# DfD, lifetime design
# Simplicity and low cost are of prime importance
# Replaceable components
# Modular Design
# Scaleability
# Localization
## Level 1 - product fabrication or production is local
## Level 2 - material sourcing is local
# Product evolution - phases and versions are pursued
# Concrete Flexible Fabrication mechanism exists for others to purchase the product at reasonable cost
# Open franchising - replicable enterprise design is available, and training exists for entrepreneurs

Thus, these features are meant to promote ''[http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/dn/vol4/fotopoulos_technology.htm#_ftn2 liberatory technology]'' - open, replicable, essential, optimal, and ecological goods and services for humankind living in harmony with natural life support systems.

= Working Assumptions =

Here is a partial list of assumptions that we are making as we go about the development work of this wiki. These assumptions help one to understand our motivations and approach.
# Civilization are shaped by their resource base. The resource base is what gives people power. By controlling others through an economic or social hierarchy, we can control resources, and thus gain power. Resource conflicts occur because people have not yet learned to manage resources without stealing. Society has not transcended the brute struggle for survival. We remain on the bottom steps of Maslow's pyramid. Transcending resource conflicts by creating abundance, first for hundreds, then for thousands of people, is now possible if knowledge flows openly and advanced technology is applied to produce goods.
# Today, most humans are controlled not by a commercial force (armies) but by information and social engineering that feeds the commerce itself. Understanding means of social control; understanding the mechanics of one's mind, body, and spirit; learning to discern mechanics of mind control and propaganda as they are used in controlling agendas; and applying learnings to meditation, expansion of consciousness, and evolution of one's awareness and powers are all crucial if civilization is to escape the control of commercialism and is to give up its dependence on a centralized, planned economy.
# Said propaganda and conditioning has successfully removed the notion of self-sufficiency as a viable means of livelihood. Most people are afraid of self-sufficiency and consider it a return to the stone age. Most people cannot envision that advanced civilization can be created in small (100-1000 person), self-sufficient, highly skilled communities. Furthermore, most people do not realize that it is possible to educate, skill, and evolve human beings such that an integrated, self-sufficient lifestyle option that promotes advanced civilization on a small scale of human organization is created. It it possible to achieve this level of excellence if people are taught real knowledge and wisdom, as opposed to undergoing global workforce training.
# Education curricula have typically deleted practical applications deliberately, to produce subjects of the global workforce. If education is reinstated then self-sufficiency will emerge as a natural option.
# Self-sufficiency is not an antisocial behavior, but a means to full individual and community accountability for resource conflicts, foul politics, and other corruptions of large-scale endeavors. (review works of Gandhi, Schumacher, Fuller) Self-sufficiency is a means to highest quality life by definition, one is in control of one's destiny when one is self-sufficient. The assumption of self-sufficiency is that its practitioners must be highly skilled, and not products of centralist education.
# By self-sufficient, we mean in full control of providing one's needs. Note that self-sufficiency refers to needs - those things that allow one to survive in absolute health - and not wants. Self-sufficiency does not imply a solo, isolationist endeavor. Self-sufficiency may be accomplished with the help of as many people as it is possible to maintain full accountability, transparency, and sound ethics within that group. This group may be dispersed globally. Historically, sociology of human settlements has shown that this scale of self-sufficiency is a few hundred people. (see E.F. Schumacher; other references)
# The State promotes well-paid incompetence, largely through specialization, such that subjects produce sufficient surplus to pay for their own oppression.
# Education, media, and social engineering programs have subjugated human integrity to passive consumerism, with its related problems (resource conflicts, loss of freedom such as wage slavery). The only way out of this is creating a framework within which humans can prosper: provision of true education, learning of practical skills, stewardship of land, advanced technology for the people, and open access to economically significant know-how.
# Import substitution is reducing dependence on external feedstocks and replacing them with local ones. People in control of their resources control their own destiny. Thus, to localize the essential parts of an economy completely is the prime formula for social stability. Localization should not be considered a struggle, but merely a possibility. It is a possibility that is not recognized because most people, as specialists, lack integrated technical literacy and skills that make a local economy feasible.

= See also =

* [[Product Ecologies]] - illustrates how the different components of the GVCS relate with one another

[[Category: GVCS]]

Global Village Construction Set

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/></div>'''See http://opensourceecology.org for the official definition of the [http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs.php 50 GVCS Tools].'''

The ideas that guide the GVCS are:

'''Open Source''' - we freely publish our 3d designs, schematics, instructional videos, budgets, and product manuals on our open source wiki and we harness open collaboration with technical contributors.

'''Low-Cost''' - The cost of making or buying our machines are, on average, 8x cheaper than buying from an Industrial Manufacturer, including an average labor cost of $15 hour for a GVCS fabricator.

'''Modular''' - Motors, parts, assemblies, and power units can interchange, where units can be grouped together to diversify the functionality that is achievable from a small set of units.

'''User-Serviceable''' - Design-for-disassembly allows the user to take apart, maintain, and fix tools readily without the need to rely on expensive repairmen.

'''DIY''' - (do-it-yourself) The user gains control of designing, producing, and modifying the GVCS tool set.

'''Closed Loop Manufacturing''' - Metal is an essential component of advanced civilization, and our platform allows for recycling metal into virgin feedstock for producing further GVCS technologies - thereby allowing for cradle-to-cradle manufacturing cycles

'''High Performance''' - Performance standards must match or exceed those of industrial counterparts for the GVCS to be viable.

'''Flexible Fabrication''' - It has been demonstrated that the flexible use of generalized machinery in appropriate-scale production is a viable alternative to centralized production.

'''Distributive Economics''' - We encourage the replication of enterprises that derive from the GVCS platform as a route to truly free enterprise - along the ideals of Jeffersonian democracy.

'''Industrial Efficiency''' - In order to provide a viable choice for a resilient lifestyle, the GVCS platform matches or exceeds productivity standards of industrial counterparts.

==The tools==
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! DESCRIPTION
! IMAGE
! STATUS
! FORUM DISCUSSION
! BLOG
! OTHER WIKI ARTICLES

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! '''[[CEB Press]]'''
! A high-performance Compresssed Earth Block press. Compresssed Earth Block building is the highest quality natural building method. The page [[CEB intro]] contains introductory information on compressed earth blocks
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/compressed-earth-brick-press.png
! <font color=green>COMPLETE AND TESTED!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/ceb-press/ ceb-press]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/compressed-earth-block-press/ compressed-earth-block-press]
! [[:Category: CEB]]

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! '''[[LifeTrac|Tractor]]'''
! A versatile, 4-wheel drive, hydraulically-driven, skid-steering tractor with 18 to 200 horsepower capacity for agriculture, construction and other utility duties.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/lifetrac.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/lifetrac/ lifetrac]
!
! [[:Category: LifeTrac]]

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! '''[[Microtractor]]'''
! a small, 18 hp version of the full-sized tractor for powering a wide range of implements in agricultural and utility duties
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/microtrac.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
!
!
! [[:Category: MicroTrac]]

|-align="left"
! '''[[Bulldozer]]'''
! A high-traction, heavy earth-moving machine indispensible for building ponds, berms, and other permacultural earthforms, as well as for other tasks such as building roads or clearing land
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/bulldozer.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Power Cube]]'''
! A multipurpose, self-contained, hydraulic power power unit that consisting of an engine coupled to a hydraulic pump
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/powercube.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/power-cube/ power-cube]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/power-cube/ power-cube]
! [[:Category: Power Cube]]

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! '''CNC Precision Multimachine'''
! A multipurpose, precision CNC machining and metal cutting device for milling, lathing, drilling to make precision parts; includes surface grinding and cold-cut metal sawing
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/multimachine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Ironworker Machine'''
! A device that can instantly cut steel and punch holes in metal one inch thick
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/ironworker.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''CNC Torch/Router Table'''
! A computer-controlled cutting table for metal where a moving torch head is used to produce precision metal parts in a fraction of the time that it takes to do so manually
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/torch-table.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
!
!
! [[:Category: Torch Table]]

|-align="left"
! '''3D Printer'''
! An additive manufacturing technology where a three dimensional object is printed by laying down successive layers of material, just like a printer except in 3D
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-printer.png
! <font color=green>COMPLETE AND TESTED!</font>

|-align="left"
! '''3D Scanner'''
! A device that can generate a 3D digital scan from a real-life object, where the file can be used to reproduce the object in 3D with a device such as the 3D printer or CNC Precision Multimachine
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-scanner.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[CNC Circuit Mill]]'''
! A computer-controlled device that can produce electrical circuits by milling and drilling on copper-clad circuit boards
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/circuit-mill.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Industrial Robot]]'''
! A robotic arm which can perform certain human tasks - such as welding or milling – for performing tasks that are not better done by humans
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/robotic-arm.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Laser Cutter]]'''
! An industrial machine that can make precision, finish cuts in a wide array of substrates, such as metal, wood, or plastic
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/laser-cutter.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Open Source Welder]]'''
! A device used to make strong, permanent bonds in metal by melting and fusing the metal
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/mig-welder.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Plasma Cutter]]'''
! A device to cut metal using a plasma torch
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/plasma-cutter.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Induction Furnace]]'''
! An electrical furnace in which the heat is applied by induction heating of metal, providing clean, versatile, compact, energy-efficient, and well-controlled melting compared to flame furnaces
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/induction-furnace.png
! <font color=orange>IN DEVELOPMENT</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/induction-furnace/ induction-furnace]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/induction-furnace/ induction-furnace]
! [[:Category: Induction Furnace]]

|-align="left"
! '''Metal Rolling'''
! A metal forming process in which metal stock is passed through a pair of rolls to produce a desired shape, such as flat bar, angle, or u-channel
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/metal-rolling-machine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Rod and Wire Mill'''
! A subset of metal rolling, used to make shafts, rebar, thin rods, and down to wire.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/wire-n-rod-mill.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Press Forge'''
! A device for shaping metal by the application of a shaping die and a continuous pressure or force.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/forge.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Modern Steam Engine]]'''
! A modern engine where an external heat source is used to turn water into steam, and the steam in turn moves reciprocating pistons to provide shaft power
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/steam-engine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Gasifier burner'''
! A clean and efficient burner that gasifies the material that is being burned prior to combustion
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/gasifier-burner.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Steam Generator]]'''
! A device that generates steam from water that is passed through externally-heated coils
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/steam-generator.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Solar Concentrator'''
! An array of mirrors to concentrate sunlight so it can boil water and drive a steam engine.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/solar-concentrator.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Wind Turbine]]'''
! A device that produces electrical power from wind energy
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/wind-turbine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Aluminum Extractor from Clay'''
! A device that produces aluminum from clay by dissolving the aluminum from aluminosilicate (clay), and then electrolyzing the resulting compound to form pure aluminum
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/alluminum-extractor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Pelletizer]]'''
! A device that compresses shredded pieces of biomass or other substances to compact, flowable pellets
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/pelletizer.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Universal Seeder'''
! A tractor-pulled seeder than can plant any seed, from small seeds like clover to large seeds such as potatoes
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-seeder.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Rototiller]] and [[Soil Pulverizer]]'''
! A tractor implement that tills soil with blades via rotary action
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/pulverizer-tiller.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Spader]]'''
! A set of mechanical shovels that prepare soil for planting without causing a hardpan typical of rototiller tilling
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/spader.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Microcombine'''
! A small-scale harvester-thresher for mechanical harvesting of any grain crops, with a cutting swath of about 3 feet in width
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/microcombine.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Universal Rotor]]'''
! A tractor-mounted rotor that can be fitted with a wide array of toolheads, such as string trimmer, posthole digger, tree planting auger, slurry mixer, and many others
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-rotor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Baler]]'''
! A device that compresses hay and other light and dispersed materials into more compact bales
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/baler.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Hay Rake'''
! A mechanical implement for a tractor that rakes hay or other light materials into windrows or other formations for drying or baling
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hay-rake.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Hay Cutter]]'''
! A device that cuts grass, hay, straw, or other light biomass for haying, baling, or combining
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hay-cutter.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Backhoe]]'''
! A piece of excavating equipment or digger consisting of a digging bucket on the end of a two-part articulated arm for digging trenches or large holes
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/backhoe.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Chipper/Hammermill'''
! A machine used for reducing wood or other materials into smaller parts, such as chips or shreds
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/chipper-hammermill.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Trencher]]'''
! A piece of construction equipment that uses a cutting wheel for digging trenches, laying pipe, cable, or drainage
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/trencher.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Open Source Car]]'''
! A wheeled motor vehicle for transporting people
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/automobile.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Open Source Truck'''
! A larger version of an automobile with a bed for trasporting loads
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/truck.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Sawmill|Dimensional Sawmill]]'''
! A dimensional sawmill is a circular blade sawmill with 2 blades that is used for producing dimensional lumber in one pass
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/sawmill.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Cement Mixer]]'''
! A device that homogeneously combines cement, aggregate such as sand or gravel, and water to form concrete
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/cement-mixer.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Well-drilling Rig]]'''
! A device for digging deep water wells
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/well-drilling-rig.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Bakery Oven'''
! A device for heating various forms of dough into breads and other baked goods
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/industrial-bread-oven.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Dairy Milker'''
! A device which harvests milk automatically from milk-producing livestock
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/milking-machine.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Electric Motor/Generator'''
! A device that functions as a motor when energized with a voltage, which can also function as an electrical generator when it is spun.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/electric-motor-generator.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Hydraulic Motors'''
! A mechanical actuator that converts high-pressure fluid flow into rotation
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hydraulic-motor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Bioplastic Extruder]]'''
! An extruder takes a charge of plastic and extrudes a sheet or other profile of useful form, such as greenhouse glazing or water tubing
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/plastic-extruder.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Universal Power Supply'''
! This is a combination power supply for applications from off-grid power to supplying power to welders, induction furnaces, and plasma cutters.
!http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-power-supply.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Nickel Iron Batteries]]'''
! Long-life batteries that have a track record of lasting 50 or more years
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/nickel-iron-batteries.png
!

|-align="left"
! Drill press
!
! [[File:Multimachineicon.jpg|100px]]
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/drill-press/ drill-press]
!
! [[:Category: Drill Press]]
|-
|}

===Want to add another tool?===
If you think another technology belongs on the GVCS list, follow this procedure -
#Read the [[OSE Specifications]] and answer the [[OSE Specifications#Questionnaire|questionnaire]].
#If the tool scores highly on the questionnaire and meets most of the OSE specifications, start a thread on the [http://openfarmtech.org/forum/ forum] with a title beginning "Proposed Tool:" (e.g. "Proposed Tool: Washing Machine"). You may be challenged, and will have to convince the community that it is realistic and worth pursuing.
#If the consensus on the forum is in favor of adding the tool to the GVCS, feel free to edit the list above to add the new tool
#By proposing the tool, you take responsibility for it. You become project manager for that tool, and will have to build and prototype it yourself, or else recruit and manage someone who can.

====Proposed tools====
*'''Loader''' - an attachment for the [[LifeTrac]] tractor
*'''Village-scale washing machine''' - powered by the universal rotor
*'''Fridge''' - see the page on [[refrigeration]]
*'''Reversible heat pump''' - for controlling the temperature of homes and greenhouses, refrigerating food and medicine, harnessing solar and geothermal heat
*'''[[Stirling engine]]''' - transforms heat into mechanical energy
*'''[[Spectrometer]]''' and '''computer oscilloscope''' - adding these to the GVCS would form a complete Fab Lab. Most of the work will be done by other open-source groups.
*'''[[Juice Press]]''' - A juice press powered by the [[Power Cube]].
*'''[[Log Splitter]]''' - A log splitter powered by the [[Power Cube]].

== Videos ==

See a 2 minute video explainer about the GVCS:

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* [[H+ Presentation]]
* Overview presentation at [[Linz Slides]]

See latest presentation on the GVCS (as of June, 2010)
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Economy creates culture and culture creates politics. The politics we seek are freedom, voluntary contract, and human evolution in harmony with life support systems. Note that resource conflicts and overpopulation are eliminated by design. We are after the creation of new society, one which has learned from the past and moves forward with ancient wisdom and modern technology.

This is a real experiment, and product selection is based on us living with the given technologies. First, it is the development of real, economically significant hardware, product, and engineering. Second, this entire set is being compiled into one setting, and land is being populated with the respective productive agents. The aim is to define a new form of social organization where it is possible to create advanced culture, thriving in abundance and largely autonomous, on the scale of a village, not nation or state.

Here is a talk by [[Marcin Jakubowski]] on the GVCS at the 4th Oekonux Conference. <html>You can download the slides and see a transcript <a href="http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Oekonux_4" target="_blank">here</a>.

First is an introduction by Franz Nahrada, leader of the <a href="http://globalvillages.ning.com/" target="_blank">Globally Integrated Village Environment</a>:<br>

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A video presentation on the [[first year at Factor e Farm]] and the GVCS from 2007-2008 [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-710075551990473235#20m24s here].

And you can also view a GVCS [[UM_Presentation|slide show presentation]] for more information.

=Product Selection Criteria=

See [[OSE Specifications]]

=Enterprise Community Contract=

We are proposing the formation of Global Villages in the form of productive enterprise communities that strive for unprecedented quality of life:
* material abundance
* freedom from bureacracy and unnecessary activity
* total focus on one's true interests

For our particular OSE prototype implementation, we are interested in the following general essence of an ''Enterprise Community Contract'':

* 2 hours of productive activity daily, such that 100% of the community's food, energy, housing, transportation, and technology essentials are produced for subsistence, with surplus production for market
** Agriculture base follows permaculture design, and includes production of water soluble organic fertilizer, orchard, nursery, and crops, as well as certain food processing and value added propositions
** Flexible fabrication produces advanced technologies ''at the cost of materials''
** Cost of living is reduced dramatically, from $20,000/year in the industrialized world, to negligible income requirements, under the assumption of high-tech self-providing
* Each participant undertakes a study program of full stewardship of the community, including:
** Agricultural production capacity
** Technological literacy to operate and maintain flex fab equipment and other machinery
** Numeracy to facilitate design
** Study of the mind and body to expand one's consciousness, skills, and abilities, and to disseminate such human augmentation widely towards eliminating mind control of the masses
* Entry of new people can be negotiated by the new participants providing skills and productive contribution to the community
* Beyond the 2 hour requirement, participants follow a research lifestyle to promote further development of the community or of the greater world

= Enabling Technology - Salient Features of Technology Base =

Without going into details, the main features for the comprehensive technology base are:

* ''Hybridization of power devices'' - decoupling of power source from the working unit in order to produce electrical drive is a formula for increasing integrated efficiency of electromechanical devices such as electric [[vehicle]]s, tools, heavy equipment, etc. For example, the hybrid car decouples the engine from its wheels by using an electrical generator to feed electric wheel motors. Note that this eliminates the clutch, transmission, crank case and its oil, differential, drive train, and other parts, and replaces these items with electric wire from the generator to electric motor. This is a huge efficiency leap, one in fuel efficiency, and two, in eliminating billions of dollars of industry which is outdated today due to the hybridization option. As such, we can talk of complex machines with huge simplification, assuming easy access to infinitely scaleable and controllable, low cost electric motors (these do not exist today). For example, we can envision an agricultural combine where each moving part is powered by its own electric motor - producing a leap in simplification and maintenance of the overall machine - as all belts, pulleys, gears, and other power transmission components driven by a single engine - are all replaced by electric wire. One can point to many examples where such strategy would provide leapfrog advance in device simplicity and maintenance.

* ''Solar turbine power generation including heat storage - look at [[Solar Turbine CHP System]]

* ''Open source fab lab'' - combine and expand the [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/multimachine/Multimachine] with xyz table as in RepRap (http://reprap.org/), and you can envision a robust fabrication device that integrates open source computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM). This device would perform a large variety of machining and fabrication operations, and would be producible at the cost of materials if metal casting is available. When deployed, we are talking of '''''producing any advanced object or device at the cost of materials'''''. ''Would you like to fabricate an electric motor for your personal transport vehicle? Here, I'll email you a file to make on your local village fabber''. In practice, one could conceptualize a single or several Multimachines, with their milling-drilling-lathing functions, surrounding an xyz motion platform with interchangeable heads. These heads could include acetylene torch attachment, plasma cutter, CO2 laser, router, hot wire, or additive heads such as a plastic extruder found in RepRap. This overall fab lab concept could start with a basic machine such as the Multimachine, with computer controls and table added in time. As such, this is a realistic proposition - with supporting open source knowhow with significant advancement already available. This propels civilization to new levels of decentralized material prosperity, and implies significant reduction of resource conflicts, especially if material feedstocks are sourced locally - as in the next point.

Here is an initial Fab Lab design:
[[Image:Fab_Lab.jpg]]

Here is a sample Product Matrix that falls right out of Fab Lab capacities:
[[Image:Product_Matrix.jpg]]

* ''Production of local feedstocks''-
** Wood and structural masonry compressed earth block (CEB) for construction - produced from on-site trees and soils
** [[Compressed Fuel Gas]] for cooking or melting metal - gas produced from trees
** [[Bioplastics]] - such as cellophane from trees
** Biofuels - [[Fuel Alcohol]] in temperate zones, palm oil in tropical zones
** Industrial detritus (waste materials) processing - includes [[Metal Casting and Extrusion]] or [[Plastic Extrusion & Molding]]
** [[Aluminum Extraction From Clays]]

= Sample Scenario =

Imagine a village with buildings of dirt (CEB) with year-round [[Greenhouses|greenhouses]] (sawmill, CEB, bioplastics from local trees), with all facility energy produced by a solar turbine, where people drive hybrid cars with car bodies (bioplastics) made from local weeds, with critical motors and metal structures (aluminum) extracted from on-site clay, which are fueled by alcohol produced on-site, on a wireless network linked to the greater world. That's just a sampling of the technology base. Food, energy, housing sufficiency. There are no poor among us - because we are all evolving human beings and farmer scientists.

= Development process =
[[GVCS Development Template]]

[[Product Cycle]]

[[Image:Engineering_Strategy.jpg]]

= Definition of Open Source Hardware and OSE Specifications =

See the updated entry for OSE Spec [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=OSE_Specifications here].

We like to be clear about the meaning of ''open,'' or ''open source,''' as used in this work for items of physical production. By ''open source,'' we mean documented to the point where one may replicate a given item, ''without even consulting with the developers.'' To us, this embodies the most complete form of documentation possible, where sufficient detail is provided to enable independent replication. This is ''open source'' embodied in ''OSE Specifications''. Other features of OSE Specificationsare:

# Freely downloadable documentation
# DfD, lifetime design
# Simplicity and low cost are of prime importance
# Replaceable components
# Modular Design
# Scaleability
# Localization
## Level 1 - product fabrication or production is local
## Level 2 - material sourcing is local
# Product evolution - phases and versions are pursued
# Concrete Flexible Fabrication mechanism exists for others to purchase the product at reasonable cost
# Open franchising - replicable enterprise design is available, and training exists for entrepreneurs

Thus, these features are meant to promote ''[http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/dn/vol4/fotopoulos_technology.htm#_ftn2 liberatory technology]'' - open, replicable, essential, optimal, and ecological goods and services for humankind living in harmony with natural life support systems.

= Working Assumptions =

Here is a partial list of assumptions that we are making as we go about the development work of this wiki. These assumptions help one to understand our motivations and approach.
# Civilization are shaped by their resource base. The resource base is what gives people power. By controlling others through an economic or social hierarchy, we can control resources, and thus gain power. Resource conflicts occur because people have not yet learned to manage resources without stealing. Society has not transcended the brute struggle for survival. We remain on the bottom steps of Maslow's pyramid. Transcending resource conflicts by creating abundance, first for hundreds, then for thousands of people, is now possible if knowledge flows openly and advanced technology is applied to produce goods.
# Today, most humans are controlled not by a commercial force (armies) but by information and social engineering that feeds the commerce itself. Understanding means of social control; understanding the mechanics of one's mind, body, and spirit; learning to discern mechanics of mind control and propaganda as they are used in controlling agendas; and applying learnings to meditation, expansion of consciousness, and evolution of one's awareness and powers are all crucial if civilization is to escape the control of commercialism and is to give up its dependence on a centralized, planned economy.
# Said propaganda and conditioning has successfully removed the notion of self-sufficiency as a viable means of livelihood. Most people are afraid of self-sufficiency and consider it a return to the stone age. Most people cannot envision that advanced civilization can be created in small (100-1000 person), self-sufficient, highly skilled communities. Furthermore, most people do not realize that it is possible to educate, skill, and evolve human beings such that an integrated, self-sufficient lifestyle option that promotes advanced civilization on a small scale of human organization is created. It it possible to achieve this level of excellence if people are taught real knowledge and wisdom, as opposed to undergoing global workforce training.
# Education curricula have typically deleted practical applications deliberately, to produce subjects of the global workforce. If education is reinstated then self-sufficiency will emerge as a natural option.
# Self-sufficiency is not an antisocial behavior, but a means to full individual and community accountability for resource conflicts, foul politics, and other corruptions of large-scale endeavors. (review works of Gandhi, Schumacher, Fuller) Self-sufficiency is a means to highest quality life by definition, one is in control of one's destiny when one is self-sufficient. The assumption of self-sufficiency is that its practitioners must be highly skilled, and not products of centralist education.
# By self-sufficient, we mean in full control of providing one's needs. Note that self-sufficiency refers to needs - those things that allow one to survive in absolute health - and not wants. Self-sufficiency does not imply a solo, isolationist endeavor. Self-sufficiency may be accomplished with the help of as many people as it is possible to maintain full accountability, transparency, and sound ethics within that group. This group may be dispersed globally. Historically, sociology of human settlements has shown that this scale of self-sufficiency is a few hundred people. (see E.F. Schumacher; other references)
# The State promotes well-paid incompetence, largely through specialization, such that subjects produce sufficient surplus to pay for their own oppression.
# Education, media, and social engineering programs have subjugated human integrity to passive consumerism, with its related problems (resource conflicts, loss of freedom such as wage slavery). The only way out of this is creating a framework within which humans can prosper: provision of true education, learning of practical skills, stewardship of land, advanced technology for the people, and open access to economically significant know-how.
# Import substitution is reducing dependence on external feedstocks and replacing them with local ones. People in control of their resources control their own destiny. Thus, to localize the essential parts of an economy completely is the prime formula for social stability. Localization should not be considered a struggle, but merely a possibility. It is a possibility that is not recognized because most people, as specialists, lack integrated technical literacy and skills that make a local economy feasible.

= See also =

* [[Product Ecologies]] - illustrates how the different components of the GVCS relate with one another

[[Category: GVCS]]

Global Village Construction Set

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/></div>'''See http://opensourceecology.org for the official definition of the [http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs.php 50 GVCS Tools].'''

The ideas that guide the GVCS are:

'''Open Source''' - we freely publish our 3d designs, schematics, instructional videos, budgets, and product manuals on our open source wiki and we harness open collaboration with technical contributors.

'''Low-Cost''' - The cost of making or buying our machines are, on average, 8x cheaper than buying from an Industrial Manufacturer, including an average labor cost of $15 hour for a GVCS fabricator.

'''Modular''' - Motors, parts, assemblies, and power units can interchange, where units can be grouped together to diversify the functionality that is achievable from a small set of units.

'''User-Serviceable''' - Design-for-disassembly allows the user to take apart, maintain, and fix tools readily without the need to rely on expensive repairmen.

'''DIY''' - (do-it-yourself) The user gains control of designing, producing, and modifying the GVCS tool set.

'''Closed Loop Manufacturing''' - Metal is an essential component of advanced civilization, and our platform allows for recycling metal into virgin feedstock for producing further GVCS technologies - thereby allowing for cradle-to-cradle manufacturing cycles

'''High Performance''' - Performance standards must match or exceed those of industrial counterparts for the GVCS to be viable.

'''Flexible Fabrication''' - It has been demonstrated that the flexible use of generalized machinery in appropriate-scale production is a viable alternative to centralized production.

'''Distributive Economics''' - We encourage the replication of enterprises that derive from the GVCS platform as a route to truly free enterprise - along the ideals of Jeffersonian democracy.

'''Industrial Efficiency''' - In order to provide a viable choice for a resilient lifestyle, the GVCS platform matches or exceeds productivity standards of industrial counterparts.

==The tools==
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! DESCRIPTION
! IMAGE
! STATUS
! FORUM DISCUSSION
! BLOG
! OTHER WIKI ARTICLES

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! '''[[CEB Press]]'''
! A high-performance Compresssed Earth Block press. Compresssed Earth Block building is the highest quality natural building method. The page [[CEB intro]] contains introductory information on compressed earth blocks
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/compressed-earth-brick-press.png
! <font color=green>COMPLETE AND TESTED!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/ceb-press/ ceb-press]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/compressed-earth-block-press/ compressed-earth-block-press]
! [[:Category: CEB]]

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! '''[[LifeTrac|Tractor]]'''
! A versatile, 4-wheel drive, hydraulically-driven, skid-steering tractor with 18 to 200 horsepower capacity for agriculture, construction and other utility duties.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/lifetrac.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/lifetrac/ lifetrac]
!
! [[:Category: LifeTrac]]

|-align="left"
! '''[[Microtractor]]'''
! a small, 18 hp version of the full-sized tractor for powering a wide range of implements in agricultural and utility duties
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/microtrac.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
!
!
! [[:Category: MicroTrac]]

|-align="left"
! '''[[Bulldozer]]'''
! A high-traction, heavy earth-moving machine indispensible for building ponds, berms, and other permacultural earthforms, as well as for other tasks such as building roads or clearing land
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/bulldozer.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Power Cube]]'''
! A multipurpose, self-contained, hydraulic power power unit that consisting of an engine coupled to a hydraulic pump
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/powercube.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/power-cube/ power-cube]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/power-cube/ power-cube]
! [[:Category: Power Cube]]

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! '''CNC Precision Multimachine'''
! A multipurpose, precision CNC machining and metal cutting device for milling, lathing, drilling to make precision parts; includes surface grinding and cold-cut metal sawing
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/multimachine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Ironworker Machine'''
! A device that can instantly cut steel and punch holes in metal one inch thick
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/ironworker.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''CNC Torch/Router Table'''
! A computer-controlled cutting table for metal where a moving torch head is used to produce precision metal parts in a fraction of the time that it takes to do so manually
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/torch-table.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
!
!
! [[:Category: Torch Table]]

|-align="left"
! '''3D Printer'''
! An additive manufacturing technology where a three dimensional object is printed by laying down successive layers of material, just like a printer except in 3D
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-printer.png
! <font color=green>COMPLETE AND TESTED!</font>

|-align="left"
! '''3D Scanner'''
! A device that can generate a 3D digital scan from a real-life object, where the file can be used to reproduce the object in 3D with a device such as the 3D printer or CNC Precision Multimachine
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-scanner.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[CNC Circuit Mill]]'''
! A computer-controlled device that can produce electrical circuits by milling and drilling on copper-clad circuit boards
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/circuit-mill.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Industrial Robot]]'''
! A robotic arm which can perform certain human tasks - such as welding or milling – for performing tasks that are not better done by humans
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/robotic-arm.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Laser Cutter]]'''
! An industrial machine that can make precision, finish cuts in a wide array of substrates, such as metal, wood, or plastic
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/laser-cutter.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Open Source Welder]]'''
! A device used to make strong, permanent bonds in metal by melting and fusing the metal
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/mig-welder.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Plasma Cutter]]'''
! A device to cut metal using a plasma torch
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/plasma-cutter.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Induction Furnace]]'''
! An electrical furnace in which the heat is applied by induction heating of metal, providing clean, versatile, compact, energy-efficient, and well-controlled melting compared to flame furnaces
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/induction-furnace.png
! <font color=orange>IN DEVELOPMENT</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/induction-furnace/ induction-furnace]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/induction-furnace/ induction-furnace]
! [[:Category: Induction Furnace]]

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! '''Metal Rolling'''
! A metal forming process in which metal stock is passed through a pair of rolls to produce a desired shape, such as flat bar, angle, or u-channel
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/metal-rolling-machine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Rod and Wire Mill'''
! A subset of metal rolling, used to make shafts, rebar, thin rods, and down to wire.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/wire-n-rod-mill.png
! STATUS

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! '''Press Forge'''
! A device for shaping metal by the application of a shaping die and a continuous pressure or force.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/forge.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Modern Steam Engine]]'''
! A modern engine where an external heat source is used to turn water into steam, and the steam in turn moves reciprocating pistons to provide shaft power
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/steam-engine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Gasifier burner'''
! A clean and efficient burner that gasifies the material that is being burned prior to combustion
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/gasifier-burner.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Steam Generator]]'''
! A device that generates steam from water that is passed through externally-heated coils
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/steam-generator.png
! <font color=orange>IN DEVELOPMENT</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/steam-engine-construction-set/ steam-engine-construction-set]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/steam-engine-construction-set/ steam-engine-construction-set]
! [[:Category: Steam Engine]]

|-align="left"
! '''Solar Concentrator'''
! An array of mirrors to concentrate sunlight so it can boil water and drive a steam engine.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/solar-concentrator.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Wind Turbine]]'''
! A device that produces electrical power from wind energy
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/wind-turbine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Aluminum Extractor from Clay'''
! A device that produces aluminum from clay by dissolving the aluminum from aluminosilicate (clay), and then electrolyzing the resulting compound to form pure aluminum
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/alluminum-extractor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Pelletizer]]'''
! A device that compresses shredded pieces of biomass or other substances to compact, flowable pellets
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/pelletizer.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Universal Seeder'''
! A tractor-pulled seeder than can plant any seed, from small seeds like clover to large seeds such as potatoes
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-seeder.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Rototiller]] and [[Soil Pulverizer]]'''
! A tractor implement that tills soil with blades via rotary action
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/pulverizer-tiller.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Spader]]'''
! A set of mechanical shovels that prepare soil for planting without causing a hardpan typical of rototiller tilling
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/spader.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Microcombine'''
! A small-scale harvester-thresher for mechanical harvesting of any grain crops, with a cutting swath of about 3 feet in width
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/microcombine.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Universal Rotor]]'''
! A tractor-mounted rotor that can be fitted with a wide array of toolheads, such as string trimmer, posthole digger, tree planting auger, slurry mixer, and many others
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-rotor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Baler]]'''
! A device that compresses hay and other light and dispersed materials into more compact bales
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/baler.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Hay Rake'''
! A mechanical implement for a tractor that rakes hay or other light materials into windrows or other formations for drying or baling
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hay-rake.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Hay Cutter]]'''
! A device that cuts grass, hay, straw, or other light biomass for haying, baling, or combining
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hay-cutter.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Backhoe]]'''
! A piece of excavating equipment or digger consisting of a digging bucket on the end of a two-part articulated arm for digging trenches or large holes
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/backhoe.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Chipper/Hammermill'''
! A machine used for reducing wood or other materials into smaller parts, such as chips or shreds
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/chipper-hammermill.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Trencher]]'''
! A piece of construction equipment that uses a cutting wheel for digging trenches, laying pipe, cable, or drainage
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/trencher.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Open Source Car]]'''
! A wheeled motor vehicle for transporting people
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/automobile.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Open Source Truck'''
! A larger version of an automobile with a bed for trasporting loads
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/truck.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Sawmill|Dimensional Sawmill]]'''
! A dimensional sawmill is a circular blade sawmill with 2 blades that is used for producing dimensional lumber in one pass
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/sawmill.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Cement Mixer]]'''
! A device that homogeneously combines cement, aggregate such as sand or gravel, and water to form concrete
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/cement-mixer.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Well-drilling Rig]]'''
! A device for digging deep water wells
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/well-drilling-rig.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Bakery Oven'''
! A device for heating various forms of dough into breads and other baked goods
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/industrial-bread-oven.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Dairy Milker'''
! A device which harvests milk automatically from milk-producing livestock
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/milking-machine.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Electric Motor/Generator'''
! A device that functions as a motor when energized with a voltage, which can also function as an electrical generator when it is spun.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/electric-motor-generator.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Hydraulic Motors'''
! A mechanical actuator that converts high-pressure fluid flow into rotation
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hydraulic-motor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Bioplastic Extruder]]'''
! An extruder takes a charge of plastic and extrudes a sheet or other profile of useful form, such as greenhouse glazing or water tubing
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/plastic-extruder.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Universal Power Supply'''
! This is a combination power supply for applications from off-grid power to supplying power to welders, induction furnaces, and plasma cutters.
!http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-power-supply.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Nickel Iron Batteries]]'''
! Long-life batteries that have a track record of lasting 50 or more years
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/nickel-iron-batteries.png
!

|-align="left"
! Drill press
!
! [[File:Multimachineicon.jpg|100px]]
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/drill-press/ drill-press]
!
! [[:Category: Drill Press]]
|-
|}

===Want to add another tool?===
If you think another technology belongs on the GVCS list, follow this procedure -
#Read the [[OSE Specifications]] and answer the [[OSE Specifications#Questionnaire|questionnaire]].
#If the tool scores highly on the questionnaire and meets most of the OSE specifications, start a thread on the [http://openfarmtech.org/forum/ forum] with a title beginning "Proposed Tool:" (e.g. "Proposed Tool: Washing Machine"). You may be challenged, and will have to convince the community that it is realistic and worth pursuing.
#If the consensus on the forum is in favor of adding the tool to the GVCS, feel free to edit the list above to add the new tool
#By proposing the tool, you take responsibility for it. You become project manager for that tool, and will have to build and prototype it yourself, or else recruit and manage someone who can.

====Proposed tools====
*'''Loader''' - an attachment for the [[LifeTrac]] tractor
*'''Village-scale washing machine''' - powered by the universal rotor
*'''Fridge''' - see the page on [[refrigeration]]
*'''Reversible heat pump''' - for controlling the temperature of homes and greenhouses, refrigerating food and medicine, harnessing solar and geothermal heat
*'''[[Stirling engine]]''' - transforms heat into mechanical energy
*'''[[Spectrometer]]''' and '''computer oscilloscope''' - adding these to the GVCS would form a complete Fab Lab. Most of the work will be done by other open-source groups.
*'''[[Juice Press]]''' - A juice press powered by the [[Power Cube]].
*'''[[Log Splitter]]''' - A log splitter powered by the [[Power Cube]].

== Videos ==

See a 2 minute video explainer about the GVCS:

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* [[H+ Presentation]]
* Overview presentation at [[Linz Slides]]

See latest presentation on the GVCS (as of June, 2010)
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Economy creates culture and culture creates politics. The politics we seek are freedom, voluntary contract, and human evolution in harmony with life support systems. Note that resource conflicts and overpopulation are eliminated by design. We are after the creation of new society, one which has learned from the past and moves forward with ancient wisdom and modern technology.

This is a real experiment, and product selection is based on us living with the given technologies. First, it is the development of real, economically significant hardware, product, and engineering. Second, this entire set is being compiled into one setting, and land is being populated with the respective productive agents. The aim is to define a new form of social organization where it is possible to create advanced culture, thriving in abundance and largely autonomous, on the scale of a village, not nation or state.

Here is a talk by [[Marcin Jakubowski]] on the GVCS at the 4th Oekonux Conference. <html>You can download the slides and see a transcript <a href="http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Oekonux_4" target="_blank">here</a>.

First is an introduction by Franz Nahrada, leader of the <a href="http://globalvillages.ning.com/" target="_blank">Globally Integrated Village Environment</a>:<br>

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A video presentation on the [[first year at Factor e Farm]] and the GVCS from 2007-2008 [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-710075551990473235#20m24s here].

And you can also view a GVCS [[UM_Presentation|slide show presentation]] for more information.

=Product Selection Criteria=

See [[OSE Specifications]]

=Enterprise Community Contract=

We are proposing the formation of Global Villages in the form of productive enterprise communities that strive for unprecedented quality of life:
* material abundance
* freedom from bureacracy and unnecessary activity
* total focus on one's true interests

For our particular OSE prototype implementation, we are interested in the following general essence of an ''Enterprise Community Contract'':

* 2 hours of productive activity daily, such that 100% of the community's food, energy, housing, transportation, and technology essentials are produced for subsistence, with surplus production for market
** Agriculture base follows permaculture design, and includes production of water soluble organic fertilizer, orchard, nursery, and crops, as well as certain food processing and value added propositions
** Flexible fabrication produces advanced technologies ''at the cost of materials''
** Cost of living is reduced dramatically, from $20,000/year in the industrialized world, to negligible income requirements, under the assumption of high-tech self-providing
* Each participant undertakes a study program of full stewardship of the community, including:
** Agricultural production capacity
** Technological literacy to operate and maintain flex fab equipment and other machinery
** Numeracy to facilitate design
** Study of the mind and body to expand one's consciousness, skills, and abilities, and to disseminate such human augmentation widely towards eliminating mind control of the masses
* Entry of new people can be negotiated by the new participants providing skills and productive contribution to the community
* Beyond the 2 hour requirement, participants follow a research lifestyle to promote further development of the community or of the greater world

= Enabling Technology - Salient Features of Technology Base =

Without going into details, the main features for the comprehensive technology base are:

* ''Hybridization of power devices'' - decoupling of power source from the working unit in order to produce electrical drive is a formula for increasing integrated efficiency of electromechanical devices such as electric [[vehicle]]s, tools, heavy equipment, etc. For example, the hybrid car decouples the engine from its wheels by using an electrical generator to feed electric wheel motors. Note that this eliminates the clutch, transmission, crank case and its oil, differential, drive train, and other parts, and replaces these items with electric wire from the generator to electric motor. This is a huge efficiency leap, one in fuel efficiency, and two, in eliminating billions of dollars of industry which is outdated today due to the hybridization option. As such, we can talk of complex machines with huge simplification, assuming easy access to infinitely scaleable and controllable, low cost electric motors (these do not exist today). For example, we can envision an agricultural combine where each moving part is powered by its own electric motor - producing a leap in simplification and maintenance of the overall machine - as all belts, pulleys, gears, and other power transmission components driven by a single engine - are all replaced by electric wire. One can point to many examples where such strategy would provide leapfrog advance in device simplicity and maintenance.

* ''Solar turbine power generation including heat storage - look at [[Solar Turbine CHP System]]

* ''Open source fab lab'' - combine and expand the [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/multimachine/Multimachine] with xyz table as in RepRap (http://reprap.org/), and you can envision a robust fabrication device that integrates open source computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM). This device would perform a large variety of machining and fabrication operations, and would be producible at the cost of materials if metal casting is available. When deployed, we are talking of '''''producing any advanced object or device at the cost of materials'''''. ''Would you like to fabricate an electric motor for your personal transport vehicle? Here, I'll email you a file to make on your local village fabber''. In practice, one could conceptualize a single or several Multimachines, with their milling-drilling-lathing functions, surrounding an xyz motion platform with interchangeable heads. These heads could include acetylene torch attachment, plasma cutter, CO2 laser, router, hot wire, or additive heads such as a plastic extruder found in RepRap. This overall fab lab concept could start with a basic machine such as the Multimachine, with computer controls and table added in time. As such, this is a realistic proposition - with supporting open source knowhow with significant advancement already available. This propels civilization to new levels of decentralized material prosperity, and implies significant reduction of resource conflicts, especially if material feedstocks are sourced locally - as in the next point.

Here is an initial Fab Lab design:
[[Image:Fab_Lab.jpg]]

Here is a sample Product Matrix that falls right out of Fab Lab capacities:
[[Image:Product_Matrix.jpg]]

* ''Production of local feedstocks''-
** Wood and structural masonry compressed earth block (CEB) for construction - produced from on-site trees and soils
** [[Compressed Fuel Gas]] for cooking or melting metal - gas produced from trees
** [[Bioplastics]] - such as cellophane from trees
** Biofuels - [[Fuel Alcohol]] in temperate zones, palm oil in tropical zones
** Industrial detritus (waste materials) processing - includes [[Metal Casting and Extrusion]] or [[Plastic Extrusion & Molding]]
** [[Aluminum Extraction From Clays]]

= Sample Scenario =

Imagine a village with buildings of dirt (CEB) with year-round [[Greenhouses|greenhouses]] (sawmill, CEB, bioplastics from local trees), with all facility energy produced by a solar turbine, where people drive hybrid cars with car bodies (bioplastics) made from local weeds, with critical motors and metal structures (aluminum) extracted from on-site clay, which are fueled by alcohol produced on-site, on a wireless network linked to the greater world. That's just a sampling of the technology base. Food, energy, housing sufficiency. There are no poor among us - because we are all evolving human beings and farmer scientists.

= Development process =
[[GVCS Development Template]]

[[Product Cycle]]

[[Image:Engineering_Strategy.jpg]]

= Definition of Open Source Hardware and OSE Specifications =

See the updated entry for OSE Spec [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=OSE_Specifications here].

We like to be clear about the meaning of ''open,'' or ''open source,''' as used in this work for items of physical production. By ''open source,'' we mean documented to the point where one may replicate a given item, ''without even consulting with the developers.'' To us, this embodies the most complete form of documentation possible, where sufficient detail is provided to enable independent replication. This is ''open source'' embodied in ''OSE Specifications''. Other features of OSE Specificationsare:

# Freely downloadable documentation
# DfD, lifetime design
# Simplicity and low cost are of prime importance
# Replaceable components
# Modular Design
# Scaleability
# Localization
## Level 1 - product fabrication or production is local
## Level 2 - material sourcing is local
# Product evolution - phases and versions are pursued
# Concrete Flexible Fabrication mechanism exists for others to purchase the product at reasonable cost
# Open franchising - replicable enterprise design is available, and training exists for entrepreneurs

Thus, these features are meant to promote ''[http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/dn/vol4/fotopoulos_technology.htm#_ftn2 liberatory technology]'' - open, replicable, essential, optimal, and ecological goods and services for humankind living in harmony with natural life support systems.

= Working Assumptions =

Here is a partial list of assumptions that we are making as we go about the development work of this wiki. These assumptions help one to understand our motivations and approach.
# Civilization are shaped by their resource base. The resource base is what gives people power. By controlling others through an economic or social hierarchy, we can control resources, and thus gain power. Resource conflicts occur because people have not yet learned to manage resources without stealing. Society has not transcended the brute struggle for survival. We remain on the bottom steps of Maslow's pyramid. Transcending resource conflicts by creating abundance, first for hundreds, then for thousands of people, is now possible if knowledge flows openly and advanced technology is applied to produce goods.
# Today, most humans are controlled not by a commercial force (armies) but by information and social engineering that feeds the commerce itself. Understanding means of social control; understanding the mechanics of one's mind, body, and spirit; learning to discern mechanics of mind control and propaganda as they are used in controlling agendas; and applying learnings to meditation, expansion of consciousness, and evolution of one's awareness and powers are all crucial if civilization is to escape the control of commercialism and is to give up its dependence on a centralized, planned economy.
# Said propaganda and conditioning has successfully removed the notion of self-sufficiency as a viable means of livelihood. Most people are afraid of self-sufficiency and consider it a return to the stone age. Most people cannot envision that advanced civilization can be created in small (100-1000 person), self-sufficient, highly skilled communities. Furthermore, most people do not realize that it is possible to educate, skill, and evolve human beings such that an integrated, self-sufficient lifestyle option that promotes advanced civilization on a small scale of human organization is created. It it possible to achieve this level of excellence if people are taught real knowledge and wisdom, as opposed to undergoing global workforce training.
# Education curricula have typically deleted practical applications deliberately, to produce subjects of the global workforce. If education is reinstated then self-sufficiency will emerge as a natural option.
# Self-sufficiency is not an antisocial behavior, but a means to full individual and community accountability for resource conflicts, foul politics, and other corruptions of large-scale endeavors. (review works of Gandhi, Schumacher, Fuller) Self-sufficiency is a means to highest quality life by definition, one is in control of one's destiny when one is self-sufficient. The assumption of self-sufficiency is that its practitioners must be highly skilled, and not products of centralist education.
# By self-sufficient, we mean in full control of providing one's needs. Note that self-sufficiency refers to needs - those things that allow one to survive in absolute health - and not wants. Self-sufficiency does not imply a solo, isolationist endeavor. Self-sufficiency may be accomplished with the help of as many people as it is possible to maintain full accountability, transparency, and sound ethics within that group. This group may be dispersed globally. Historically, sociology of human settlements has shown that this scale of self-sufficiency is a few hundred people. (see E.F. Schumacher; other references)
# The State promotes well-paid incompetence, largely through specialization, such that subjects produce sufficient surplus to pay for their own oppression.
# Education, media, and social engineering programs have subjugated human integrity to passive consumerism, with its related problems (resource conflicts, loss of freedom such as wage slavery). The only way out of this is creating a framework within which humans can prosper: provision of true education, learning of practical skills, stewardship of land, advanced technology for the people, and open access to economically significant know-how.
# Import substitution is reducing dependence on external feedstocks and replacing them with local ones. People in control of their resources control their own destiny. Thus, to localize the essential parts of an economy completely is the prime formula for social stability. Localization should not be considered a struggle, but merely a possibility. It is a possibility that is not recognized because most people, as specialists, lack integrated technical literacy and skills that make a local economy feasible.

= See also =

* [[Product Ecologies]] - illustrates how the different components of the GVCS relate with one another

[[Category: GVCS]]

Global Village Construction Set

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/></div>'''See http://opensourceecology.org for the official definition of the [http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs.php 50 GVCS Tools].'''

The ideas that guide the GVCS are:

'''Open Source''' - we freely publish our 3d designs, schematics, instructional videos, budgets, and product manuals on our open source wiki and we harness open collaboration with technical contributors.

'''Low-Cost''' - The cost of making or buying our machines are, on average, 8x cheaper than buying from an Industrial Manufacturer, including an average labor cost of $15 hour for a GVCS fabricator.

'''Modular''' - Motors, parts, assemblies, and power units can interchange, where units can be grouped together to diversify the functionality that is achievable from a small set of units.

'''User-Serviceable''' - Design-for-disassembly allows the user to take apart, maintain, and fix tools readily without the need to rely on expensive repairmen.

'''DIY''' - (do-it-yourself) The user gains control of designing, producing, and modifying the GVCS tool set.

'''Closed Loop Manufacturing''' - Metal is an essential component of advanced civilization, and our platform allows for recycling metal into virgin feedstock for producing further GVCS technologies - thereby allowing for cradle-to-cradle manufacturing cycles

'''High Performance''' - Performance standards must match or exceed those of industrial counterparts for the GVCS to be viable.

'''Flexible Fabrication''' - It has been demonstrated that the flexible use of generalized machinery in appropriate-scale production is a viable alternative to centralized production.

'''Distributive Economics''' - We encourage the replication of enterprises that derive from the GVCS platform as a route to truly free enterprise - along the ideals of Jeffersonian democracy.

'''Industrial Efficiency''' - In order to provide a viable choice for a resilient lifestyle, the GVCS platform matches or exceeds productivity standards of industrial counterparts.

==The tools==
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! DESCRIPTION
! IMAGE
! STATUS
! FORUM DISCUSSION
! BLOG
! OTHER WIKI ARTICLES

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! '''[[CEB Press]]'''
! A high-performance Compresssed Earth Block press. Compresssed Earth Block building is the highest quality natural building method. The page [[CEB intro]] contains introductory information on compressed earth blocks
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/compressed-earth-brick-press.png
! <font color=green>COMPLETE AND TESTED!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/ceb-press/ ceb-press]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/compressed-earth-block-press/ compressed-earth-block-press]
! [[:Category: CEB]]

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! '''[[LifeTrac|Tractor]]'''
! A versatile, 4-wheel drive, hydraulically-driven, skid-steering tractor with 18 to 200 horsepower capacity for agriculture, construction and other utility duties.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/lifetrac.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/lifetrac/ lifetrac]
!
! [[:Category: LifeTrac]]

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! '''[[Microtractor]]'''
! a small, 18 hp version of the full-sized tractor for powering a wide range of implements in agricultural and utility duties
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/microtrac.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
!
!
! [[:Category: MicroTrac]]

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! '''[[Bulldozer]]'''
! A high-traction, heavy earth-moving machine indispensible for building ponds, berms, and other permacultural earthforms, as well as for other tasks such as building roads or clearing land
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/bulldozer.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Power Cube]]'''
! A multipurpose, self-contained, hydraulic power power unit that consisting of an engine coupled to a hydraulic pump
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/powercube.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/power-cube/ power-cube]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/power-cube/ power-cube]
! [[:Category: Power Cube]]

|-align="left"
! '''CNC Precision Multimachine'''
! A multipurpose, precision CNC machining and metal cutting device for milling, lathing, drilling to make precision parts; includes surface grinding and cold-cut metal sawing
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/multimachine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Ironworker Machine'''
! A device that can instantly cut steel and punch holes in metal one inch thick
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/ironworker.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''CNC Torch/Router Table'''
! A computer-controlled cutting table for metal where a moving torch head is used to produce precision metal parts in a fraction of the time that it takes to do so manually
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/torch-table.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
!
!
! [[:Category: Torch Table]]

|-align="left"
! '''3D Printer'''
! An additive manufacturing technology where a three dimensional object is printed by laying down successive layers of material, just like a printer except in 3D
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-printer.png
! <font color=green>COMPLETE AND TESTED!</font>

|-align="left"
! '''3D Scanner'''
! A device that can generate a 3D digital scan from a real-life object, where the file can be used to reproduce the object in 3D with a device such as the 3D printer or CNC Precision Multimachine
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-scanner.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[CNC Circuit Mill]]'''
! A computer-controlled device that can produce electrical circuits by milling and drilling on copper-clad circuit boards
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/circuit-mill.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Industrial Robot]]'''
! A robotic arm which can perform certain human tasks - such as welding or milling – for performing tasks that are not better done by humans
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/robotic-arm.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Laser Cutter]]'''
! An industrial machine that can make precision, finish cuts in a wide array of substrates, such as metal, wood, or plastic
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/laser-cutter.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Open Source Welder]]'''
! A device used to make strong, permanent bonds in metal by melting and fusing the metal
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/mig-welder.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Plasma Cutter]]'''
! A device to cut metal using a plasma torch
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/plasma-cutter.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Induction Furnace]]'''
! An electrical furnace in which the heat is applied by induction heating of metal, providing clean, versatile, compact, energy-efficient, and well-controlled melting compared to flame furnaces
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/induction-furnace.png
! <font color=orange>IN DEVELOPMENT</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/induction-furnace/ induction-furnace]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/induction-furnace/ induction-furnace]
! [[:Category: Induction Furnace]]

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! '''Metal Rolling'''
! A metal forming process in which metal stock is passed through a pair of rolls to produce a desired shape, such as flat bar, angle, or u-channel
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/metal-rolling-machine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Rod and Wire Mill'''
! A subset of metal rolling, used to make shafts, rebar, thin rods, and down to wire.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/wire-n-rod-mill.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Press Forge'''
! A device for shaping metal by the application of a shaping die and a continuous pressure or force.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/forge.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Modern Steam Engine]]'''
! A modern engine where an external heat source is used to turn water into steam, and the steam in turn moves reciprocating pistons to provide shaft power
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/steam-engine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Gasifier burner'''
! A clean and efficient burner that gasifies the material that is being burned prior to combustion
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/gasifier-burner.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Steam Generator]]'''
! A device that generates steam from water that is passed through externally-heated coils
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/steam-generator.png
! STATUS

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! '''Solar Concentrator'''
! An array of mirrors to concentrate sunlight so it can boil water and drive a steam engine.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/solar-concentrator.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Wind Turbine]]'''
! A device that produces electrical power from wind energy
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/wind-turbine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Aluminum Extractor from Clay'''
! A device that produces aluminum from clay by dissolving the aluminum from aluminosilicate (clay), and then electrolyzing the resulting compound to form pure aluminum
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/alluminum-extractor.png
!

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! '''[[Pelletizer]]'''
! A device that compresses shredded pieces of biomass or other substances to compact, flowable pellets
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/pelletizer.png
!

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! '''Universal Seeder'''
! A tractor-pulled seeder than can plant any seed, from small seeds like clover to large seeds such as potatoes
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-seeder.png
!

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! '''[[Rototiller]] and [[Soil Pulverizer]]'''
! A tractor implement that tills soil with blades via rotary action
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/pulverizer-tiller.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Spader]]'''
! A set of mechanical shovels that prepare soil for planting without causing a hardpan typical of rototiller tilling
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/spader.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Microcombine'''
! A small-scale harvester-thresher for mechanical harvesting of any grain crops, with a cutting swath of about 3 feet in width
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/microcombine.png
!

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! '''[[Universal Rotor]]'''
! A tractor-mounted rotor that can be fitted with a wide array of toolheads, such as string trimmer, posthole digger, tree planting auger, slurry mixer, and many others
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-rotor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Baler]]'''
! A device that compresses hay and other light and dispersed materials into more compact bales
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/baler.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Hay Rake'''
! A mechanical implement for a tractor that rakes hay or other light materials into windrows or other formations for drying or baling
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hay-rake.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Hay Cutter]]'''
! A device that cuts grass, hay, straw, or other light biomass for haying, baling, or combining
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hay-cutter.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Backhoe]]'''
! A piece of excavating equipment or digger consisting of a digging bucket on the end of a two-part articulated arm for digging trenches or large holes
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/backhoe.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Chipper/Hammermill'''
! A machine used for reducing wood or other materials into smaller parts, such as chips or shreds
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/chipper-hammermill.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Trencher]]'''
! A piece of construction equipment that uses a cutting wheel for digging trenches, laying pipe, cable, or drainage
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/trencher.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Open Source Car]]'''
! A wheeled motor vehicle for transporting people
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/automobile.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Open Source Truck'''
! A larger version of an automobile with a bed for trasporting loads
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/truck.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Sawmill|Dimensional Sawmill]]'''
! A dimensional sawmill is a circular blade sawmill with 2 blades that is used for producing dimensional lumber in one pass
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/sawmill.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Cement Mixer]]'''
! A device that homogeneously combines cement, aggregate such as sand or gravel, and water to form concrete
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/cement-mixer.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Well-drilling Rig]]'''
! A device for digging deep water wells
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/well-drilling-rig.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Bakery Oven'''
! A device for heating various forms of dough into breads and other baked goods
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/industrial-bread-oven.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Dairy Milker'''
! A device which harvests milk automatically from milk-producing livestock
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/milking-machine.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Electric Motor/Generator'''
! A device that functions as a motor when energized with a voltage, which can also function as an electrical generator when it is spun.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/electric-motor-generator.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Hydraulic Motors'''
! A mechanical actuator that converts high-pressure fluid flow into rotation
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hydraulic-motor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Bioplastic Extruder]]'''
! An extruder takes a charge of plastic and extrudes a sheet or other profile of useful form, such as greenhouse glazing or water tubing
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/plastic-extruder.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Universal Power Supply'''
! This is a combination power supply for applications from off-grid power to supplying power to welders, induction furnaces, and plasma cutters.
!http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-power-supply.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Nickel Iron Batteries]]'''
! Long-life batteries that have a track record of lasting 50 or more years
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/nickel-iron-batteries.png
!

|-align="left"
! Drill press
!
! [[File:Multimachineicon.jpg|100px]]
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/drill-press/ drill-press]
!
! [[:Category: Drill Press]]
|-
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===Want to add another tool?===
If you think another technology belongs on the GVCS list, follow this procedure -
#Read the [[OSE Specifications]] and answer the [[OSE Specifications#Questionnaire|questionnaire]].
#If the tool scores highly on the questionnaire and meets most of the OSE specifications, start a thread on the [http://openfarmtech.org/forum/ forum] with a title beginning "Proposed Tool:" (e.g. "Proposed Tool: Washing Machine"). You may be challenged, and will have to convince the community that it is realistic and worth pursuing.
#If the consensus on the forum is in favor of adding the tool to the GVCS, feel free to edit the list above to add the new tool
#By proposing the tool, you take responsibility for it. You become project manager for that tool, and will have to build and prototype it yourself, or else recruit and manage someone who can.

====Proposed tools====
*'''Loader''' - an attachment for the [[LifeTrac]] tractor
*'''Village-scale washing machine''' - powered by the universal rotor
*'''Fridge''' - see the page on [[refrigeration]]
*'''Reversible heat pump''' - for controlling the temperature of homes and greenhouses, refrigerating food and medicine, harnessing solar and geothermal heat
*'''[[Stirling engine]]''' - transforms heat into mechanical energy
*'''[[Spectrometer]]''' and '''computer oscilloscope''' - adding these to the GVCS would form a complete Fab Lab. Most of the work will be done by other open-source groups.
*'''[[Juice Press]]''' - A juice press powered by the [[Power Cube]].
*'''[[Log Splitter]]''' - A log splitter powered by the [[Power Cube]].

== Videos ==

See a 2 minute video explainer about the GVCS:

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* [[H+ Presentation]]
* Overview presentation at [[Linz Slides]]

See latest presentation on the GVCS (as of June, 2010)
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Economy creates culture and culture creates politics. The politics we seek are freedom, voluntary contract, and human evolution in harmony with life support systems. Note that resource conflicts and overpopulation are eliminated by design. We are after the creation of new society, one which has learned from the past and moves forward with ancient wisdom and modern technology.

This is a real experiment, and product selection is based on us living with the given technologies. First, it is the development of real, economically significant hardware, product, and engineering. Second, this entire set is being compiled into one setting, and land is being populated with the respective productive agents. The aim is to define a new form of social organization where it is possible to create advanced culture, thriving in abundance and largely autonomous, on the scale of a village, not nation or state.

Here is a talk by [[Marcin Jakubowski]] on the GVCS at the 4th Oekonux Conference. <html>You can download the slides and see a transcript <a href="http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Oekonux_4" target="_blank">here</a>.

First is an introduction by Franz Nahrada, leader of the <a href="http://globalvillages.ning.com/" target="_blank">Globally Integrated Village Environment</a>:<br>

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A video presentation on the [[first year at Factor e Farm]] and the GVCS from 2007-2008 [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-710075551990473235#20m24s here].

And you can also view a GVCS [[UM_Presentation|slide show presentation]] for more information.

=Product Selection Criteria=

See [[OSE Specifications]]

=Enterprise Community Contract=

We are proposing the formation of Global Villages in the form of productive enterprise communities that strive for unprecedented quality of life:
* material abundance
* freedom from bureacracy and unnecessary activity
* total focus on one's true interests

For our particular OSE prototype implementation, we are interested in the following general essence of an ''Enterprise Community Contract'':

* 2 hours of productive activity daily, such that 100% of the community's food, energy, housing, transportation, and technology essentials are produced for subsistence, with surplus production for market
** Agriculture base follows permaculture design, and includes production of water soluble organic fertilizer, orchard, nursery, and crops, as well as certain food processing and value added propositions
** Flexible fabrication produces advanced technologies ''at the cost of materials''
** Cost of living is reduced dramatically, from $20,000/year in the industrialized world, to negligible income requirements, under the assumption of high-tech self-providing
* Each participant undertakes a study program of full stewardship of the community, including:
** Agricultural production capacity
** Technological literacy to operate and maintain flex fab equipment and other machinery
** Numeracy to facilitate design
** Study of the mind and body to expand one's consciousness, skills, and abilities, and to disseminate such human augmentation widely towards eliminating mind control of the masses
* Entry of new people can be negotiated by the new participants providing skills and productive contribution to the community
* Beyond the 2 hour requirement, participants follow a research lifestyle to promote further development of the community or of the greater world

= Enabling Technology - Salient Features of Technology Base =

Without going into details, the main features for the comprehensive technology base are:

* ''Hybridization of power devices'' - decoupling of power source from the working unit in order to produce electrical drive is a formula for increasing integrated efficiency of electromechanical devices such as electric [[vehicle]]s, tools, heavy equipment, etc. For example, the hybrid car decouples the engine from its wheels by using an electrical generator to feed electric wheel motors. Note that this eliminates the clutch, transmission, crank case and its oil, differential, drive train, and other parts, and replaces these items with electric wire from the generator to electric motor. This is a huge efficiency leap, one in fuel efficiency, and two, in eliminating billions of dollars of industry which is outdated today due to the hybridization option. As such, we can talk of complex machines with huge simplification, assuming easy access to infinitely scaleable and controllable, low cost electric motors (these do not exist today). For example, we can envision an agricultural combine where each moving part is powered by its own electric motor - producing a leap in simplification and maintenance of the overall machine - as all belts, pulleys, gears, and other power transmission components driven by a single engine - are all replaced by electric wire. One can point to many examples where such strategy would provide leapfrog advance in device simplicity and maintenance.

* ''Solar turbine power generation including heat storage - look at [[Solar Turbine CHP System]]

* ''Open source fab lab'' - combine and expand the [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/multimachine/Multimachine] with xyz table as in RepRap (http://reprap.org/), and you can envision a robust fabrication device that integrates open source computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM). This device would perform a large variety of machining and fabrication operations, and would be producible at the cost of materials if metal casting is available. When deployed, we are talking of '''''producing any advanced object or device at the cost of materials'''''. ''Would you like to fabricate an electric motor for your personal transport vehicle? Here, I'll email you a file to make on your local village fabber''. In practice, one could conceptualize a single or several Multimachines, with their milling-drilling-lathing functions, surrounding an xyz motion platform with interchangeable heads. These heads could include acetylene torch attachment, plasma cutter, CO2 laser, router, hot wire, or additive heads such as a plastic extruder found in RepRap. This overall fab lab concept could start with a basic machine such as the Multimachine, with computer controls and table added in time. As such, this is a realistic proposition - with supporting open source knowhow with significant advancement already available. This propels civilization to new levels of decentralized material prosperity, and implies significant reduction of resource conflicts, especially if material feedstocks are sourced locally - as in the next point.

Here is an initial Fab Lab design:
[[Image:Fab_Lab.jpg]]

Here is a sample Product Matrix that falls right out of Fab Lab capacities:
[[Image:Product_Matrix.jpg]]

* ''Production of local feedstocks''-
** Wood and structural masonry compressed earth block (CEB) for construction - produced from on-site trees and soils
** [[Compressed Fuel Gas]] for cooking or melting metal - gas produced from trees
** [[Bioplastics]] - such as cellophane from trees
** Biofuels - [[Fuel Alcohol]] in temperate zones, palm oil in tropical zones
** Industrial detritus (waste materials) processing - includes [[Metal Casting and Extrusion]] or [[Plastic Extrusion & Molding]]
** [[Aluminum Extraction From Clays]]

= Sample Scenario =

Imagine a village with buildings of dirt (CEB) with year-round [[Greenhouses|greenhouses]] (sawmill, CEB, bioplastics from local trees), with all facility energy produced by a solar turbine, where people drive hybrid cars with car bodies (bioplastics) made from local weeds, with critical motors and metal structures (aluminum) extracted from on-site clay, which are fueled by alcohol produced on-site, on a wireless network linked to the greater world. That's just a sampling of the technology base. Food, energy, housing sufficiency. There are no poor among us - because we are all evolving human beings and farmer scientists.

= Development process =
[[GVCS Development Template]]

[[Product Cycle]]

[[Image:Engineering_Strategy.jpg]]

= Definition of Open Source Hardware and OSE Specifications =

See the updated entry for OSE Spec [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=OSE_Specifications here].

We like to be clear about the meaning of ''open,'' or ''open source,''' as used in this work for items of physical production. By ''open source,'' we mean documented to the point where one may replicate a given item, ''without even consulting with the developers.'' To us, this embodies the most complete form of documentation possible, where sufficient detail is provided to enable independent replication. This is ''open source'' embodied in ''OSE Specifications''. Other features of OSE Specificationsare:

# Freely downloadable documentation
# DfD, lifetime design
# Simplicity and low cost are of prime importance
# Replaceable components
# Modular Design
# Scaleability
# Localization
## Level 1 - product fabrication or production is local
## Level 2 - material sourcing is local
# Product evolution - phases and versions are pursued
# Concrete Flexible Fabrication mechanism exists for others to purchase the product at reasonable cost
# Open franchising - replicable enterprise design is available, and training exists for entrepreneurs

Thus, these features are meant to promote ''[http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/dn/vol4/fotopoulos_technology.htm#_ftn2 liberatory technology]'' - open, replicable, essential, optimal, and ecological goods and services for humankind living in harmony with natural life support systems.

= Working Assumptions =

Here is a partial list of assumptions that we are making as we go about the development work of this wiki. These assumptions help one to understand our motivations and approach.
# Civilization are shaped by their resource base. The resource base is what gives people power. By controlling others through an economic or social hierarchy, we can control resources, and thus gain power. Resource conflicts occur because people have not yet learned to manage resources without stealing. Society has not transcended the brute struggle for survival. We remain on the bottom steps of Maslow's pyramid. Transcending resource conflicts by creating abundance, first for hundreds, then for thousands of people, is now possible if knowledge flows openly and advanced technology is applied to produce goods.
# Today, most humans are controlled not by a commercial force (armies) but by information and social engineering that feeds the commerce itself. Understanding means of social control; understanding the mechanics of one's mind, body, and spirit; learning to discern mechanics of mind control and propaganda as they are used in controlling agendas; and applying learnings to meditation, expansion of consciousness, and evolution of one's awareness and powers are all crucial if civilization is to escape the control of commercialism and is to give up its dependence on a centralized, planned economy.
# Said propaganda and conditioning has successfully removed the notion of self-sufficiency as a viable means of livelihood. Most people are afraid of self-sufficiency and consider it a return to the stone age. Most people cannot envision that advanced civilization can be created in small (100-1000 person), self-sufficient, highly skilled communities. Furthermore, most people do not realize that it is possible to educate, skill, and evolve human beings such that an integrated, self-sufficient lifestyle option that promotes advanced civilization on a small scale of human organization is created. It it possible to achieve this level of excellence if people are taught real knowledge and wisdom, as opposed to undergoing global workforce training.
# Education curricula have typically deleted practical applications deliberately, to produce subjects of the global workforce. If education is reinstated then self-sufficiency will emerge as a natural option.
# Self-sufficiency is not an antisocial behavior, but a means to full individual and community accountability for resource conflicts, foul politics, and other corruptions of large-scale endeavors. (review works of Gandhi, Schumacher, Fuller) Self-sufficiency is a means to highest quality life by definition, one is in control of one's destiny when one is self-sufficient. The assumption of self-sufficiency is that its practitioners must be highly skilled, and not products of centralist education.
# By self-sufficient, we mean in full control of providing one's needs. Note that self-sufficiency refers to needs - those things that allow one to survive in absolute health - and not wants. Self-sufficiency does not imply a solo, isolationist endeavor. Self-sufficiency may be accomplished with the help of as many people as it is possible to maintain full accountability, transparency, and sound ethics within that group. This group may be dispersed globally. Historically, sociology of human settlements has shown that this scale of self-sufficiency is a few hundred people. (see E.F. Schumacher; other references)
# The State promotes well-paid incompetence, largely through specialization, such that subjects produce sufficient surplus to pay for their own oppression.
# Education, media, and social engineering programs have subjugated human integrity to passive consumerism, with its related problems (resource conflicts, loss of freedom such as wage slavery). The only way out of this is creating a framework within which humans can prosper: provision of true education, learning of practical skills, stewardship of land, advanced technology for the people, and open access to economically significant know-how.
# Import substitution is reducing dependence on external feedstocks and replacing them with local ones. People in control of their resources control their own destiny. Thus, to localize the essential parts of an economy completely is the prime formula for social stability. Localization should not be considered a struggle, but merely a possibility. It is a possibility that is not recognized because most people, as specialists, lack integrated technical literacy and skills that make a local economy feasible.

= See also =

* [[Product Ecologies]] - illustrates how the different components of the GVCS relate with one another

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description="The GVCS is a set of 50 tools / technologies for building post-scarcity, resilient communities."
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/></div>'''See http://opensourceecology.org for the official definition of the [http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs.php 50 GVCS Tools].'''

The ideas that guide the GVCS are:

'''Open Source''' - we freely publish our 3d designs, schematics, instructional videos, budgets, and product manuals on our open source wiki and we harness open collaboration with technical contributors.

'''Low-Cost''' - The cost of making or buying our machines are, on average, 8x cheaper than buying from an Industrial Manufacturer, including an average labor cost of $15 hour for a GVCS fabricator.

'''Modular''' - Motors, parts, assemblies, and power units can interchange, where units can be grouped together to diversify the functionality that is achievable from a small set of units.

'''User-Serviceable''' - Design-for-disassembly allows the user to take apart, maintain, and fix tools readily without the need to rely on expensive repairmen.

'''DIY''' - (do-it-yourself) The user gains control of designing, producing, and modifying the GVCS tool set.

'''Closed Loop Manufacturing''' - Metal is an essential component of advanced civilization, and our platform allows for recycling metal into virgin feedstock for producing further GVCS technologies - thereby allowing for cradle-to-cradle manufacturing cycles

'''High Performance''' - Performance standards must match or exceed those of industrial counterparts for the GVCS to be viable.

'''Flexible Fabrication''' - It has been demonstrated that the flexible use of generalized machinery in appropriate-scale production is a viable alternative to centralized production.

'''Distributive Economics''' - We encourage the replication of enterprises that derive from the GVCS platform as a route to truly free enterprise - along the ideals of Jeffersonian democracy.

'''Industrial Efficiency''' - In order to provide a viable choice for a resilient lifestyle, the GVCS platform matches or exceeds productivity standards of industrial counterparts.

==The tools==
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! TOOL
! DESCRIPTION
! IMAGE
! STATUS
! FORUM DISCUSSION
! BLOG
! OTHER WIKI ARTICLES

|-
! '''[[CEB Press]]'''
! A high-performance Compresssed Earth Block press. Compresssed Earth Block building is the highest quality natural building method. The page [[CEB intro]] contains introductory information on compressed earth blocks
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/compressed-earth-brick-press.png
! <font color=green>COMPLETE AND TESTED!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/ceb-press/ ceb-press]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/compressed-earth-block-press/ compressed-earth-block-press]
! [[:Category: CEB]]

|-align="left"
! '''[[LifeTrac|Tractor]]'''
! A versatile, 4-wheel drive, hydraulically-driven, skid-steering tractor with 18 to 200 horsepower capacity for agriculture, construction and other utility duties.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/lifetrac.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/lifetrac/ lifetrac]
!
! [[:Category: LifeTrac]]

|-align="left"
! '''[[Microtractor]]'''
! a small, 18 hp version of the full-sized tractor for powering a wide range of implements in agricultural and utility duties
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/microtrac.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
!
!
! [[:Category: MicroTrac]]

|-align="left"
! '''[[Bulldozer]]'''
! A high-traction, heavy earth-moving machine indispensible for building ponds, berms, and other permacultural earthforms, as well as for other tasks such as building roads or clearing land
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/bulldozer.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Power Cube]]'''
! A multipurpose, self-contained, hydraulic power power unit that consisting of an engine coupled to a hydraulic pump
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/powercube.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/power-cube/ power-cube]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/power-cube/ power-cube]
! [[:Category: Power Cube]]

|-align="left"
! '''CNC Precision Multimachine'''
! A multipurpose, precision CNC machining and metal cutting device for milling, lathing, drilling to make precision parts; includes surface grinding and cold-cut metal sawing
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/multimachine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Ironworker Machine'''
! A device that can instantly cut steel and punch holes in metal one inch thick
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/ironworker.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''CNC Torch/Router Table'''
! A computer-controlled cutting table for metal where a moving torch head is used to produce precision metal parts in a fraction of the time that it takes to do so manually
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/torch-table.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
!
!
! [[:Category: Torch Table]]

|-align="left"
! '''3D Printer'''
! An additive manufacturing technology where a three dimensional object is printed by laying down successive layers of material, just like a printer except in 3D
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-printer.png
! <font color=green>COMPLETE AND TESTED!</font>

|-align="left"
! '''3D Scanner'''
! A device that can generate a 3D digital scan from a real-life object, where the file can be used to reproduce the object in 3D with a device such as the 3D printer or CNC Precision Multimachine
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-scanner.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[CNC Circuit Mill]]'''
! A computer-controlled device that can produce electrical circuits by milling and drilling on copper-clad circuit boards
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/circuit-mill.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Industrial Robot]]'''
! A robotic arm which can perform certain human tasks - such as welding or milling – for performing tasks that are not better done by humans
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/robotic-arm.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Laser Cutter]]'''
! An industrial machine that can make precision, finish cuts in a wide array of substrates, such as metal, wood, or plastic
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/laser-cutter.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Open Source Welder]]'''
! A device used to make strong, permanent bonds in metal by melting and fusing the metal
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/mig-welder.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Plasma Cutter]]'''
! A device to cut metal using a plasma torch
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/plasma-cutter.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Induction Furnace]]'''
! An electrical furnace in which the heat is applied by induction heating of metal, providing clean, versatile, compact, energy-efficient, and well-controlled melting compared to flame furnaces
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/induction-furnace.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Metal Rolling'''
! A metal forming process in which metal stock is passed through a pair of rolls to produce a desired shape, such as flat bar, angle, or u-channel
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/metal-rolling-machine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Rod and Wire Mill'''
! A subset of metal rolling, used to make shafts, rebar, thin rods, and down to wire.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/wire-n-rod-mill.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Press Forge'''
! A device for shaping metal by the application of a shaping die and a continuous pressure or force.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/forge.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Modern Steam Engine]]'''
! A modern engine where an external heat source is used to turn water into steam, and the steam in turn moves reciprocating pistons to provide shaft power
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/steam-engine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Gasifier burner'''
! A clean and efficient burner that gasifies the material that is being burned prior to combustion
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/gasifier-burner.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Steam Generator]]'''
! A device that generates steam from water that is passed through externally-heated coils
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/steam-generator.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Solar Concentrator'''
! An array of mirrors to concentrate sunlight so it can boil water and drive a steam engine.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/solar-concentrator.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Wind Turbine]]'''
! A device that produces electrical power from wind energy
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/wind-turbine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Aluminum Extractor from Clay'''
! A device that produces aluminum from clay by dissolving the aluminum from aluminosilicate (clay), and then electrolyzing the resulting compound to form pure aluminum
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/alluminum-extractor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Pelletizer]]'''
! A device that compresses shredded pieces of biomass or other substances to compact, flowable pellets
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/pelletizer.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Universal Seeder'''
! A tractor-pulled seeder than can plant any seed, from small seeds like clover to large seeds such as potatoes
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-seeder.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Rototiller]] and [[Soil Pulverizer]]'''
! A tractor implement that tills soil with blades via rotary action
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/pulverizer-tiller.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Spader]]'''
! A set of mechanical shovels that prepare soil for planting without causing a hardpan typical of rototiller tilling
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/spader.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Microcombine'''
! A small-scale harvester-thresher for mechanical harvesting of any grain crops, with a cutting swath of about 3 feet in width
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/microcombine.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Universal Rotor]]'''
! A tractor-mounted rotor that can be fitted with a wide array of toolheads, such as string trimmer, posthole digger, tree planting auger, slurry mixer, and many others
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-rotor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Baler]]'''
! A device that compresses hay and other light and dispersed materials into more compact bales
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/baler.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Hay Rake'''
! A mechanical implement for a tractor that rakes hay or other light materials into windrows or other formations for drying or baling
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hay-rake.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Hay Cutter]]'''
! A device that cuts grass, hay, straw, or other light biomass for haying, baling, or combining
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hay-cutter.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Backhoe]]'''
! A piece of excavating equipment or digger consisting of a digging bucket on the end of a two-part articulated arm for digging trenches or large holes
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/backhoe.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Chipper/Hammermill'''
! A machine used for reducing wood or other materials into smaller parts, such as chips or shreds
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/chipper-hammermill.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Trencher]]'''
! A piece of construction equipment that uses a cutting wheel for digging trenches, laying pipe, cable, or drainage
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/trencher.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Open Source Car]]'''
! A wheeled motor vehicle for transporting people
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/automobile.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Open Source Truck'''
! A larger version of an automobile with a bed for trasporting loads
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/truck.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Sawmill|Dimensional Sawmill]]'''
! A dimensional sawmill is a circular blade sawmill with 2 blades that is used for producing dimensional lumber in one pass
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/sawmill.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Cement Mixer]]'''
! A device that homogeneously combines cement, aggregate such as sand or gravel, and water to form concrete
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/cement-mixer.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Well-drilling Rig]]'''
! A device for digging deep water wells
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/well-drilling-rig.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Bakery Oven'''
! A device for heating various forms of dough into breads and other baked goods
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/industrial-bread-oven.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Dairy Milker'''
! A device which harvests milk automatically from milk-producing livestock
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/milking-machine.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Electric Motor/Generator'''
! A device that functions as a motor when energized with a voltage, which can also function as an electrical generator when it is spun.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/electric-motor-generator.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Hydraulic Motors'''
! A mechanical actuator that converts high-pressure fluid flow into rotation
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hydraulic-motor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Bioplastic Extruder]]'''
! An extruder takes a charge of plastic and extrudes a sheet or other profile of useful form, such as greenhouse glazing or water tubing
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/plastic-extruder.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Universal Power Supply'''
! This is a combination power supply for applications from off-grid power to supplying power to welders, induction furnaces, and plasma cutters.
!http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-power-supply.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Nickel Iron Batteries]]'''
! Long-life batteries that have a track record of lasting 50 or more years
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/nickel-iron-batteries.png
!

|-align="left"
! Drill press
!
! [[File:Multimachineicon.jpg|100px]]
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/drill-press/ drill-press]
!
! [[:Category: Drill Press]]
|-
|}

===Want to add another tool?===
If you think another technology belongs on the GVCS list, follow this procedure -
#Read the [[OSE Specifications]] and answer the [[OSE Specifications#Questionnaire|questionnaire]].
#If the tool scores highly on the questionnaire and meets most of the OSE specifications, start a thread on the [http://openfarmtech.org/forum/ forum] with a title beginning "Proposed Tool:" (e.g. "Proposed Tool: Washing Machine"). You may be challenged, and will have to convince the community that it is realistic and worth pursuing.
#If the consensus on the forum is in favor of adding the tool to the GVCS, feel free to edit the list above to add the new tool
#By proposing the tool, you take responsibility for it. You become project manager for that tool, and will have to build and prototype it yourself, or else recruit and manage someone who can.

====Proposed tools====
*'''Loader''' - an attachment for the [[LifeTrac]] tractor
*'''Village-scale washing machine''' - powered by the universal rotor
*'''Fridge''' - see the page on [[refrigeration]]
*'''Reversible heat pump''' - for controlling the temperature of homes and greenhouses, refrigerating food and medicine, harnessing solar and geothermal heat
*'''[[Stirling engine]]''' - transforms heat into mechanical energy
*'''[[Spectrometer]]''' and '''computer oscilloscope''' - adding these to the GVCS would form a complete Fab Lab. Most of the work will be done by other open-source groups.
*'''[[Juice Press]]''' - A juice press powered by the [[Power Cube]].
*'''[[Log Splitter]]''' - A log splitter powered by the [[Power Cube]].

== Videos ==

See a 2 minute video explainer about the GVCS:

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* [[H+ Presentation]]
* Overview presentation at [[Linz Slides]]

See latest presentation on the GVCS (as of June, 2010)
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Economy creates culture and culture creates politics. The politics we seek are freedom, voluntary contract, and human evolution in harmony with life support systems. Note that resource conflicts and overpopulation are eliminated by design. We are after the creation of new society, one which has learned from the past and moves forward with ancient wisdom and modern technology.

This is a real experiment, and product selection is based on us living with the given technologies. First, it is the development of real, economically significant hardware, product, and engineering. Second, this entire set is being compiled into one setting, and land is being populated with the respective productive agents. The aim is to define a new form of social organization where it is possible to create advanced culture, thriving in abundance and largely autonomous, on the scale of a village, not nation or state.

Here is a talk by [[Marcin Jakubowski]] on the GVCS at the 4th Oekonux Conference. <html>You can download the slides and see a transcript <a href="http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Oekonux_4" target="_blank">here</a>.

First is an introduction by Franz Nahrada, leader of the <a href="http://globalvillages.ning.com/" target="_blank">Globally Integrated Village Environment</a>:<br>

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A video presentation on the [[first year at Factor e Farm]] and the GVCS from 2007-2008 [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-710075551990473235#20m24s here].

And you can also view a GVCS [[UM_Presentation|slide show presentation]] for more information.

=Product Selection Criteria=

See [[OSE Specifications]]

=Enterprise Community Contract=

We are proposing the formation of Global Villages in the form of productive enterprise communities that strive for unprecedented quality of life:
* material abundance
* freedom from bureacracy and unnecessary activity
* total focus on one's true interests

For our particular OSE prototype implementation, we are interested in the following general essence of an ''Enterprise Community Contract'':

* 2 hours of productive activity daily, such that 100% of the community's food, energy, housing, transportation, and technology essentials are produced for subsistence, with surplus production for market
** Agriculture base follows permaculture design, and includes production of water soluble organic fertilizer, orchard, nursery, and crops, as well as certain food processing and value added propositions
** Flexible fabrication produces advanced technologies ''at the cost of materials''
** Cost of living is reduced dramatically, from $20,000/year in the industrialized world, to negligible income requirements, under the assumption of high-tech self-providing
* Each participant undertakes a study program of full stewardship of the community, including:
** Agricultural production capacity
** Technological literacy to operate and maintain flex fab equipment and other machinery
** Numeracy to facilitate design
** Study of the mind and body to expand one's consciousness, skills, and abilities, and to disseminate such human augmentation widely towards eliminating mind control of the masses
* Entry of new people can be negotiated by the new participants providing skills and productive contribution to the community
* Beyond the 2 hour requirement, participants follow a research lifestyle to promote further development of the community or of the greater world

= Enabling Technology - Salient Features of Technology Base =

Without going into details, the main features for the comprehensive technology base are:

* ''Hybridization of power devices'' - decoupling of power source from the working unit in order to produce electrical drive is a formula for increasing integrated efficiency of electromechanical devices such as electric [[vehicle]]s, tools, heavy equipment, etc. For example, the hybrid car decouples the engine from its wheels by using an electrical generator to feed electric wheel motors. Note that this eliminates the clutch, transmission, crank case and its oil, differential, drive train, and other parts, and replaces these items with electric wire from the generator to electric motor. This is a huge efficiency leap, one in fuel efficiency, and two, in eliminating billions of dollars of industry which is outdated today due to the hybridization option. As such, we can talk of complex machines with huge simplification, assuming easy access to infinitely scaleable and controllable, low cost electric motors (these do not exist today). For example, we can envision an agricultural combine where each moving part is powered by its own electric motor - producing a leap in simplification and maintenance of the overall machine - as all belts, pulleys, gears, and other power transmission components driven by a single engine - are all replaced by electric wire. One can point to many examples where such strategy would provide leapfrog advance in device simplicity and maintenance.

* ''Solar turbine power generation including heat storage - look at [[Solar Turbine CHP System]]

* ''Open source fab lab'' - combine and expand the [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/multimachine/Multimachine] with xyz table as in RepRap (http://reprap.org/), and you can envision a robust fabrication device that integrates open source computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM). This device would perform a large variety of machining and fabrication operations, and would be producible at the cost of materials if metal casting is available. When deployed, we are talking of '''''producing any advanced object or device at the cost of materials'''''. ''Would you like to fabricate an electric motor for your personal transport vehicle? Here, I'll email you a file to make on your local village fabber''. In practice, one could conceptualize a single or several Multimachines, with their milling-drilling-lathing functions, surrounding an xyz motion platform with interchangeable heads. These heads could include acetylene torch attachment, plasma cutter, CO2 laser, router, hot wire, or additive heads such as a plastic extruder found in RepRap. This overall fab lab concept could start with a basic machine such as the Multimachine, with computer controls and table added in time. As such, this is a realistic proposition - with supporting open source knowhow with significant advancement already available. This propels civilization to new levels of decentralized material prosperity, and implies significant reduction of resource conflicts, especially if material feedstocks are sourced locally - as in the next point.

Here is an initial Fab Lab design:
[[Image:Fab_Lab.jpg]]

Here is a sample Product Matrix that falls right out of Fab Lab capacities:
[[Image:Product_Matrix.jpg]]

* ''Production of local feedstocks''-
** Wood and structural masonry compressed earth block (CEB) for construction - produced from on-site trees and soils
** [[Compressed Fuel Gas]] for cooking or melting metal - gas produced from trees
** [[Bioplastics]] - such as cellophane from trees
** Biofuels - [[Fuel Alcohol]] in temperate zones, palm oil in tropical zones
** Industrial detritus (waste materials) processing - includes [[Metal Casting and Extrusion]] or [[Plastic Extrusion & Molding]]
** [[Aluminum Extraction From Clays]]

= Sample Scenario =

Imagine a village with buildings of dirt (CEB) with year-round [[Greenhouses|greenhouses]] (sawmill, CEB, bioplastics from local trees), with all facility energy produced by a solar turbine, where people drive hybrid cars with car bodies (bioplastics) made from local weeds, with critical motors and metal structures (aluminum) extracted from on-site clay, which are fueled by alcohol produced on-site, on a wireless network linked to the greater world. That's just a sampling of the technology base. Food, energy, housing sufficiency. There are no poor among us - because we are all evolving human beings and farmer scientists.

= Development process =
[[GVCS Development Template]]

[[Product Cycle]]

[[Image:Engineering_Strategy.jpg]]

= Definition of Open Source Hardware and OSE Specifications =

See the updated entry for OSE Spec [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=OSE_Specifications here].

We like to be clear about the meaning of ''open,'' or ''open source,''' as used in this work for items of physical production. By ''open source,'' we mean documented to the point where one may replicate a given item, ''without even consulting with the developers.'' To us, this embodies the most complete form of documentation possible, where sufficient detail is provided to enable independent replication. This is ''open source'' embodied in ''OSE Specifications''. Other features of OSE Specificationsare:

# Freely downloadable documentation
# DfD, lifetime design
# Simplicity and low cost are of prime importance
# Replaceable components
# Modular Design
# Scaleability
# Localization
## Level 1 - product fabrication or production is local
## Level 2 - material sourcing is local
# Product evolution - phases and versions are pursued
# Concrete Flexible Fabrication mechanism exists for others to purchase the product at reasonable cost
# Open franchising - replicable enterprise design is available, and training exists for entrepreneurs

Thus, these features are meant to promote ''[http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/dn/vol4/fotopoulos_technology.htm#_ftn2 liberatory technology]'' - open, replicable, essential, optimal, and ecological goods and services for humankind living in harmony with natural life support systems.

= Working Assumptions =

Here is a partial list of assumptions that we are making as we go about the development work of this wiki. These assumptions help one to understand our motivations and approach.
# Civilization are shaped by their resource base. The resource base is what gives people power. By controlling others through an economic or social hierarchy, we can control resources, and thus gain power. Resource conflicts occur because people have not yet learned to manage resources without stealing. Society has not transcended the brute struggle for survival. We remain on the bottom steps of Maslow's pyramid. Transcending resource conflicts by creating abundance, first for hundreds, then for thousands of people, is now possible if knowledge flows openly and advanced technology is applied to produce goods.
# Today, most humans are controlled not by a commercial force (armies) but by information and social engineering that feeds the commerce itself. Understanding means of social control; understanding the mechanics of one's mind, body, and spirit; learning to discern mechanics of mind control and propaganda as they are used in controlling agendas; and applying learnings to meditation, expansion of consciousness, and evolution of one's awareness and powers are all crucial if civilization is to escape the control of commercialism and is to give up its dependence on a centralized, planned economy.
# Said propaganda and conditioning has successfully removed the notion of self-sufficiency as a viable means of livelihood. Most people are afraid of self-sufficiency and consider it a return to the stone age. Most people cannot envision that advanced civilization can be created in small (100-1000 person), self-sufficient, highly skilled communities. Furthermore, most people do not realize that it is possible to educate, skill, and evolve human beings such that an integrated, self-sufficient lifestyle option that promotes advanced civilization on a small scale of human organization is created. It it possible to achieve this level of excellence if people are taught real knowledge and wisdom, as opposed to undergoing global workforce training.
# Education curricula have typically deleted practical applications deliberately, to produce subjects of the global workforce. If education is reinstated then self-sufficiency will emerge as a natural option.
# Self-sufficiency is not an antisocial behavior, but a means to full individual and community accountability for resource conflicts, foul politics, and other corruptions of large-scale endeavors. (review works of Gandhi, Schumacher, Fuller) Self-sufficiency is a means to highest quality life by definition, one is in control of one's destiny when one is self-sufficient. The assumption of self-sufficiency is that its practitioners must be highly skilled, and not products of centralist education.
# By self-sufficient, we mean in full control of providing one's needs. Note that self-sufficiency refers to needs - those things that allow one to survive in absolute health - and not wants. Self-sufficiency does not imply a solo, isolationist endeavor. Self-sufficiency may be accomplished with the help of as many people as it is possible to maintain full accountability, transparency, and sound ethics within that group. This group may be dispersed globally. Historically, sociology of human settlements has shown that this scale of self-sufficiency is a few hundred people. (see E.F. Schumacher; other references)
# The State promotes well-paid incompetence, largely through specialization, such that subjects produce sufficient surplus to pay for their own oppression.
# Education, media, and social engineering programs have subjugated human integrity to passive consumerism, with its related problems (resource conflicts, loss of freedom such as wage slavery). The only way out of this is creating a framework within which humans can prosper: provision of true education, learning of practical skills, stewardship of land, advanced technology for the people, and open access to economically significant know-how.
# Import substitution is reducing dependence on external feedstocks and replacing them with local ones. People in control of their resources control their own destiny. Thus, to localize the essential parts of an economy completely is the prime formula for social stability. Localization should not be considered a struggle, but merely a possibility. It is a possibility that is not recognized because most people, as specialists, lack integrated technical literacy and skills that make a local economy feasible.

= See also =

* [[Product Ecologies]] - illustrates how the different components of the GVCS relate with one another

[[Category: GVCS]]

Global Village Construction Set

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/></div>'''See http://opensourceecology.org for the official definition of the [http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs.php 50 GVCS Tools].'''

The ideas that guide the GVCS are:

'''Open Source''' - we freely publish our 3d designs, schematics, instructional videos, budgets, and product manuals on our open source wiki and we harness open collaboration with technical contributors.

'''Low-Cost''' - The cost of making or buying our machines are, on average, 8x cheaper than buying from an Industrial Manufacturer, including an average labor cost of $15 hour for a GVCS fabricator.

'''Modular''' - Motors, parts, assemblies, and power units can interchange, where units can be grouped together to diversify the functionality that is achievable from a small set of units.

'''User-Serviceable''' - Design-for-disassembly allows the user to take apart, maintain, and fix tools readily without the need to rely on expensive repairmen.

'''DIY''' - (do-it-yourself) The user gains control of designing, producing, and modifying the GVCS tool set.

'''Closed Loop Manufacturing''' - Metal is an essential component of advanced civilization, and our platform allows for recycling metal into virgin feedstock for producing further GVCS technologies - thereby allowing for cradle-to-cradle manufacturing cycles

'''High Performance''' - Performance standards must match or exceed those of industrial counterparts for the GVCS to be viable.

'''Flexible Fabrication''' - It has been demonstrated that the flexible use of generalized machinery in appropriate-scale production is a viable alternative to centralized production.

'''Distributive Economics''' - We encourage the replication of enterprises that derive from the GVCS platform as a route to truly free enterprise - along the ideals of Jeffersonian democracy.

'''Industrial Efficiency''' - In order to provide a viable choice for a resilient lifestyle, the GVCS platform matches or exceeds productivity standards of industrial counterparts.

==The tools==
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! TOOL
! DESCRIPTION
! IMAGE
! STATUS
! FORUM DISCUSSION
! BLOG
! OTHER WIKI ARTICLES

|-
! '''[[CEB Press]]'''
! A high-performance Compresssed Earth Block press. Compresssed Earth Block building is the highest quality natural building method. The page [[CEB intro]] contains introductory information on compressed earth blocks
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/compressed-earth-brick-press.png
! <font color=green>COMPLETE AND TESTED!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/ceb-press/ ceb-press]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/compressed-earth-block-press/ compressed-earth-block-press]
! [[:Category: CEB]]

|-align="left"
! '''[[LifeTrac|Tractor]]'''
! A versatile, 4-wheel drive, hydraulically-driven, skid-steering tractor with 18 to 200 horsepower capacity for agriculture, construction and other utility duties.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/lifetrac.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/lifetrac/ lifetrac]
!
! [[:Category: LifeTrac]]

|-align="left"
! '''[[Microtractor]]'''
! a small, 18 hp version of the full-sized tractor for powering a wide range of implements in agricultural and utility duties
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/microtrac.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
!
!
! [[:Category: MicroTrac]]

|-align="left"
! '''[[Bulldozer]]'''
! A high-traction, heavy earth-moving machine indispensible for building ponds, berms, and other permacultural earthforms, as well as for other tasks such as building roads or clearing land
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/bulldozer.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Power Cube]]'''
! A multipurpose, self-contained, hydraulic power power unit that consisting of an engine coupled to a hydraulic pump
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/powercube.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/power-cube/ power-cube]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/power-cube/ power-cube]
! [[:Category: Power Cube]]

|-align="left"
! '''CNC Precision Multimachine'''
! A multipurpose, precision CNC machining and metal cutting device for milling, lathing, drilling to make precision parts; includes surface grinding and cold-cut metal sawing
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/multimachine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Ironworker Machine'''
! A device that can instantly cut steel and punch holes in metal one inch thick
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/ironworker.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''CNC Torch/Router Table'''
! A computer-controlled cutting table for metal where a moving torch head is used to produce precision metal parts in a fraction of the time that it takes to do so manually
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/torch-table.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>

|-align="left"
! '''3D Printer'''
! An additive manufacturing technology where a three dimensional object is printed by laying down successive layers of material, just like a printer except in 3D
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-printer.png
! <font color=green>COMPLETE AND TESTED!</font>

|-align="left"
! '''3D Scanner'''
! A device that can generate a 3D digital scan from a real-life object, where the file can be used to reproduce the object in 3D with a device such as the 3D printer or CNC Precision Multimachine
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-scanner.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[CNC Circuit Mill]]'''
! A computer-controlled device that can produce electrical circuits by milling and drilling on copper-clad circuit boards
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/circuit-mill.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Industrial Robot]]'''
! A robotic arm which can perform certain human tasks - such as welding or milling – for performing tasks that are not better done by humans
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/robotic-arm.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Laser Cutter]]'''
! An industrial machine that can make precision, finish cuts in a wide array of substrates, such as metal, wood, or plastic
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/laser-cutter.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Open Source Welder]]'''
! A device used to make strong, permanent bonds in metal by melting and fusing the metal
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/mig-welder.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Plasma Cutter]]'''
! A device to cut metal using a plasma torch
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/plasma-cutter.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Induction Furnace]]'''
! An electrical furnace in which the heat is applied by induction heating of metal, providing clean, versatile, compact, energy-efficient, and well-controlled melting compared to flame furnaces
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/induction-furnace.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Metal Rolling'''
! A metal forming process in which metal stock is passed through a pair of rolls to produce a desired shape, such as flat bar, angle, or u-channel
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/metal-rolling-machine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Rod and Wire Mill'''
! A subset of metal rolling, used to make shafts, rebar, thin rods, and down to wire.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/wire-n-rod-mill.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Press Forge'''
! A device for shaping metal by the application of a shaping die and a continuous pressure or force.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/forge.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Modern Steam Engine]]'''
! A modern engine where an external heat source is used to turn water into steam, and the steam in turn moves reciprocating pistons to provide shaft power
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/steam-engine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Gasifier burner'''
! A clean and efficient burner that gasifies the material that is being burned prior to combustion
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/gasifier-burner.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Steam Generator]]'''
! A device that generates steam from water that is passed through externally-heated coils
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/steam-generator.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Solar Concentrator'''
! An array of mirrors to concentrate sunlight so it can boil water and drive a steam engine.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/solar-concentrator.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Wind Turbine]]'''
! A device that produces electrical power from wind energy
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/wind-turbine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Aluminum Extractor from Clay'''
! A device that produces aluminum from clay by dissolving the aluminum from aluminosilicate (clay), and then electrolyzing the resulting compound to form pure aluminum
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/alluminum-extractor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Pelletizer]]'''
! A device that compresses shredded pieces of biomass or other substances to compact, flowable pellets
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/pelletizer.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Universal Seeder'''
! A tractor-pulled seeder than can plant any seed, from small seeds like clover to large seeds such as potatoes
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-seeder.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Rototiller]] and [[Soil Pulverizer]]'''
! A tractor implement that tills soil with blades via rotary action
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/pulverizer-tiller.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Spader]]'''
! A set of mechanical shovels that prepare soil for planting without causing a hardpan typical of rototiller tilling
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/spader.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Microcombine'''
! A small-scale harvester-thresher for mechanical harvesting of any grain crops, with a cutting swath of about 3 feet in width
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/microcombine.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Universal Rotor]]'''
! A tractor-mounted rotor that can be fitted with a wide array of toolheads, such as string trimmer, posthole digger, tree planting auger, slurry mixer, and many others
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-rotor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Baler]]'''
! A device that compresses hay and other light and dispersed materials into more compact bales
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/baler.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Hay Rake'''
! A mechanical implement for a tractor that rakes hay or other light materials into windrows or other formations for drying or baling
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hay-rake.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Hay Cutter]]'''
! A device that cuts grass, hay, straw, or other light biomass for haying, baling, or combining
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hay-cutter.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Backhoe]]'''
! A piece of excavating equipment or digger consisting of a digging bucket on the end of a two-part articulated arm for digging trenches or large holes
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/backhoe.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Chipper/Hammermill'''
! A machine used for reducing wood or other materials into smaller parts, such as chips or shreds
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/chipper-hammermill.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Trencher]]'''
! A piece of construction equipment that uses a cutting wheel for digging trenches, laying pipe, cable, or drainage
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/trencher.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Open Source Car]]'''
! A wheeled motor vehicle for transporting people
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/automobile.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Open Source Truck'''
! A larger version of an automobile with a bed for trasporting loads
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/truck.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Sawmill|Dimensional Sawmill]]'''
! A dimensional sawmill is a circular blade sawmill with 2 blades that is used for producing dimensional lumber in one pass
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/sawmill.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Cement Mixer]]'''
! A device that homogeneously combines cement, aggregate such as sand or gravel, and water to form concrete
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/cement-mixer.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Well-drilling Rig]]'''
! A device for digging deep water wells
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/well-drilling-rig.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Bakery Oven'''
! A device for heating various forms of dough into breads and other baked goods
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/industrial-bread-oven.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Dairy Milker'''
! A device which harvests milk automatically from milk-producing livestock
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/milking-machine.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Electric Motor/Generator'''
! A device that functions as a motor when energized with a voltage, which can also function as an electrical generator when it is spun.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/electric-motor-generator.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Hydraulic Motors'''
! A mechanical actuator that converts high-pressure fluid flow into rotation
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hydraulic-motor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Bioplastic Extruder]]'''
! An extruder takes a charge of plastic and extrudes a sheet or other profile of useful form, such as greenhouse glazing or water tubing
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/plastic-extruder.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Universal Power Supply'''
! This is a combination power supply for applications from off-grid power to supplying power to welders, induction furnaces, and plasma cutters.
!http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-power-supply.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Nickel Iron Batteries]]'''
! Long-life batteries that have a track record of lasting 50 or more years
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/nickel-iron-batteries.png
!

|-align="left"
! Drill press
!
! [[File:Multimachineicon.jpg|100px]]
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/drill-press/ drill-press]
!
! [[:Category: Drill Press]]
|-
|}

===Want to add another tool?===
If you think another technology belongs on the GVCS list, follow this procedure -
#Read the [[OSE Specifications]] and answer the [[OSE Specifications#Questionnaire|questionnaire]].
#If the tool scores highly on the questionnaire and meets most of the OSE specifications, start a thread on the [http://openfarmtech.org/forum/ forum] with a title beginning "Proposed Tool:" (e.g. "Proposed Tool: Washing Machine"). You may be challenged, and will have to convince the community that it is realistic and worth pursuing.
#If the consensus on the forum is in favor of adding the tool to the GVCS, feel free to edit the list above to add the new tool
#By proposing the tool, you take responsibility for it. You become project manager for that tool, and will have to build and prototype it yourself, or else recruit and manage someone who can.

====Proposed tools====
*'''Loader''' - an attachment for the [[LifeTrac]] tractor
*'''Village-scale washing machine''' - powered by the universal rotor
*'''Fridge''' - see the page on [[refrigeration]]
*'''Reversible heat pump''' - for controlling the temperature of homes and greenhouses, refrigerating food and medicine, harnessing solar and geothermal heat
*'''[[Stirling engine]]''' - transforms heat into mechanical energy
*'''[[Spectrometer]]''' and '''computer oscilloscope''' - adding these to the GVCS would form a complete Fab Lab. Most of the work will be done by other open-source groups.
*'''[[Juice Press]]''' - A juice press powered by the [[Power Cube]].
*'''[[Log Splitter]]''' - A log splitter powered by the [[Power Cube]].

== Videos ==

See a 2 minute video explainer about the GVCS:

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* [[H+ Presentation]]
* Overview presentation at [[Linz Slides]]

See latest presentation on the GVCS (as of June, 2010)
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Economy creates culture and culture creates politics. The politics we seek are freedom, voluntary contract, and human evolution in harmony with life support systems. Note that resource conflicts and overpopulation are eliminated by design. We are after the creation of new society, one which has learned from the past and moves forward with ancient wisdom and modern technology.

This is a real experiment, and product selection is based on us living with the given technologies. First, it is the development of real, economically significant hardware, product, and engineering. Second, this entire set is being compiled into one setting, and land is being populated with the respective productive agents. The aim is to define a new form of social organization where it is possible to create advanced culture, thriving in abundance and largely autonomous, on the scale of a village, not nation or state.

Here is a talk by [[Marcin Jakubowski]] on the GVCS at the 4th Oekonux Conference. <html>You can download the slides and see a transcript <a href="http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Oekonux_4" target="_blank">here</a>.

First is an introduction by Franz Nahrada, leader of the <a href="http://globalvillages.ning.com/" target="_blank">Globally Integrated Village Environment</a>:<br>

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A video presentation on the [[first year at Factor e Farm]] and the GVCS from 2007-2008 [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-710075551990473235#20m24s here].

And you can also view a GVCS [[UM_Presentation|slide show presentation]] for more information.

=Product Selection Criteria=

See [[OSE Specifications]]

=Enterprise Community Contract=

We are proposing the formation of Global Villages in the form of productive enterprise communities that strive for unprecedented quality of life:
* material abundance
* freedom from bureacracy and unnecessary activity
* total focus on one's true interests

For our particular OSE prototype implementation, we are interested in the following general essence of an ''Enterprise Community Contract'':

* 2 hours of productive activity daily, such that 100% of the community's food, energy, housing, transportation, and technology essentials are produced for subsistence, with surplus production for market
** Agriculture base follows permaculture design, and includes production of water soluble organic fertilizer, orchard, nursery, and crops, as well as certain food processing and value added propositions
** Flexible fabrication produces advanced technologies ''at the cost of materials''
** Cost of living is reduced dramatically, from $20,000/year in the industrialized world, to negligible income requirements, under the assumption of high-tech self-providing
* Each participant undertakes a study program of full stewardship of the community, including:
** Agricultural production capacity
** Technological literacy to operate and maintain flex fab equipment and other machinery
** Numeracy to facilitate design
** Study of the mind and body to expand one's consciousness, skills, and abilities, and to disseminate such human augmentation widely towards eliminating mind control of the masses
* Entry of new people can be negotiated by the new participants providing skills and productive contribution to the community
* Beyond the 2 hour requirement, participants follow a research lifestyle to promote further development of the community or of the greater world

= Enabling Technology - Salient Features of Technology Base =

Without going into details, the main features for the comprehensive technology base are:

* ''Hybridization of power devices'' - decoupling of power source from the working unit in order to produce electrical drive is a formula for increasing integrated efficiency of electromechanical devices such as electric [[vehicle]]s, tools, heavy equipment, etc. For example, the hybrid car decouples the engine from its wheels by using an electrical generator to feed electric wheel motors. Note that this eliminates the clutch, transmission, crank case and its oil, differential, drive train, and other parts, and replaces these items with electric wire from the generator to electric motor. This is a huge efficiency leap, one in fuel efficiency, and two, in eliminating billions of dollars of industry which is outdated today due to the hybridization option. As such, we can talk of complex machines with huge simplification, assuming easy access to infinitely scaleable and controllable, low cost electric motors (these do not exist today). For example, we can envision an agricultural combine where each moving part is powered by its own electric motor - producing a leap in simplification and maintenance of the overall machine - as all belts, pulleys, gears, and other power transmission components driven by a single engine - are all replaced by electric wire. One can point to many examples where such strategy would provide leapfrog advance in device simplicity and maintenance.

* ''Solar turbine power generation including heat storage - look at [[Solar Turbine CHP System]]

* ''Open source fab lab'' - combine and expand the [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/multimachine/Multimachine] with xyz table as in RepRap (http://reprap.org/), and you can envision a robust fabrication device that integrates open source computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM). This device would perform a large variety of machining and fabrication operations, and would be producible at the cost of materials if metal casting is available. When deployed, we are talking of '''''producing any advanced object or device at the cost of materials'''''. ''Would you like to fabricate an electric motor for your personal transport vehicle? Here, I'll email you a file to make on your local village fabber''. In practice, one could conceptualize a single or several Multimachines, with their milling-drilling-lathing functions, surrounding an xyz motion platform with interchangeable heads. These heads could include acetylene torch attachment, plasma cutter, CO2 laser, router, hot wire, or additive heads such as a plastic extruder found in RepRap. This overall fab lab concept could start with a basic machine such as the Multimachine, with computer controls and table added in time. As such, this is a realistic proposition - with supporting open source knowhow with significant advancement already available. This propels civilization to new levels of decentralized material prosperity, and implies significant reduction of resource conflicts, especially if material feedstocks are sourced locally - as in the next point.

Here is an initial Fab Lab design:
[[Image:Fab_Lab.jpg]]

Here is a sample Product Matrix that falls right out of Fab Lab capacities:
[[Image:Product_Matrix.jpg]]

* ''Production of local feedstocks''-
** Wood and structural masonry compressed earth block (CEB) for construction - produced from on-site trees and soils
** [[Compressed Fuel Gas]] for cooking or melting metal - gas produced from trees
** [[Bioplastics]] - such as cellophane from trees
** Biofuels - [[Fuel Alcohol]] in temperate zones, palm oil in tropical zones
** Industrial detritus (waste materials) processing - includes [[Metal Casting and Extrusion]] or [[Plastic Extrusion & Molding]]
** [[Aluminum Extraction From Clays]]

= Sample Scenario =

Imagine a village with buildings of dirt (CEB) with year-round [[Greenhouses|greenhouses]] (sawmill, CEB, bioplastics from local trees), with all facility energy produced by a solar turbine, where people drive hybrid cars with car bodies (bioplastics) made from local weeds, with critical motors and metal structures (aluminum) extracted from on-site clay, which are fueled by alcohol produced on-site, on a wireless network linked to the greater world. That's just a sampling of the technology base. Food, energy, housing sufficiency. There are no poor among us - because we are all evolving human beings and farmer scientists.

= Development process =
[[GVCS Development Template]]

[[Product Cycle]]

[[Image:Engineering_Strategy.jpg]]

= Definition of Open Source Hardware and OSE Specifications =

See the updated entry for OSE Spec [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=OSE_Specifications here].

We like to be clear about the meaning of ''open,'' or ''open source,''' as used in this work for items of physical production. By ''open source,'' we mean documented to the point where one may replicate a given item, ''without even consulting with the developers.'' To us, this embodies the most complete form of documentation possible, where sufficient detail is provided to enable independent replication. This is ''open source'' embodied in ''OSE Specifications''. Other features of OSE Specificationsare:

# Freely downloadable documentation
# DfD, lifetime design
# Simplicity and low cost are of prime importance
# Replaceable components
# Modular Design
# Scaleability
# Localization
## Level 1 - product fabrication or production is local
## Level 2 - material sourcing is local
# Product evolution - phases and versions are pursued
# Concrete Flexible Fabrication mechanism exists for others to purchase the product at reasonable cost
# Open franchising - replicable enterprise design is available, and training exists for entrepreneurs

Thus, these features are meant to promote ''[http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/dn/vol4/fotopoulos_technology.htm#_ftn2 liberatory technology]'' - open, replicable, essential, optimal, and ecological goods and services for humankind living in harmony with natural life support systems.

= Working Assumptions =

Here is a partial list of assumptions that we are making as we go about the development work of this wiki. These assumptions help one to understand our motivations and approach.
# Civilization are shaped by their resource base. The resource base is what gives people power. By controlling others through an economic or social hierarchy, we can control resources, and thus gain power. Resource conflicts occur because people have not yet learned to manage resources without stealing. Society has not transcended the brute struggle for survival. We remain on the bottom steps of Maslow's pyramid. Transcending resource conflicts by creating abundance, first for hundreds, then for thousands of people, is now possible if knowledge flows openly and advanced technology is applied to produce goods.
# Today, most humans are controlled not by a commercial force (armies) but by information and social engineering that feeds the commerce itself. Understanding means of social control; understanding the mechanics of one's mind, body, and spirit; learning to discern mechanics of mind control and propaganda as they are used in controlling agendas; and applying learnings to meditation, expansion of consciousness, and evolution of one's awareness and powers are all crucial if civilization is to escape the control of commercialism and is to give up its dependence on a centralized, planned economy.
# Said propaganda and conditioning has successfully removed the notion of self-sufficiency as a viable means of livelihood. Most people are afraid of self-sufficiency and consider it a return to the stone age. Most people cannot envision that advanced civilization can be created in small (100-1000 person), self-sufficient, highly skilled communities. Furthermore, most people do not realize that it is possible to educate, skill, and evolve human beings such that an integrated, self-sufficient lifestyle option that promotes advanced civilization on a small scale of human organization is created. It it possible to achieve this level of excellence if people are taught real knowledge and wisdom, as opposed to undergoing global workforce training.
# Education curricula have typically deleted practical applications deliberately, to produce subjects of the global workforce. If education is reinstated then self-sufficiency will emerge as a natural option.
# Self-sufficiency is not an antisocial behavior, but a means to full individual and community accountability for resource conflicts, foul politics, and other corruptions of large-scale endeavors. (review works of Gandhi, Schumacher, Fuller) Self-sufficiency is a means to highest quality life by definition, one is in control of one's destiny when one is self-sufficient. The assumption of self-sufficiency is that its practitioners must be highly skilled, and not products of centralist education.
# By self-sufficient, we mean in full control of providing one's needs. Note that self-sufficiency refers to needs - those things that allow one to survive in absolute health - and not wants. Self-sufficiency does not imply a solo, isolationist endeavor. Self-sufficiency may be accomplished with the help of as many people as it is possible to maintain full accountability, transparency, and sound ethics within that group. This group may be dispersed globally. Historically, sociology of human settlements has shown that this scale of self-sufficiency is a few hundred people. (see E.F. Schumacher; other references)
# The State promotes well-paid incompetence, largely through specialization, such that subjects produce sufficient surplus to pay for their own oppression.
# Education, media, and social engineering programs have subjugated human integrity to passive consumerism, with its related problems (resource conflicts, loss of freedom such as wage slavery). The only way out of this is creating a framework within which humans can prosper: provision of true education, learning of practical skills, stewardship of land, advanced technology for the people, and open access to economically significant know-how.
# Import substitution is reducing dependence on external feedstocks and replacing them with local ones. People in control of their resources control their own destiny. Thus, to localize the essential parts of an economy completely is the prime formula for social stability. Localization should not be considered a struggle, but merely a possibility. It is a possibility that is not recognized because most people, as specialists, lack integrated technical literacy and skills that make a local economy feasible.

= See also =

* [[Product Ecologies]] - illustrates how the different components of the GVCS relate with one another

[[Category: GVCS]]

Global Village Construction Set

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/></div>'''See http://opensourceecology.org for the official definition of the [http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs.php 50 GVCS Tools].'''

The ideas that guide the GVCS are:

'''Open Source''' - we freely publish our 3d designs, schematics, instructional videos, budgets, and product manuals on our open source wiki and we harness open collaboration with technical contributors.

'''Low-Cost''' - The cost of making or buying our machines are, on average, 8x cheaper than buying from an Industrial Manufacturer, including an average labor cost of $15 hour for a GVCS fabricator.

'''Modular''' - Motors, parts, assemblies, and power units can interchange, where units can be grouped together to diversify the functionality that is achievable from a small set of units.

'''User-Serviceable''' - Design-for-disassembly allows the user to take apart, maintain, and fix tools readily without the need to rely on expensive repairmen.

'''DIY''' - (do-it-yourself) The user gains control of designing, producing, and modifying the GVCS tool set.

'''Closed Loop Manufacturing''' - Metal is an essential component of advanced civilization, and our platform allows for recycling metal into virgin feedstock for producing further GVCS technologies - thereby allowing for cradle-to-cradle manufacturing cycles

'''High Performance''' - Performance standards must match or exceed those of industrial counterparts for the GVCS to be viable.

'''Flexible Fabrication''' - It has been demonstrated that the flexible use of generalized machinery in appropriate-scale production is a viable alternative to centralized production.

'''Distributive Economics''' - We encourage the replication of enterprises that derive from the GVCS platform as a route to truly free enterprise - along the ideals of Jeffersonian democracy.

'''Industrial Efficiency''' - In order to provide a viable choice for a resilient lifestyle, the GVCS platform matches or exceeds productivity standards of industrial counterparts.

==The tools==
{| style="width:100%;" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1" align="left"
! TOOL
! DESCRIPTION
! IMAGE
! STATUS
! FORUM DISCUSSION
! BLOG
! OTHER WIKI ARTICLES
|-
! '''[[CEB Press]]'''
! A high-performance Compresssed Earth Block press. Compresssed Earth Block building is the highest quality natural building method. The page [[CEB intro]] contains introductory information on compressed earth blocks
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/compressed-earth-brick-press.png
! <font color=green>COMPLETE AND TESTED!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/ceb-press/ ceb-press]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/compressed-earth-block-press/ compressed-earth-block-press]
! [[:Category: CEB]]
|-align="left"
! '''[[LifeTrac|Tractor]]'''
! A versatile, 4-wheel drive, hydraulically-driven, skid-steering tractor with 18 to 200 horsepower capacity for agriculture, construction and other utility duties.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/lifetrac.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/lifetrac/ lifetrac]
!
! [[:Category: LifeTrac]]

|-align="left"
! '''[[Microtractor]]'''
! a small, 18 hp version of the full-sized tractor for powering a wide range of implements in agricultural and utility duties
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/microtrac.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>

|-align="left"
! '''[[Bulldozer]]'''
! A high-traction, heavy earth-moving machine indispensible for building ponds, berms, and other permacultural earthforms, as well as for other tasks such as building roads or clearing land
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/bulldozer.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Power Cube]]'''
! A multipurpose, self-contained, hydraulic power power unit that consisting of an engine coupled to a hydraulic pump
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/powercube.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/power-cube/ power-cube]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/power-cube/ power-cube]
! [[:Category: Power Cube]]

|-align="left"
! '''CNC Precision Multimachine'''
! A multipurpose, precision CNC machining and metal cutting device for milling, lathing, drilling to make precision parts; includes surface grinding and cold-cut metal sawing
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/multimachine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Ironworker Machine'''
! A device that can instantly cut steel and punch holes in metal one inch thick
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/ironworker.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''CNC Torch/Router Table'''
! A computer-controlled cutting table for metal where a moving torch head is used to produce precision metal parts in a fraction of the time that it takes to do so manually
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/torch-table.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>

|-align="left"
! '''3D Printer'''
! An additive manufacturing technology where a three dimensional object is printed by laying down successive layers of material, just like a printer except in 3D
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-printer.png
! <font color=green>COMPLETE AND TESTED!</font>

|-align="left"
! '''3D Scanner'''
! A device that can generate a 3D digital scan from a real-life object, where the file can be used to reproduce the object in 3D with a device such as the 3D printer or CNC Precision Multimachine
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-scanner.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[CNC Circuit Mill]]'''
! A computer-controlled device that can produce electrical circuits by milling and drilling on copper-clad circuit boards
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/circuit-mill.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Industrial Robot]]'''
! A robotic arm which can perform certain human tasks - such as welding or milling – for performing tasks that are not better done by humans
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/robotic-arm.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Laser Cutter]]'''
! An industrial machine that can make precision, finish cuts in a wide array of substrates, such as metal, wood, or plastic
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/laser-cutter.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Open Source Welder]]'''
! A device used to make strong, permanent bonds in metal by melting and fusing the metal
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/mig-welder.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Plasma Cutter]]'''
! A device to cut metal using a plasma torch
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/plasma-cutter.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Induction Furnace]]'''
! An electrical furnace in which the heat is applied by induction heating of metal, providing clean, versatile, compact, energy-efficient, and well-controlled melting compared to flame furnaces
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/induction-furnace.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Metal Rolling'''
! A metal forming process in which metal stock is passed through a pair of rolls to produce a desired shape, such as flat bar, angle, or u-channel
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/metal-rolling-machine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Rod and Wire Mill'''
! A subset of metal rolling, used to make shafts, rebar, thin rods, and down to wire.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/wire-n-rod-mill.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Press Forge'''
! A device for shaping metal by the application of a shaping die and a continuous pressure or force.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/forge.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Modern Steam Engine]]'''
! A modern engine where an external heat source is used to turn water into steam, and the steam in turn moves reciprocating pistons to provide shaft power
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/steam-engine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Gasifier burner'''
! A clean and efficient burner that gasifies the material that is being burned prior to combustion
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/gasifier-burner.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Steam Generator]]'''
! A device that generates steam from water that is passed through externally-heated coils
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/steam-generator.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Solar Concentrator'''
! An array of mirrors to concentrate sunlight so it can boil water and drive a steam engine.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/solar-concentrator.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Wind Turbine]]'''
! A device that produces electrical power from wind energy
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/wind-turbine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Aluminum Extractor from Clay'''
! A device that produces aluminum from clay by dissolving the aluminum from aluminosilicate (clay), and then electrolyzing the resulting compound to form pure aluminum
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/alluminum-extractor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Pelletizer]]'''
! A device that compresses shredded pieces of biomass or other substances to compact, flowable pellets
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/pelletizer.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Universal Seeder'''
! A tractor-pulled seeder than can plant any seed, from small seeds like clover to large seeds such as potatoes
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-seeder.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Rototiller]] and [[Soil Pulverizer]]'''
! A tractor implement that tills soil with blades via rotary action
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/pulverizer-tiller.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Spader]]'''
! A set of mechanical shovels that prepare soil for planting without causing a hardpan typical of rototiller tilling
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/spader.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Microcombine'''
! A small-scale harvester-thresher for mechanical harvesting of any grain crops, with a cutting swath of about 3 feet in width
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/microcombine.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Universal Rotor]]'''
! A tractor-mounted rotor that can be fitted with a wide array of toolheads, such as string trimmer, posthole digger, tree planting auger, slurry mixer, and many others
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-rotor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Baler]]'''
! A device that compresses hay and other light and dispersed materials into more compact bales
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/baler.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Hay Rake'''
! A mechanical implement for a tractor that rakes hay or other light materials into windrows or other formations for drying or baling
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hay-rake.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Hay Cutter]]'''
! A device that cuts grass, hay, straw, or other light biomass for haying, baling, or combining
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hay-cutter.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Backhoe]]'''
! A piece of excavating equipment or digger consisting of a digging bucket on the end of a two-part articulated arm for digging trenches or large holes
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/backhoe.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Chipper/Hammermill'''
! A machine used for reducing wood or other materials into smaller parts, such as chips or shreds
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/chipper-hammermill.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Trencher]]'''
! A piece of construction equipment that uses a cutting wheel for digging trenches, laying pipe, cable, or drainage
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/trencher.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Open Source Car]]'''
! A wheeled motor vehicle for transporting people
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/automobile.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Open Source Truck'''
! A larger version of an automobile with a bed for trasporting loads
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/truck.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Sawmill|Dimensional Sawmill]]'''
! A dimensional sawmill is a circular blade sawmill with 2 blades that is used for producing dimensional lumber in one pass
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/sawmill.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Cement Mixer]]'''
! A device that homogeneously combines cement, aggregate such as sand or gravel, and water to form concrete
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/cement-mixer.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Well-drilling Rig]]'''
! A device for digging deep water wells
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/well-drilling-rig.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Bakery Oven'''
! A device for heating various forms of dough into breads and other baked goods
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/industrial-bread-oven.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Dairy Milker'''
! A device which harvests milk automatically from milk-producing livestock
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/milking-machine.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Electric Motor/Generator'''
! A device that functions as a motor when energized with a voltage, which can also function as an electrical generator when it is spun.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/electric-motor-generator.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Hydraulic Motors'''
! A mechanical actuator that converts high-pressure fluid flow into rotation
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hydraulic-motor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Bioplastic Extruder]]'''
! An extruder takes a charge of plastic and extrudes a sheet or other profile of useful form, such as greenhouse glazing or water tubing
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/plastic-extruder.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Universal Power Supply'''
! This is a combination power supply for applications from off-grid power to supplying power to welders, induction furnaces, and plasma cutters.
!http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-power-supply.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Nickel Iron Batteries]]'''
! Long-life batteries that have a track record of lasting 50 or more years
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/nickel-iron-batteries.png
!

|-align="left"
! Drill press
!
! [[File:Multimachineicon.jpg|100px]]
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/drill-press/ drill-press]
!
! [[:Category: Drill Press]]
|-
|}

===Want to add another tool?===
If you think another technology belongs on the GVCS list, follow this procedure -
#Read the [[OSE Specifications]] and answer the [[OSE Specifications#Questionnaire|questionnaire]].
#If the tool scores highly on the questionnaire and meets most of the OSE specifications, start a thread on the [http://openfarmtech.org/forum/ forum] with a title beginning "Proposed Tool:" (e.g. "Proposed Tool: Washing Machine"). You may be challenged, and will have to convince the community that it is realistic and worth pursuing.
#If the consensus on the forum is in favor of adding the tool to the GVCS, feel free to edit the list above to add the new tool
#By proposing the tool, you take responsibility for it. You become project manager for that tool, and will have to build and prototype it yourself, or else recruit and manage someone who can.

====Proposed tools====
*'''Loader''' - an attachment for the [[LifeTrac]] tractor
*'''Village-scale washing machine''' - powered by the universal rotor
*'''Fridge''' - see the page on [[refrigeration]]
*'''Reversible heat pump''' - for controlling the temperature of homes and greenhouses, refrigerating food and medicine, harnessing solar and geothermal heat
*'''[[Stirling engine]]''' - transforms heat into mechanical energy
*'''[[Spectrometer]]''' and '''computer oscilloscope''' - adding these to the GVCS would form a complete Fab Lab. Most of the work will be done by other open-source groups.
*'''[[Juice Press]]''' - A juice press powered by the [[Power Cube]].
*'''[[Log Splitter]]''' - A log splitter powered by the [[Power Cube]].

== Videos ==

See a 2 minute video explainer about the GVCS:

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* [[H+ Presentation]]
* Overview presentation at [[Linz Slides]]

See latest presentation on the GVCS (as of June, 2010)
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Economy creates culture and culture creates politics. The politics we seek are freedom, voluntary contract, and human evolution in harmony with life support systems. Note that resource conflicts and overpopulation are eliminated by design. We are after the creation of new society, one which has learned from the past and moves forward with ancient wisdom and modern technology.

This is a real experiment, and product selection is based on us living with the given technologies. First, it is the development of real, economically significant hardware, product, and engineering. Second, this entire set is being compiled into one setting, and land is being populated with the respective productive agents. The aim is to define a new form of social organization where it is possible to create advanced culture, thriving in abundance and largely autonomous, on the scale of a village, not nation or state.

Here is a talk by [[Marcin Jakubowski]] on the GVCS at the 4th Oekonux Conference. <html>You can download the slides and see a transcript <a href="http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Oekonux_4" target="_blank">here</a>.

First is an introduction by Franz Nahrada, leader of the <a href="http://globalvillages.ning.com/" target="_blank">Globally Integrated Village Environment</a>:<br>

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A video presentation on the [[first year at Factor e Farm]] and the GVCS from 2007-2008 [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-710075551990473235#20m24s here].

And you can also view a GVCS [[UM_Presentation|slide show presentation]] for more information.

=Product Selection Criteria=

See [[OSE Specifications]]

=Enterprise Community Contract=

We are proposing the formation of Global Villages in the form of productive enterprise communities that strive for unprecedented quality of life:
* material abundance
* freedom from bureacracy and unnecessary activity
* total focus on one's true interests

For our particular OSE prototype implementation, we are interested in the following general essence of an ''Enterprise Community Contract'':

* 2 hours of productive activity daily, such that 100% of the community's food, energy, housing, transportation, and technology essentials are produced for subsistence, with surplus production for market
** Agriculture base follows permaculture design, and includes production of water soluble organic fertilizer, orchard, nursery, and crops, as well as certain food processing and value added propositions
** Flexible fabrication produces advanced technologies ''at the cost of materials''
** Cost of living is reduced dramatically, from $20,000/year in the industrialized world, to negligible income requirements, under the assumption of high-tech self-providing
* Each participant undertakes a study program of full stewardship of the community, including:
** Agricultural production capacity
** Technological literacy to operate and maintain flex fab equipment and other machinery
** Numeracy to facilitate design
** Study of the mind and body to expand one's consciousness, skills, and abilities, and to disseminate such human augmentation widely towards eliminating mind control of the masses
* Entry of new people can be negotiated by the new participants providing skills and productive contribution to the community
* Beyond the 2 hour requirement, participants follow a research lifestyle to promote further development of the community or of the greater world

= Enabling Technology - Salient Features of Technology Base =

Without going into details, the main features for the comprehensive technology base are:

* ''Hybridization of power devices'' - decoupling of power source from the working unit in order to produce electrical drive is a formula for increasing integrated efficiency of electromechanical devices such as electric [[vehicle]]s, tools, heavy equipment, etc. For example, the hybrid car decouples the engine from its wheels by using an electrical generator to feed electric wheel motors. Note that this eliminates the clutch, transmission, crank case and its oil, differential, drive train, and other parts, and replaces these items with electric wire from the generator to electric motor. This is a huge efficiency leap, one in fuel efficiency, and two, in eliminating billions of dollars of industry which is outdated today due to the hybridization option. As such, we can talk of complex machines with huge simplification, assuming easy access to infinitely scaleable and controllable, low cost electric motors (these do not exist today). For example, we can envision an agricultural combine where each moving part is powered by its own electric motor - producing a leap in simplification and maintenance of the overall machine - as all belts, pulleys, gears, and other power transmission components driven by a single engine - are all replaced by electric wire. One can point to many examples where such strategy would provide leapfrog advance in device simplicity and maintenance.

* ''Solar turbine power generation including heat storage - look at [[Solar Turbine CHP System]]

* ''Open source fab lab'' - combine and expand the [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/multimachine/Multimachine] with xyz table as in RepRap (http://reprap.org/), and you can envision a robust fabrication device that integrates open source computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM). This device would perform a large variety of machining and fabrication operations, and would be producible at the cost of materials if metal casting is available. When deployed, we are talking of '''''producing any advanced object or device at the cost of materials'''''. ''Would you like to fabricate an electric motor for your personal transport vehicle? Here, I'll email you a file to make on your local village fabber''. In practice, one could conceptualize a single or several Multimachines, with their milling-drilling-lathing functions, surrounding an xyz motion platform with interchangeable heads. These heads could include acetylene torch attachment, plasma cutter, CO2 laser, router, hot wire, or additive heads such as a plastic extruder found in RepRap. This overall fab lab concept could start with a basic machine such as the Multimachine, with computer controls and table added in time. As such, this is a realistic proposition - with supporting open source knowhow with significant advancement already available. This propels civilization to new levels of decentralized material prosperity, and implies significant reduction of resource conflicts, especially if material feedstocks are sourced locally - as in the next point.

Here is an initial Fab Lab design:
[[Image:Fab_Lab.jpg]]

Here is a sample Product Matrix that falls right out of Fab Lab capacities:
[[Image:Product_Matrix.jpg]]

* ''Production of local feedstocks''-
** Wood and structural masonry compressed earth block (CEB) for construction - produced from on-site trees and soils
** [[Compressed Fuel Gas]] for cooking or melting metal - gas produced from trees
** [[Bioplastics]] - such as cellophane from trees
** Biofuels - [[Fuel Alcohol]] in temperate zones, palm oil in tropical zones
** Industrial detritus (waste materials) processing - includes [[Metal Casting and Extrusion]] or [[Plastic Extrusion & Molding]]
** [[Aluminum Extraction From Clays]]

= Sample Scenario =

Imagine a village with buildings of dirt (CEB) with year-round [[Greenhouses|greenhouses]] (sawmill, CEB, bioplastics from local trees), with all facility energy produced by a solar turbine, where people drive hybrid cars with car bodies (bioplastics) made from local weeds, with critical motors and metal structures (aluminum) extracted from on-site clay, which are fueled by alcohol produced on-site, on a wireless network linked to the greater world. That's just a sampling of the technology base. Food, energy, housing sufficiency. There are no poor among us - because we are all evolving human beings and farmer scientists.

= Development process =
[[GVCS Development Template]]

[[Product Cycle]]

[[Image:Engineering_Strategy.jpg]]

= Definition of Open Source Hardware and OSE Specifications =

See the updated entry for OSE Spec [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=OSE_Specifications here].

We like to be clear about the meaning of ''open,'' or ''open source,''' as used in this work for items of physical production. By ''open source,'' we mean documented to the point where one may replicate a given item, ''without even consulting with the developers.'' To us, this embodies the most complete form of documentation possible, where sufficient detail is provided to enable independent replication. This is ''open source'' embodied in ''OSE Specifications''. Other features of OSE Specificationsare:

# Freely downloadable documentation
# DfD, lifetime design
# Simplicity and low cost are of prime importance
# Replaceable components
# Modular Design
# Scaleability
# Localization
## Level 1 - product fabrication or production is local
## Level 2 - material sourcing is local
# Product evolution - phases and versions are pursued
# Concrete Flexible Fabrication mechanism exists for others to purchase the product at reasonable cost
# Open franchising - replicable enterprise design is available, and training exists for entrepreneurs

Thus, these features are meant to promote ''[http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/dn/vol4/fotopoulos_technology.htm#_ftn2 liberatory technology]'' - open, replicable, essential, optimal, and ecological goods and services for humankind living in harmony with natural life support systems.

= Working Assumptions =

Here is a partial list of assumptions that we are making as we go about the development work of this wiki. These assumptions help one to understand our motivations and approach.
# Civilization are shaped by their resource base. The resource base is what gives people power. By controlling others through an economic or social hierarchy, we can control resources, and thus gain power. Resource conflicts occur because people have not yet learned to manage resources without stealing. Society has not transcended the brute struggle for survival. We remain on the bottom steps of Maslow's pyramid. Transcending resource conflicts by creating abundance, first for hundreds, then for thousands of people, is now possible if knowledge flows openly and advanced technology is applied to produce goods.
# Today, most humans are controlled not by a commercial force (armies) but by information and social engineering that feeds the commerce itself. Understanding means of social control; understanding the mechanics of one's mind, body, and spirit; learning to discern mechanics of mind control and propaganda as they are used in controlling agendas; and applying learnings to meditation, expansion of consciousness, and evolution of one's awareness and powers are all crucial if civilization is to escape the control of commercialism and is to give up its dependence on a centralized, planned economy.
# Said propaganda and conditioning has successfully removed the notion of self-sufficiency as a viable means of livelihood. Most people are afraid of self-sufficiency and consider it a return to the stone age. Most people cannot envision that advanced civilization can be created in small (100-1000 person), self-sufficient, highly skilled communities. Furthermore, most people do not realize that it is possible to educate, skill, and evolve human beings such that an integrated, self-sufficient lifestyle option that promotes advanced civilization on a small scale of human organization is created. It it possible to achieve this level of excellence if people are taught real knowledge and wisdom, as opposed to undergoing global workforce training.
# Education curricula have typically deleted practical applications deliberately, to produce subjects of the global workforce. If education is reinstated then self-sufficiency will emerge as a natural option.
# Self-sufficiency is not an antisocial behavior, but a means to full individual and community accountability for resource conflicts, foul politics, and other corruptions of large-scale endeavors. (review works of Gandhi, Schumacher, Fuller) Self-sufficiency is a means to highest quality life by definition, one is in control of one's destiny when one is self-sufficient. The assumption of self-sufficiency is that its practitioners must be highly skilled, and not products of centralist education.
# By self-sufficient, we mean in full control of providing one's needs. Note that self-sufficiency refers to needs - those things that allow one to survive in absolute health - and not wants. Self-sufficiency does not imply a solo, isolationist endeavor. Self-sufficiency may be accomplished with the help of as many people as it is possible to maintain full accountability, transparency, and sound ethics within that group. This group may be dispersed globally. Historically, sociology of human settlements has shown that this scale of self-sufficiency is a few hundred people. (see E.F. Schumacher; other references)
# The State promotes well-paid incompetence, largely through specialization, such that subjects produce sufficient surplus to pay for their own oppression.
# Education, media, and social engineering programs have subjugated human integrity to passive consumerism, with its related problems (resource conflicts, loss of freedom such as wage slavery). The only way out of this is creating a framework within which humans can prosper: provision of true education, learning of practical skills, stewardship of land, advanced technology for the people, and open access to economically significant know-how.
# Import substitution is reducing dependence on external feedstocks and replacing them with local ones. People in control of their resources control their own destiny. Thus, to localize the essential parts of an economy completely is the prime formula for social stability. Localization should not be considered a struggle, but merely a possibility. It is a possibility that is not recognized because most people, as specialists, lack integrated technical literacy and skills that make a local economy feasible.

= See also =

* [[Product Ecologies]] - illustrates how the different components of the GVCS relate with one another

[[Category: GVCS]]

Global Village Construction Set

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/></div>'''See http://opensourceecology.org for the official definition of the [http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs.php 50 GVCS Tools].'''

The ideas that guide the GVCS are:

'''Open Source''' - we freely publish our 3d designs, schematics, instructional videos, budgets, and product manuals on our open source wiki and we harness open collaboration with technical contributors.

'''Low-Cost''' - The cost of making or buying our machines are, on average, 8x cheaper than buying from an Industrial Manufacturer, including an average labor cost of $15 hour for a GVCS fabricator.

'''Modular''' - Motors, parts, assemblies, and power units can interchange, where units can be grouped together to diversify the functionality that is achievable from a small set of units.

'''User-Serviceable''' - Design-for-disassembly allows the user to take apart, maintain, and fix tools readily without the need to rely on expensive repairmen.

'''DIY''' - (do-it-yourself) The user gains control of designing, producing, and modifying the GVCS tool set.

'''Closed Loop Manufacturing''' - Metal is an essential component of advanced civilization, and our platform allows for recycling metal into virgin feedstock for producing further GVCS technologies - thereby allowing for cradle-to-cradle manufacturing cycles

'''High Performance''' - Performance standards must match or exceed those of industrial counterparts for the GVCS to be viable.

'''Flexible Fabrication''' - It has been demonstrated that the flexible use of generalized machinery in appropriate-scale production is a viable alternative to centralized production.

'''Distributive Economics''' - We encourage the replication of enterprises that derive from the GVCS platform as a route to truly free enterprise - along the ideals of Jeffersonian democracy.

'''Industrial Efficiency''' - In order to provide a viable choice for a resilient lifestyle, the GVCS platform matches or exceeds productivity standards of industrial counterparts.

==The tools==
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! TOOL
! DESCRIPTION
! IMAGE
! STATUS
! FORUM DISCUSSION
! BLOG
! OTHER WIKI ARTICLES
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! '''[[CEB Press]]'''
! A high-performance Compresssed Earth Block press. Compresssed Earth Block building is the highest quality natural building method. The page [[CEB intro]] contains introductory information on compressed earth blocks
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/compressed-earth-brick-press.png
! <font color=green>COMPLETE AND TESTED!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/ceb-press/ ceb-press]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/compressed-earth-block-press/ compressed-earth-block-press]
! [[:Category: CEB]]
|-align="left"
! '''[[LifeTrac|Tractor]]'''
! A versatile, 4-wheel drive, hydraulically-driven, skid-steering tractor with 18 to 200 horsepower capacity for agriculture, construction and other utility duties.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/lifetrac.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>

|-align="left"
! '''[[Microtractor]]'''
! a small, 18 hp version of the full-sized tractor for powering a wide range of implements in agricultural and utility duties
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/microtrac.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>

|-align="left"
! '''[[Bulldozer]]'''
! A high-traction, heavy earth-moving machine indispensible for building ponds, berms, and other permacultural earthforms, as well as for other tasks such as building roads or clearing land
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/bulldozer.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Power Cube]]'''
! A multipurpose, self-contained, hydraulic power power unit that consisting of an engine coupled to a hydraulic pump
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/powercube.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/power-cube/ power-cube]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/power-cube/ power-cube]
! [[:Category: Power Cube]]

|-align="left"
! '''CNC Precision Multimachine'''
! A multipurpose, precision CNC machining and metal cutting device for milling, lathing, drilling to make precision parts; includes surface grinding and cold-cut metal sawing
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/multimachine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Ironworker Machine'''
! A device that can instantly cut steel and punch holes in metal one inch thick
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/ironworker.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''CNC Torch/Router Table'''
! A computer-controlled cutting table for metal where a moving torch head is used to produce precision metal parts in a fraction of the time that it takes to do so manually
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/torch-table.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>

|-align="left"
! '''3D Printer'''
! An additive manufacturing technology where a three dimensional object is printed by laying down successive layers of material, just like a printer except in 3D
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-printer.png
! <font color=green>COMPLETE AND TESTED!</font>

|-align="left"
! '''3D Scanner'''
! A device that can generate a 3D digital scan from a real-life object, where the file can be used to reproduce the object in 3D with a device such as the 3D printer or CNC Precision Multimachine
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-scanner.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[CNC Circuit Mill]]'''
! A computer-controlled device that can produce electrical circuits by milling and drilling on copper-clad circuit boards
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/circuit-mill.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Industrial Robot]]'''
! A robotic arm which can perform certain human tasks - such as welding or milling – for performing tasks that are not better done by humans
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/robotic-arm.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Laser Cutter]]'''
! An industrial machine that can make precision, finish cuts in a wide array of substrates, such as metal, wood, or plastic
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/laser-cutter.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Open Source Welder]]'''
! A device used to make strong, permanent bonds in metal by melting and fusing the metal
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/mig-welder.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Plasma Cutter]]'''
! A device to cut metal using a plasma torch
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/plasma-cutter.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Induction Furnace]]'''
! An electrical furnace in which the heat is applied by induction heating of metal, providing clean, versatile, compact, energy-efficient, and well-controlled melting compared to flame furnaces
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/induction-furnace.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Metal Rolling'''
! A metal forming process in which metal stock is passed through a pair of rolls to produce a desired shape, such as flat bar, angle, or u-channel
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/metal-rolling-machine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Rod and Wire Mill'''
! A subset of metal rolling, used to make shafts, rebar, thin rods, and down to wire.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/wire-n-rod-mill.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Press Forge'''
! A device for shaping metal by the application of a shaping die and a continuous pressure or force.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/forge.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Modern Steam Engine]]'''
! A modern engine where an external heat source is used to turn water into steam, and the steam in turn moves reciprocating pistons to provide shaft power
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/steam-engine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Gasifier burner'''
! A clean and efficient burner that gasifies the material that is being burned prior to combustion
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/gasifier-burner.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Steam Generator]]'''
! A device that generates steam from water that is passed through externally-heated coils
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/steam-generator.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Solar Concentrator'''
! An array of mirrors to concentrate sunlight so it can boil water and drive a steam engine.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/solar-concentrator.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Wind Turbine]]'''
! A device that produces electrical power from wind energy
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/wind-turbine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Aluminum Extractor from Clay'''
! A device that produces aluminum from clay by dissolving the aluminum from aluminosilicate (clay), and then electrolyzing the resulting compound to form pure aluminum
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/alluminum-extractor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Pelletizer]]'''
! A device that compresses shredded pieces of biomass or other substances to compact, flowable pellets
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/pelletizer.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Universal Seeder'''
! A tractor-pulled seeder than can plant any seed, from small seeds like clover to large seeds such as potatoes
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-seeder.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Rototiller]] and [[Soil Pulverizer]]'''
! A tractor implement that tills soil with blades via rotary action
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/pulverizer-tiller.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Spader]]'''
! A set of mechanical shovels that prepare soil for planting without causing a hardpan typical of rototiller tilling
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/spader.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Microcombine'''
! A small-scale harvester-thresher for mechanical harvesting of any grain crops, with a cutting swath of about 3 feet in width
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/microcombine.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Universal Rotor]]'''
! A tractor-mounted rotor that can be fitted with a wide array of toolheads, such as string trimmer, posthole digger, tree planting auger, slurry mixer, and many others
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-rotor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Baler]]'''
! A device that compresses hay and other light and dispersed materials into more compact bales
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/baler.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Hay Rake'''
! A mechanical implement for a tractor that rakes hay or other light materials into windrows or other formations for drying or baling
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hay-rake.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Hay Cutter]]'''
! A device that cuts grass, hay, straw, or other light biomass for haying, baling, or combining
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hay-cutter.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Backhoe]]'''
! A piece of excavating equipment or digger consisting of a digging bucket on the end of a two-part articulated arm for digging trenches or large holes
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/backhoe.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Chipper/Hammermill'''
! A machine used for reducing wood or other materials into smaller parts, such as chips or shreds
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/chipper-hammermill.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Trencher]]'''
! A piece of construction equipment that uses a cutting wheel for digging trenches, laying pipe, cable, or drainage
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/trencher.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Open Source Car]]'''
! A wheeled motor vehicle for transporting people
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/automobile.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Open Source Truck'''
! A larger version of an automobile with a bed for trasporting loads
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/truck.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Sawmill|Dimensional Sawmill]]'''
! A dimensional sawmill is a circular blade sawmill with 2 blades that is used for producing dimensional lumber in one pass
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/sawmill.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Cement Mixer]]'''
! A device that homogeneously combines cement, aggregate such as sand or gravel, and water to form concrete
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/cement-mixer.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Well-drilling Rig]]'''
! A device for digging deep water wells
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/well-drilling-rig.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Bakery Oven'''
! A device for heating various forms of dough into breads and other baked goods
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/industrial-bread-oven.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Dairy Milker'''
! A device which harvests milk automatically from milk-producing livestock
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/milking-machine.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Electric Motor/Generator'''
! A device that functions as a motor when energized with a voltage, which can also function as an electrical generator when it is spun.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/electric-motor-generator.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Hydraulic Motors'''
! A mechanical actuator that converts high-pressure fluid flow into rotation
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hydraulic-motor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Bioplastic Extruder]]'''
! An extruder takes a charge of plastic and extrudes a sheet or other profile of useful form, such as greenhouse glazing or water tubing
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/plastic-extruder.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Universal Power Supply'''
! This is a combination power supply for applications from off-grid power to supplying power to welders, induction furnaces, and plasma cutters.
!http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-power-supply.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Nickel Iron Batteries]]'''
! Long-life batteries that have a track record of lasting 50 or more years
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/nickel-iron-batteries.png
!

|-align="left"
! Drill press
!
! [[File:Multimachineicon.jpg|100px]]
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/drill-press/ drill-press]
!
! [[:Category: Drill Press]]
|-
|}

===Want to add another tool?===
If you think another technology belongs on the GVCS list, follow this procedure -
#Read the [[OSE Specifications]] and answer the [[OSE Specifications#Questionnaire|questionnaire]].
#If the tool scores highly on the questionnaire and meets most of the OSE specifications, start a thread on the [http://openfarmtech.org/forum/ forum] with a title beginning "Proposed Tool:" (e.g. "Proposed Tool: Washing Machine"). You may be challenged, and will have to convince the community that it is realistic and worth pursuing.
#If the consensus on the forum is in favor of adding the tool to the GVCS, feel free to edit the list above to add the new tool
#By proposing the tool, you take responsibility for it. You become project manager for that tool, and will have to build and prototype it yourself, or else recruit and manage someone who can.

====Proposed tools====
*'''Loader''' - an attachment for the [[LifeTrac]] tractor
*'''Village-scale washing machine''' - powered by the universal rotor
*'''Fridge''' - see the page on [[refrigeration]]
*'''Reversible heat pump''' - for controlling the temperature of homes and greenhouses, refrigerating food and medicine, harnessing solar and geothermal heat
*'''[[Stirling engine]]''' - transforms heat into mechanical energy
*'''[[Spectrometer]]''' and '''computer oscilloscope''' - adding these to the GVCS would form a complete Fab Lab. Most of the work will be done by other open-source groups.
*'''[[Juice Press]]''' - A juice press powered by the [[Power Cube]].
*'''[[Log Splitter]]''' - A log splitter powered by the [[Power Cube]].

== Videos ==

See a 2 minute video explainer about the GVCS:

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* [[H+ Presentation]]
* Overview presentation at [[Linz Slides]]

See latest presentation on the GVCS (as of June, 2010)
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Economy creates culture and culture creates politics. The politics we seek are freedom, voluntary contract, and human evolution in harmony with life support systems. Note that resource conflicts and overpopulation are eliminated by design. We are after the creation of new society, one which has learned from the past and moves forward with ancient wisdom and modern technology.

This is a real experiment, and product selection is based on us living with the given technologies. First, it is the development of real, economically significant hardware, product, and engineering. Second, this entire set is being compiled into one setting, and land is being populated with the respective productive agents. The aim is to define a new form of social organization where it is possible to create advanced culture, thriving in abundance and largely autonomous, on the scale of a village, not nation or state.

Here is a talk by [[Marcin Jakubowski]] on the GVCS at the 4th Oekonux Conference. <html>You can download the slides and see a transcript <a href="http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Oekonux_4" target="_blank">here</a>.

First is an introduction by Franz Nahrada, leader of the <a href="http://globalvillages.ning.com/" target="_blank">Globally Integrated Village Environment</a>:<br>

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A video presentation on the [[first year at Factor e Farm]] and the GVCS from 2007-2008 [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-710075551990473235#20m24s here].

And you can also view a GVCS [[UM_Presentation|slide show presentation]] for more information.

=Product Selection Criteria=

See [[OSE Specifications]]

=Enterprise Community Contract=

We are proposing the formation of Global Villages in the form of productive enterprise communities that strive for unprecedented quality of life:
* material abundance
* freedom from bureacracy and unnecessary activity
* total focus on one's true interests

For our particular OSE prototype implementation, we are interested in the following general essence of an ''Enterprise Community Contract'':

* 2 hours of productive activity daily, such that 100% of the community's food, energy, housing, transportation, and technology essentials are produced for subsistence, with surplus production for market
** Agriculture base follows permaculture design, and includes production of water soluble organic fertilizer, orchard, nursery, and crops, as well as certain food processing and value added propositions
** Flexible fabrication produces advanced technologies ''at the cost of materials''
** Cost of living is reduced dramatically, from $20,000/year in the industrialized world, to negligible income requirements, under the assumption of high-tech self-providing
* Each participant undertakes a study program of full stewardship of the community, including:
** Agricultural production capacity
** Technological literacy to operate and maintain flex fab equipment and other machinery
** Numeracy to facilitate design
** Study of the mind and body to expand one's consciousness, skills, and abilities, and to disseminate such human augmentation widely towards eliminating mind control of the masses
* Entry of new people can be negotiated by the new participants providing skills and productive contribution to the community
* Beyond the 2 hour requirement, participants follow a research lifestyle to promote further development of the community or of the greater world

= Enabling Technology - Salient Features of Technology Base =

Without going into details, the main features for the comprehensive technology base are:

* ''Hybridization of power devices'' - decoupling of power source from the working unit in order to produce electrical drive is a formula for increasing integrated efficiency of electromechanical devices such as electric [[vehicle]]s, tools, heavy equipment, etc. For example, the hybrid car decouples the engine from its wheels by using an electrical generator to feed electric wheel motors. Note that this eliminates the clutch, transmission, crank case and its oil, differential, drive train, and other parts, and replaces these items with electric wire from the generator to electric motor. This is a huge efficiency leap, one in fuel efficiency, and two, in eliminating billions of dollars of industry which is outdated today due to the hybridization option. As such, we can talk of complex machines with huge simplification, assuming easy access to infinitely scaleable and controllable, low cost electric motors (these do not exist today). For example, we can envision an agricultural combine where each moving part is powered by its own electric motor - producing a leap in simplification and maintenance of the overall machine - as all belts, pulleys, gears, and other power transmission components driven by a single engine - are all replaced by electric wire. One can point to many examples where such strategy would provide leapfrog advance in device simplicity and maintenance.

* ''Solar turbine power generation including heat storage - look at [[Solar Turbine CHP System]]

* ''Open source fab lab'' - combine and expand the [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/multimachine/Multimachine] with xyz table as in RepRap (http://reprap.org/), and you can envision a robust fabrication device that integrates open source computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM). This device would perform a large variety of machining and fabrication operations, and would be producible at the cost of materials if metal casting is available. When deployed, we are talking of '''''producing any advanced object or device at the cost of materials'''''. ''Would you like to fabricate an electric motor for your personal transport vehicle? Here, I'll email you a file to make on your local village fabber''. In practice, one could conceptualize a single or several Multimachines, with their milling-drilling-lathing functions, surrounding an xyz motion platform with interchangeable heads. These heads could include acetylene torch attachment, plasma cutter, CO2 laser, router, hot wire, or additive heads such as a plastic extruder found in RepRap. This overall fab lab concept could start with a basic machine such as the Multimachine, with computer controls and table added in time. As such, this is a realistic proposition - with supporting open source knowhow with significant advancement already available. This propels civilization to new levels of decentralized material prosperity, and implies significant reduction of resource conflicts, especially if material feedstocks are sourced locally - as in the next point.

Here is an initial Fab Lab design:
[[Image:Fab_Lab.jpg]]

Here is a sample Product Matrix that falls right out of Fab Lab capacities:
[[Image:Product_Matrix.jpg]]

* ''Production of local feedstocks''-
** Wood and structural masonry compressed earth block (CEB) for construction - produced from on-site trees and soils
** [[Compressed Fuel Gas]] for cooking or melting metal - gas produced from trees
** [[Bioplastics]] - such as cellophane from trees
** Biofuels - [[Fuel Alcohol]] in temperate zones, palm oil in tropical zones
** Industrial detritus (waste materials) processing - includes [[Metal Casting and Extrusion]] or [[Plastic Extrusion & Molding]]
** [[Aluminum Extraction From Clays]]

= Sample Scenario =

Imagine a village with buildings of dirt (CEB) with year-round [[Greenhouses|greenhouses]] (sawmill, CEB, bioplastics from local trees), with all facility energy produced by a solar turbine, where people drive hybrid cars with car bodies (bioplastics) made from local weeds, with critical motors and metal structures (aluminum) extracted from on-site clay, which are fueled by alcohol produced on-site, on a wireless network linked to the greater world. That's just a sampling of the technology base. Food, energy, housing sufficiency. There are no poor among us - because we are all evolving human beings and farmer scientists.

= Development process =
[[GVCS Development Template]]

[[Product Cycle]]

[[Image:Engineering_Strategy.jpg]]

= Definition of Open Source Hardware and OSE Specifications =

See the updated entry for OSE Spec [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=OSE_Specifications here].

We like to be clear about the meaning of ''open,'' or ''open source,''' as used in this work for items of physical production. By ''open source,'' we mean documented to the point where one may replicate a given item, ''without even consulting with the developers.'' To us, this embodies the most complete form of documentation possible, where sufficient detail is provided to enable independent replication. This is ''open source'' embodied in ''OSE Specifications''. Other features of OSE Specificationsare:

# Freely downloadable documentation
# DfD, lifetime design
# Simplicity and low cost are of prime importance
# Replaceable components
# Modular Design
# Scaleability
# Localization
## Level 1 - product fabrication or production is local
## Level 2 - material sourcing is local
# Product evolution - phases and versions are pursued
# Concrete Flexible Fabrication mechanism exists for others to purchase the product at reasonable cost
# Open franchising - replicable enterprise design is available, and training exists for entrepreneurs

Thus, these features are meant to promote ''[http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/dn/vol4/fotopoulos_technology.htm#_ftn2 liberatory technology]'' - open, replicable, essential, optimal, and ecological goods and services for humankind living in harmony with natural life support systems.

= Working Assumptions =

Here is a partial list of assumptions that we are making as we go about the development work of this wiki. These assumptions help one to understand our motivations and approach.
# Civilization are shaped by their resource base. The resource base is what gives people power. By controlling others through an economic or social hierarchy, we can control resources, and thus gain power. Resource conflicts occur because people have not yet learned to manage resources without stealing. Society has not transcended the brute struggle for survival. We remain on the bottom steps of Maslow's pyramid. Transcending resource conflicts by creating abundance, first for hundreds, then for thousands of people, is now possible if knowledge flows openly and advanced technology is applied to produce goods.
# Today, most humans are controlled not by a commercial force (armies) but by information and social engineering that feeds the commerce itself. Understanding means of social control; understanding the mechanics of one's mind, body, and spirit; learning to discern mechanics of mind control and propaganda as they are used in controlling agendas; and applying learnings to meditation, expansion of consciousness, and evolution of one's awareness and powers are all crucial if civilization is to escape the control of commercialism and is to give up its dependence on a centralized, planned economy.
# Said propaganda and conditioning has successfully removed the notion of self-sufficiency as a viable means of livelihood. Most people are afraid of self-sufficiency and consider it a return to the stone age. Most people cannot envision that advanced civilization can be created in small (100-1000 person), self-sufficient, highly skilled communities. Furthermore, most people do not realize that it is possible to educate, skill, and evolve human beings such that an integrated, self-sufficient lifestyle option that promotes advanced civilization on a small scale of human organization is created. It it possible to achieve this level of excellence if people are taught real knowledge and wisdom, as opposed to undergoing global workforce training.
# Education curricula have typically deleted practical applications deliberately, to produce subjects of the global workforce. If education is reinstated then self-sufficiency will emerge as a natural option.
# Self-sufficiency is not an antisocial behavior, but a means to full individual and community accountability for resource conflicts, foul politics, and other corruptions of large-scale endeavors. (review works of Gandhi, Schumacher, Fuller) Self-sufficiency is a means to highest quality life by definition, one is in control of one's destiny when one is self-sufficient. The assumption of self-sufficiency is that its practitioners must be highly skilled, and not products of centralist education.
# By self-sufficient, we mean in full control of providing one's needs. Note that self-sufficiency refers to needs - those things that allow one to survive in absolute health - and not wants. Self-sufficiency does not imply a solo, isolationist endeavor. Self-sufficiency may be accomplished with the help of as many people as it is possible to maintain full accountability, transparency, and sound ethics within that group. This group may be dispersed globally. Historically, sociology of human settlements has shown that this scale of self-sufficiency is a few hundred people. (see E.F. Schumacher; other references)
# The State promotes well-paid incompetence, largely through specialization, such that subjects produce sufficient surplus to pay for their own oppression.
# Education, media, and social engineering programs have subjugated human integrity to passive consumerism, with its related problems (resource conflicts, loss of freedom such as wage slavery). The only way out of this is creating a framework within which humans can prosper: provision of true education, learning of practical skills, stewardship of land, advanced technology for the people, and open access to economically significant know-how.
# Import substitution is reducing dependence on external feedstocks and replacing them with local ones. People in control of their resources control their own destiny. Thus, to localize the essential parts of an economy completely is the prime formula for social stability. Localization should not be considered a struggle, but merely a possibility. It is a possibility that is not recognized because most people, as specialists, lack integrated technical literacy and skills that make a local economy feasible.

= See also =

* [[Product Ecologies]] - illustrates how the different components of the GVCS relate with one another

[[Category: GVCS]]

Global Village Construction Set

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/></div>'''See http://opensourceecology.org for the official definition of the [http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs.php 50 GVCS Tools].'''

The ideas that guide the GVCS are:

'''Open Source''' - we freely publish our 3d designs, schematics, instructional videos, budgets, and product manuals on our open source wiki and we harness open collaboration with technical contributors.

'''Low-Cost''' - The cost of making or buying our machines are, on average, 8x cheaper than buying from an Industrial Manufacturer, including an average labor cost of $15 hour for a GVCS fabricator.

'''Modular''' - Motors, parts, assemblies, and power units can interchange, where units can be grouped together to diversify the functionality that is achievable from a small set of units.

'''User-Serviceable''' - Design-for-disassembly allows the user to take apart, maintain, and fix tools readily without the need to rely on expensive repairmen.

'''DIY''' - (do-it-yourself) The user gains control of designing, producing, and modifying the GVCS tool set.

'''Closed Loop Manufacturing''' - Metal is an essential component of advanced civilization, and our platform allows for recycling metal into virgin feedstock for producing further GVCS technologies - thereby allowing for cradle-to-cradle manufacturing cycles

'''High Performance''' - Performance standards must match or exceed those of industrial counterparts for the GVCS to be viable.

'''Flexible Fabrication''' - It has been demonstrated that the flexible use of generalized machinery in appropriate-scale production is a viable alternative to centralized production.

'''Distributive Economics''' - We encourage the replication of enterprises that derive from the GVCS platform as a route to truly free enterprise - along the ideals of Jeffersonian democracy.

'''Industrial Efficiency''' - In order to provide a viable choice for a resilient lifestyle, the GVCS platform matches or exceeds productivity standards of industrial counterparts.

==The tools==
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! DESCRIPTION
! IMAGE
! STATUS
! FORUM DISCUSSION
! BLOG
! OTHER WIKI ARTICLES
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! '''[[CEB Press]]'''
! A high-performance Compresssed Earth Block press. Compresssed Earth Block building is the highest quality natural building method. The page [[CEB intro]] contains introductory information on compressed earth blocks
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/compressed-earth-brick-press.png
! <font color=green>COMPLETE AND TESTED!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/ceb-press/ ceb-press]
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/category/global-village-construction-set/compressed-earth-block-press/ compressed-earth-block-press]
! [[:Category: CEB]]
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! '''[[LifeTrac|Tractor]]'''
! A versatile, 4-wheel drive, hydraulically-driven, skid-steering tractor with 18 to 200 horsepower capacity for agriculture, construction and other utility duties.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/lifetrac.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>

|-align="left"
! '''[[Microtractor]]'''
! a small, 18 hp version of the full-sized tractor for powering a wide range of implements in agricultural and utility duties
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/microtrac.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>

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! '''[[Bulldozer]]'''
! A high-traction, heavy earth-moving machine indispensible for building ponds, berms, and other permacultural earthforms, as well as for other tasks such as building roads or clearing land
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/bulldozer.png
! STATUS

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! '''[[Power Cube]]'''
! A multipurpose, self-contained, hydraulic power power unit that consisting of an engine coupled to a hydraulic pump
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/powercube.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>

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! '''CNC Precision Multimachine'''
! A multipurpose, precision CNC machining and metal cutting device for milling, lathing, drilling to make precision parts; includes surface grinding and cold-cut metal sawing
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/multimachine.png
! STATUS

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! '''Ironworker Machine'''
! A device that can instantly cut steel and punch holes in metal one inch thick
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/ironworker.png
! STATUS

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! '''CNC Torch/Router Table'''
! A computer-controlled cutting table for metal where a moving torch head is used to produce precision metal parts in a fraction of the time that it takes to do so manually
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/torch-table.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>

|-align="left"
! '''3D Printer'''
! An additive manufacturing technology where a three dimensional object is printed by laying down successive layers of material, just like a printer except in 3D
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-printer.png
! <font color=green>COMPLETE AND TESTED!</font>

|-align="left"
! '''3D Scanner'''
! A device that can generate a 3D digital scan from a real-life object, where the file can be used to reproduce the object in 3D with a device such as the 3D printer or CNC Precision Multimachine
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-scanner.png
! STATUS

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! '''[[CNC Circuit Mill]]'''
! A computer-controlled device that can produce electrical circuits by milling and drilling on copper-clad circuit boards
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/circuit-mill.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Industrial Robot]]'''
! A robotic arm which can perform certain human tasks - such as welding or milling – for performing tasks that are not better done by humans
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/robotic-arm.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Laser Cutter]]'''
! An industrial machine that can make precision, finish cuts in a wide array of substrates, such as metal, wood, or plastic
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/laser-cutter.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Open Source Welder]]'''
! A device used to make strong, permanent bonds in metal by melting and fusing the metal
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/mig-welder.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Plasma Cutter]]'''
! A device to cut metal using a plasma torch
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/plasma-cutter.png
! STATUS

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! '''[[Induction Furnace]]'''
! An electrical furnace in which the heat is applied by induction heating of metal, providing clean, versatile, compact, energy-efficient, and well-controlled melting compared to flame furnaces
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/induction-furnace.png
! STATUS

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! '''Metal Rolling'''
! A metal forming process in which metal stock is passed through a pair of rolls to produce a desired shape, such as flat bar, angle, or u-channel
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/metal-rolling-machine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Rod and Wire Mill'''
! A subset of metal rolling, used to make shafts, rebar, thin rods, and down to wire.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/wire-n-rod-mill.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Press Forge'''
! A device for shaping metal by the application of a shaping die and a continuous pressure or force.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/forge.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Modern Steam Engine]]'''
! A modern engine where an external heat source is used to turn water into steam, and the steam in turn moves reciprocating pistons to provide shaft power
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/steam-engine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Gasifier burner'''
! A clean and efficient burner that gasifies the material that is being burned prior to combustion
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/gasifier-burner.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Steam Generator]]'''
! A device that generates steam from water that is passed through externally-heated coils
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/steam-generator.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Solar Concentrator'''
! An array of mirrors to concentrate sunlight so it can boil water and drive a steam engine.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/solar-concentrator.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Wind Turbine]]'''
! A device that produces electrical power from wind energy
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/wind-turbine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Aluminum Extractor from Clay'''
! A device that produces aluminum from clay by dissolving the aluminum from aluminosilicate (clay), and then electrolyzing the resulting compound to form pure aluminum
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/alluminum-extractor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Pelletizer]]'''
! A device that compresses shredded pieces of biomass or other substances to compact, flowable pellets
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/pelletizer.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Universal Seeder'''
! A tractor-pulled seeder than can plant any seed, from small seeds like clover to large seeds such as potatoes
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-seeder.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Rototiller]] and [[Soil Pulverizer]]'''
! A tractor implement that tills soil with blades via rotary action
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/pulverizer-tiller.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Spader]]'''
! A set of mechanical shovels that prepare soil for planting without causing a hardpan typical of rototiller tilling
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/spader.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Microcombine'''
! A small-scale harvester-thresher for mechanical harvesting of any grain crops, with a cutting swath of about 3 feet in width
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/microcombine.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Universal Rotor]]'''
! A tractor-mounted rotor that can be fitted with a wide array of toolheads, such as string trimmer, posthole digger, tree planting auger, slurry mixer, and many others
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-rotor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Baler]]'''
! A device that compresses hay and other light and dispersed materials into more compact bales
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/baler.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Hay Rake'''
! A mechanical implement for a tractor that rakes hay or other light materials into windrows or other formations for drying or baling
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hay-rake.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Hay Cutter]]'''
! A device that cuts grass, hay, straw, or other light biomass for haying, baling, or combining
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hay-cutter.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Backhoe]]'''
! A piece of excavating equipment or digger consisting of a digging bucket on the end of a two-part articulated arm for digging trenches or large holes
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/backhoe.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Chipper/Hammermill'''
! A machine used for reducing wood or other materials into smaller parts, such as chips or shreds
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/chipper-hammermill.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Trencher]]'''
! A piece of construction equipment that uses a cutting wheel for digging trenches, laying pipe, cable, or drainage
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/trencher.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Open Source Car]]'''
! A wheeled motor vehicle for transporting people
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/automobile.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Open Source Truck'''
! A larger version of an automobile with a bed for trasporting loads
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/truck.png
!

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! '''[[Sawmill|Dimensional Sawmill]]'''
! A dimensional sawmill is a circular blade sawmill with 2 blades that is used for producing dimensional lumber in one pass
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/sawmill.png
!

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! '''[[Cement Mixer]]'''
! A device that homogeneously combines cement, aggregate such as sand or gravel, and water to form concrete
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/cement-mixer.png
!

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! '''[[Well-drilling Rig]]'''
! A device for digging deep water wells
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/well-drilling-rig.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Bakery Oven'''
! A device for heating various forms of dough into breads and other baked goods
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/industrial-bread-oven.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Dairy Milker'''
! A device which harvests milk automatically from milk-producing livestock
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/milking-machine.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Electric Motor/Generator'''
! A device that functions as a motor when energized with a voltage, which can also function as an electrical generator when it is spun.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/electric-motor-generator.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Hydraulic Motors'''
! A mechanical actuator that converts high-pressure fluid flow into rotation
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hydraulic-motor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Bioplastic Extruder]]'''
! An extruder takes a charge of plastic and extrudes a sheet or other profile of useful form, such as greenhouse glazing or water tubing
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/plastic-extruder.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Universal Power Supply'''
! This is a combination power supply for applications from off-grid power to supplying power to welders, induction furnaces, and plasma cutters.
!http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-power-supply.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Nickel Iron Batteries]]'''
! Long-life batteries that have a track record of lasting 50 or more years
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/nickel-iron-batteries.png
!

|-align="left"
! Drill press
!
! [[File:Multimachineicon.jpg|100px]]
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>
! [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/drill-press/ drill-press]
!
! [[:Category: Drill Press]]
|-
|}

===Want to add another tool?===
If you think another technology belongs on the GVCS list, follow this procedure -
#Read the [[OSE Specifications]] and answer the [[OSE Specifications#Questionnaire|questionnaire]].
#If the tool scores highly on the questionnaire and meets most of the OSE specifications, start a thread on the [http://openfarmtech.org/forum/ forum] with a title beginning "Proposed Tool:" (e.g. "Proposed Tool: Washing Machine"). You may be challenged, and will have to convince the community that it is realistic and worth pursuing.
#If the consensus on the forum is in favor of adding the tool to the GVCS, feel free to edit the list above to add the new tool
#By proposing the tool, you take responsibility for it. You become project manager for that tool, and will have to build and prototype it yourself, or else recruit and manage someone who can.

====Proposed tools====
*'''Loader''' - an attachment for the [[LifeTrac]] tractor
*'''Village-scale washing machine''' - powered by the universal rotor
*'''Fridge''' - see the page on [[refrigeration]]
*'''Reversible heat pump''' - for controlling the temperature of homes and greenhouses, refrigerating food and medicine, harnessing solar and geothermal heat
*'''[[Stirling engine]]''' - transforms heat into mechanical energy
*'''[[Spectrometer]]''' and '''computer oscilloscope''' - adding these to the GVCS would form a complete Fab Lab. Most of the work will be done by other open-source groups.
*'''[[Juice Press]]''' - A juice press powered by the [[Power Cube]].
*'''[[Log Splitter]]''' - A log splitter powered by the [[Power Cube]].

== Videos ==

See a 2 minute video explainer about the GVCS:

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* [[H+ Presentation]]
* Overview presentation at [[Linz Slides]]

See latest presentation on the GVCS (as of June, 2010)
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Economy creates culture and culture creates politics. The politics we seek are freedom, voluntary contract, and human evolution in harmony with life support systems. Note that resource conflicts and overpopulation are eliminated by design. We are after the creation of new society, one which has learned from the past and moves forward with ancient wisdom and modern technology.

This is a real experiment, and product selection is based on us living with the given technologies. First, it is the development of real, economically significant hardware, product, and engineering. Second, this entire set is being compiled into one setting, and land is being populated with the respective productive agents. The aim is to define a new form of social organization where it is possible to create advanced culture, thriving in abundance and largely autonomous, on the scale of a village, not nation or state.

Here is a talk by [[Marcin Jakubowski]] on the GVCS at the 4th Oekonux Conference. <html>You can download the slides and see a transcript <a href="http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Oekonux_4" target="_blank">here</a>.

First is an introduction by Franz Nahrada, leader of the <a href="http://globalvillages.ning.com/" target="_blank">Globally Integrated Village Environment</a>:<br>

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A video presentation on the [[first year at Factor e Farm]] and the GVCS from 2007-2008 [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-710075551990473235#20m24s here].

And you can also view a GVCS [[UM_Presentation|slide show presentation]] for more information.

=Product Selection Criteria=

See [[OSE Specifications]]

=Enterprise Community Contract=

We are proposing the formation of Global Villages in the form of productive enterprise communities that strive for unprecedented quality of life:
* material abundance
* freedom from bureacracy and unnecessary activity
* total focus on one's true interests

For our particular OSE prototype implementation, we are interested in the following general essence of an ''Enterprise Community Contract'':

* 2 hours of productive activity daily, such that 100% of the community's food, energy, housing, transportation, and technology essentials are produced for subsistence, with surplus production for market
** Agriculture base follows permaculture design, and includes production of water soluble organic fertilizer, orchard, nursery, and crops, as well as certain food processing and value added propositions
** Flexible fabrication produces advanced technologies ''at the cost of materials''
** Cost of living is reduced dramatically, from $20,000/year in the industrialized world, to negligible income requirements, under the assumption of high-tech self-providing
* Each participant undertakes a study program of full stewardship of the community, including:
** Agricultural production capacity
** Technological literacy to operate and maintain flex fab equipment and other machinery
** Numeracy to facilitate design
** Study of the mind and body to expand one's consciousness, skills, and abilities, and to disseminate such human augmentation widely towards eliminating mind control of the masses
* Entry of new people can be negotiated by the new participants providing skills and productive contribution to the community
* Beyond the 2 hour requirement, participants follow a research lifestyle to promote further development of the community or of the greater world

= Enabling Technology - Salient Features of Technology Base =

Without going into details, the main features for the comprehensive technology base are:

* ''Hybridization of power devices'' - decoupling of power source from the working unit in order to produce electrical drive is a formula for increasing integrated efficiency of electromechanical devices such as electric [[vehicle]]s, tools, heavy equipment, etc. For example, the hybrid car decouples the engine from its wheels by using an electrical generator to feed electric wheel motors. Note that this eliminates the clutch, transmission, crank case and its oil, differential, drive train, and other parts, and replaces these items with electric wire from the generator to electric motor. This is a huge efficiency leap, one in fuel efficiency, and two, in eliminating billions of dollars of industry which is outdated today due to the hybridization option. As such, we can talk of complex machines with huge simplification, assuming easy access to infinitely scaleable and controllable, low cost electric motors (these do not exist today). For example, we can envision an agricultural combine where each moving part is powered by its own electric motor - producing a leap in simplification and maintenance of the overall machine - as all belts, pulleys, gears, and other power transmission components driven by a single engine - are all replaced by electric wire. One can point to many examples where such strategy would provide leapfrog advance in device simplicity and maintenance.

* ''Solar turbine power generation including heat storage - look at [[Solar Turbine CHP System]]

* ''Open source fab lab'' - combine and expand the [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/multimachine/Multimachine] with xyz table as in RepRap (http://reprap.org/), and you can envision a robust fabrication device that integrates open source computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM). This device would perform a large variety of machining and fabrication operations, and would be producible at the cost of materials if metal casting is available. When deployed, we are talking of '''''producing any advanced object or device at the cost of materials'''''. ''Would you like to fabricate an electric motor for your personal transport vehicle? Here, I'll email you a file to make on your local village fabber''. In practice, one could conceptualize a single or several Multimachines, with their milling-drilling-lathing functions, surrounding an xyz motion platform with interchangeable heads. These heads could include acetylene torch attachment, plasma cutter, CO2 laser, router, hot wire, or additive heads such as a plastic extruder found in RepRap. This overall fab lab concept could start with a basic machine such as the Multimachine, with computer controls and table added in time. As such, this is a realistic proposition - with supporting open source knowhow with significant advancement already available. This propels civilization to new levels of decentralized material prosperity, and implies significant reduction of resource conflicts, especially if material feedstocks are sourced locally - as in the next point.

Here is an initial Fab Lab design:
[[Image:Fab_Lab.jpg]]

Here is a sample Product Matrix that falls right out of Fab Lab capacities:
[[Image:Product_Matrix.jpg]]

* ''Production of local feedstocks''-
** Wood and structural masonry compressed earth block (CEB) for construction - produced from on-site trees and soils
** [[Compressed Fuel Gas]] for cooking or melting metal - gas produced from trees
** [[Bioplastics]] - such as cellophane from trees
** Biofuels - [[Fuel Alcohol]] in temperate zones, palm oil in tropical zones
** Industrial detritus (waste materials) processing - includes [[Metal Casting and Extrusion]] or [[Plastic Extrusion & Molding]]
** [[Aluminum Extraction From Clays]]

= Sample Scenario =

Imagine a village with buildings of dirt (CEB) with year-round [[Greenhouses|greenhouses]] (sawmill, CEB, bioplastics from local trees), with all facility energy produced by a solar turbine, where people drive hybrid cars with car bodies (bioplastics) made from local weeds, with critical motors and metal structures (aluminum) extracted from on-site clay, which are fueled by alcohol produced on-site, on a wireless network linked to the greater world. That's just a sampling of the technology base. Food, energy, housing sufficiency. There are no poor among us - because we are all evolving human beings and farmer scientists.

= Development process =
[[GVCS Development Template]]

[[Product Cycle]]

[[Image:Engineering_Strategy.jpg]]

= Definition of Open Source Hardware and OSE Specifications =

See the updated entry for OSE Spec [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=OSE_Specifications here].

We like to be clear about the meaning of ''open,'' or ''open source,''' as used in this work for items of physical production. By ''open source,'' we mean documented to the point where one may replicate a given item, ''without even consulting with the developers.'' To us, this embodies the most complete form of documentation possible, where sufficient detail is provided to enable independent replication. This is ''open source'' embodied in ''OSE Specifications''. Other features of OSE Specificationsare:

# Freely downloadable documentation
# DfD, lifetime design
# Simplicity and low cost are of prime importance
# Replaceable components
# Modular Design
# Scaleability
# Localization
## Level 1 - product fabrication or production is local
## Level 2 - material sourcing is local
# Product evolution - phases and versions are pursued
# Concrete Flexible Fabrication mechanism exists for others to purchase the product at reasonable cost
# Open franchising - replicable enterprise design is available, and training exists for entrepreneurs

Thus, these features are meant to promote ''[http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/dn/vol4/fotopoulos_technology.htm#_ftn2 liberatory technology]'' - open, replicable, essential, optimal, and ecological goods and services for humankind living in harmony with natural life support systems.

= Working Assumptions =

Here is a partial list of assumptions that we are making as we go about the development work of this wiki. These assumptions help one to understand our motivations and approach.
# Civilization are shaped by their resource base. The resource base is what gives people power. By controlling others through an economic or social hierarchy, we can control resources, and thus gain power. Resource conflicts occur because people have not yet learned to manage resources without stealing. Society has not transcended the brute struggle for survival. We remain on the bottom steps of Maslow's pyramid. Transcending resource conflicts by creating abundance, first for hundreds, then for thousands of people, is now possible if knowledge flows openly and advanced technology is applied to produce goods.
# Today, most humans are controlled not by a commercial force (armies) but by information and social engineering that feeds the commerce itself. Understanding means of social control; understanding the mechanics of one's mind, body, and spirit; learning to discern mechanics of mind control and propaganda as they are used in controlling agendas; and applying learnings to meditation, expansion of consciousness, and evolution of one's awareness and powers are all crucial if civilization is to escape the control of commercialism and is to give up its dependence on a centralized, planned economy.
# Said propaganda and conditioning has successfully removed the notion of self-sufficiency as a viable means of livelihood. Most people are afraid of self-sufficiency and consider it a return to the stone age. Most people cannot envision that advanced civilization can be created in small (100-1000 person), self-sufficient, highly skilled communities. Furthermore, most people do not realize that it is possible to educate, skill, and evolve human beings such that an integrated, self-sufficient lifestyle option that promotes advanced civilization on a small scale of human organization is created. It it possible to achieve this level of excellence if people are taught real knowledge and wisdom, as opposed to undergoing global workforce training.
# Education curricula have typically deleted practical applications deliberately, to produce subjects of the global workforce. If education is reinstated then self-sufficiency will emerge as a natural option.
# Self-sufficiency is not an antisocial behavior, but a means to full individual and community accountability for resource conflicts, foul politics, and other corruptions of large-scale endeavors. (review works of Gandhi, Schumacher, Fuller) Self-sufficiency is a means to highest quality life by definition, one is in control of one's destiny when one is self-sufficient. The assumption of self-sufficiency is that its practitioners must be highly skilled, and not products of centralist education.
# By self-sufficient, we mean in full control of providing one's needs. Note that self-sufficiency refers to needs - those things that allow one to survive in absolute health - and not wants. Self-sufficiency does not imply a solo, isolationist endeavor. Self-sufficiency may be accomplished with the help of as many people as it is possible to maintain full accountability, transparency, and sound ethics within that group. This group may be dispersed globally. Historically, sociology of human settlements has shown that this scale of self-sufficiency is a few hundred people. (see E.F. Schumacher; other references)
# The State promotes well-paid incompetence, largely through specialization, such that subjects produce sufficient surplus to pay for their own oppression.
# Education, media, and social engineering programs have subjugated human integrity to passive consumerism, with its related problems (resource conflicts, loss of freedom such as wage slavery). The only way out of this is creating a framework within which humans can prosper: provision of true education, learning of practical skills, stewardship of land, advanced technology for the people, and open access to economically significant know-how.
# Import substitution is reducing dependence on external feedstocks and replacing them with local ones. People in control of their resources control their own destiny. Thus, to localize the essential parts of an economy completely is the prime formula for social stability. Localization should not be considered a struggle, but merely a possibility. It is a possibility that is not recognized because most people, as specialists, lack integrated technical literacy and skills that make a local economy feasible.

= See also =

* [[Product Ecologies]] - illustrates how the different components of the GVCS relate with one another

[[Category: GVCS]]

User:Dave Menninger

2011-06-22T19:58:50Z

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Global Village Construction Set

2011-06-22T19:52:22Z

Dave Menninger:

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/></div>'''See http://opensourceecology.org for the official definition of the [http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs.php 50 GVCS Tools].'''

The ideas that guide the GVCS are:

'''Open Source''' - we freely publish our 3d designs, schematics, instructional videos, budgets, and product manuals on our open source wiki and we harness open collaboration with technical contributors.

'''Low-Cost''' - The cost of making or buying our machines are, on average, 8x cheaper than buying from an Industrial Manufacturer, including an average labor cost of $15 hour for a GVCS fabricator.

'''Modular''' - Motors, parts, assemblies, and power units can interchange, where units can be grouped together to diversify the functionality that is achievable from a small set of units.

'''User-Serviceable''' - Design-for-disassembly allows the user to take apart, maintain, and fix tools readily without the need to rely on expensive repairmen.

'''DIY''' - (do-it-yourself) The user gains control of designing, producing, and modifying the GVCS tool set.

'''Closed Loop Manufacturing''' - Metal is an essential component of advanced civilization, and our platform allows for recycling metal into virgin feedstock for producing further GVCS technologies - thereby allowing for cradle-to-cradle manufacturing cycles

'''High Performance''' - Performance standards must match or exceed those of industrial counterparts for the GVCS to be viable.

'''Flexible Fabrication''' - It has been demonstrated that the flexible use of generalized machinery in appropriate-scale production is a viable alternative to centralized production.

'''Distributive Economics''' - We encourage the replication of enterprises that derive from the GVCS platform as a route to truly free enterprise - along the ideals of Jeffersonian democracy.

'''Industrial Efficiency''' - In order to provide a viable choice for a resilient lifestyle, the GVCS platform matches or exceeds productivity standards of industrial counterparts.

==The tools==
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! '''[[CEB Press]]'''
! A high-performance Compresssed Earth Block press. Compresssed Earth Block building is the highest quality natural building method. The page [[CEB intro]] contains introductory information on compressed earth blocks
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/compressed-earth-brick-press.png
! <font color=green>COMPLETE AND TESTED!</font>

|-align="left"
! '''[[LifeTrac|Tractor]]'''
! A versatile, 4-wheel drive, hydraulically-driven, skid-steering tractor with 18 to 200 horsepower capacity for agriculture, construction and other utility duties.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/lifetrac.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>

|-align="left"
! '''[[Microtractor]]'''
! a small, 18 hp version of the full-sized tractor for powering a wide range of implements in agricultural and utility duties
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/microtrac.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>

|-align="left"
! '''[[Bulldozer]]'''
! A high-traction, heavy earth-moving machine indispensible for building ponds, berms, and other permacultural earthforms, as well as for other tasks such as building roads or clearing land
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/bulldozer.png
! STATUS

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! '''[[Power Cube]]'''
! A multipurpose, self-contained, hydraulic power power unit that consisting of an engine coupled to a hydraulic pump
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/powercube.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>

|-align="left"
! '''CNC Precision Multimachine'''
! A multipurpose, precision CNC machining and metal cutting device for milling, lathing, drilling to make precision parts; includes surface grinding and cold-cut metal sawing
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/multimachine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Ironworker Machine'''
! A device that can instantly cut steel and punch holes in metal one inch thick
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/ironworker.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''CNC Torch/Router Table'''
! A computer-controlled cutting table for metal where a moving torch head is used to produce precision metal parts in a fraction of the time that it takes to do so manually
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/torch-table.png
! <font color=green>PROTOTYPE COMPLETE!</font>

|-align="left"
! '''3D Printer'''
! An additive manufacturing technology where a three dimensional object is printed by laying down successive layers of material, just like a printer except in 3D
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-printer.png
! <font color=green>COMPLETE AND TESTED!</font>

|-align="left"
! '''3D Scanner'''
! A device that can generate a 3D digital scan from a real-life object, where the file can be used to reproduce the object in 3D with a device such as the 3D printer or CNC Precision Multimachine
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-scanner.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[CNC Circuit Mill]]'''
! A computer-controlled device that can produce electrical circuits by milling and drilling on copper-clad circuit boards
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/circuit-mill.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Industrial Robot]]'''
! A robotic arm which can perform certain human tasks - such as welding or milling – for performing tasks that are not better done by humans
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/robotic-arm.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Laser Cutter]]'''
! An industrial machine that can make precision, finish cuts in a wide array of substrates, such as metal, wood, or plastic
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/laser-cutter.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Open Source Welder]]'''
! A device used to make strong, permanent bonds in metal by melting and fusing the metal
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/mig-welder.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Plasma Cutter]]'''
! A device to cut metal using a plasma torch
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/plasma-cutter.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Induction Furnace]]'''
! An electrical furnace in which the heat is applied by induction heating of metal, providing clean, versatile, compact, energy-efficient, and well-controlled melting compared to flame furnaces
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/induction-furnace.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Metal Rolling'''
! A metal forming process in which metal stock is passed through a pair of rolls to produce a desired shape, such as flat bar, angle, or u-channel
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/metal-rolling-machine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Rod and Wire Mill'''
! A subset of metal rolling, used to make shafts, rebar, thin rods, and down to wire.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/wire-n-rod-mill.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Press Forge'''
! A device for shaping metal by the application of a shaping die and a continuous pressure or force.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/forge.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Modern Steam Engine]]'''
! A modern engine where an external heat source is used to turn water into steam, and the steam in turn moves reciprocating pistons to provide shaft power
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/steam-engine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Gasifier burner'''
! A clean and efficient burner that gasifies the material that is being burned prior to combustion
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/gasifier-burner.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Steam Generator]]'''
! A device that generates steam from water that is passed through externally-heated coils
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/steam-generator.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Solar Concentrator'''
! An array of mirrors to concentrate sunlight so it can boil water and drive a steam engine.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/solar-concentrator.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''[[Wind Turbine]]'''
! A device that produces electrical power from wind energy
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/wind-turbine.png
! STATUS

|-align="left"
! '''Aluminum Extractor from Clay'''
! A device that produces aluminum from clay by dissolving the aluminum from aluminosilicate (clay), and then electrolyzing the resulting compound to form pure aluminum
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/alluminum-extractor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Pelletizer]]'''
! A device that compresses shredded pieces of biomass or other substances to compact, flowable pellets
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/pelletizer.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Universal Seeder'''
! A tractor-pulled seeder than can plant any seed, from small seeds like clover to large seeds such as potatoes
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-seeder.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Rototiller]] and [[Soil Pulverizer]]'''
! A tractor implement that tills soil with blades via rotary action
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/pulverizer-tiller.png
!

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! '''[[Spader]]'''
! A set of mechanical shovels that prepare soil for planting without causing a hardpan typical of rototiller tilling
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/spader.png
!

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! '''Microcombine'''
! A small-scale harvester-thresher for mechanical harvesting of any grain crops, with a cutting swath of about 3 feet in width
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/microcombine.png
!

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! '''[[Universal Rotor]]'''
! A tractor-mounted rotor that can be fitted with a wide array of toolheads, such as string trimmer, posthole digger, tree planting auger, slurry mixer, and many others
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-rotor.png
!

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! '''[[Baler]]'''
! A device that compresses hay and other light and dispersed materials into more compact bales
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/baler.png
!

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! '''Hay Rake'''
! A mechanical implement for a tractor that rakes hay or other light materials into windrows or other formations for drying or baling
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hay-rake.png
!

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! '''[[Hay Cutter]]'''
! A device that cuts grass, hay, straw, or other light biomass for haying, baling, or combining
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hay-cutter.png
!

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! '''[[Backhoe]]'''
! A piece of excavating equipment or digger consisting of a digging bucket on the end of a two-part articulated arm for digging trenches or large holes
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/backhoe.png
!

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! '''Chipper/Hammermill'''
! A machine used for reducing wood or other materials into smaller parts, such as chips or shreds
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/chipper-hammermill.png
!

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! '''[[Trencher]]'''
! A piece of construction equipment that uses a cutting wheel for digging trenches, laying pipe, cable, or drainage
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/trencher.png
!

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! '''[[Open Source Car]]'''
! A wheeled motor vehicle for transporting people
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/automobile.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Open Source Truck'''
! A larger version of an automobile with a bed for trasporting loads
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/truck.png
!

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! '''[[Sawmill|Dimensional Sawmill]]'''
! A dimensional sawmill is a circular blade sawmill with 2 blades that is used for producing dimensional lumber in one pass
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/sawmill.png
!

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! '''[[Cement Mixer]]'''
! A device that homogeneously combines cement, aggregate such as sand or gravel, and water to form concrete
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/cement-mixer.png
!

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! '''[[Well-drilling Rig]]'''
! A device for digging deep water wells
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/well-drilling-rig.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Bakery Oven'''
! A device for heating various forms of dough into breads and other baked goods
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/industrial-bread-oven.png
!

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! '''Dairy Milker'''
! A device which harvests milk automatically from milk-producing livestock
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/milking-machine.png
!

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! '''Electric Motor/Generator'''
! A device that functions as a motor when energized with a voltage, which can also function as an electrical generator when it is spun.
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/electric-motor-generator.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Hydraulic Motors'''
! A mechanical actuator that converts high-pressure fluid flow into rotation
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/hydraulic-motor.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Bioplastic Extruder]]'''
! An extruder takes a charge of plastic and extrudes a sheet or other profile of useful form, such as greenhouse glazing or water tubing
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/plastic-extruder.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''Universal Power Supply'''
! This is a combination power supply for applications from off-grid power to supplying power to welders, induction furnaces, and plasma cutters.
!http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/universal-power-supply.png
!

|-align="left"
! '''[[Nickel Iron Batteries]]'''
! Long-life batteries that have a track record of lasting 50 or more years
! http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/nickel-iron-batteries.png
!
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===Want to add another tool?===
If you think another technology belongs on the GVCS list, follow this procedure -
#Read the [[OSE Specifications]] and answer the [[OSE Specifications#Questionnaire|questionnaire]].
#If the tool scores highly on the questionnaire and meets most of the OSE specifications, start a thread on the [http://openfarmtech.org/forum/ forum] with a title beginning "Proposed Tool:" (e.g. "Proposed Tool: Washing Machine"). You may be challenged, and will have to convince the community that it is realistic and worth pursuing.
#If the consensus on the forum is in favor of adding the tool to the GVCS, feel free to edit the list above to add the new tool
#By proposing the tool, you take responsibility for it. You become project manager for that tool, and will have to build and prototype it yourself, or else recruit and manage someone who can.

====Proposed tools====
*'''Loader''' - an attachment for the [[LifeTrac]] tractor
*'''Village-scale washing machine''' - powered by the universal rotor
*'''Fridge''' - see the page on [[refrigeration]]
*'''Reversible heat pump''' - for controlling the temperature of homes and greenhouses, refrigerating food and medicine, harnessing solar and geothermal heat
*'''[[Stirling engine]]''' - transforms heat into mechanical energy
*'''[[Spectrometer]]''' and '''computer oscilloscope''' - adding these to the GVCS would form a complete Fab Lab. Most of the work will be done by other open-source groups.
*'''[[Juice Press]]''' - A juice press powered by the [[Power Cube]].
*'''[[Log Splitter]]''' - A log splitter powered by the [[Power Cube]].

== Videos ==

See a 2 minute video explainer about the GVCS:

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* [[H+ Presentation]]
* Overview presentation at [[Linz Slides]]

See latest presentation on the GVCS (as of June, 2010)
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Economy creates culture and culture creates politics. The politics we seek are freedom, voluntary contract, and human evolution in harmony with life support systems. Note that resource conflicts and overpopulation are eliminated by design. We are after the creation of new society, one which has learned from the past and moves forward with ancient wisdom and modern technology.

This is a real experiment, and product selection is based on us living with the given technologies. First, it is the development of real, economically significant hardware, product, and engineering. Second, this entire set is being compiled into one setting, and land is being populated with the respective productive agents. The aim is to define a new form of social organization where it is possible to create advanced culture, thriving in abundance and largely autonomous, on the scale of a village, not nation or state.

Here is a talk by [[Marcin Jakubowski]] on the GVCS at the 4th Oekonux Conference. <html>You can download the slides and see a transcript <a href="http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Oekonux_4" target="_blank">here</a>.

First is an introduction by Franz Nahrada, leader of the <a href="http://globalvillages.ning.com/" target="_blank">Globally Integrated Village Environment</a>:<br>

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A video presentation on the [[first year at Factor e Farm]] and the GVCS from 2007-2008 [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-710075551990473235#20m24s here].

And you can also view a GVCS [[UM_Presentation|slide show presentation]] for more information.

=Product Selection Criteria=

See [[OSE Specifications]]

=Enterprise Community Contract=

We are proposing the formation of Global Villages in the form of productive enterprise communities that strive for unprecedented quality of life:
* material abundance
* freedom from bureacracy and unnecessary activity
* total focus on one's true interests

For our particular OSE prototype implementation, we are interested in the following general essence of an ''Enterprise Community Contract'':

* 2 hours of productive activity daily, such that 100% of the community's food, energy, housing, transportation, and technology essentials are produced for subsistence, with surplus production for market
** Agriculture base follows permaculture design, and includes production of water soluble organic fertilizer, orchard, nursery, and crops, as well as certain food processing and value added propositions
** Flexible fabrication produces advanced technologies ''at the cost of materials''
** Cost of living is reduced dramatically, from $20,000/year in the industrialized world, to negligible income requirements, under the assumption of high-tech self-providing
* Each participant undertakes a study program of full stewardship of the community, including:
** Agricultural production capacity
** Technological literacy to operate and maintain flex fab equipment and other machinery
** Numeracy to facilitate design
** Study of the mind and body to expand one's consciousness, skills, and abilities, and to disseminate such human augmentation widely towards eliminating mind control of the masses
* Entry of new people can be negotiated by the new participants providing skills and productive contribution to the community
* Beyond the 2 hour requirement, participants follow a research lifestyle to promote further development of the community or of the greater world

= Enabling Technology - Salient Features of Technology Base =

Without going into details, the main features for the comprehensive technology base are:

* ''Hybridization of power devices'' - decoupling of power source from the working unit in order to produce electrical drive is a formula for increasing integrated efficiency of electromechanical devices such as electric [[vehicle]]s, tools, heavy equipment, etc. For example, the hybrid car decouples the engine from its wheels by using an electrical generator to feed electric wheel motors. Note that this eliminates the clutch, transmission, crank case and its oil, differential, drive train, and other parts, and replaces these items with electric wire from the generator to electric motor. This is a huge efficiency leap, one in fuel efficiency, and two, in eliminating billions of dollars of industry which is outdated today due to the hybridization option. As such, we can talk of complex machines with huge simplification, assuming easy access to infinitely scaleable and controllable, low cost electric motors (these do not exist today). For example, we can envision an agricultural combine where each moving part is powered by its own electric motor - producing a leap in simplification and maintenance of the overall machine - as all belts, pulleys, gears, and other power transmission components driven by a single engine - are all replaced by electric wire. One can point to many examples where such strategy would provide leapfrog advance in device simplicity and maintenance.

* ''Solar turbine power generation including heat storage - look at [[Solar Turbine CHP System]]

* ''Open source fab lab'' - combine and expand the [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/multimachine/Multimachine] with xyz table as in RepRap (http://reprap.org/), and you can envision a robust fabrication device that integrates open source computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM). This device would perform a large variety of machining and fabrication operations, and would be producible at the cost of materials if metal casting is available. When deployed, we are talking of '''''producing any advanced object or device at the cost of materials'''''. ''Would you like to fabricate an electric motor for your personal transport vehicle? Here, I'll email you a file to make on your local village fabber''. In practice, one could conceptualize a single or several Multimachines, with their milling-drilling-lathing functions, surrounding an xyz motion platform with interchangeable heads. These heads could include acetylene torch attachment, plasma cutter, CO2 laser, router, hot wire, or additive heads such as a plastic extruder found in RepRap. This overall fab lab concept could start with a basic machine such as the Multimachine, with computer controls and table added in time. As such, this is a realistic proposition - with supporting open source knowhow with significant advancement already available. This propels civilization to new levels of decentralized material prosperity, and implies significant reduction of resource conflicts, especially if material feedstocks are sourced locally - as in the next point.

Here is an initial Fab Lab design:
[[Image:Fab_Lab.jpg]]

Here is a sample Product Matrix that falls right out of Fab Lab capacities:
[[Image:Product_Matrix.jpg]]

* ''Production of local feedstocks''-
** Wood and structural masonry compressed earth block (CEB) for construction - produced from on-site trees and soils
** [[Compressed Fuel Gas]] for cooking or melting metal - gas produced from trees
** [[Bioplastics]] - such as cellophane from trees
** Biofuels - [[Fuel Alcohol]] in temperate zones, palm oil in tropical zones
** Industrial detritus (waste materials) processing - includes [[Metal Casting and Extrusion]] or [[Plastic Extrusion & Molding]]
** [[Aluminum Extraction From Clays]]

= Sample Scenario =

Imagine a village with buildings of dirt (CEB) with year-round [[Greenhouses|greenhouses]] (sawmill, CEB, bioplastics from local trees), with all facility energy produced by a solar turbine, where people drive hybrid cars with car bodies (bioplastics) made from local weeds, with critical motors and metal structures (aluminum) extracted from on-site clay, which are fueled by alcohol produced on-site, on a wireless network linked to the greater world. That's just a sampling of the technology base. Food, energy, housing sufficiency. There are no poor among us - because we are all evolving human beings and farmer scientists.

= Development process =
[[GVCS Development Template]]

[[Product Cycle]]

[[Image:Engineering_Strategy.jpg]]

= Definition of Open Source Hardware and OSE Specifications =

See the updated entry for OSE Spec [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=OSE_Specifications here].

We like to be clear about the meaning of ''open,'' or ''open source,''' as used in this work for items of physical production. By ''open source,'' we mean documented to the point where one may replicate a given item, ''without even consulting with the developers.'' To us, this embodies the most complete form of documentation possible, where sufficient detail is provided to enable independent replication. This is ''open source'' embodied in ''OSE Specifications''. Other features of OSE Specificationsare:

# Freely downloadable documentation
# DfD, lifetime design
# Simplicity and low cost are of prime importance
# Replaceable components
# Modular Design
# Scaleability
# Localization
## Level 1 - product fabrication or production is local
## Level 2 - material sourcing is local
# Product evolution - phases and versions are pursued
# Concrete Flexible Fabrication mechanism exists for others to purchase the product at reasonable cost
# Open franchising - replicable enterprise design is available, and training exists for entrepreneurs

Thus, these features are meant to promote ''[http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/dn/vol4/fotopoulos_technology.htm#_ftn2 liberatory technology]'' - open, replicable, essential, optimal, and ecological goods and services for humankind living in harmony with natural life support systems.

= Working Assumptions =

Here is a partial list of assumptions that we are making as we go about the development work of this wiki. These assumptions help one to understand our motivations and approach.
# Civilization are shaped by their resource base. The resource base is what gives people power. By controlling others through an economic or social hierarchy, we can control resources, and thus gain power. Resource conflicts occur because people have not yet learned to manage resources without stealing. Society has not transcended the brute struggle for survival. We remain on the bottom steps of Maslow's pyramid. Transcending resource conflicts by creating abundance, first for hundreds, then for thousands of people, is now possible if knowledge flows openly and advanced technology is applied to produce goods.
# Today, most humans are controlled not by a commercial force (armies) but by information and social engineering that feeds the commerce itself. Understanding means of social control; understanding the mechanics of one's mind, body, and spirit; learning to discern mechanics of mind control and propaganda as they are used in controlling agendas; and applying learnings to meditation, expansion of consciousness, and evolution of one's awareness and powers are all crucial if civilization is to escape the control of commercialism and is to give up its dependence on a centralized, planned economy.
# Said propaganda and conditioning has successfully removed the notion of self-sufficiency as a viable means of livelihood. Most people are afraid of self-sufficiency and consider it a return to the stone age. Most people cannot envision that advanced civilization can be created in small (100-1000 person), self-sufficient, highly skilled communities. Furthermore, most people do not realize that it is possible to educate, skill, and evolve human beings such that an integrated, self-sufficient lifestyle option that promotes advanced civilization on a small scale of human organization is created. It it possible to achieve this level of excellence if people are taught real knowledge and wisdom, as opposed to undergoing global workforce training.
# Education curricula have typically deleted practical applications deliberately, to produce subjects of the global workforce. If education is reinstated then self-sufficiency will emerge as a natural option.
# Self-sufficiency is not an antisocial behavior, but a means to full individual and community accountability for resource conflicts, foul politics, and other corruptions of large-scale endeavors. (review works of Gandhi, Schumacher, Fuller) Self-sufficiency is a means to highest quality life by definition, one is in control of one's destiny when one is self-sufficient. The assumption of self-sufficiency is that its practitioners must be highly skilled, and not products of centralist education.
# By self-sufficient, we mean in full control of providing one's needs. Note that self-sufficiency refers to needs - those things that allow one to survive in absolute health - and not wants. Self-sufficiency does not imply a solo, isolationist endeavor. Self-sufficiency may be accomplished with the help of as many people as it is possible to maintain full accountability, transparency, and sound ethics within that group. This group may be dispersed globally. Historically, sociology of human settlements has shown that this scale of self-sufficiency is a few hundred people. (see E.F. Schumacher; other references)
# The State promotes well-paid incompetence, largely through specialization, such that subjects produce sufficient surplus to pay for their own oppression.
# Education, media, and social engineering programs have subjugated human integrity to passive consumerism, with its related problems (resource conflicts, loss of freedom such as wage slavery). The only way out of this is creating a framework within which humans can prosper: provision of true education, learning of practical skills, stewardship of land, advanced technology for the people, and open access to economically significant know-how.
# Import substitution is reducing dependence on external feedstocks and replacing them with local ones. People in control of their resources control their own destiny. Thus, to localize the essential parts of an economy completely is the prime formula for social stability. Localization should not be considered a struggle, but merely a possibility. It is a possibility that is not recognized because most people, as specialists, lack integrated technical literacy and skills that make a local economy feasible.

= See also =

* [[Product Ecologies]] - illustrates how the different components of the GVCS relate with one another

[[Category: GVCS]]

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URL: [[Permaculture: Main Page]]

The Permaculture Information Web is a collaborative project to provide a comprehensive resource of permaculture related information. This wiki uses a precise language to describe the different parts of human habitat and that language is used to categorize the articles in this wiki.

In this wiki, community members are using principles of permaculture design to build a base of knowledge for designing human habitats.

The living parts of these habitats are made of elements; things like apple trees, chickens and dandelions. Groups of elements that interact in a beneficial way are organized into guilds. A guild is defined by a few core elements that define that guilds character.

One or more guilds guilds can be associated with built structures as suited to a particular location to create a pattern. For example, a hayfield, mulch, a chicken tractor, chicken forage plant guilds, fencing, and a compost system may combine into a chicken forage garden system, where chickens and materials are moved around to achieve a particular economy and diverse yield. patterns, built structures, and even elements are associated with the zones that describe the proximity to our homes and paths of travel.

These patterns are tuned to local context, described by hydrology, soils, and landscape setting. designs must be attuned to the creations of nature as well as the natural disturbance regimes that dominate landscapes. Techniques and tools are used to evaluate and construct these patterns.

Ecological design and permaculture work are done by organizations and groups that are doing work on specific sites or have online resources. These sites are distributed across many lands, and are similar patterns occur within the natural provinces of the earth called ecoregions.

On this site people share ideas as well as online resources, books, documents, and their designs

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[[Elifarley Cruz]] is currently the login administrator.

= History =

In the past, wiki account creation was free for anyone. Once created, the user was able to edit and add pages at will. This caused a lot of spam appearing on the wiki.

Then I changed the configuration so that newly created accounts would have to validate its email address BEFORE being able to add / edit pages.

This measure eliminated the creation of spam in wiki pages.

However, spammers would still create some accounts every day (because they thought they would be able to add spam pages to the wiki).

The continuous creation of new spam accounts is something undesirable, since it adds burden to the administration process of the wiki in the long run.

So, I thought it would be best to disable user-initiated wiki account creation, leaving this task to me (or any other admin).

But then, I decided to try out the OpenID extension for the wiki (I'm already using OpenID for the forum and for the Drupal community portal).

After enabling OpenID on the wiki, I saw some new user accounts being automatically created.

= Current Policy =

So, I think we can leave this OpenID extension enabled, which allows people to create their own accounts. I suppose spammers won't bother using OpenID to create their accounts, which means we'll have the best of both sides: users can create their accounts on their own without admin intervention AND we won't have new spam accounts on our wiki. Marvelous!

The [[wiki instructions#Logging In|wiki instructions]] have been updated to reflect this.

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A wiki is a place where a large number of people can contribute to content generation and organization.

The critical point about a wiki is that '''it can be used as a repository for a large amount of information which can be organized later on'''. We encourage you to internalize this point and start using wikis as a place where human knowledge can be collected, and value can be added to that knowledge by further organization towards applications.

= Policies =

In the ideal situation, a large messy hairball of input is organized into distilled, high-quality content. A successfully-implemented wiki has the capacity to self-organize under the guidance of clear procedures in the hands of wiki moderators. With this in mind, please make sure to familiarize yourself with these procedures as formalized in the following policies:

* [[Wiki Login Policy]]
* [[Wiki Transparency Policy]]
* [[Wiki Curators]]

= Content =

There is a wide scope of things that can be included on the wiki - anything related to '''healthy, sustainable living, open source technology, good human relations, human empowerment, etc'''. OSE is about the integration of humans with technology in a benign way, and with a focus on open source techniques. That's just about all under the sun that was historically proven to be benign. Please be careful to keep this in mind in terms of editing.

The wiki in general is supposed to be a 'braindump' - so if it is not well-organized initially, it has a chance to become organized at a later date. Short entries, or stubs, are ok because they can be used as a definition later - even if nothing links at present. The expression braindump does not signify a low level of quality, though. Bad content to a Wiki is like bad nutrition to a body. If the Wiki is supposed to grow healthy a certain level quality is essential.

Most of all bad content, which is usually added by non experts, discourages the distinctive experts to contribute. So every contributor is urged to check his contributions in matters of respect and motivation towards others. Motivation and discouragement of contributors through content qualification is probably the strongest change driver for the quality management of a Wiki.

The OSE Wiki-contents are different from the main Wiki because they should be Open Source and Ecology related. With this difference in mind a concentrated OSE Wiki can be built that serves its purpose: "A Wiki is only as good as the search process is quick". It is a well practice to examine the main Wiki concerning a topic before starting an article in the OSE Wiki.

=== Advertisement ===

There shall be no advertising on this wiki. Sourcing information and product reviews are allowed, as long as they are directly related to the creation of [[Distributive Economics]].

= Style Guidelines =

* The first sentence of an article should be a one-sentence summary of the whole topic
** The next paragraph should be a longer summary of it
** Then go into details
* Be direct and practical
** Avoid acronyms, jargon and neologisms.
** Never use a long word or phrase where a short one will do.
** If it is possible to cut a word out, cut it out.
** Never use the passive where you can use the active (e.g. say "We built the house on Tuesday" rather than "The construction of the house took place on Tuesday".)
** Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
** Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
* When writing about measurements, list both imperial and metric values. List both Fahrenheit and Celsius for temperatures.

= Searching =

You can search for content by typing your search terms on one of the '''search boxes''' at the '''top left corner'''
* The '''first search box''' will search for text matches on '''this wiki only'''
* The '''second search box''' will perform a ''custom Google search'' on '''this wiki''', on '''our [http://blog.opensourceecology.org/ blog]''', on '''our [http://forum.opensourceecology.org/ discussion forum]''' and '''other related sites''', like ''Appropedia''.
** For more details, see the page about the [[OSE custom search engine]]

{{Tip|Search before creating a page|
Articles on our wiki should be cross-referenced against articles on [[Special: interwiki|neighboring wikis]] (like ''P2P Foundation'' or ''Appropedia'') to avoid re-inventing the wheel any more than we have to.
So, before creating a page, use the ''second'' search box to see if there are any existing articles on related wikis. If so, creating a link to it may be better than creating a new page, unless the existing page on the other wiki does not contain enough information.

Articles from any wiki listed at [[Special: interwiki]] can be linked to by using the value at the ''Prefix'' column, like this:
<pre>[[Appropedia: Comparison of electrical motors]]</pre>
which creates this:
[[Appropedia: Comparison of electrical motors]]
}}

= Logging In =

{{Info|Log in first!|Before creating new pages or editing existing ones, you have to '''log in first'''.}}

Any person contributing to the project in a substantial way should fill out the [[Team Culturing]] survey, and therefore, any name should be linkable with a full description of the person, such as [[Marcin Jakubowski]]. This will facilitate referencing and connection between projects and developers. The potential contributions of a person should be transparent if they fill out their abilities in the [[Team Culturing]] Survey.

In order to log in, you can use one of the methods below:

== Preferred Method (with OpenID) ==

* Click on '''Login with OpenID''' at the '''upper right corner''' of the page to log in
** Just follow the instructions on the page that loads
** ''If you see '''nyud.net''' appended to our domain address, [[Wiki instructions#Coral_CDN|see the section on Coral CDN below]]''
* If you are '''logging in for the first time''', you'll receive a '''confirmation email'''
** Once you follow the instructions on that email, you'll be able to make changes to our wiki

== Without OpenID ==

* If you '''already have a wiki account''', you can [http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/Special:UserLogin log in without OpenID]
* If you want to create an account '''without using OpenID''', [[contact us]] to request an account (''please provide desired login in the subject line'')

== Login Problems ==

* In case you have problems logging in, please [[contact us]] to report your problem.

== Coral CDN ==
* If you are accessing our site through [[Coral CDN]] (http://openfarmtech.org.nyud.net/wiki/), the login link above won't work.
** In that case, you have to access the [http://openfarmtech.org/w/index.php?title=Special:OpenIDLogin&returnto=Wiki_instructions OpenID login page] from its original URL or the [http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/Special:UserLogin standard login page].
* If you want to '''''bypass'' Coral CDN''' for a given page, append '''coral-no-serve''' to the query string, like this:
** http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/Wiki_instructions?coral-no-serve

= Grouping =

* '''Categories''' can be used to organize a large number of pages, media, and even other categories. Read [[Using Categories]] for more information on proper categorization.
* '''[[#Creating Subpages|subpages]]''' can also be used to group pages. They organise information hierarchically. However, too many nesting will lead to a long name that is hard to remember.

= Creating New Pages =

To start a new page or to edit an existing one, just type the desired page name in the [[#Searching|search box]] at the top left corner (the one '''above''' the ''OSE custom search engine'' box) and click on the button labeled '''Go'''. If a similar page already exists, you might want to edit that page instead of creating a new one. Otherwise, click on the message '''Create the page "''your page name''" on this wiki!''' (at the top of the search results) to create the new page.

Then you can start editing the page. Also, while editing a page, you can create links to new or existing pages with double brackets around their title, for example: <pre>[[My New Additions]]</pre>

= Creating Subpages =

{{Tip|When to use subpages|
A subpage can be used to group pages belonging to some topic or main page
* to create user-specific pages in a given user's ''[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Link#User_space user space]''.
* to create [[Translation#Page_Title_Convention|other language versions of an article]]
* to create '''archives of old discussions''' under a talk page
* to create '''scratchpad editing spaces''' under a user page
}}

{{Info|User Spaces|Pages on user spaces do not have to follow strict quality guidelines, as they '''are not official''' OSE content.
Other pages should reflect more closely the official OSE stance on a given issue.}}

If you want to create a [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Subpages subpage] named '''A subpage name''' under a given page (for instance, '''My Parent Page'''), all you have to do is to ''create a page'' whose title is '''My Parent Page/A subpage name''' ''(see [[#Creating_New_Pages|how to create a page]])''.

You can also link to subpages from the parent page using a [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Link#Subpage_feature specific link format].

== Examples ==
* [[User:Elifarley/pds]] - a subpage named '''pds''' in [[User: Elifarley| Elifarley]]'s user space

= Deleting Pages =

== When to Delete ==

A page is a good candidate for deletion if:
* it is '''clearly and beyond and doubt''' spam or complete nonsense
* it's a redirect page whose title has nothing to do with the page it redirects to
** ''Example:'' a page named '''How to cook using only sunlight''' that redirects to '''Arduino controller schematics''' doesn't make sense. Either redirect it to a page that deals with the subject of ''cooking using only sunlight'', or delete it.

== How to Delete ==

{{Warn|Before Deleting a Page|
'''Never delete a page that is not clearly and beyond and doubt''' a spam page. '''A [[#Redirecting|redirect]] is often more appropriate'''.<br/>
You're urged to read [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Deleting_a_page Deleting a page] and [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Sysop_deleting_and_undeleting Sysop: deleting and undeleting] before you delete a page.
}}

Only Sysops can delete pages. If you're not a Sysop and you would like to mark a page as a candidate for deletion '''(see the [[#When_to_Delete|criteria for deletion above]])''', you should add the following text at the top of the page you would like to delete:
<nowiki>{{delete}}</nowiki>
This will include the [[Template: delete| delete]] template and will add that page to a list of [[:Category: candidates for speedy deletion| candidates for speedy deletion]].

= Redirecting =

You can redirect a page to another page by replacing the contents of the original page with a '''#REDIRECT''', like this:
<pre>
#REDIRECT [[My destination article]]
</pre>

You can redirect a page to an [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links#Interwiki_links interwiki link] too:
<pre>
#REDIRECT [[Appropedia: Justa stove]]
</pre>

[[Using Categories|Adding a category]] may help others find the page, since it'll be listed on the corresponding category page:

<pre>
#REDIRECT [[Appropedia: Justa stove]]
[[Category: Cooking]]
</pre>

{{Tip|Too many redirect pages?|If you're afraid that the wiki will get cluttered with redirected pages, fear not. You can see this as a feature (a good one), not a bug, since anytime someone tries to add a page with title X (X being one of those redirected pages), they would be redirected to the appropriately-named page, instead of being given the chance to create a page with different title but similar content.}}

= Editing Pages =

{{Tip|Tips|
* '''Before editing''' a page, click the '''discussion''' tab at the top to check what others are saying about that page
** You can add your own considerations or questions there too
* '''To edit existing pages''', just click the '''edit''' tab
* '''Before saving''' your changes, click the '''Show preview''' button located just below the editing window to make sure everything is as expected
* '''To save''' your work, click the '''Save page''' button
}}

While in edit mode, there are some buttons at the top of the editing window to help with formatting text, creating links, inserting objects, etc.

== Sections ==

'''[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Section Sections]''' are created by creating their headings, as below:
<pre>
== First Section ==
=== First sub-section ===
==== First sub-sub-section ====
== Second Section ==
</pre>

{{Tip|Top-Level Sections|Top-level sections should start with '''2 equal signs at each side''', as in '''<pre>==My Top-Level Section Example==</pre>'''

Sections with only one equals sign per side causes a title the size of the page name. On Wikimedia wikis they are used only sparingly and in prescribed circumstances.
}}

== Inserting Tables ==

You can copy and paste your data from your spreadsheet to http://area23.brightbyte.de/csv2wp.php and it will convert it to a cut and pasteable mediawiki table.

== Inserting Templates ==

You can insert a [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Template template] using this code:
<nowiki>{{My Template}}</nowiki>

To '''create or edit a template''' named ''My Template'', '''simply create a page''' named ''[[Template: My Template]]'' (see [[#Creating_New_Pages|how to create a page]]).

= Text Markup =

== Text color ==

Put in the name of the color in this markup:
<pre><span style="color: green">Some text</span></pre>
The example above generates this:

<span style="color: green">Some text</span>

== Strikethrough ==

<s>Strikethrough</s>

== Inserting Images ==

=== Uploaded Images ===

To insert an image, anywhere in the body of a page, type:
<pre>
[[Image:filename.jpg]]
</pre>
Then click ''Save page''. After the page is saved, you'll be allowed to click on that filename, and the wiki will prompt you for an image file to upload.

=== External Images ===

You can simply paste links to images from any of the sites defined on [[MediaWiki: External image whitelist]].
See also: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgEnableImageWhitelist $wgEnableImageWhitelist]

Example: '''<nowiki>http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-printer.png</nowiki>''' gives this image:

http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-printer.png

=== Inserting Image Galleries ===

Use the ''gallery'' tag. Example code:
<pre>
<gallery>
Image:fefrepstrap1.jpg
Image:fefrepstrap2.jpg
Image:fefrepstrap3.jpg
Image:fefrepstrap4.jpg
Image:fefrepstrap5.jpg
</gallery>
</pre>

Produces this:

<gallery>
Image:fefrepstrap1.jpg
Image:fefrepstrap2.jpg
Image:fefrepstrap3.jpg
Image:fefrepstrap4.jpg
Image:fefrepstrap5.jpg
</gallery>

== Linking files ==

If you want to link uploaded files in the Wiki, then you use this code: '''<nowiki>[[media: file name]]</nowiki>'''<br/>
See an example [[Press_Procedure|here]].

== Inserting Movies ==

To insert movies, see this example:

<pre>
<html>
<embed src="http://blip.tv/play/nQaynDuJ6BU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
width="640" height="510" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed>
</html>
</pre>

The code above generates this:

<html>
<embed src="http://blip.tv/play/nQaynDuJ6BU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="510" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed>
</html>

For any video, insert the <nowiki><html> and </html></nowiki> tags, and put in the html code that you get from YouTube or some other video format.

== Embedding from Blip.tv ==

Here is a sample embed settings screen from blip.tv. Note that you do 'share', 'legacy player', then click 'go.' Then, make sure you select 'in-line player', flv for flash video - and then click 'update embed code above'. Then, copy the code into the blog, and in the blog, make sure you are in HTML, not visual, mode.

[[Image:blipembed.jpg]]

== Subtitling Videos ==

Here's how to activate Universal Subtitles for your videos:

1- Go to http://universalsubtitles.org/ and click on "Subtitle a video"
2- Paste the URL of the video you want to have subtitled. The URL can point to a file in Ogg, WebM or FLV format, or it can point to a video hosted on YouTube or Blip.TV (Vimeo support will be available soon). Examples of URL:

WebM file: http://content.bitsontherun.com/videos/m3P14laP-283112.webm
YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shqrdCBTD70
Blip.TV video: http://blip.tv/file/3841170/

3- A black page with a central video and a close button (a red tab on the top right corner) will appear. This is the initial step where users can start typing the subtitles for the video. Since you probably don't want to create the subtitle text right away, but instead want the embed code to paste on your blog, you can just click on the close button.

4- In the next screen, the embed code can be found inside the text box below "Embed this video in your site". Just click on the 'Copy to clipboard' icon next to it. The embed code will look like this:

<pre>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://s3.www.universalsubtitles.org/embed.js">

(

{"video_url": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shqrdCBTD70"}

)

</script>
</pre>

This embed widget is in alpha stage, so it may have some bugs. I have tested it with youtube videos and it worked quite well. With Blip.TV, the video wouldn't play though.

It'll be really great when it's working correctly with Vimeo and Blip.TV

== Inserting Source Code ==

Always wrap source code in 'pre' tags. This ensures proper formatting, and means that someone can copy code without having to 'edit' the page first.

An example looks like this:

<pre>
int mainup = 5; // Define pins by plugin of hydraulics
int maindown = 6;
int secin = 10;
int secout = 11;
// Define pins 5, 6, 10, and 11 according to their hydraulic
// function on the CEB press - moving main cylinder up and down,
// and moving secondary cylinder in and out. 'In' is defined as
// the direction of brick ejection motion out of the machine.
</pre>

== Adding Categories ==

If you want to add a specific category to your page, please check the already existing [[Template:List_of_categories|list of categories]].

= Next steps =

This wiki is powered by MediaWiki. For complete and up-to-date technical information about using this wiki, refer to the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents MediaWiki help pages]. Keep this page in mind as a reference for future use.

If you're confident about your understanding of everything written in this page, the following pages will point you towards what to do next:

* [[Wiki maintenance]]
* [[Wiki Reorganization 2011]]

[[Category: Policies]]
[[Category:Wiki]]

User:Dave Menninger

2011-06-22T18:39:19Z

Dave Menninger: /* future work areas */

User:Dave Menninger

2011-06-22T18:38:39Z

Dave Menninger: /* future work areas */

Wiki instructions

2011-06-22T18:37:42Z

Dave Menninger:

{{OrigLang}}
{{Breadcrumb|Wiki}}
{{tip|Helpful Reading|The '''[[Crash course on OSE]]''' page will help you understand the underlying intentions for the OSE Wiki so that your contributions can be as meaningful as possible.}}

{| align="right"
| __TOC__
|}

A wiki is a place where a large number of people can contribute to content generation and organization.

The critical point about a wiki is that '''it can be used as a repository for a large amount of information which can be organized later on'''. We encourage you to internalize this point and start using wikis as a place where human knowledge can be collected, and value can be added to that knowledge by further organization towards applications.

= Policies =

In the ideal situation, a large messy hairball of input is organized into distilled, high-quality content. A successfully-implemented wiki has the capacity to self-organize under the guidance of clear procedures in the hands of wiki moderators. With this in mind, please make sure to familiarize yourself with these procedures as formalized in the following policies:

* [[Wiki Login Policy]]
* [[Wiki Transparency Policy]]
* [[Wiki Curators]]

= Content =

There is a wide scope of things that can be included on the wiki - anything related to healthy, sustainable living, open source technology, good human relations, human empowerment, etc. OSE is about the integration of humans with technology in a benign way, and with a focus on open source techniques. That's just about all under the sun that was historically proven to be benign. Please be careful to keep this in mind in terms of editing.

The wiki in general is supposed to be a 'braindump' - so if it is not well-organized initially, it has a chance to become organized at a later date. Short entries, or stubs, are ok because they can be used as a definition later - even if nothing links at present. The expression braindump does not signify a low level of quality, though. Bad content to a Wiki is like bad nutrition to a body. If the Wiki is supposed to grow healthy a certain level quality is essential.

Most of all bad content, which is usually added by non experts, discourages the distinctive experts to contribute. So every contributor is urged to check his contributions in matters of respect and motivation towards others. Motivation and discouragement of contributors through content qualification is probably the strongest change driver for the quality management of a Wiki.

The OSE Wiki-contents are different from the main Wiki because they should be Open Source and Ecology related. With this difference in mind a concentrated OSE Wiki can be built that serves its purpose: "A Wiki is only as good as the search process is quick". It is a well practice to examine the main Wiki concerning a topic before starting an article in the OSE Wiki.

=== Advertisement ===

There shall be no advertising on this wiki. Sourcing information and product reviews are allowed, as long as they are directly related to the creation of [[Distributive Economics]].

= Style Guidelines =

* The first sentence of an article should be a one-sentence summary of the whole topic
** The next paragraph should be a longer summary of it
** Then go into details
* Be direct and practical
** Avoid acronyms, jargon and neologisms.
** Never use a long word or phrase where a short one will do.
** If it is possible to cut a word out, cut it out.
** Never use the passive where you can use the active (e.g. say "We built the house on Tuesday" rather than "The construction of the house took place on Tuesday".)
** Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
** Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
* When writing about measurements, list both imperial and metric values. List both Fahrenheit and Celsius for temperatures.

= Searching =

You can search for content by typing your search terms on one of the '''search boxes''' at the '''top left corner'''
* The '''first search box''' will search for text matches on '''this wiki only'''
* The '''second search box''' will perform a ''custom Google search'' on '''this wiki''', on '''our [http://blog.opensourceecology.org/ blog]''', on '''our [http://forum.opensourceecology.org/ discussion forum]''' and '''other related sites''', like ''Appropedia''.
** For more details, see the page about the [[OSE custom search engine]]

{{Tip|Search before creating a page|
Articles on our wiki should be cross-referenced against articles on [[Special: interwiki|neighboring wikis]] (like ''P2P Foundation'' or ''Appropedia'') to avoid re-inventing the wheel any more than we have to.
So, before creating a page, use the ''second'' search box to see if there are any existing articles on related wikis. If so, creating a link to it may be better than creating a new page, unless the existing page on the other wiki does not contain enough information.

Articles from any wiki listed at [[Special: interwiki]] can be linked to by using the value at the ''Prefix'' column, like this:
<pre>[[Appropedia: Comparison of electrical motors]]</pre>
which creates this:
[[Appropedia: Comparison of electrical motors]]
}}

= Logging In =

{{Info|Log in first!|Before creating new pages or editing existing ones, you have to '''log in first'''.}}

Any person contributing to the project in a substantial way should fill out the [[Team Culturing]] survey, and therefore, any name should be linkable with a full description of the person, such as [[Marcin Jakubowski]]. This will facilitate referencing and connection between projects and developers. The potential contributions of a person should be transparent if they fill out their abilities in the [[Team Culturing]] Survey.

In order to log in, you can use one of the methods below:

== Preferred Method (with OpenID) ==

* Click on '''Login with OpenID''' at the '''upper right corner''' of the page to log in
** Just follow the instructions on the page that loads
** ''If you see '''nyud.net''' appended to our domain address, [[Wiki instructions#Coral_CDN|see the section on Coral CDN below]]''
* If you are '''logging in for the first time''', you'll receive a '''confirmation email'''
** Once you follow the instructions on that email, you'll be able to make changes to our wiki

== Without OpenID ==

* If you '''already have a wiki account''', you can [http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/Special:UserLogin log in without OpenID]
* If you want to create an account '''without using OpenID''', [[contact us]] to request an account (''please provide desired login in the subject line'')

== Login Problems ==

* In case you have problems logging in, please [[contact us]] to report your problem.

== Coral CDN ==
* If you are accessing our site through [[Coral CDN]] (http://openfarmtech.org.nyud.net/wiki/), the login link above won't work.
** In that case, you have to access the [http://openfarmtech.org/w/index.php?title=Special:OpenIDLogin&returnto=Wiki_instructions OpenID login page] from its original URL or the [http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/Special:UserLogin standard login page].
* If you want to '''''bypass'' Coral CDN''' for a given page, append '''coral-no-serve''' to the query string, like this:
** http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/Wiki_instructions?coral-no-serve

= Grouping =

* '''Categories''' can be used to organize a large number of pages, media, and even other categories. Read [[Using Categories]] for more information on proper categorization.
* '''[[#Creating Subpages|subpages]]''' can also be used to group pages. They organise information hierarchically. However, too many nesting will lead to a long name that is hard to remember.

= Creating New Pages =

To start a new page or to edit an existing one, just type the desired page name in the [[#Searching|search box]] at the top left corner (the one '''above''' the ''OSE custom search engine'' box) and click on the button labeled '''Go'''. If a similar page already exists, you might want to edit that page instead of creating a new one. Otherwise, click on the message '''Create the page "''your page name''" on this wiki!''' (at the top of the search results) to create the new page.

Then you can start editing the page. Also, while editing a page, you can create links to new or existing pages with double brackets around their title, for example: <pre>[[My New Additions]]</pre>

= Creating Subpages =

{{Tip|When to use subpages|
A subpage can be used to group pages belonging to some topic or main page
* to create user-specific pages in a given user's ''[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Link#User_space user space]''.
* to create [[Translation#Page_Title_Convention|other language versions of an article]]
* to create '''archives of old discussions''' under a talk page
* to create '''scratchpad editing spaces''' under a user page
}}

{{Info|User Spaces|Pages on user spaces do not have to follow strict quality guidelines, as they '''are not official''' OSE content.
Other pages should reflect more closely the official OSE stance on a given issue.}}

If you want to create a [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Subpages subpage] named '''A subpage name''' under a given page (for instance, '''My Parent Page'''), all you have to do is to ''create a page'' whose title is '''My Parent Page/A subpage name''' ''(see [[#Creating_New_Pages|how to create a page]])''.

You can also link to subpages from the parent page using a [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Link#Subpage_feature specific link format].

== Examples ==
* [[User:Elifarley/pds]] - a subpage named '''pds''' in [[User: Elifarley| Elifarley]]'s user space

= Deleting Pages =

== When to Delete ==

A page is a good candidate for deletion if:
* it is '''clearly and beyond and doubt''' spam or complete nonsense
* it's a redirect page whose title has nothing to do with the page it redirects to
** ''Example:'' a page named '''How to cook using only sunlight''' that redirects to '''Arduino controller schematics''' doesn't make sense. Either redirect it to a page that deals with the subject of ''cooking using only sunlight'', or delete it.

== How to Delete ==

{{Warn|Before Deleting a Page|
'''Never delete a page that is not clearly and beyond and doubt''' a spam page. '''A [[#Redirecting|redirect]] is often more appropriate'''.<br/>
You're urged to read [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Deleting_a_page Deleting a page] and [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Sysop_deleting_and_undeleting Sysop: deleting and undeleting] before you delete a page.
}}

Only Sysops can delete pages. If you're not a Sysop and you would like to mark a page as a candidate for deletion '''(see the [[#When_to_Delete|criteria for deletion above]])''', you should add the following text at the top of the page you would like to delete:
<nowiki>{{delete}}</nowiki>
This will include the [[Template: delete| delete]] template and will add that page to a list of [[:Category: candidates for speedy deletion| candidates for speedy deletion]].

= Redirecting =

You can redirect a page to another page by replacing the contents of the original page with a '''#REDIRECT''', like this:
<pre>
#REDIRECT [[My destination article]]
</pre>

You can redirect a page to an [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links#Interwiki_links interwiki link] too:
<pre>
#REDIRECT [[Appropedia: Justa stove]]
</pre>

[[Using Categories|Adding a category]] may help others find the page, since it'll be listed on the corresponding category page:

<pre>
#REDIRECT [[Appropedia: Justa stove]]
[[Category: Cooking]]
</pre>

{{Tip|Too many redirect pages?|If you're afraid that the wiki will get cluttered with redirected pages, fear not. You can see this as a feature (a good one), not a bug, since anytime someone tries to add a page with title X (X being one of those redirected pages), they would be redirected to the appropriately-named page, instead of being given the chance to create a page with different title but similar content.}}

= Editing Pages =

{{Tip|Tips|
* '''Before editing''' a page, click the '''discussion''' tab at the top to check what others are saying about that page
** You can add your own considerations or questions there too
* '''To edit existing pages''', just click the '''edit''' tab
* '''Before saving''' your changes, click the '''Show preview''' button located just below the editing window to make sure everything is as expected
* '''To save''' your work, click the '''Save page''' button
}}

While in edit mode, there are some buttons at the top of the editing window to help with formatting text, creating links, inserting objects, etc.

== Sections ==

'''[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Section Sections]''' are created by creating their headings, as below:
<pre>
== First Section ==
=== First sub-section ===
==== First sub-sub-section ====
== Second Section ==
</pre>

{{Tip|Top-Level Sections|Top-level sections should start with '''2 equal signs at each side''', as in '''<pre>==My Top-Level Section Example==</pre>'''

Sections with only one equals sign per side causes a title the size of the page name. On Wikimedia wikis they are used only sparingly and in prescribed circumstances.
}}

== Inserting Tables ==

You can copy and paste your data from your spreadsheet to http://area23.brightbyte.de/csv2wp.php and it will convert it to a cut and pasteable mediawiki table.

== Inserting Templates ==

You can insert a [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Template template] using this code:
<nowiki>{{My Template}}</nowiki>

To '''create or edit a template''' named ''My Template'', '''simply create a page''' named ''[[Template: My Template]]'' (see [[#Creating_New_Pages|how to create a page]]).

= Text Markup =

== Text color ==

Put in the name of the color in this markup:
<pre><span style="color: green">Some text</span></pre>
The example above generates this:

<span style="color: green">Some text</span>

== Strikethrough ==

<s>Strikethrough</s>

== Inserting Images ==

=== Uploaded Images ===

To insert an image, anywhere in the body of a page, type:
<pre>
[[Image:filename.jpg]]
</pre>
Then click ''Save page''. After the page is saved, you'll be allowed to click on that filename, and the wiki will prompt you for an image file to upload.

=== External Images ===

You can simply paste links to images from any of the sites defined on [[MediaWiki: External image whitelist]].
See also: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgEnableImageWhitelist $wgEnableImageWhitelist]

Example: '''<nowiki>http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-printer.png</nowiki>''' gives this image:

http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-printer.png

=== Inserting Image Galleries ===

Use the ''gallery'' tag. Example code:
<pre>
<gallery>
Image:fefrepstrap1.jpg
Image:fefrepstrap2.jpg
Image:fefrepstrap3.jpg
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</gallery>
</pre>

Produces this:

<gallery>
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</gallery>

== Linking files ==

If you want to link uploaded files in the Wiki, then you use this code: '''<nowiki>[[media: file name]]</nowiki>'''<br/>
See an example [[Press_Procedure|here]].

== Inserting Movies ==

To insert movies, see this example:

<pre>
<html>
<embed src="http://blip.tv/play/nQaynDuJ6BU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
width="640" height="510" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed>
</html>
</pre>

The code above generates this:

<html>
<embed src="http://blip.tv/play/nQaynDuJ6BU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="510" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed>
</html>

For any video, insert the <nowiki><html> and </html></nowiki> tags, and put in the html code that you get from YouTube or some other video format.

== Embedding from Blip.tv ==

Here is a sample embed settings screen from blip.tv. Note that you do 'share', 'legacy player', then click 'go.' Then, make sure you select 'in-line player', flv for flash video - and then click 'update embed code above'. Then, copy the code into the blog, and in the blog, make sure you are in HTML, not visual, mode.

[[Image:blipembed.jpg]]

== Subtitling Videos ==

Here's how to activate Universal Subtitles for your videos:

1- Go to http://universalsubtitles.org/ and click on "Subtitle a video"
2- Paste the URL of the video you want to have subtitled. The URL can point to a file in Ogg, WebM or FLV format, or it can point to a video hosted on YouTube or Blip.TV (Vimeo support will be available soon). Examples of URL:

WebM file: http://content.bitsontherun.com/videos/m3P14laP-283112.webm
YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shqrdCBTD70
Blip.TV video: http://blip.tv/file/3841170/

3- A black page with a central video and a close button (a red tab on the top right corner) will appear. This is the initial step where users can start typing the subtitles for the video. Since you probably don't want to create the subtitle text right away, but instead want the embed code to paste on your blog, you can just click on the close button.

4- In the next screen, the embed code can be found inside the text box below "Embed this video in your site". Just click on the 'Copy to clipboard' icon next to it. The embed code will look like this:

<pre>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://s3.www.universalsubtitles.org/embed.js">

(

{"video_url": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shqrdCBTD70"}

)

</script>
</pre>

This embed widget is in alpha stage, so it may have some bugs. I have tested it with youtube videos and it worked quite well. With Blip.TV, the video wouldn't play though.

It'll be really great when it's working correctly with Vimeo and Blip.TV

== Inserting Source Code ==

Always wrap source code in 'pre' tags. This ensures proper formatting, and means that someone can copy code without having to 'edit' the page first.

An example looks like this:

<pre>
int mainup = 5; // Define pins by plugin of hydraulics
int maindown = 6;
int secin = 10;
int secout = 11;
// Define pins 5, 6, 10, and 11 according to their hydraulic
// function on the CEB press - moving main cylinder up and down,
// and moving secondary cylinder in and out. 'In' is defined as
// the direction of brick ejection motion out of the machine.
</pre>

== Adding Categories ==

If you want to add a specific category to your page, please check the already existing [[Template:List_of_categories|list of categories]].

= Next steps =

This wiki is powered by MediaWiki. For complete and up-to-date technical information about using this wiki, refer to the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents MediaWiki help pages]. Keep this page in mind as a reference for future use.

If you're confident about your understanding of everything written in this page, the following pages will point you towards what to do next:

* [[Wiki maintenance]]
* [[Wiki Reorganization 2011]]

[[Category: Policies]]
[[Category:Wiki]]

Wiki map

2011-06-22T18:20:43Z

Dave Menninger: /* Getting Acquainted */

'''This site map intends to give new visitors an overview of the content available on this wiki.'''

==Getting Acquainted==

* [[FAQ]] - Frequently Asked Questions
* [[How can I help?]] - Different ways in which you can help us
* [[Current tasks]]
* [[GVCS tools]] - Shows the open source machines and tools comprising the [[GVCS]]

==Highlights==

* [[Global Village Construction Set]]
* [[GVCS game]]
* [[CEB intro]]
* [[Open Source Stepper Motor Controller]]
* [[Open Source Induction Furnace Project]]
* [[LifeTrac]]

==Wiki==
* [[Wiki instructions]] If you want to add or edit pages on our wiki, this page will help you.
* [[Wiki Documentation Standards]] For those who want to start contributing content to the wiki.
* [[Wiki maintenance]]

==List of Categories==
{{listofcategories}}
[[Category:Wiki]]

GVCS Wiki Templates

2011-06-22T18:17:03Z

Dave Menninger:

{{Mergeto|Wiki Templates}}

=Introduction=

12/11/10

Outline of Wiki Templates:

Machine Page Template: (one page for every machine)

For Every Page:

At the top, Bold links to:

*'''Development Page'''
*'''Instructional Page'''
*'''User Manual Page'''

Followed by:

'''Product Icon, Status Headline, Problem Statement, Performance Analysis vs. Industry Standards (data viz), Cost Analysis vs. Industry Standards, Conceptual Diagram, Product Ecology, Demo Video, Demo Photos, Design Rationale, Status Chart (references development template)
'''
=Development Page=
See [[GVCS Development Template]]

=Instructional Page Template=

Design Rationale, Conceptual Diagram, Bill of Materials (with weblinks to sources), Demo Video, Demo Photos, Instructional Video (A to Z on the fabrication), 3d CAD file (metal fabrication), 2d fabrication drawings (metal), 2d electronics design file to build circuit boards, wiring diagram, Machine-readable CAM files, 2d Exploded Part Diagram, Computer Software Control Code for Automated Devices, Hydraulic Circuit Diagram, Calculations (for scaling purposes)

=User Manual Template=
*(Why it Works? - physics), How it Works, Operation Procedures, Safety, Maintenance, Troubleshooting, Repair

*Why it works = (example: to be inspired look at bicyclying science, david gordon wilson)
**torque and power
**transmission
**center of gravity relationship to terrain
**steering mechanisms (ackerman - why)
**terrain (mud vs hard ground, why / effect on power etc)
**efficiency (how to know and measure whether it is working as planned)
=U

[[Category: Wiki]]
[[Category: Standards]]

Wiki Curation

2011-06-22T18:11:12Z

Dave Menninger:

[[category:Wiki Curation]]

The wiki is ongoing work, and the forces of chaos must be held back on an ongoing basis as when users add new pages they are rarely aquainted with how to use a wiki. Secondly, trying to get users to correctly categorize pages or wikify links every single time when they make new ones etc. is a lost cause as it is a real hassle for them.

On Wikipedia there are the content creators, and then there is the organizational work. Content creators should try to do as much of the organizational work as they can, but some always remains undone.

The Wiki curation team [[Development Team]] helps with this. This page is is a resource for the team and other wiki users.

=User levels=
*Creator
*Administrator
*beurocrat
Etc.

=Management tools available to wiki curators=

=Bots=

=Useful tips and tricks an reading on how to use the WikiMedia software=

*Capitalization matters. Category:Steam_Engine is not the same category as Category:Steam_engine. Same deal for page titles.

*The current approach to organizing things on the OSE wike depends on categorization.

-To put a page in a category, add <nowiki>[[category:whatever]]</nowiki> to the top of the page.

- To create a subcategory within another category, simply go to the subcategory-to-be page, click edit and add <nowiki>[[category:anothercategory]]</nowiki> to the page.

- Pages can be in as many different categories as you wish.

- Categories are created automatically whenever you put a page more than one page in a category.

The wikimedia software used for OSE is the same open source software used on wikipedia. It looks
simple but it is a vast and powerful piece of software with many built in tools.

To view the current tree of categories see [[special:categorytree]] and enter "main" in the box.

Here is some reading that Curators will likely find interesting:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Category

[[Category:Wiki]]

Wiki Curators

2011-06-22T18:10:05Z

Dave Menninger:

{{breadcrumb|Wiki}}

{{under construction}}

{{Mergeto|Development Team}}

The following people are being assigned to maintain specific parts of the wiki:

* [[Crash Course]] curators - Nate Ayers, [[Nikolay Georgiev]] (yes) ?
* [[Support OSE]] curator - ?
* [[Main Page]] curator - Isaiah?

[[Category: Policies]]

User:Dave Menninger

2011-06-22T18:04:29Z

Dave Menninger:

Dave Menninger

2011-06-22T17:55:20Z

Dave Menninger: Redirected page to User:Dave Menninger

#REDIRECT [[User:Dave Menninger]]

Team

2011-06-22T17:54:34Z

Dave Menninger: /* Wiki Curators */

*Note: The [[:Category: Team Culturing]] lists the Team Culturing Surveys of participants describing their roles and interests in this project.
*Please '''read the page''' on [[Team Culturing]] and '''fill out the survey''' (as described on that page) if you want to join one of the teams.

=Core Team=

*[[Marcin Jakubowski]] - OSE Founder and Director
*[[Isaiah Saxon]] – Media Director
*[[Adrian Hong]] - Advisor
*[[Julia Valentine]] - Resource Development, Donor Relations
*[[Luis Diaz]] - Business Consultant
*[[Angel Rodriguez]] - Operations Manager
*[[Elifarley Cruz]] - Web Administrator

=Board of Advisors=
*[[Judith Katz]] - Community Development
*[[Adrian Hong]] - Organizational Advisor
*

=Project Leaders=

*[[Jershonda Baker]] - lathe component of Multimachine; joined June, 2011
*[[Eric MacNeil]] - CNC multimachine; joined April, 2011
*[[Sebastian Tsakok]] - [[Ironworker]] design and CAD, joined May, 2011
*[[Mark J Norton]] - [[Modern Steam Engine]], joined April, 2011
*[[Eerik Wissens]] - [[Solar Concentrator]], joined April, 2011
*[[Marcin Jakubowski]] - [[CNC Torch/Router Table]], [[Tractor]], [[Micro Tractor]] joined 2004
*[[Mark Rudnicki]] - [[Open Source Car]], Joined April, 2011
*[[Blair Evans]] - [[CNC Circuit Mill]], Joined April, 2011
*[[Yoonseo Kang]] - [[Industrial Robot]], Joined April, 2011
*[[Tim Corrigan]] - [[Universal Power Supply]], Joined April 2011
*[[Peter Koeleman]] - [[3D Printer]], Joined 2009

=CAD Team=

*[[Chris Fornof]] - Factor e Farm
*[[Damien Gendron]] - Senior Draftsman by trade - 3D Solid Modeling - construction drawings
*[[Rick Berry]] - fabrication drawings for CEB press
*[[Mark Hopewell]] - AutoCAD, Modeling, Drawing
*[[Looffy Chen]] - CAD drawing, organizing and editing wiki, Chinese website
*[[William CleaverH]]
*[[Marcin Jakubowski]] - AutoCAD Inventor on a 2.6Ghz HP Pavilion g7-1075dx Notebook, in-house at Factor e Farm
*[[Chet Bowling]]?
*[[Lars Hasselblad Torres]] - [http://globalchallenge.mit.edu/ MIT Global Challenge]

More info at the [[Development_Team/CAD_Team|CAD Team]] Page.

=Instructionals Team=

=Fabrication Documentation Team (Factor e Farm)=
*[[Marcin Jakubowski]]
*[[Chris Fornof]]
*[[Louis_Theodore_Getterman_IV]]

=Technical Review Team=

See [[GVCS Technical Review Team]]

=GVCS Team: Subject Matter Experts and Co-developers=

*[[Tim Corrigan]] - inverter component of [[Universal Power Supply]], joined April, 2011
*[[Randy Childers]] - peltier cell option for solar thermal electric concentrator
*[[Eerik Wissenz]] - solar turbine project - he has a working near-product release of a dish system for electricity - [[Solarfire]]
*[[Mark Rudnicki]] - [[Open Source Car]]
*[[Rich Jergenson]] - Grid Beam vehicles
*[[Thad Getterman]] - computer vision for [[Torch Table]]
*[[Nikolay Georgiev]] - [[Crowdmap]] for the GVCS development team
*[[AJ Manoulian]] - [[Open Source Charge Controller]], joined April, 2011
*[[Sam Putnam]], [[Makerbeam]]
*[[Edward McCullough]], [[McCullough and Associates]]– Extraction of aluminum from clay
*Ben Cooper, [[Community for Tomorrow]]
*[[Andrew Langford]], [http://www.gaiauniversity.org/ GAIA University]
*[[Dan Granett]] - Precision CNC Multimachine
*[[Sid Jordan]] - fabrication and hot metal process development; prototyping & design
*[[Karl Petersen]] - modern steam engine, steam generator, gasifier burner
*[[Addie and Stefan]] - [[Nortd Labs]] - Laser Cutter, [[Lasersaur]], stepper motor controls?
*[[Paul Nonn]] - high frequency and other power supplies; Induction Furnace, Plasma Cutter
*[[George Gleason]] - Cement Mixer
*[[James Jones]] – [[CubeSpawn]] fabrication toolchain development; proposed platform for CNC Mill; prototyping
*[[Ross Wilkinson]] - moldless casting, continuous casting
*[[Brooke Lehman]] - contacts to [http://www.yansa.org/ Yansa] leadership
*[[Bill Haessly]] - plastic extruder
*[[Bryan Burgess]] - combine
*[[Sweiger]] - fabrication

*[[John Stupica]] - project management
*[[Damien Gendron]] - General Fabrication - CNC Machining

=Prototyping and Testing=

*[[William Cleaver]] - LifeTrac CAD, CAM
*[[Solar Concentrator]] - Daan van Geijlswijk, McCullough contacts, Erin Rosenthal contacts, John Ellis->Tammy Tamson of Google Solar
*[[RepRap]] – Peter Koeleman prototyping of both Darwin and Mendel versions1
*[[Alex Perry]], FLOFarm - sawmill design and prototyping
*[[Maya Whitner]] -
*[[Larry Rand]] - oxyhydrogen torch metal cutting systems
*[[Brandin Watson]] - well-drilling rig
*[[Sweiger Shop]], Missouri
*[[Open Source Flour Mill]]
*[[Torch Table]] - Thad Getterman
*[[DC Battery Charger]] - Michael Sklar
*[[Zuzanna Drozdz]] - Universal Seeder
*[[Rosa Chavez-Adams]], [[David Garrett]], [[Larry Rand]] - field testing of Tractor/CEB/Pulverizer package

=Wiki Curators=

* [[Elifarley Cruz]] - admin for wiki, blog, and forums
* [[Mark J Norton]] - Modern Steam Engine Curator
* [[GVCS Master Index]] Curator - [[Miquel Torres]]
* GVCS [[Proposal 2012]] Curator - [[Miquel Torres]]
* [[Lucas Gonzalez]] - Translations Curator
* [[Nikolay Georgiev]] - [[Crash Course]] and [[Team Culturing]] curator
* Looking for a [[True_Fans_Curator]]
* [[Floyd Earl Smith]] - CEB Product Page curator
* [[Marie Byleen]] - Main Page Curator?
* [[Product Ecologies]] wiki page curator, and [[Instructional Page Template]] standards development - [[Isaiah Saxon]]
* [[William Cleaver]] - LifeTrac forum moderator
* [[Floyd Earl Smith]] - ?
* [[Karl Petersen]] - 1 kW Modern Steam Engine Generator forum moderator?
* [[Lloyd Minick]] - Education Forum moderator
* [[Support OSE]] curator - ?
* [http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/User:Gregortheinventor Gregor Folouk] - General.
* [[Dave Menninger]]

New wiki curators should see [[Wiki Curation]] to get started.

=Forum Moderators=

*[[Elifarley Cruz]], [[Ori Shmolovsky]], [[Lucas Gonzalez]], [[Damien Gendron]] - General Forum moderators?
*[[Elifarley Cruz]] - General Discussion
*[[Julia Valentine]] - Resource Development (technical)
*[[Marcin Jakubowsk]] - LifeTrac, Torch Table
*[[Alex of Flofarm]] - Dimensional sawmill forum moderator
*[[Marcin Jakubowski]] - CNC Torch table, LifeTrac, Torch Table forum moderator
*[[Bryan Burgess]] - Microcombine forum moderator

See [[Forum Moderator Duties]]

=IT Team=
See the [[Development Team/IT Team|IT Team]] page for more information on this team.

See the list of current members at [[:Category: IT team member]]

Some of them are:
*[[Eerik Wissenz]]
*[[Keith Weinberg]] - contacted on 4/16/11
*[[Nikolay Georgiev]] - [[Crash Course]] curator
*[[Thad Getterman]] - Facebook Curator
*[[Jeb Bateman]] - Twitter @OSEcology
*[[Marcin Jakubowski]],[[Floyd Earl Smith]] - Twitter
*[[Michael Koch]] - [[Open+Pario]] repository
*[[Elifarley Cruz]] - [http://www.linkedin.com/companies/open-source-ecology Linkedin] page for OSE
*[[David Richards]] - GVCS tools page
*[[Wojtek Szywalski]] - Web Design, TEDxKrakow

=Documentation and Video Instructionals Team=
*[[Tristan Waldroop]] - Animations
*[[Michal Napierzynski]] - Instructionals Production (from [http://dobraidea.pl/2011/04/marcin-jakubowski-open-source-ecology/ DobraIdea.com])
*[[Curt Beckmann]] - documentation dedicated project visits
*[[Rick Berry]] - professional fabrication drawings for [[The Liberator]] CEB Press
*[[Floyd Smith]] - CEB [[Product Template]]
*[[Rosa Chavez-Adams]] - documentation of CEB construction, June-July, 2011
*

=Academic Research and Teams=

*[[Andrew Langford]] - development of Ph.D. programs on the GVCS at [[Gaia University]]
*[[Lloyd Minnick]] - development of holistic GVCS-based curriculum
*[[Juliet Schor]], author, Professor, Boston College - has received a McArthur Fellowship to do a case study on the development of distributive economic systems, with case study of [[Factor e Farm]]
*Lars, [[MIT Global Challenge]]

=Fabrication Team=
*[[Marcin Jakubowski]]
*[[Maya Whitner]]
*[[Jefferson Howery]]

=Natural Building Team=
*[[Pawel Sroczynski]]- [[Cohabitat Group]], modular housing
*[[Bjorn Kierulf]] - passive natural housing
*[[Max Vittrup]] - Big Bale

=TED Fellows Talk Review Team (4 Minutes only)=
*[[Isaiah Saxon]]
*[[Rebecca Porteous]], Strategic Networking Consultant

=Resource Development Team and Donor Relations (needs a project manager)=
*See [[Resource Development Team]]

=Press Team=
*[[Leifur Thor]]
*[[Nikolay Georgiev]]

=Other=

==Proposal Audience==

*Bob Berkebile
*Puck Mickleby
*Tim O'Reilly and Saul
*Bill G.
*Glen Gall, Ohio branch of OSE

Village Design Integrated Proposal
*Lloyd Kahn, Shelter
*Jay Baldwin, Whole Earth Catalog
*Bob Berkebile, BNIM Architects

Subject Matter Expert Recruiting
*Micah from Kendra
*Larry Santoyo
*Sergio Lub

Bay Area Networking
*Jay Baldwin
*Sam Putnam
*Julian Nachtigal, parisoma innovation loft

*Open Source Hardware License endorser list - http://freedomdefined.org/OSHW

== Translation team ==

Not sure if there's a specific page for the [[Translation]] team. I think there shouldn't be. I'm creating it under "others" pending validation by others. [[User:LucasG|LucasG]] See above under wiki and forum curators. Please fill out [[Team Culturing]] survey - the more we know about you, the more [[Development Process Transparency]]. Start filling in your team members here or request them to do so.

* [[User:LucasG|Lucas González]] -

[[Category:People]]

Talk:Volunteer at Factor e Farm

2011-06-22T17:51:28Z

Dave Menninger: /* double redirect */ new section

Suggestion: Identify what is involved in the sponsorship of these projects... I have no idea what a chinampa was until I hit wikipedia. Your site doesn't discuss the construction nor did I find any vids of same.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinampa

I'm very interested in your project(s)!--[[User:Dennis|Dennis]] 09:33, 8 March 2009 (PDT)

----
I think all of these items need more description. I can help but would need a lot of input from the developers of these ideas to give me a better idea of what in fact is involved. --[[User:Dennis|Dennis]] 18:30, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

* Build an Organoponic Raise Bed Remotely $225
* Build a Chinampa Remotely $1,000
* Build a Solar Cube Shelter Remotely $430
* Chick Hatching Remotely $51
* Build a Heavy Hoe Remotely $75
* Micro-Berm Around a Tree Remotely $50
* Remote Propagation of rasberry and other plants $50
* Make Biodiesel Remotely $85

Labor Volunteering (if you just want to visit to see how Factor e Farm works) Please send email before paying to ensure scheduled visit.

* Build a Raised Bed during your visit $50, takes one full day
* Build a Solar Cube Shelter during your visit $50, takes one full day
* Build Heavy Hoe $50, takes 1 hour, must run torch, grinder and welder
* Micro-Berm Around Tree $50, takes 1 hour
* Propagation of rasberry and other plants $50, takes 1 hour (in early spring)
* Make Biodeisel $50 takes one day

Project Volunteering Labor and Materials Purchase (if you're seriously considering becoming a part of Factor e Farm)

* You Build Your Factor e Farm Solar Cube $380 pre-paid, non-refundable, food is $10/day for length of visit
* You Build Your Factor e Farm Organoponic Raised Bed $175 pre-paid, non-refundable, food is $10/day for length of visit

== double redirect ==

I tried to resolved a double-redirect on this page, but the page is locked for editing. It should redirect to [[Get Involved]] instead of to [[Volunteer]]. [[User:Dave Menninger|Dave Menninger]] 10:51, 22 June 2011 (PDT)

User:Dave Menninger

2011-06-22T17:42:50Z

Dave Menninger: Created page with "Hello, I'm Dave Menninger. I'm interested in contributing to the documentation of the project. I'd especially like to work on Templates and Categorization. The tool that I've..."