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OSEMidMO/CEC

2009-03-02T00:33:27Z

Dikjosef:

=Columbia Exchange Circle=

''Hey, sorry, forgot about this page! The CEC has morphed substantially into a totally different thing. I wrote that page months and months ago when I was still cultivating interest.

Much has happened since and the system is active. We are looking to garner task forces to get out the word, to get folks orientated and involved. Check out "Outreach" and "Publicity" sections for more info on how you can get involved.

Here is an idea of what its all about in its latest stage:

==Software==
''Last Updated - --[[User:Dikjosef|Richard]] 16:33, 1 March 2009 (PST)''

Vince Foley has taken on a lot of programming work lately, adapting [[www.oscurrency.org| OSCurrency]], developed by the [[www.austintimeexchange.org|Austin Time Exchange]], to our uses. It is based on the [[www.insoshi.org|Insoshi]] Social Networking platform, which somewhat resembles a simple version of facebook (they are always adding features though!). Vince has put in a lot of effort adding and tweaking features, sprucing up the interface and working on content. Its looking very nice and has been launched as of yesterday. Check it out at http://www.comoexchange.org . '''Please only sign up if you are in the Columbia, MO area.'''. In the future we intend to possibly find ways to extend this software to other nearby regions and bridge our exchanges. Because it is built in ruby-on rails, on-the-fly changes and tweaks will be easier to implement. There are some features we look forward to adding down the road, but what we have currently is pretty robust to start with.

===Features:===

====Profiles====
Here you select a name, upload a photograph (you can have a few), input a secure email address as your login, and select skills from a list that will go into the skillbank. We hope to add neighborhood networks to profiles as well. You also have lots of room for a description of whatever length you desire. When folks or you visit your profile they can see all this info (except the email), and also what offers and requests you have that are active. There is no adding or removing friends here, we are all friends automatically! Also, there is an area to post comments.

====Balance and Activity====
Also, listed is your balance and total activity. This is instrumental in gauging how balanced a user is at any point you view their profile.'' For example, if they have 300 marbles in total activity, and they are at -40, then you know that where they stand is fine for the system. However, you can obviously tell that someone who is at -50 and has 50 in activity has some 'splainin to do. Users can self monitor the system and ask ''hey, what have you to offer?'' ''' it might just be that they are looking for the right request or are shy about their skills. This is where we can encourage and foster our community's ability to find ways to help eachother out. You can see what skills they have to offer and say: ''Hey, I've always wanted to learn how to bake bread!'' and suddenly, that person in 'commitment' has learned of a way to give back to the system.
As this functions, no one is ever in debt. Vince makes this apparent on the website among the explanatory content.

====Exchanging====
Each is a main tab wherein you can explore all of what has been recently offered or requested on the system (everything is transparent here!). It displays a list with an image and name, title of offer or request, and a foreshortened description. When you click on the title, it takes you to the offer or request page, with a unique url, and there you can make bids on the offer or request.

'''Creating an Offer or Request'''
Going to the offer or request page, all you need to do is click a button and start creating a request or offer. You can make these as simple or fancy if you want. You can set a date for how long it is available for, give a cost estimate, and accept multiple bids. You can also re-edit or deactivate and then reactivate if you like as well.

'''Offer/Request bidding and exchange function'''
So when you post an offer or request, folks can bid on the item. If the poster accepts, then a few confirmations happen on both sides to ensure the transaction is mutual. During the last two confirmations the amount cannot change.

'''Reccomendations'''
For every transaction that happens, there is the ability for the bidder to give a thumbs up for the good or service with a short description why. This we hope will give people plenty of room to establish repor among users in the system. These will all be reviewable on the profile as long as the offer is active.

'''Gift Exchange or Direct Transfer'''
With this, all you have to do is visit someones profile and click 'Transfer Gift Marbles'. You can send them credits with a short description. This can be used for many things, such as adjusting a past exchange (that jam was a lot tastier than i imagined! +1), making an informal exchange (+10 for CRT monitor, +10 for 8 hay bales), or just for a gift.

====Other Useful Features====

'''Skills Base'''
Here, a list of parent categories with subcategories is displayed. When you click on a subcategory, all the skillholders (all folks who list that skill or good in their profile) are displayed, as well as recent offer and request activity in that subcategory. This has a lot of use for everyone regardless of how active they are in the system.

'''Messaging'''
An inbox, sent messages, and trashcan, the ability to send messages from peoples profiles all exists. We figure that this is useful for negotiating and for exchanging information about scheduling and locations. Also, people may be able to use this for direct bartering.

'''Events'''
Here, anyone can create an event with a short description, read about events that are going on, even click on a calendar which shows whats going on that day. You can set dates and times, and list yourself as attending or not attending. All events are displayed. We hope to use this feature for informal markets, orientations, potlucks, workshops, etc. This could become a very useful tool for the community who uses CEC to bring people together to exchange skills, marbles, and to enjoy time together and meet folks in their area.

'''Activity'''
A list on the side of the page under most tabs displays all posts, events, transfers, comments, new categories created, forum posts, etc. This way people can easily see whats going been going on lately. It gives them a chance to catch the hot mustard before it runs out or help organize a potluck.

'''Forum'''
This we intend to somehow connect to the knowledge exchange that we will discuss at OSN mid missouri - tools to thrive. For now, you can create topics, and post beneath them. The propensity to create multiple topic categories is implicit as well. For now, we will use this to get feedback, to see what ideas and questions people have, and to exchange knowledge and discuss topics of interest in general.

==Neighborhood/Area - based Management and Outreach==
''(last updated: --[[User:Dikjosef|Richard]] 16:33, 1 March 2009 (PST))''

We are interested in cultivating interest by outreach efforts within the community. A proposed idea is to have neighborhood/area task forces of 3 to 6 people that get people involved, show them the ropes, ensure that they are keeping appropriately balanced and help them to become good members. From this level of organization, neighborhood familiarity and interdependence can be built via events and exchanges. The neighborhood task forces can gather for larger meetings and deliberations on new features, system functionality and guidelines.
Message me on CEC if you are interested in starting or joining one of these groups.

A possibility is that we could create and distributed packets of fliers, information and ideas for folks who are interested in starting one of these. More information is coming soon!

We hope to get the largest cross-section of the community involved as possible. The more diversified users are, the more they will have to offer eachother and the more it will offer towards building community. This gives a unique opportunity to build these important bonds in a time when it matters most.

There also exists the propensity to involve columbia's neighborhood associations in the CEC as well. This could be very important in establishing CEC's presence within the community.

==Publicity==

We need folks to help us to get the word out via fliers, stickers, posters to encourage folks to sign up and attend orientations, as well as organize other CEC related events. Vince is working on a flier right now, actually. Also, we could use some help with media relations. I have been successful in doing some of this but its not easy. Below is a link to a radio show I did two months ago on KOPN. There are plenty of journalists and radio hosts in town chomping at the bit for this kind of stuff, so why not reel them in? If done the right way, this could spread activity and support for CEC and related endeavours easily.

Also, PSAs, Press Releases, social networking activity as well as informal or social marketing are important to. Nothings better than a little word of mouth in this town.

==Links:==
===Software===
[[www.insoshi.org|Insoshi]] - Open Source, Ruby on Rails Based Social Networking Platform
[[www.oscurrency.org| OSCurrency]] - A project to bring community currency features to Insoshi initiated by:
[[www.austintimeexchange.org|Austin Time Exchange]] - The first system to implement OSCurrency
'''
[[www.comoexchange.org|Columbia Exchange Circle]] - Thats us! Thanks Vince for hosting!
'''
===Press===
[[http://kopn.org/a/showrss3.php?n=../aa/rss/Evening_Edition.xml| Richard on KOPN talking about CEC, OSE, Factor E Farm, and Tools to Thrive]]

===Planning===
====Meeting Minutes:====

CECmtg-02-07-09

2009-02-08T05:33:51Z

Dikjosef:

Hey everybody! We had an incredibly productive meeting today. We will have orientation meetings in several weeks as the site goes online, but for now we have a lot of work to do laying a foundation, creating content and designing the functionality of the system, and planning outreach and publicity efforts.

'''1. Content creation''' We decided that though some business card or quarter sheet size lit might be helpful, conservation of paper plus a plethora of other reasons led us to move towards providing as much online explanatory and introductory information as possible. We will have FAQs, textual and visual examples, orientation materials, processural explanations, resources and links, all up in your grill before you even join the exchange. It'll be INTENSE!

(BTW if you want to collaborate on textual or visual content, let me know or go to http://dev.comoexchange.org, sign up, and check out the forum, and collaborate on all of this stuff on there. It wont work perfectly, as it is in development, however the debugging software will automatically submit problems to vince so he can fix them and tweak the site functions. We will be killing two or three birds with one stone, so to speak.

'''2. Unit name''' We have a running poll for the unit name (i.e. what the LETS credits will be called, instead of just credits)! http://doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=rnu37hu82hra55rp will take you to a simple polling mechanism where you can vote on either 'marbles', 'seeds' or 'shares'. My idea for 'opposums' fell on flat ears, I wonder why!

'''3. Membership Rules''' This is still being decided on somewhat. We might model Freecycle by having people submit membership requests, and then, unless someone can vouch for them, contact them to detect a sign of life and local residence. Other ideas are member invites (like Gmail), or, if it gets real out of hand and/or we run to legitmacy problems, paper applications may be in order (like job applications). This is something that will necessitate adaptivity down the road.

'''4. Ratios''' We will be suggesting a ratio of exchange at 10 USDollars = 1 Hour = 10 LETS Units . This is not officially tied by any means, and may have a bit more sway once (and IF) we integrate businesses down the road (several months). Because of the way a mutual credit system works, the REAL value is in the activity of the system, and more importanly, the skills, time and knowledge that people put into their daily lives.

'''5. Abuse Prevention''' We will be setting guidelines for many reasons. If people are using this system for tax evasion (exchanges that must be taxed will be for businesses, professional services, or $1000 of regularized economic activity annually) they WILL be banned temporarily (with a three strike rule) because of reasons of liability, legitimacy and fairness. ALSO, we will situationally advise and/or take action over people who are too far in commitment (below zero, NOT debt. 0 = stasis point) or who have way too much overaccumulation. If they have a lot of activity and can guarantee future balanced activity (e.g. market gardeners), it will be passable, however consistent abusive behavior will not be tolerated for the good of other system memebers. We will explain this in greater detail on the website.

'''6. Knowledge Exchange and Skillbase''' We will be engineering the site to provide not only a system of exchange, but a powerful community software tool for sharing knowledge, creating databases of community skills, organizing workshops, markets and potlucks, and even more. This will be a very unique strength of the CEC among comparable systems and could allow us to emerge as a very legitmate force in our nations transition into a community of sustainability, justice and community.

Again, let us know if you are interested in creating content, doing community outreach or publicity, and managing the site. We got a lot of fun work to do and every bit of help will push us further towards our goals. A key aspect is ensuring that not just the campus community but the community as a whole is involved and active and cooperatively leading this project, to ensure its life and livelihood well into uncertain but bold futures. Godspeed.

Richard Schulte
Richard.J.Schulte@gmail.com

CECmtg-02-07-09

2009-02-08T05:30:34Z

Dikjosef:

Hey everybody! We had an incredibly productive meeting today. We will have orientation meetings in several weeks as the site goes online, but for now we have a lot of work to do laying a foundation, creating content and designing the functionality of the system, and planning outreach and publicity efforts.

'''1. Content creation''' We decided that though some business card or quarter sheet size lit might be helpful, conservation of paper plus a plethora of other reasons led us to move towards providing as much online explanatory and introductory information as possible. We will have FAQs, textual and visual examples, orientation materials, processural explanations, resources and links, all up in your grill before you even join the exchange. It'll be INTENSE!

(BTW if you want to collaborate on textual or visual content, let me know or go to http://dev.comoexchange.org, sign up, and check out the forum, and collaborate on all of this stuff on there. It wont work perfectly, as it is in development, however the debugging software will automatically submit problems to vince so he can fix them and tweak the site functions. We will be killing two or three birds with one stone, so to speak.

'''2. Unit name''' We have a running poll for the unit name (i.e. what the LETS credits will be called, instead of credits)! http://doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=rnu37hu82hra55rp will take you to an simple polling mechanism where you can vote on either 'marbles', 'seeds' or 'shares'. My idea for 'opposums' went fell on flat ears, I wonder why!

'''3. Membership Rules''' This is still being decided on somewhat. We might model Freecycle by having people submit membership requests, and then, unless someone can vouch for them, contact them to detect a sign of life and local residence. Other ideas are member invites (like Gmail), or, if it gets real out of hand and/or we run to legitmacy problems, paper applications may be in order (like job applications). This is something that will necessitate adaptivity down the road.

'''4. Ratios''' We will be suggesting a ratio of exchange at 10 USDollars = 1 Hour = 10 LETS Units . This is not officially tied by any means, and may have a bit more sway once (and IF) we integrate businesses down the road (several months). Because of the way a mutual credit system works, the REAL value is in the activity of the system, and more importanly, the skills, time and knowledge that people put into their daily lives.

'''5. Abuse Prevention''' We will be setting guidelines for many reasons. If people are using this system for tax evasion (exchanges that must be taxed will be for businesses, professional services, or $1000 of regularized economic activity annually) they WILL be banned temporarily (with a three strike rule) because of reasons of liability, legitimacy and fairness. ALSO, we will situationally advise and/or take action over people who are too far in commitment (below zero, NOT debt. 0 = stasis point) or who have way too much overaccumulation. If they have a lot of activity and can guarantee future balanced activity (e.g. market gardeners), it will be passable, however consistent abusive behavior will not be tolerated for the good of other system memebers. We will explain this in greater detail on the website.

'''6. Knowledge Exchange and Skillbase''' We will be engineering the site to provide not only a system of exchange, but a powerful community software tool for sharing knowledge, creating databases of community skills, organizing workshops, markets and potlucks, and even more. This will be a very unique strength of the CEC among comparable systems and could allow us to emerge as a very legitmate force in our nations transition into a community of sustainability, justice and community.

Again, let us know if you are interested in creating content, doing community outreach or publicity, and managing the site. We got a lot of fun work to do and every bit of help will push us further towards our goals. A key aspect is ensuring that not just the campus community but the community as a whole is involved and active and cooperatively leading this project, to ensure its life and livelihood well into uncertain but bold futures. Godspeed.

Richard Schulte
Richard.J.Schulte@gmail.com

CECmtg-02-07-09

2009-02-08T05:28:12Z

Dikjosef:

Hey everybody! We had an incredibly productive meeting today. We will have orientation meetings in several weeks as the site goes online, but for now we have a lot of work to do laying a foundation, creating content and designing the functionality of the system, and planning outreach and publicity efforts.

'''1. Content creation''' We decided that though some business card or quarter sheet size lit might be helpful, conservation of paper plus a plethora of other reasons led us to move towards providing as much online explanatory and introductory information as possible. We will have FAQs, textual and visual examples, orientation materials, processural explanations, resources and links, all up in your grill before you even join the exchange. It'll be INTENSE!

(BTW if you want to collaborate on textual or visual content, let me know or go to http://dev.comoexchange.org, sign up, and check out the forum, and collaborate on all of this stuff on there. It wont work perfectly, as it is in development, however the debugging software will automatically submit problems to vince so he can fix them and tweak the site functions. We will be killing two or three birds with one stone, so to speak.

'''2. Unit name''' We have a running poll for the unit name (i.e. what the LETS credits will be called, instead of credits)! http://doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=rnu37hu82hra55rp will take you to an simple polling mechanism where you can vote on either 'marbles', 'seeds' or 'shares'. My idea for 'opposums' went fell on flat ears, I wonder why!

'''3. Membership Rules''' This is still being decided on somewhat. We might model Freecycle by having people submit membership requests, and then, unless someone can vouch for them, contact them to detect a sign of life and local residence. Other ideas are member invites (like Gmail), or, if it gets real out of hand and/or we run to legitmacy problems, paper applications may be in order (like job applications). This is something that will necessitate adaptivity down the road.

'''4. Ratios''' We will be suggesting a ratio of exchange at 10 USDollars = 1 Hour = 10 LETS Units . This is not officially tied by any means, and may have a bit more sway once (and IF) we integrate businesses down the road (several months). Because of the way a mutual credit system works, the REAL value is in the activity of the system, and more importanly, the skills, time and knowledge that people put into their daily lives.

'''5. Abuse Prevention''' We will be setting guidelines for many reasons. If people are using this system for tax evasion (exchanges that must be taxed will be for businesses, professional services, or $1000 of regularized economic activity annually) they WILL be banned temporarily (with a three strike rule) because of reasons of liability, legitimacy and fairness. ALSO, we will situationally advise and/or take action over people who are too far in commitment (below zero, NOT debt. 0 = stasis point) or who have way too much overaccumulation. If they have a lot of activity and can guarantee future balanced activity (e.g. market gardeners), it will be passable, however consistent abusive behavior will not be tolerated for the good of other system memebers. We will explain this in greater detail on the website.

'''6. Knowledge Exchange and Skillbase''' We will be engineering the site to provide not only a system of exchange, but a powerful community software tool for sharing knowledge, creating databases of community skills, organizing workshops, markets and potlucks, and even more. This will be a very unique strength of the CEC among comparable systems and could allow us to emerge as a very legitmate force in our nations transition into a future of sustainability, justice and community.

Again, let us know if you are interested in creating content, doing community outreach or publicity, and managing the site. We got a lot of fun work to do and every bit of help will push us further towards our goals. A key aspect is ensuring that not just the campus community but the community as a whole is involved and active and cooperatively leading this project, to ensure its life and livelihood well into uncertain but brave futures. Godspeed.

Richard Schulte
Richard.J.Schulte@gmail.com

CECmtg-02-07-09

2009-02-08T05:27:04Z

Dikjosef: New page: Hey everybody! We had an incredibly productive meeting today. It was almost scary what we accomplished. We will have orientation meetings in several weeks as the site goes online, but fo...

Hey everybody! We had an incredibly productive meeting today. It was almost scary what we accomplished. We will have orientation meetings in several weeks as the site goes online, but for now we have a lot of work to do laying a foundation, creating content and designing the functionality of the system, and planning outreach and publicity efforts.

'''1. Content creation''' We decided that though some business card or quarter sheet size lit might be helpful, conservation of paper plus a plethora of other reasons led us to move towards providing as much online explanatory and introductory information as possible. We will have FAQs, textual and visual examples, orientation materials, processural explanations, resources and links, all up in your grill before you even join the exchange. It'll be INTENSE!

(BTW if you want to collaborate on textual or visual content, let me know or go to http://dev.comoexchange.org, sign up, and check out the forum, and collaborate on all of this stuff on there. It wont work perfectly, as it is in development, however the debugging software will automatically submit problems to vince so he can fix them and tweak the site functions. We will be killing two or three birds with one stone, so to speak.

'''2. Unit name''' We have a running poll for the unit name (i.e. what the LETS credits will be called, instead of credits)! http://doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=rnu37hu82hra55rp will take you to an simple polling mechanism where you can vote on either 'marbles', 'seeds' or 'shares'. My idea for 'opposums' went fell on flat ears, I wonder why!

'''3. Membership Rules''' This is still being decided on somewhat. We might model Freecycle by having people submit membership requests, and then, unless someone can vouch for them, contact them to detect a sign of life and local residence. Other ideas are member invites (like Gmail), or, if it gets real out of hand and/or we run to legitmacy problems, paper applications may be in order (like job applications). This is something that will necessitate adaptivity down the road.

'''4. Ratios''' We will be suggesting a ratio of exchange at 10 USDollars = 1 Hour = 10 LETS Units . This is not officially tied by any means, and may have a bit more sway once (and IF) we integrate businesses down the road (several months). Because of the way a mutual credit system works, the REAL value is in the activity of the system, and more importanly, the skills, time and knowledge that people put into their daily lives.

'''5. Abuse Prevention''' We will be setting guidelines for many reasons. If people are using this system for tax evasion (exchanges that must be taxed will be for businesses, professional services, or $1000 of regularized economic activity annually) they WILL be banned temporarily (with a three strike rule) because of reasons of liability, legitimacy and fairness. ALSO, we will situationally advise and/or take action over people who are too far in commitment (below zero, NOT debt. 0 = stasis point) or who have way too much overaccumulation. If they have a lot of activity and can guarantee future balanced activity (e.g. market gardeners), it will be passable, however consistent abusive behavior will not be tolerated for the good of other system memebers. We will explain this in greater detail on the website.

'''6. Knowledge Exchange and Skillbase''' We will be engineering the site to provide not only a system of exchange, but a powerful community software tool for sharing knowledge, creating databases of community skills, organizing workshops, markets and potlucks, and even more. This will be a very unique strength of the CEC among comparable systems and could allow us to emerge as a very legitmate force in our nations transition into a future of sustainability, justice and community.

Again, let us know if you are interested in creating content, doing community outreach or publicity, and managing the site. We got a lot of fun work to do and every bit of help will push us further towards our goals. A key aspect is ensuring that not just the campus community but the community as a whole is involved and active and cooperatively leading this project, to ensure its life and livelihood well into uncertain but brave futures. Godspeed.

Richard Schulte
Richard.J.Schulte@gmail.com

CECmtg-01-15-09

2009-01-18T22:52:12Z

Dikjosef: /* Internal links: */

=Columbia Exchange Circle Minutes=

==Mtg Minutes 01/15/09==
We explained the rudiments of both LETS and Timebanking, getting across the basic why, what, etc. We found it important to make it understood how individual exchanges happen.

-Idea- @ infosession after LETS is established, show an exchange happening right there.

Also of concern was how the value of the LETS credits is set. There were ideas about basing them on urban agriculture production, etc. The idea of using smallscale community currencies is that the value of the currency is distributed enough for it to be relative, and to be set from transaction to transaction. Only on larger scales is it needed to have set values. There are several faqs on local exchange trading systems that explain this process more thoroughly.

However, in the future, it might be an interesting idea to base it on urban agriculture production and other tangible, real things. There are great possibilities here for situations where scrip is used widely, and possibly talking with some heavy alternative economics theorists might make this a reality. It would be a currency that would grow in value every time food is harvested, and underproduction would devalue it. There would need to be complex controls, of course.

Another important point to get across is that this is not any replacement of US Dollar systems. It is a way to promote exchanges, whether within our system or without, and to build networks and build community. People will be able to save money as they earn goods helping out in their community in their spare time. It will give us an economic cushion to the blows US Dollars may be facing in the future. It is a way to organize people in their community around putting their shoulders to the wheel when it comes to creating sustainable and viable local economies.

Overwhelmingly, people were opposed to the idea of holding many more meetings without establishing the system. Though I think we still need to work out a lot of the rudiments, and figure out a few things before we get started, I think this is a great idea. There are ways we can ensure that the system will be dynamic, and even that people can participate in how it is run.

However, this is going to take more work than we realize. We will need to hold some fundraisers to raise about $200 to buy a domain (comoexchange.org, anyone?) and run a Cyclos capable web server for 12 months. Some friends working at Carfax, whose user end is all in java (java is the language the Cyclos program runs in), offered their help in setting it up, possibly in exchange for hours or credits.

What else is there to do? We need to decide on whether we want timebanking, LETS, or both. The folks at the meetings werent everybody, but the plural system seemed to be favoured. Here, we need to decide whether there will be a set rate of exchange between these two systems or this as well will be transaction based. There are still a lot of things to work out and this will be happening in the next few weeks as we get the system up and running.

==NextSteps==
These are important next steps for the design and implementation of these systems. We will need to make formal decisions on a few things, and others are actions that we need to take and events we need to organize. This will require some delegation of tasks, and will be our first chance to earn hours/credits.

#How to raise $200 to get the system going for a year (Missourian might still host, but it might be easier to do ourselves.)
#How the system will be managed (i.e. hours for volunteers, or apply for grants for trained, paid staff)
#How the system will function (hours, LETS credits, or both, and how they will articulate)
#What we will call the LETS credits (wheels, rocks, others were suggested?)
#How the system will be promoted (fliers, presentations for associations and community groups, networking with community leaders) This stuff is especially important. Building a strong network of community based organizations and community leaders will ensure the life and effectiveness of this endeavor. It is important to get a wide community based network of members, so that it isnt subject to student turnover issues.
#How the system will articulate with the local food system, food circles network, etc.
#How the system can be used to exchange local knowledge, skills, information, and ideas

===Internal links:===

[[OSEMidMO/CEC|CEC Main]]

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2009-01-18T22:51:29Z

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2009-01-18T22:33:06Z

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2009-01-18T22:32:26Z

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OSEMidMO/CEC

2009-01-18T22:31:34Z

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=Columbia Exchange Circle=
Open Source Ecology, Mid Missouri has picked up a project to map and realize the capacities in skills and knowledge of our urban community of Columbia, Missouri. It is a project inspired by the intentions of Kip Kendrick, President of the Benton Stephens Neighborhood Association and local community organizer. The intent is to give citizens in our communities in Columbia the capacity to exchange skills, knowledge and possibly goods in a effort to build economic resilience and to strengthen Columbia economically, socially and financially. We have met several times and deliberated on several key issues. Though we intended to go door to door, conducting a community skills assessment similar to the survey drawn up by students at NorthWestern univeristy, other possibilities have emerged. Below we will document our progresses and make transparent all the goings on of this project.

==Proposed Action Plan==

Though it is not yet fully developed or decided, we have assembled a rough action plan for implementing this project.

'''Conduct an Informational Meeting''' - We wish to conduct a large informational meeting and discussion/deliberation in mid january. Folks involved have drummed up a bit of interest in the community, and gathering everyone who is interested in being involved or being a part of the exchange community would be instrumental in tailoring the project to the desires and capacities of those who would use it.

'''Assemble a Task Force''' - We also wish to assemble a task force of community members, hopefully crosscutting demographically the citizen stakeholders of the exchange network we will be implementing. We wish to ensure that this effort will train leadership to coordinate the implementation and maintenance of said network. Herein, tasks can be delegated as necessary and per personal capacity of taskforce members. We will attempt to recruit members of the task force at meetings of local organizations and associations.

'''Deliberate on Format''' - We will also make final decisions on the format of this network, and how

==Proposed Information/Exchange Format==
There will be several layers of participation in the project available to members of the network. A local newspaper (The Columbia Missourian) has offered to host the exchange network. We originally were interested in building a timebank similar to The Skillshare Network in Boulder, CO, however our interests have expanded into the LETS system.

'''Profile''' - The profile will function as an online survey, open application, and a place for discussion and ratings of the user. We will publicly encourage people to go to the website, learn about the project, and to at least post a profile. There will be many options for availability of the information, so that one can choose whether potential employers, entrepreneurs, other members, or the public can view different information. This information can include skills, interests, and what the member is willing to do in the way of employment, volunteerism, education, exchange, or just helping friends and neighbors.

'''TimeBank''' - Also, the user can decide whether or not they would want to participate in a timebanking system, and/or a LETS system mentioned below. How to negotiate the exchange of hours and credits may be a problem, and may necessitate combining the two systems as one LETS for simplicities sake. Herein, it may be advisable to have a toggle for services and goods, and combined exchanges.

The TimeBank will offer users an opportunity to share their skills in the form of exchanges, workshops and mentoring, and hopefully will add to the general economic resilience of our communities. In the profiles, a rating system will exist so that the quality of service or the character of the provider can be gauged.

'''LETS''' - Another option will be a LETS system of credit based exchange. Functioning somewhat like a barter system, except with the intermediary of a credit system, allowing indirect exchanges to take place. An interesting parallel which renders LETS a neotraditional system is the colonial general store credit system, which operated in much the same way except with a brick and mortar storehouse and proprietor instead of a website. Different possibilities exist for the regulation and sensible maintenance of this system and the timebank. The need may arise that a grant paid staffer will need to be hired to maintain this system, to answer calls, and coordinate other aspects of the project. The hope is that volunteers, earning credits or hours in the LETS or Timebank, respectively, will be able to manage the system.

'''Community Partners''' - These will be local associations, organizations, businesses and institutions who will source volunteers and employees and participate in exchanges and provide opportunities for people to earn and spend credits and hours. There is much possibility here to build capacity for the system, and in turn build capacity for these organisations and businesses.

'''Phone Buddies''' - For the elderly, those with no time or money for computers, or just for those who choose not to use computers, a system of "phone buddies" can be set up so that hours can be earned by managing and posting for non-computer using members.

== MEETING MINUTES! ==

http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=CECmtg-01-15-09

==More Information==

'''Community Capacity Inventory'''

[[http://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/publications/papers/mcc.pdf]]

[[http://www.yepp-community.org/downloads/empowerment/ABCD%20-%20The%20Capacity%20Inventory.pdf]]

'''Time Banking'''

[[Time Banking International |http://www.timebanks.org/]]

[[Time Bank in Columbia, Maryland | http://www.columbiaassociation.com/content/getinvolved/volunteering/exchange_time_bank.cfm]]

[[SkillShare in Boulder, CO | http://www.skillsharenetwork.org/modules/homepage/]]

'''LETS'''

'''Organizational Stuff'''

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_Impact_Pathways_Analysis

http://www.skillsharenetwork.org

CECmtg-01-15-09

2009-01-18T22:25:44Z

Dikjosef: /* NextSteps */

CECmtg-01-15-09

2009-01-18T22:23:59Z

Dikjosef: /* NextSteps */

=Columbia Exchange Circle Minutes=

==Mtg Minutes 01/15/09==
We explained the rudiments of both LETS and Timebanking, getting across the basic why, what, etc. We found it important to make it understood how individual exchanges happen.

-Idea- @ infosession after LETS is established, show an exchange happening right there.

Also of concern was how the value of the LETS credits is set. There were ideas about basing them on urban agriculture production, etc. The idea of using smallscale community currencies is that the value of the currency is distributed enough for it to be relative, and to be set from transaction to transaction. Only on larger scales is it needed to have set values. There are several faqs on local exchange trading systems that explain this process more thoroughly.

However, in the future, it might be an interesting idea to base it on urban agriculture production and other tangible, real things. There are great possibilities here for situations where scrip is used widely, and possibly talking with some heavy alternative economics theorists might make this a reality. It would be a currency that would grow in value every time food is harvested, and underproduction would devalue it. There would need to be complex controls, of course.

Another important point to get across is that this is not any replacement of US Dollar systems. It is a way to promote exchanges, whether within our system or without, and to build networks and build community. People will be able to save money as they earn goods helping out in their community in their spare time. It will give us an economic cushion to the blows US Dollars may be facing in the future. It is a way to organize people in their community around putting their shoulders to the wheel when it comes to creating sustainable and viable local economies.

Overwhelmingly, people were opposed to the idea of holding many more meetings without establishing the system. Though I think we still need to work out a lot of the rudiments, and figure out a few things before we get started, I think this is a great idea. There are ways we can ensure that the system will be dynamic, and even that people can participate in how it is run.

However, this is going to take more work than we realize. We will need to hold some fundraisers to raise about $200 to buy a domain (comoexchange.org, anyone?) and run a Cyclos capable web server for 12 months. Some friends working at Carfax, whose user end is all in java (java is the language the Cyclos program runs in), offered their help in setting it up, possibly in exchange for hours or credits.

What else is there to do? We need to decide on whether we want timebanking, LETS, or both. The folks at the meetings werent everybody, but the plural system seemed to be favoured. Here, we need to decide whether there will be a set rate of exchange between these two systems or this as well will be transaction based. There are still a lot of things to work out and this will be happening in the next few weeks as we get the system up and running.

==NextSteps==

#How to raise $200 to get the system going for a year (Missourian might still host, but it might be easier to do ourselves.)
#How the system will be managed (i.e. hours for volunteers, or apply for grants for trained, paid staff)
#How the system will function (hours, LETS credits, or both, and how they will articulate)
#What we will call the LETS credits (wheels, rocks, others were suggested?)
#How the system will be promoted (fliers, presentations for associations and community groups, networking with community leaders) This stuff is especially important. Building a strong network of community based organizations and community leaders will ensure the life and effectiveness of this endeavor. It is important to get a wide community based network of members, so that it isnt subject to student turnover issues.
#How the system will articulate with the local food system, food circles network, etc.
#How the system can be used to exchange local knowledge, skills, information, and ideas

CECmtg-01-15-09

2009-01-18T22:23:15Z

Dikjosef: /* Mtg Minutes 01/15/09 */

=Columbia Exchange Circle Minutes=

==Mtg Minutes 01/15/09==
We explained the rudiments of both LETS and Timebanking, getting across the basic why, what, etc. We found it important to make it understood how individual exchanges happen.

-Idea- @ infosession after LETS is established, show an exchange happening right there.

Also of concern was how the value of the LETS credits is set. There were ideas about basing them on urban agriculture production, etc. The idea of using smallscale community currencies is that the value of the currency is distributed enough for it to be relative, and to be set from transaction to transaction. Only on larger scales is it needed to have set values. There are several faqs on local exchange trading systems that explain this process more thoroughly.

However, in the future, it might be an interesting idea to base it on urban agriculture production and other tangible, real things. There are great possibilities here for situations where scrip is used widely, and possibly talking with some heavy alternative economics theorists might make this a reality. It would be a currency that would grow in value every time food is harvested, and underproduction would devalue it. There would need to be complex controls, of course.

Another important point to get across is that this is not any replacement of US Dollar systems. It is a way to promote exchanges, whether within our system or without, and to build networks and build community. People will be able to save money as they earn goods helping out in their community in their spare time. It will give us an economic cushion to the blows US Dollars may be facing in the future. It is a way to organize people in their community around putting their shoulders to the wheel when it comes to creating sustainable and viable local economies.

Overwhelmingly, people were opposed to the idea of holding many more meetings without establishing the system. Though I think we still need to work out a lot of the rudiments, and figure out a few things before we get started, I think this is a great idea. There are ways we can ensure that the system will be dynamic, and even that people can participate in how it is run.

However, this is going to take more work than we realize. We will need to hold some fundraisers to raise about $200 to buy a domain (comoexchange.org, anyone?) and run a Cyclos capable web server for 12 months. Some friends working at Carfax, whose user end is all in java (java is the language the Cyclos program runs in), offered their help in setting it up, possibly in exchange for hours or credits.

What else is there to do? We need to decide on whether we want timebanking, LETS, or both. The folks at the meetings werent everybody, but the plural system seemed to be favoured. Here, we need to decide whether there will be a set rate of exchange between these two systems or this as well will be transaction based. There are still a lot of things to work out and this will be happening in the next few weeks as we get the system up and running.

==NextSteps==

#How to raise $200 to get the system going for a year (Missourian might still host, but it might be easier to do ourselves.)

#How the system will be managed (i.e. hours for volunteers, or apply for grants for trained, paid staff)

#How the system will function (hours, LETS credits, or both, and how they will articulate)

#What we will call the LETS credits (wheels, rocks, others were suggested?)

#How the system will be promoted (fliers, presentations for associations and community groups, networking with community leaders) This stuff is especially important. Building a strong network of community based organizations and community leaders will ensure the life and effectiveness of this endeavor. It is important to get a wide community based network of members, so that it isnt subject to student turnover issues.

#How the system will articulate with the local food system, food circles network, etc.

#How the system can be used to exchange local knowledge, skills, information, and ideas

CECmtg-01-15-09

2009-01-18T19:44:47Z

Dikjosef: /* Mtg Minutes 01/15/09 */

CECmtg-01-15-09

2009-01-18T19:23:26Z

Dikjosef: New page: =Columbia Exchange Circle Minutes= ==Mtg Minutes 01/15/09== We explained the rudiments of both LETS and Timebanking, getting across the basic why, what, etc. We found it important to mak...

OSEMidMO/CEC

2008-12-29T05:46:26Z

Dikjosef:

=Columbia Exchange Circle=
Open Source Ecology, Mid Missouri has picked up a project to map and realize the capacities in skills and knowledge of our urban community of Columbia, Missouri. It is a project inspired by the intentions of Kip Kendrick, President of the Benton Stephens Neighborhood Association and local community organizer. The intent is to give citizens in our communities in Columbia the capacity to exchange skills, knowledge and possibly goods in a effort to build economic resilience and to strengthen Columbia economically, socially and financially. We have met several times and deliberated on several key issues. Though we intended to go door to door, conducting a community skills assessment similar to the survey drawn up by students at NorthWestern univeristy, other possibilities have emerged. Below we will document our progresses and make transparent all the goings on of this project.

==Proposed Action Plan==

Though it is not yet fully developed or decided, we have assembled a rough action plan for implementing this project.

'''Conduct an Informational Meeting''' - We wish to conduct a large informational meeting and discussion/deliberation in mid january. Folks involved have drummed up a bit of interest in the community, and gathering everyone who is interested in being involved or being a part of the exchange community would be instrumental in tailoring the project to the desires and capacities of those who would use it.

'''Assemble a Task Force''' - We also wish to assemble a task force of community members, hopefully crosscutting demographically the citizen stakeholders of the exchange network we will be implementing. We wish to ensure that this effort will train leadership to coordinate the implementation and maintenance of said network. Herein, tasks can be delegated as necessary and per personal capacity of taskforce members. We will attempt to recruit members of the task force at meetings of local organizations and associations.

'''Deliberate on Format''' - We will also make final decisions on the format of this network, and how

==Proposed Information/Exchange Format==
There will be several layers of participation in the project available to members of the network. A local newspaper (The Columbia Missourian) has offered to host the exchange network. We originally were interested in building a timebank similar to The Skillshare Network in Boulder, CO, however our interests have expanded into the LETS system.

'''Profile''' - The profile will function as an online survey, open application, and a place for discussion and ratings of the user. We will publicly encourage people to go to the website, learn about the project, and to at least post a profile. There will be many options for availability of the information, so that one can choose whether potential employers, entrepreneurs, other members, or the public can view different information. This information can include skills, interests, and what the member is willing to do in the way of employment, volunteerism, education, exchange, or just helping friends and neighbors.

'''TimeBank''' - Also, the user can decide whether or not they would want to participate in a timebanking system, and/or a LETS system mentioned below. How to negotiate the exchange of hours and credits may be a problem, and may necessitate combining the two systems as one LETS for simplicities sake. Herein, it may be advisable to have a toggle for services and goods, and combined exchanges.

The TimeBank will offer users an opportunity to share their skills in the form of exchanges, workshops and mentoring, and hopefully will add to the general economic resilience of our communities. In the profiles, a rating system will exist so that the quality of service or the character of the provider can be gauged.

'''LETS''' - Another option will be a LETS system of credit based exchange. Functioning somewhat like a barter system, except with the intermediary of a credit system, allowing indirect exchanges to take place. An interesting parallel which renders LETS a neotraditional system is the colonial general store credit system, which operated in much the same way except with a brick and mortar storehouse and proprietor instead of a website. Different possibilities exist for the regulation and sensible maintenance of this system and the timebank. The need may arise that a grant paid staffer will need to be hired to maintain this system, to answer calls, and coordinate other aspects of the project. The hope is that volunteers, earning credits or hours in the LETS or Timebank, respectively, will be able to manage the system.

'''Community Partners''' - These will be local associations, organizations, businesses and institutions who will source volunteers and employees and participate in exchanges and provide opportunities for people to earn and spend credits and hours. There is much possibility here to build capacity for the system, and in turn build capacity for these organisations and businesses.

'''Phone Buddies''' - For the elderly, those with no time or money for computers, or just for those who choose not to use computers, a system of "phone buddies" can be set up so that hours can be earned by managing and posting for non-computer using members.

==More Information==

'''Community Capacity Inventory'''

[[http://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/publications/papers/mcc.pdf]]

[[http://www.yepp-community.org/downloads/empowerment/ABCD%20-%20The%20Capacity%20Inventory.pdf]]

'''Time Banking'''

[[Time Banking International |http://www.timebanks.org/]]

[[Time Bank in Columbia, Maryland | http://www.columbiaassociation.com/content/getinvolved/volunteering/exchange_time_bank.cfm]]

[[SkillShare in Boulder, CO | http://www.skillsharenetwork.org/modules/homepage/]]

'''LETS'''

'''Organizational Stuff'''

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_Impact_Pathways_Analysis

http://www.skillsharenetwork.org

User talk:Mac

2008-11-20T19:19:48Z

Dikjosef: New page: hey, it looks like you are interested in reorganizing the wiki as well! i was going to be picking up this project over my upcoming break, it would be awesome to work together... i have sev...

hey, it looks like you are interested in reorganizing the wiki as well! i was going to be picking up this project over my upcoming break, it would be awesome to work together... i have several mediawiki extensions i was wanting to install, including tags, tag clouds, category clouds, and other categorical extensions. also, i was wanting to turn the main page into a portal for OSE, openfarmtech, GVCS technologies, Factor E and OSE MidMO. I was going to have the recent changes page feed as an RSS, have RSS feeds for the blogs, new categories, users, etc. and also an extension for embedding video for Factor E Live... interested?

[[Dikjosef]] 13:18 CST 11.20.08

Talk:Steam Engine Construction Set

2008-11-18T16:40:58Z

Dikjosef: New page: great job guys, this is looking very nice. I will be helping to redesign the wiki over thanksgiving break and pages like these are the reason why I want to see the wiki better organised a...

great job guys, this is looking very nice. I will be helping to redesign the wiki over thanksgiving break and pages like these are the reason why I want to see the wiki better organised and more accessible. I will be adding extensions to make the site even more functional. After video, what other things would you like to see? Calendars, simple tables, charts and graph support? Different editing capabilities? The portal will have feeds of recent changes, new pages, new categories, etc. and will offer more capacity. Also, categorization and the addition of tag extensions and tag and category clouds and graphical interfaces are on the way. if you have any requests or reccomendations, let me know!
[[User: Dikjosef]] 10:40 CST 11.18.08

OSE:Taxonomy Of Collaborators

2008-11-14T17:37:11Z

Dikjosef:

Because of the breadth of the approach of Open Source Ecology, several approaches to collaboration must be made to realize the full capacity of participants. Thus, an understanding of where collaborators are coming from and what capacities they have can contribute to a more fluid organization of energies into the project of developing OSE into a full blooded Non Governmental Organisation. The end result will prove as a multifold approach to creating a bioregional, decentralized producive future through the engaging of capacities and creating new ones. Included in these collaborations is the [[GVCS]], a design base which will offer much collaboration and many versions of each design, potentially reaching a point of thousands of designs under hundreds of technologies in the GVCS inventory. However, OSE's goals go beyond the GVCS, and are reaching into programs of economic localisation and public education and outreach, as well as policy work to provide the impetus for a new form of subsistence and human ecology to emerge

= Geolocal Specifics: =
These categories refer to your geosocial position as a collaborator, representing the comprehensive geographical reach of OSE's development.

These different specifics illustrate the different geosocial approaches to an open paradigm that OSE are taking, whether building capacity in existing communities or creating new ones, OSE is working towards rapid transition to open thriveability worldwide

== Village Builder ==

Collaborating at a transitional rural homestead which will be developed under an ecovillage, globalvillage or other return-to-village model, utilizing appropriate technology and technique to apply an open, participatory model.
Many capacities for OSE knowledge development here, from design to agroecology to microeconomic localised development, transitioning from an open rural to a more cohesive village level. Utilizing PAR to develop a resilient and participatory model for appropriate village development.
Many OSE VB's are and have been at work at [http://www.factorefarm.org Factor E Farm]

== Homesteader ==

As a possible first step to village builder or to remain at homestead level, a single household or small cohousing group who develops and adds to an OSE model for open development of open engineered technology, open designs and permafacture. Tied to the back to the land movement, this can also translate to rural community development and economic localisation efforts, as well. This offers an opportunity for people living in rural or semi-rural situations to contribute to OSE and the GVCS and other projects. Of particular interest is development of open agroecological knowledge for your particular bioregion, and for appropriate bioregional building and fabrication and agro technology as well.

== Community Capacity Builder ==

Similar to [[OSEMidMO| OSEMidMO's]] approach, the goal of a community capacity builder is to take the first step of applying sustainable community development principles to
developing a localised economy utilizing a mix of traditional and community-emergent systems for economic, political and social exchange and to build a base of OSE collaborators after a community capacity assessment and skills assessment. Utilizing this as the first step in an OSE approach to urban, suburban and rural community development, learning and knowledge can be collected of a collaborative participatory community process or model which takes communities to the next step beyond mere sustainability to resilience, transitioning existing communities to an open and participatory ecological model. This can evolve setting up workshops and research collaboratives, appropriate technology exchanges and agroecology exchanges, experimental open microbusiness models and local fabrication towards an open, participatory and decentralized local economy.

== Web Collaborator ==

An OSE Web Collaborator might be contributing to any one of these projects, whether developing GVCS technologies that can be applied by all of these above collaborators, or assisting in web skills or networking skills for building OSE capacity.

= Collaborative Specifics =
Outside of the Geolocal specifics, capacity exists for different forms of collaboration on different levels, and collaboration between actors can result in rapid development of technologies, knowledge and models. For example, members of OSE MidMO can collaborate with memebers of OSE Oregon and Factor E Farm and web collaborators on developing a knowledgebase for permaculture design, or web development.

And, as evidenced in the past, one person can have many of these titles, and can learn to contribute in many of these spheres of influence. Important to OSE principles is the end of specialization, and the rebirth of distributed knowledge between and within people.

== Open Engineers ==
Open Engineers do some of the most important collaborative work, developing open designs for the GVCS

== Web and Print Developers ==

== Agroecology Researchers ==

== Copy Writers ==

== Event Organisers ==

== Outreach Coordinators ==

== Development Facilitators ==

== Documenters ==

Provide Documentation and explanation of the designs, techniques, models and concepts developed by OSE collaborators.

= How will this Taxonomy help OSE in its goals? =

-It will provide a robust framework for development of everthing OSE, from our image as an NGO to developing a global, distributed open engineering lab to tools for bioregional community development.

-It will provide options and capacity for all collaborators, and with clear positions, both action and location wise, one can learn or put existing skills to work towards OSE goals

-By outlining the current capacities of OSE, it will offer both new and established collaborators the opportunity to explore new approaches to OSE collaboration

OSE:Taxonomy Of Collaborators

2008-11-14T16:13:50Z

Dikjosef: /* OSE Village Builder */

Because of the breadth of the approach of Open Source Ecology, several approaches to collaboration must be made to realize the full capacity of participants. Thus, an understanding of where collaborators are coming from and what capacities they have can contribute to a more fluid organization of energies into the project of developing OSE into a full blooded Non Governmental Organisation. The end result will prove as a multifold approach to creating a bioregional, decentralized producive future through the engaging of capacities and creating new ones. Included in these collaborations is the [[GVCS]], a design base which will offer much collaboration and many versions of each design, potentially reaching a point of thousands of designs under hundreds of technologies in the GVCS inventory. However, OSE's goals go beyond the GVCS, and are reaching into programs of economic localisation and public education and outreach, as well as policy work to provide the impetus for a new form of subsistence and human ecology to emerge

= Geolocal Specifics: =
These categories refer to your geosocial position as a collaborator, representing the comprehensive geographical reach of OSE's development.

These different specifics illustrate the different geosocial approaches to an open paradigm that OSE are taking, whether building capacity in existing communities or creating new ones, OSE is working towards rapid transition to open thriveability worldwide

== OSE Village Builder ==

Collaborating at a transitional rural homestead which will be developed under an ecovillage, globalvillage or other return-to-village model, utilizing appropriate technology and technique to apply an open, participatory model.
Many capacities for OSE knowledge development here, from design to agroecology to microeconomic localised development, transitioning from an open rural to a more cohesive village level. Utilizing PAR to develop a resilient and participatory model for appropriate village development.
Many OSE VB's are and have been at work at [http://www.factorefarm.org Factor E Farm]

== OSE Homesteader ==

As a possible first step to village builder or to remain at homestead level, a single household or small cohousing group who develops and adds to an OSE model for open development of open engineered technology, open designs and permafacture. Tied to the back to the land movement, this can also translate to rural community development and economic localisation efforts, as well. This offers an opportunity for people living in rural or semi-rural situations to contribute to OSE and the GVCS and other projects. Of particular interest is development of open agroecological knowledge for your particular bioregion, and for appropriate bioregional building and fabrication and agro technology as well.

== OSE Community Capacity Builder ==

Similar to [[OSEMidMO| OSEMidMO's]] approach, the goal of a community capacity builder is to take the first step of applying sustainable community development principles to
developing a localised economy utilizing a mix of traditional and community-emergent systems for economic, political and social exchange and to build a base of OSE collaborators after a community capacity assessment and skills assessment. Utilizing this as the first step in an OSE approach to urban, suburban and rural community development, learning and knowledge can be collected of a collaborative participatory community process or model which takes communities to the next step beyond mere sustainability to resilience, transitioning existing communities to an open and participatory ecological model. This can evolve setting up workshops and research collaboratives, appropriate technology exchanges and agroecology exchanges, experimental open microbusiness models and local fabrication towards an open, participatory and decentralized local economy.

== OSE Web Collaborator ==

An OSE Web Collaborator might be contributing to any one of these projects, whether developing GVCS technologies that can be applied by all of these above collaborators, or assisting in web skills or networking skills for building OSE capacity.

= Collaborative Specifics =
Outside of the Geolocal specifics, capacity exists for different forms of collaboration on different levels, and collaboration between actors can result in rapid development of technologies, knowledge and models. For example, members of OSE MidMO can collaborate with memebers of OSE Oregon and Factor E Farm and web collaborators on developing a knowledgebase for permaculture design, or web development.

And, as evidenced in the past, one person can have many of these titles, and can learn to contribute in many of these spheres of influence. Important to OSE principles is the end of specialization, and the rebirth of distributed knowledge between and within people.

== OSE Open Engineers ==
Open Engineers do some of the most important collaborative work, developing open designs for the GVCS

== OSE Web and Print Developers ==

== OSE Agroecology Researchers ==

== OSE Copy Writers ==

== OSE Event Organisers ==

== OSE Outreach Coordinators ==

== OSE Development Facilitators ==

== OSE Documenters ==

Provide Documentation and explanation of the designs, techniques, models and concepts developed by OSE collaborators.

= How will this Taxonomy help OSE in its goals? =

-It will provide a robust framework for development of everthing OSE, from our image as an NGO to developing a global, distributed open engineering lab to tools for bioregional community development.

-It will provide options and capacity for all collaborators, and with clear positions, both action and location wise, one can learn or put existing skills to work towards OSE goals

-By outlining the current capacities of OSE, it will offer both new and established collaborators the opportunity to explore new approaches to OSE collaboration

Talk:OSE:Taxonomy Of Collaborators

2008-11-14T16:08:53Z

Dikjosef:

i dont think its necessary to have 'OSE' before every job title [[User:Mdkoch84|Mdkoch84]] 00:46, 13 November 2008 (PST)

oh, well, you know, just trying to be official i guess? this is a collaborative wiki, so go for it. i was thinking the same myself. [[User:Dikjosef|Dikjosef]]
10:05 14 November 2008 (CST)

Talk:OSE:Taxonomy Of Collaborators

2008-11-14T16:04:29Z

Dikjosef:

OSE:Taxonomy Of Collaborators

2008-11-12T17:17:55Z

Dikjosef: /* OSE Community Capacity Builder */

Because of the breadth of the approach of Open Source Ecology, several approaches to collaboration must be made to realize the full capacity of participants. Thus, an understanding of where collaborators are coming from and what capacities they have can contribute to a more fluid organization of energies into the project of developing OSE into a full blooded Non Governmental Organisation. The end result will prove as a multifold approach to creating a bioregional, decentralized producive future through the engaging of capacities and creating new ones. Included in these collaborations is the [[GVCS]], a design base which will offer much collaboration and many versions of each design, potentially reaching a point of thousands of designs under hundreds of technologies in the GVCS inventory. However, OSE's goals go beyond the GVCS, and are reaching into programs of economic localisation and public education and outreach, as well as policy work to provide the impetus for a new form of subsistence and human ecology to emerge

= Geolocal Specifics: =
These categories refer to your geosocial position as a collaborator, representing the comprehensive geographical reach of OSE's development.

These different specifics illustrate the different geosocial approaches to an open paradigm that OSE are taking, whether building capacity in existing communities or creating new ones, OSE is working towards rapid transition to open thriveability worldwide

== OSE Village Builder ==

Collaborating at a transitional rural homestead which will be developed under an ecovillage, globalvillage or other return-to-village model, utilizing appropriate technology and technique to apply an open, participatory model.
Many capacities for OSE knowledge development here, from design to agroecology to microeconomic localised development, transitioning from an open rural to a more cohesive village level. Utilizing PAR to develop a resilient and participatory model for appropriate village development.
Many OSE VB's are and have been at work at [http://www.factorefarm.org | Factor E Farm]

== OSE Homesteader ==

As a possible first step to village builder or to remain at homestead level, a single household or small cohousing group who develops and adds to an OSE model for open development of open engineered technology, open designs and permafacture. Tied to the back to the land movement, this can also translate to rural community development and economic localisation efforts, as well. This offers an opportunity for people living in rural or semi-rural situations to contribute to OSE and the GVCS and other projects. Of particular interest is development of open agroecological knowledge for your particular bioregion, and for appropriate bioregional building and fabrication and agro technology as well.

== OSE Community Capacity Builder ==

Similar to [[OSEMidMO| OSEMidMO's]] approach, the goal of a community capacity builder is to take the first step of applying sustainable community development principles to
developing a localised economy utilizing a mix of traditional and community-emergent systems for economic, political and social exchange and to build a base of OSE collaborators after a community capacity assessment and skills assessment. Utilizing this as the first step in an OSE approach to urban, suburban and rural community development, learning and knowledge can be collected of a collaborative participatory community process or model which takes communities to the next step beyond mere sustainability to resilience, transitioning existing communities to an open and participatory ecological model. This can evolve setting up workshops and research collaboratives, appropriate technology exchanges and agroecology exchanges, experimental open microbusiness models and local fabrication towards an open, participatory and decentralized local economy.

== OSE Web Collaborator ==

An OSE Web Collaborator might be contributing to any one of these projects, whether developing GVCS technologies that can be applied by all of these above collaborators, or assisting in web skills or networking skills for building OSE capacity.

= Collaborative Specifics =
Outside of the Geolocal specifics, capacity exists for different forms of collaboration on different levels, and collaboration between actors can result in rapid development of technologies, knowledge and models. For example, members of OSE MidMO can collaborate with memebers of OSE Oregon and Factor E Farm and web collaborators on developing a knowledgebase for permaculture design, or web development.

And, as evidenced in the past, one person can have many of these titles, and can learn to contribute in many of these spheres of influence. Important to OSE principles is the end of specialization, and the rebirth of distributed knowledge between and within people.

== OSE Open Engineers ==
Open Engineers do some of the most important collaborative work, developing open designs for the GVCS

== OSE Web and Print Developers ==

== OSE Agroecology Researchers ==

== OSE Copy Writers ==

== OSE Event Organisers ==

== OSE Outreach Coordinators ==

== OSE Development Facilitators ==

== OSE Documenters ==

Provide Documentation and explanation of the designs, techniques, models and concepts developed by OSE collaborators.

= How will this Taxonomy help OSE in its goals? =

-It will provide a robust framework for development of everthing OSE, from our image as an NGO to developing a global, distributed open engineering lab to tools for bioregional community development.

-It will provide options and capacity for all collaborators, and with clear positions, both action and location wise, one can learn or put existing skills to work towards OSE goals

-By outlining the current capacities of OSE, it will offer both new and established collaborators the opportunity to explore new approaches to OSE collaboration

OSE:Taxonomy Of Collaborators

2008-11-12T00:36:33Z

Dikjosef: /* OSE Community Capacity Builder */

Because of the breadth of the approach of Open Source Ecology, several approaches to collaboration must be made to realize the full capacity of participants. Thus, an understanding of where collaborators are coming from and what capacities they have can contribute to a more fluid organization of energies into the project of developing OSE into a full blooded Non Governmental Organisation. The end result will prove as a multifold approach to creating a bioregional, decentralized producive future through the engaging of capacities and creating new ones. Included in these collaborations is the [[GVCS]], a design base which will offer much collaboration and many versions of each design, potentially reaching a point of thousands of designs under hundreds of technologies in the GVCS inventory. However, OSE's goals go beyond the GVCS, and are reaching into programs of economic localisation and public education and outreach, as well as policy work to provide the impetus for a new form of subsistence and human ecology to emerge

= Geolocal Specifics: =
These categories refer to your geosocial position as a collaborator, representing the comprehensive geographical reach of OSE's development.

These different specifics illustrate the different geosocial approaches to an open paradigm that OSE are taking, whether building capacity in existing communities or creating new ones, OSE is working towards rapid transition to open thriveability worldwide

== OSE Village Builder ==

Collaborating at a transitional rural homestead which will be developed under an ecovillage, globalvillage or other return-to-village model, utilizing appropriate technology and technique to apply an open, participatory model.
Many capacities for OSE knowledge development here, from design to agroecology to microeconomic localised development, transitioning from an open rural to a more cohesive village level. Utilizing PAR to develop a resilient and participatory model for appropriate village development.
Many OSE VB's are and have been at work at [http://www.factorefarm.org | Factor E Farm]

== OSE Homesteader ==

As a possible first step to village builder or to remain at homestead level, a single household or small cohousing group who develops and adds to an OSE model for open development of open engineered technology, open designs and permafacture. Tied to the back to the land movement, this can also translate to rural community development and economic localisation efforts, as well. This offers an opportunity for people living in rural or semi-rural situations to contribute to OSE and the GVCS and other projects. Of particular interest is development of open agroecological knowledge for your particular bioregion, and for appropriate bioregional building and fabrication and agro technology as well.

== OSE Community Capacity Builder ==

Similar to [[OSE MidMO| OSEMidMO's]] approach, the goal of a community capacity builder is to take the first step of applying sustainable community development principles to
developing a localised economy utilizing a mix of traditional and community-emergent systems for economic, political and social exchange and to build a base of OSE collaborators after a community capacity assessment and skills assessment. Utilizing this as the first step in an OSE approach to urban, suburban and rural community development, learning and knowledge can be collected of a collaborative participatory community process or model which takes communities to the next step beyond mere sustainability to resilience, transitioning existing communities to an open and participatory ecological model. This can evolve setting up workshops and research collaboratives, appropriate technology exchanges and agroecology exchanges, experimental open microbusiness models and local fabrication towards an open, participatory and decentralized local economy.

== OSE Web Collaborator ==

An OSE Web Collaborator might be contributing to any one of these projects, whether developing GVCS technologies that can be applied by all of these above collaborators, or assisting in web skills or networking skills for building OSE capacity.

= Collaborative Specifics =
Outside of the Geolocal specifics, capacity exists for different forms of collaboration on different levels, and collaboration between actors can result in rapid development of technologies, knowledge and models. For example, members of OSE MidMO can collaborate with memebers of OSE Oregon and Factor E Farm and web collaborators on developing a knowledgebase for permaculture design, or web development.

And, as evidenced in the past, one person can have many of these titles, and can learn to contribute in many of these spheres of influence. Important to OSE principles is the end of specialization, and the rebirth of distributed knowledge between and within people.

== OSE Open Engineers ==
Open Engineers do some of the most important collaborative work, developing open designs for the GVCS

== OSE Web and Print Developers ==

== OSE Agroecology Researchers ==

== OSE Copy Writers ==

== OSE Event Organisers ==

== OSE Outreach Coordinators ==

== OSE Development Facilitators ==

== OSE Documenters ==

Provide Documentation and explanation of the designs, techniques, models and concepts developed by OSE collaborators.

= How will this Taxonomy help OSE in its goals? =

-It will provide a robust framework for development of everthing OSE, from our image as an NGO to developing a global, distributed open engineering lab to tools for bioregional community development.

-It will provide options and capacity for all collaborators, and with clear positions, both action and location wise, one can learn or put existing skills to work towards OSE goals

-By outlining the current capacities of OSE, it will offer both new and established collaborators the opportunity to explore new approaches to OSE collaboration

OSE:Taxonomy Of Collaborators

2008-11-11T22:27:48Z

Dikjosef: New page: Because of the breadth of the approach of Open Source Ecology, several approaches to collaboration must be made to realize the full capacity of participants. Thus, an understanding of whe...

Because of the breadth of the approach of Open Source Ecology, several approaches to collaboration must be made to realize the full capacity of participants. Thus, an understanding of where collaborators are coming from and what capacities they have can contribute to a more fluid organization of energies into the project of developing OSE into a full blooded Non Governmental Organisation. The end result will prove as a multifold approach to creating a bioregional, decentralized producive future through the engaging of capacities and creating new ones. Included in these collaborations is the [[GVCS]], a design base which will offer much collaboration and many versions of each design, potentially reaching a point of thousands of designs under hundreds of technologies in the GVCS inventory. However, OSE's goals go beyond the GVCS, and are reaching into programs of economic localisation and public education and outreach, as well as policy work to provide the impetus for a new form of subsistence and human ecology to emerge

= Geolocal Specifics: =
These categories refer to your geosocial position as a collaborator, representing the comprehensive geographical reach of OSE's development.

These different specifics illustrate the different geosocial approaches to an open paradigm that OSE are taking, whether building capacity in existing communities or creating new ones, OSE is working towards rapid transition to open thriveability worldwide

== OSE Village Builder ==

Collaborating at a transitional rural homestead which will be developed under an ecovillage, globalvillage or other return-to-village model, utilizing appropriate technology and technique to apply an open, participatory model.
Many capacities for OSE knowledge development here, from design to agroecology to microeconomic localised development, transitioning from an open rural to a more cohesive village level. Utilizing PAR to develop a resilient and participatory model for appropriate village development.
Many OSE VB's are and have been at work at [http://www.factorefarm.org | Factor E Farm]

== OSE Homesteader ==

As a possible first step to village builder or to remain at homestead level, a single household or small cohousing group who develops and adds to an OSE model for open development of open engineered technology, open designs and permafacture. Tied to the back to the land movement, this can also translate to rural community development and economic localisation efforts, as well. This offers an opportunity for people living in rural or semi-rural situations to contribute to OSE and the GVCS and other projects. Of particular interest is development of open agroecological knowledge for your particular bioregion, and for appropriate bioregional building and fabrication and agro technology as well.

== OSE Community Capacity Builder ==

Similar to [[OSE MidMO's| OSEMidMO]] approach, the goal of a community capacity builder is to take the first step of applying sustainable community development principles to
developing a localised economy utilizing a mix of traditional and community-emergent systems for economic, political and social exchange and to build a base of OSE collaborators after a community capacity assessment and skills assessment. Utilizing this as the first step in an OSE approach to urban, suburban and rural community development, learning and knowledge can be collected of a collaborative participatory community process or model which takes communities to the next step beyond mere sustainability to resilience, transitioning existing communities to an open and participatory ecological model. This can evolve setting up workshops and research collaboratives, appropriate technology exchanges and agroecology exchanges, experimental open microbusiness models and local fabrication towards an open, participatory and decentralized local economy.

== OSE Web Collaborator ==

An OSE Web Collaborator might be contributing to any one of these projects, whether developing GVCS technologies that can be applied by all of these above collaborators, or assisting in web skills or networking skills for building OSE capacity.

= Collaborative Specifics =
Outside of the Geolocal specifics, capacity exists for different forms of collaboration on different levels, and collaboration between actors can result in rapid development of technologies, knowledge and models. For example, members of OSE MidMO can collaborate with memebers of OSE Oregon and Factor E Farm and web collaborators on developing a knowledgebase for permaculture design, or web development.

And, as evidenced in the past, one person can have many of these titles, and can learn to contribute in many of these spheres of influence. Important to OSE principles is the end of specialization, and the rebirth of distributed knowledge between and within people.

== OSE Open Engineers ==
Open Engineers do some of the most important collaborative work, developing open designs for the GVCS

== OSE Web and Print Developers ==

== OSE Agroecology Researchers ==

== OSE Copy Writers ==

== OSE Event Organisers ==

== OSE Outreach Coordinators ==

== OSE Development Facilitators ==

== OSE Documenters ==

Provide Documentation and explanation of the designs, techniques, models and concepts developed by OSE collaborators.

= How will this Taxonomy help OSE in its goals? =

-It will provide a robust framework for development of everthing OSE, from our image as an NGO to developing a global, distributed open engineering lab to tools for bioregional community development.

-It will provide options and capacity for all collaborators, and with clear positions, both action and location wise, one can learn or put existing skills to work towards OSE goals

-By outlining the current capacities of OSE, it will offer both new and established collaborators the opportunity to explore new approaches to OSE collaboration

Columbia Exchange Circle

2008-11-03T23:43:20Z

Dikjosef:

=Introduction=
'''What is CEC?'''

'''Who are the Stakeholders?'''

=Vision=

=Action Plan=

=Links=

Columbia Exchange Circle

2008-11-03T23:43:00Z

Dikjosef: New page: =Introduction= '''What is CEC?''' '''Who are the Stakeholders?''' =Vision= =Action Plan= =Links=

=Introduction=
'''What is CEC?'''
'''Who are the Stakeholders?'''

=Vision=

=Action Plan=

=Links=

Talk:CEB Press

2008-10-28T18:33:29Z

Dikjosef: New page: there are some edits i was wanting to make to this page, is there a reason that it is locked? How are we to do a wiki redesign and categorization if pages are blocked?

there are some edits i was wanting to make to this page, is there a reason that it is locked? How are we to do a wiki redesign and categorization if pages are blocked?

Hot Shower

2008-10-27T18:04:42Z

Dikjosef:

Ready to use hot shower head, 2 gallon per minute flow rate - [http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-HOME-ELECTRIC-TANKLESS-SHOWER-HEAD-WATER-HEATER_W0QQitemZ280271565076QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item280271565076&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A1%7C39%3A2%7C240%3A1308#ebayphotohosting]

similar kinds of things are used in Brasil, except you need to make sure you do not touch the shower head or any metal elements in contact with it, as you will receive quite a shock usually. be careful

richard

OSEMidMO/CEC

2008-10-27T18:00:47Z

Dikjosef: /* Columbia Exchange Circle */

=Columbia Exchange Circle=

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_Impact_Pathways_Analysis
http://www.skillsharenetwork.org

OSEMidMO/CEC

2008-10-27T16:40:54Z

Dikjosef: /* Columbia Exchange Circle */

=Columbia Exchange Circle=

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_Impact_Pathways_Analysis

OSEMidMO

2008-10-27T16:30:54Z

Dikjosef: /* Primary Tasks */

= Open Source Ecology: Mid-Missouri =

== Overview ==

The goal of ''Open Source Ecology: Mid-Missouri'' is to foster the opportunities for applied learning towards creating a sustainable society. In particular, we focus on learning from the history of human organization in order to apply proven principles of successful human organization towards creating a prosperous and free society in the modern age. We will study and distill the learnings from history, and - in partnership with OSE - will have an opportunity to test our learnings by hands-on building of the prototype for a sustainable Global Village. This means a land-based implementation at [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=UM_Presentation Factor e Farm] - consisting of the built environment with off-grid infrastructure, communications infrastructure, and productivity infrastructure for utilizing local resources for a modern, advanced appropriate technology settlement. The scale of this is going to be a micro-village - perhaps a few key building and surrounding landscape - a one acre or so micro-village that aims to demonstrate the functioning of society on a small scale, using optimized techniques for survival and prosperity.

We will divide this task into several categories:

#Built environment
#Productivity infrastructure
##Permaculture
##Permafacture
#Education
#Governance
#Communication and trade
#Other

== Primary Tasks ==

1. Establish regular meeting times, places (7:00 thursday, 106 gwynn?)

2. [[OSEMidMO/CEC|CEC]] subcomittee

3. Plan events

1. Educational speaking events

2. Workshops

4. Coordinate visits

5. Build a base of offsite collaboration options:

1. Public Image
a. Brochures
b. Webwork
c. Whitepapers

2. Networking/advocating
a. Open Source Research
b. Open Design
c. Collaboration on GVCS on and off site

3. Project Planning
a. Permaculture plantout
b. BAV 09
c. OSE MidMO workshop

4. Better Factor E > OSE MidMO communication channels
a. Skype
b. ...

 

For more information on the Student Group Process, refer to: [[Mizzou Student ORG|Mizzou Student ORG]]

== Goals ==

Possible Goals that can be accomplished by establishing OSE Columbia.  The IAC has offered an unused office from which to operate. NOTE: This will eventually be narrowed down into viable, necessary goals with a concise schedule and action plan. 

=== Internship Opportunities ===

#Establish Internship/ Study opportunities at the Factor E Farm facility through the University and MU Extension
##In particular, develop a research/implementation program for building sustainable communities
##Student research may be used to obtain credit
##Factor e Farm will serve as a collaboratory for implementing ideas in practice

=== Funding Operations ===

#Seek, Plan and Implement funding operations for OSE

=== Community/Student Outreach, Education ===

#Workshops
#Presentations
#Films/Discussions
#Tabling

=== Offsite Collaboration with Factor E Farm ===

Establish a list of tasks that can be accomplished by those who cannot afford the time or money to visit the farm and collaborate with OSE

=== OSE web and print development ===

#Volunteer Information Packet
#Volunteer Scheduling program
#Potential Donor Information Packet

=== OSE networking ===

#Network within the university (MU Extension, Down Profs, student and faculty groups, admin) 
#Network within Columbia (Community Leaders, Volunteers, etc.) 
#Network within the Mid Missouri Bioregion

== Members ==

Richard Schulte- President, Treasurer (MU official)

Kat Erdel

Kevin Boyd

Nick Totten

Danny Schell

= Proposed Student Projects =

== [[Build A Village '08 Project|Build A Village '08 Project]] ==

To coordinate a project in which the building infrastructure at Factor E Farm will be substantially updated so as to host interns and researchers as well as non-specialized collaborators. We will organise weekend trips to the land based facility and build with the CEB press so that they can support as many as 12 people in their collaboratory. The goal is to build a village, utilizing local, sustainable resources, and to make an example that this can be done very reasonably and that it can radically alter the way people realize sustainable lifestyles. Among the technologies that will be implemented in the buildings are solar water heaters and rainwater catchment, radiant floor heating, babington burners, humanure toilets, passive solar design and hardware coming from an off-grid fabrication facility. More can be found out at the [[Build A Village '08 Project|Build A Village '08 Project]] page. 

BAV Tasks: 

=== ''[[CEB Building Technique Research|CEB Building Technique Research]]'' ===

[[Image:Cebhomes.jpg|left]]

=== ''[[Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure|Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure]]''[[Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure|Solar PV Proj]]'''[[Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure|ect and Elec]]'''[[Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure|trical Infrastru]]'''[[Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure|cture]]''' ===

''[[Babington Burner|Babington Burner]] [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Babington_Burner]''

''[[Water Filtration|Water Filtration]]''

''[[Solar Water Heater|Solar Water Heater]]''

''[[Sawmill|Sawmill]]'' (PTO attachment)

''[[Real Sustainable Bio Diesel Production|Real Sustainable Bio Diesel Production]]''

 

POSTPONED FOR '09 DUE TO LIMITATIONS SET BY BUDGETING

== Research Topics ==

=== Open Source Permaculture ===

What is open source permaculture? It is permaculture with a focus on replicability. By replicability, we mean particularly the ability to propagate plants to the extent that productive plantings may be implemented at very low cost. The application is, so to say, advanced foraging, or low-input edible landscape - which if combined with appropriate technology equipment - can provide for a large percentage of the surrounding population's diet. The application extends to other uses - such as biofuels and other useful products.

The goal is to document the plants and practices suitable for Community Supported Permaculture in the Mid-Missouri and continental climate. The focus should be twofold: (1) To document adapted species and practices; (2) to produce propagation documentation. The approach should be one of action learning: not picking stuff from books, but documenting examples with pictures and video. In particular, propagation how-to's are perhaps the most essential feature. The reason is - if one wants to engage in permaculture, one needs to have access to a wide variety of plant material. How does one gain this access in the most replicable fashion? By knowing propagation techniques - seeds, grafting, cuttings, layering, etc.

One way to implement this project is to have for-credit internships - in agriculture, journalism, rural sociology, peace studies, agricultural technology, or even engineering if it comes to appropriate technology equipment related to open source permaculture.

One immediate practical approach is to have students go on field trips to document various types of plants and how they are propagated - by taking instructional videos or pictures related to place-based, explicit examples of plants that combine to form an encyclopedic referency. I know of no database that provides propagation video at present.

A second, more theoretical approach is to collect and organize existing videos (YouTube, others) related to plant propagation/processing/use of various plants - focusing on sustainable agriculture and sustainable society.

=== Open Source Permafacture ===

One immediate application is fundraising for and building a small scale flexible and digital fabrication facility in Columbia - at a cost of approximately $5k for RepRap, CNC Multimachine, XYZ table, Micro XYZ table for circuit fabrication, and metal casting. This could produce just about any electromechanical device - from a heavy hoe, car, tractor, ceb press, to a wireless receiver or electric motor.

Students in the engineering field can use the equipment as hands-on projects in digital fabrication. Other students, with proper training, can learn to build just about anything - by using downloadable designs that are turned into reality with the help of a computer. The possibilities are astounding.

To be continued...

== Applied Permaculture Projects at Factor e Farm ==

Factor e Farm is dedicated as a field experiment for demonstrating the propagation, culture, and development of useful native plants. We welcome applied student projects related to open source permaculture.

= University Internship, Research, and Independent Study Point Contacts =

*'''Professor Sandy Rikoon''', Ph.D. - was interested in passing forward internship opportunities. He's head of the Sustainable Agriculture major. U. Missouri, Columbia, is the first land grant university in the United States that has a Sustainable Agriculture major
*'''Professor John Galliher''', Ph.D. of Peace Studies said that his students could do internships or directed study any time of the year - for credit - so he needs to see our internship proposals. Many research topics can fall under peace studies.
*'''Professor Mary Grigsby''' - Professional Master's program in Rural Sociology said that Master's students can do applied internships at Factor e Farm. This would be a great application for Open Source Permaculture and Sustainable Food Systems
*'''Professor Yuyi Lin''', Ph.D., PE - Capstone Seminar advisor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering - can direct students to OSE projects for their Capstone. Will be collaborating with us on Biomass to Fuel technologies based on the Personal Gasifier.
*'''Professor Amit Prasad''', PH.D. - Sociology Professor who has become our faculty advisor and is interested in helping OSE Mid MO to help get off the ground with grants and foundational funding.

[[Category:Primary_Matter|Primary Matter]] [[Category:Student_Group_Process|Student Group Process]] [[Category:Lists|Lists]]
[[Category:OSEMidMO|OSEMidMO]]

OSEMidMO

2008-10-27T16:29:45Z

Dikjosef: /* Build A Village '08 Project */

= Open Source Ecology: Mid-Missouri =

== Overview ==

The goal of ''Open Source Ecology: Mid-Missouri'' is to foster the opportunities for applied learning towards creating a sustainable society. In particular, we focus on learning from the history of human organization in order to apply proven principles of successful human organization towards creating a prosperous and free society in the modern age. We will study and distill the learnings from history, and - in partnership with OSE - will have an opportunity to test our learnings by hands-on building of the prototype for a sustainable Global Village. This means a land-based implementation at [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=UM_Presentation Factor e Farm] - consisting of the built environment with off-grid infrastructure, communications infrastructure, and productivity infrastructure for utilizing local resources for a modern, advanced appropriate technology settlement. The scale of this is going to be a micro-village - perhaps a few key building and surrounding landscape - a one acre or so micro-village that aims to demonstrate the functioning of society on a small scale, using optimized techniques for survival and prosperity.

We will divide this task into several categories:

#Built environment
#Productivity infrastructure
##Permaculture
##Permafacture
#Education
#Governance
#Communication and trade
#Other

== Primary Tasks ==

1. Establish regular meeting times, places (7:00 thursday, 106 gwynn?)

2. [[OSEMidmo/CEC|CEC]] subcomittee

3. Plan events

1. Educational speaking events

2. Workshops

4. Coordinate visits

5. Build a base of offsite collaboration options:

1. Public Image
a. Brochures
b. Webwork
c. Whitepapers

2. Networking/advocating
a. Open Source Research
b. Open Design
c. Collaboration on GVCS on and off site

3. Project Planning
a. Permaculture plantout
b. BAV 09
c. OSE MidMO workshop

4. Better Factor E > OSE MidMO communication channels
a. Skype
b. ...

 

For more information on the Student Group Process, refer to: [[Mizzou Student ORG|Mizzou Student ORG]]

== Goals ==

Possible Goals that can be accomplished by establishing OSE Columbia.  The IAC has offered an unused office from which to operate. NOTE: This will eventually be narrowed down into viable, necessary goals with a concise schedule and action plan. 

=== Internship Opportunities ===

#Establish Internship/ Study opportunities at the Factor E Farm facility through the University and MU Extension
##In particular, develop a research/implementation program for building sustainable communities
##Student research may be used to obtain credit
##Factor e Farm will serve as a collaboratory for implementing ideas in practice

=== Funding Operations ===

#Seek, Plan and Implement funding operations for OSE

=== Community/Student Outreach, Education ===

#Workshops
#Presentations
#Films/Discussions
#Tabling

=== Offsite Collaboration with Factor E Farm ===

Establish a list of tasks that can be accomplished by those who cannot afford the time or money to visit the farm and collaborate with OSE

=== OSE web and print development ===

#Volunteer Information Packet
#Volunteer Scheduling program
#Potential Donor Information Packet

=== OSE networking ===

#Network within the university (MU Extension, Down Profs, student and faculty groups, admin) 
#Network within Columbia (Community Leaders, Volunteers, etc.) 
#Network within the Mid Missouri Bioregion

== Members ==

Richard Schulte- President, Treasurer (MU official)

Kat Erdel

Kevin Boyd

Nick Totten

Danny Schell

= Proposed Student Projects =

== [[Build A Village '08 Project|Build A Village '08 Project]] ==

To coordinate a project in which the building infrastructure at Factor E Farm will be substantially updated so as to host interns and researchers as well as non-specialized collaborators. We will organise weekend trips to the land based facility and build with the CEB press so that they can support as many as 12 people in their collaboratory. The goal is to build a village, utilizing local, sustainable resources, and to make an example that this can be done very reasonably and that it can radically alter the way people realize sustainable lifestyles. Among the technologies that will be implemented in the buildings are solar water heaters and rainwater catchment, radiant floor heating, babington burners, humanure toilets, passive solar design and hardware coming from an off-grid fabrication facility. More can be found out at the [[Build A Village '08 Project|Build A Village '08 Project]] page. 

BAV Tasks: 

=== ''[[CEB Building Technique Research|CEB Building Technique Research]]'' ===

[[Image:Cebhomes.jpg|left]]

=== ''[[Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure|Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure]]''[[Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure|Solar PV Proj]]'''[[Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure|ect and Elec]]'''[[Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure|trical Infrastru]]'''[[Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure|cture]]''' ===

''[[Babington Burner|Babington Burner]] [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Babington_Burner]''

''[[Water Filtration|Water Filtration]]''

''[[Solar Water Heater|Solar Water Heater]]''

''[[Sawmill|Sawmill]]'' (PTO attachment)

''[[Real Sustainable Bio Diesel Production|Real Sustainable Bio Diesel Production]]''

 

POSTPONED FOR '09 DUE TO LIMITATIONS SET BY BUDGETING

== Research Topics ==

=== Open Source Permaculture ===

What is open source permaculture? It is permaculture with a focus on replicability. By replicability, we mean particularly the ability to propagate plants to the extent that productive plantings may be implemented at very low cost. The application is, so to say, advanced foraging, or low-input edible landscape - which if combined with appropriate technology equipment - can provide for a large percentage of the surrounding population's diet. The application extends to other uses - such as biofuels and other useful products.

The goal is to document the plants and practices suitable for Community Supported Permaculture in the Mid-Missouri and continental climate. The focus should be twofold: (1) To document adapted species and practices; (2) to produce propagation documentation. The approach should be one of action learning: not picking stuff from books, but documenting examples with pictures and video. In particular, propagation how-to's are perhaps the most essential feature. The reason is - if one wants to engage in permaculture, one needs to have access to a wide variety of plant material. How does one gain this access in the most replicable fashion? By knowing propagation techniques - seeds, grafting, cuttings, layering, etc.

One way to implement this project is to have for-credit internships - in agriculture, journalism, rural sociology, peace studies, agricultural technology, or even engineering if it comes to appropriate technology equipment related to open source permaculture.

One immediate practical approach is to have students go on field trips to document various types of plants and how they are propagated - by taking instructional videos or pictures related to place-based, explicit examples of plants that combine to form an encyclopedic referency. I know of no database that provides propagation video at present.

A second, more theoretical approach is to collect and organize existing videos (YouTube, others) related to plant propagation/processing/use of various plants - focusing on sustainable agriculture and sustainable society.

=== Open Source Permafacture ===

One immediate application is fundraising for and building a small scale flexible and digital fabrication facility in Columbia - at a cost of approximately $5k for RepRap, CNC Multimachine, XYZ table, Micro XYZ table for circuit fabrication, and metal casting. This could produce just about any electromechanical device - from a heavy hoe, car, tractor, ceb press, to a wireless receiver or electric motor.

Students in the engineering field can use the equipment as hands-on projects in digital fabrication. Other students, with proper training, can learn to build just about anything - by using downloadable designs that are turned into reality with the help of a computer. The possibilities are astounding.

To be continued...

== Applied Permaculture Projects at Factor e Farm ==

Factor e Farm is dedicated as a field experiment for demonstrating the propagation, culture, and development of useful native plants. We welcome applied student projects related to open source permaculture.

= University Internship, Research, and Independent Study Point Contacts =

*'''Professor Sandy Rikoon''', Ph.D. - was interested in passing forward internship opportunities. He's head of the Sustainable Agriculture major. U. Missouri, Columbia, is the first land grant university in the United States that has a Sustainable Agriculture major
*'''Professor John Galliher''', Ph.D. of Peace Studies said that his students could do internships or directed study any time of the year - for credit - so he needs to see our internship proposals. Many research topics can fall under peace studies.
*'''Professor Mary Grigsby''' - Professional Master's program in Rural Sociology said that Master's students can do applied internships at Factor e Farm. This would be a great application for Open Source Permaculture and Sustainable Food Systems
*'''Professor Yuyi Lin''', Ph.D., PE - Capstone Seminar advisor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering - can direct students to OSE projects for their Capstone. Will be collaborating with us on Biomass to Fuel technologies based on the Personal Gasifier.
*'''Professor Amit Prasad''', PH.D. - Sociology Professor who has become our faculty advisor and is interested in helping OSE Mid MO to help get off the ground with grants and foundational funding.

[[Category:Primary_Matter|Primary Matter]] [[Category:Student_Group_Process|Student Group Process]] [[Category:Lists|Lists]]
[[Category:OSEMidMO|OSEMidMO]]

OSEMidMO

2008-10-27T16:28:43Z

Dikjosef: /* Members */

= Open Source Ecology: Mid-Missouri =

== Overview ==

The goal of ''Open Source Ecology: Mid-Missouri'' is to foster the opportunities for applied learning towards creating a sustainable society. In particular, we focus on learning from the history of human organization in order to apply proven principles of successful human organization towards creating a prosperous and free society in the modern age. We will study and distill the learnings from history, and - in partnership with OSE - will have an opportunity to test our learnings by hands-on building of the prototype for a sustainable Global Village. This means a land-based implementation at [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=UM_Presentation Factor e Farm] - consisting of the built environment with off-grid infrastructure, communications infrastructure, and productivity infrastructure for utilizing local resources for a modern, advanced appropriate technology settlement. The scale of this is going to be a micro-village - perhaps a few key building and surrounding landscape - a one acre or so micro-village that aims to demonstrate the functioning of society on a small scale, using optimized techniques for survival and prosperity.

We will divide this task into several categories:

#Built environment
#Productivity infrastructure
##Permaculture
##Permafacture
#Education
#Governance
#Communication and trade
#Other

== Primary Tasks ==

1. Establish regular meeting times, places (7:00 thursday, 106 gwynn?)

2. [[OSEMidmo/CEC|CEC]] subcomittee

3. Plan events

1. Educational speaking events

2. Workshops

4. Coordinate visits

5. Build a base of offsite collaboration options:

1. Public Image
a. Brochures
b. Webwork
c. Whitepapers

2. Networking/advocating
a. Open Source Research
b. Open Design
c. Collaboration on GVCS on and off site

3. Project Planning
a. Permaculture plantout
b. BAV 09
c. OSE MidMO workshop

4. Better Factor E > OSE MidMO communication channels
a. Skype
b. ...

 

For more information on the Student Group Process, refer to: [[Mizzou Student ORG|Mizzou Student ORG]]

== Goals ==

Possible Goals that can be accomplished by establishing OSE Columbia.  The IAC has offered an unused office from which to operate. NOTE: This will eventually be narrowed down into viable, necessary goals with a concise schedule and action plan. 

=== Internship Opportunities ===

#Establish Internship/ Study opportunities at the Factor E Farm facility through the University and MU Extension
##In particular, develop a research/implementation program for building sustainable communities
##Student research may be used to obtain credit
##Factor e Farm will serve as a collaboratory for implementing ideas in practice

=== Funding Operations ===

#Seek, Plan and Implement funding operations for OSE

=== Community/Student Outreach, Education ===

#Workshops
#Presentations
#Films/Discussions
#Tabling

=== Offsite Collaboration with Factor E Farm ===

Establish a list of tasks that can be accomplished by those who cannot afford the time or money to visit the farm and collaborate with OSE

=== OSE web and print development ===

#Volunteer Information Packet
#Volunteer Scheduling program
#Potential Donor Information Packet

=== OSE networking ===

#Network within the university (MU Extension, Down Profs, student and faculty groups, admin) 
#Network within Columbia (Community Leaders, Volunteers, etc.) 
#Network within the Mid Missouri Bioregion

== Members ==

Richard Schulte- President, Treasurer (MU official)

Kat Erdel

Kevin Boyd

Nick Totten

Danny Schell

= Proposed Student Projects =

== [[Build A Village '08 Project|Build A Village '08 Project]] ==

To coordinate a project in which the building infrastructure at Factor E Farm will be substantially updated so as to host interns and researchers as well as non-specialized collaborators. We will organise weekend trips to the land based facility and build with the CEB press so that they can support as many as 12 people in their collaboratory. The goal is to build a village, utilizing local, sustainable resources, and to make an example that this can be done very reasonably and that it can radically alter the way people realize sustainable lifestyles. Among the technologies that will be implemented in the buildings are solar water heaters and rainwater catchment, radiant floor heating, babington burners, humanure toilets, passive solar design and hardware coming from an off-grid fabrication facility. More can be found out at the [[Build A Village '08 Project|Build A Village '08 Project]] page. 

BAV Tasks: 

=== ''[[CEB Building Technique Research|CEB Building Technique Research]]'' ===

[[Image:Cebhomes.jpg|left]]

=== ''[[Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure|Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure]]''[[Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure|Solar PV Proj]]'''[[Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure|ect and Elec]]'''[[Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure|trical Infrastru]]'''[[Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure|cture]]''' ===

''[[Babington Burner|Babington Burner]] [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Babington_Burner]''

''[[Water Filtration|Water Filtration]]''

''[[Solar Water Heater|Solar Water Heater]]''

''[[Sawmill|Sawmill]]'' (PTO attachment)

''[[Real Sustainable Bio Diesel Production|Real Sustainable Bio Diesel Production]]''

 

== Research Topics ==

=== Open Source Permaculture ===

What is open source permaculture? It is permaculture with a focus on replicability. By replicability, we mean particularly the ability to propagate plants to the extent that productive plantings may be implemented at very low cost. The application is, so to say, advanced foraging, or low-input edible landscape - which if combined with appropriate technology equipment - can provide for a large percentage of the surrounding population's diet. The application extends to other uses - such as biofuels and other useful products.

The goal is to document the plants and practices suitable for Community Supported Permaculture in the Mid-Missouri and continental climate. The focus should be twofold: (1) To document adapted species and practices; (2) to produce propagation documentation. The approach should be one of action learning: not picking stuff from books, but documenting examples with pictures and video. In particular, propagation how-to's are perhaps the most essential feature. The reason is - if one wants to engage in permaculture, one needs to have access to a wide variety of plant material. How does one gain this access in the most replicable fashion? By knowing propagation techniques - seeds, grafting, cuttings, layering, etc.

One way to implement this project is to have for-credit internships - in agriculture, journalism, rural sociology, peace studies, agricultural technology, or even engineering if it comes to appropriate technology equipment related to open source permaculture.

One immediate practical approach is to have students go on field trips to document various types of plants and how they are propagated - by taking instructional videos or pictures related to place-based, explicit examples of plants that combine to form an encyclopedic referency. I know of no database that provides propagation video at present.

A second, more theoretical approach is to collect and organize existing videos (YouTube, others) related to plant propagation/processing/use of various plants - focusing on sustainable agriculture and sustainable society.

=== Open Source Permafacture ===

One immediate application is fundraising for and building a small scale flexible and digital fabrication facility in Columbia - at a cost of approximately $5k for RepRap, CNC Multimachine, XYZ table, Micro XYZ table for circuit fabrication, and metal casting. This could produce just about any electromechanical device - from a heavy hoe, car, tractor, ceb press, to a wireless receiver or electric motor.

Students in the engineering field can use the equipment as hands-on projects in digital fabrication. Other students, with proper training, can learn to build just about anything - by using downloadable designs that are turned into reality with the help of a computer. The possibilities are astounding.

To be continued...

== Applied Permaculture Projects at Factor e Farm ==

Factor e Farm is dedicated as a field experiment for demonstrating the propagation, culture, and development of useful native plants. We welcome applied student projects related to open source permaculture.

= University Internship, Research, and Independent Study Point Contacts =

*'''Professor Sandy Rikoon''', Ph.D. - was interested in passing forward internship opportunities. He's head of the Sustainable Agriculture major. U. Missouri, Columbia, is the first land grant university in the United States that has a Sustainable Agriculture major
*'''Professor John Galliher''', Ph.D. of Peace Studies said that his students could do internships or directed study any time of the year - for credit - so he needs to see our internship proposals. Many research topics can fall under peace studies.
*'''Professor Mary Grigsby''' - Professional Master's program in Rural Sociology said that Master's students can do applied internships at Factor e Farm. This would be a great application for Open Source Permaculture and Sustainable Food Systems
*'''Professor Yuyi Lin''', Ph.D., PE - Capstone Seminar advisor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering - can direct students to OSE projects for their Capstone. Will be collaborating with us on Biomass to Fuel technologies based on the Personal Gasifier.
*'''Professor Amit Prasad''', PH.D. - Sociology Professor who has become our faculty advisor and is interested in helping OSE Mid MO to help get off the ground with grants and foundational funding.

[[Category:Primary_Matter|Primary Matter]] [[Category:Student_Group_Process|Student Group Process]] [[Category:Lists|Lists]]
[[Category:OSEMidMO|OSEMidMO]]

OSEMidMO

2008-10-27T16:27:59Z

Dikjosef: /* Primary Tasks */

= Open Source Ecology: Mid-Missouri =

== Overview ==

The goal of ''Open Source Ecology: Mid-Missouri'' is to foster the opportunities for applied learning towards creating a sustainable society. In particular, we focus on learning from the history of human organization in order to apply proven principles of successful human organization towards creating a prosperous and free society in the modern age. We will study and distill the learnings from history, and - in partnership with OSE - will have an opportunity to test our learnings by hands-on building of the prototype for a sustainable Global Village. This means a land-based implementation at [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=UM_Presentation Factor e Farm] - consisting of the built environment with off-grid infrastructure, communications infrastructure, and productivity infrastructure for utilizing local resources for a modern, advanced appropriate technology settlement. The scale of this is going to be a micro-village - perhaps a few key building and surrounding landscape - a one acre or so micro-village that aims to demonstrate the functioning of society on a small scale, using optimized techniques for survival and prosperity.

We will divide this task into several categories:

#Built environment
#Productivity infrastructure
##Permaculture
##Permafacture
#Education
#Governance
#Communication and trade
#Other

== Primary Tasks ==

1. Establish regular meeting times, places (7:00 thursday, 106 gwynn?)

2. [[OSEMidmo/CEC|CEC]] subcomittee

3. Plan events

1. Educational speaking events

2. Workshops

4. Coordinate visits

5. Build a base of offsite collaboration options:

1. Public Image
a. Brochures
b. Webwork
c. Whitepapers

2. Networking/advocating
a. Open Source Research
b. Open Design
c. Collaboration on GVCS on and off site

3. Project Planning
a. Permaculture plantout
b. BAV 09
c. OSE MidMO workshop

4. Better Factor E > OSE MidMO communication channels
a. Skype
b. ...

 

For more information on the Student Group Process, refer to: [[Mizzou Student ORG|Mizzou Student ORG]]

== Goals ==

Possible Goals that can be accomplished by establishing OSE Columbia.  The IAC has offered an unused office from which to operate. NOTE: This will eventually be narrowed down into viable, necessary goals with a concise schedule and action plan. 

=== Internship Opportunities ===

#Establish Internship/ Study opportunities at the Factor E Farm facility through the University and MU Extension
##In particular, develop a research/implementation program for building sustainable communities
##Student research may be used to obtain credit
##Factor e Farm will serve as a collaboratory for implementing ideas in practice

=== Funding Operations ===

#Seek, Plan and Implement funding operations for OSE

=== Community/Student Outreach, Education ===

#Workshops
#Presentations
#Films/Discussions
#Tabling

=== Offsite Collaboration with Factor E Farm ===

Establish a list of tasks that can be accomplished by those who cannot afford the time or money to visit the farm and collaborate with OSE

=== OSE web and print development ===

#Volunteer Information Packet
#Volunteer Scheduling program
#Potential Donor Information Packet

=== OSE networking ===

#Network within the university (MU Extension, Down Profs, student and faculty groups, admin) 
#Network within Columbia (Community Leaders, Volunteers, etc.) 
#Network within the Mid Missouri Bioregion

== Members ==

Richard Schulte- President, Treasurer (MU official)

 

'''Student Members:''' Jack Buthod 

Kelly Gosset

Maggie Rhein?

Danny ?

Kelly Marren

Nick Totten?

Molly Campbell?

Kelly Betz?

Jack Grelle?

 

 '''Non-Student Members:'''

Angela Stockell

Lindsey Walker?

Kat Erdel?

Vince Foley?

= Proposed Student Projects =

== [[Build A Village '08 Project|Build A Village '08 Project]] ==

To coordinate a project in which the building infrastructure at Factor E Farm will be substantially updated so as to host interns and researchers as well as non-specialized collaborators. We will organise weekend trips to the land based facility and build with the CEB press so that they can support as many as 12 people in their collaboratory. The goal is to build a village, utilizing local, sustainable resources, and to make an example that this can be done very reasonably and that it can radically alter the way people realize sustainable lifestyles. Among the technologies that will be implemented in the buildings are solar water heaters and rainwater catchment, radiant floor heating, babington burners, humanure toilets, passive solar design and hardware coming from an off-grid fabrication facility. More can be found out at the [[Build A Village '08 Project|Build A Village '08 Project]] page. 

BAV Tasks: 

=== ''[[CEB Building Technique Research|CEB Building Technique Research]]'' ===

[[Image:Cebhomes.jpg|left]]

=== ''[[Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure|Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure]]''[[Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure|Solar PV Proj]]'''[[Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure|ect and Elec]]'''[[Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure|trical Infrastru]]'''[[Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure|cture]]''' ===

''[[Babington Burner|Babington Burner]] [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Babington_Burner]''

''[[Water Filtration|Water Filtration]]''

''[[Solar Water Heater|Solar Water Heater]]''

''[[Sawmill|Sawmill]]'' (PTO attachment)

''[[Real Sustainable Bio Diesel Production|Real Sustainable Bio Diesel Production]]''

 

== Research Topics ==

=== Open Source Permaculture ===

What is open source permaculture? It is permaculture with a focus on replicability. By replicability, we mean particularly the ability to propagate plants to the extent that productive plantings may be implemented at very low cost. The application is, so to say, advanced foraging, or low-input edible landscape - which if combined with appropriate technology equipment - can provide for a large percentage of the surrounding population's diet. The application extends to other uses - such as biofuels and other useful products.

The goal is to document the plants and practices suitable for Community Supported Permaculture in the Mid-Missouri and continental climate. The focus should be twofold: (1) To document adapted species and practices; (2) to produce propagation documentation. The approach should be one of action learning: not picking stuff from books, but documenting examples with pictures and video. In particular, propagation how-to's are perhaps the most essential feature. The reason is - if one wants to engage in permaculture, one needs to have access to a wide variety of plant material. How does one gain this access in the most replicable fashion? By knowing propagation techniques - seeds, grafting, cuttings, layering, etc.

One way to implement this project is to have for-credit internships - in agriculture, journalism, rural sociology, peace studies, agricultural technology, or even engineering if it comes to appropriate technology equipment related to open source permaculture.

One immediate practical approach is to have students go on field trips to document various types of plants and how they are propagated - by taking instructional videos or pictures related to place-based, explicit examples of plants that combine to form an encyclopedic referency. I know of no database that provides propagation video at present.

A second, more theoretical approach is to collect and organize existing videos (YouTube, others) related to plant propagation/processing/use of various plants - focusing on sustainable agriculture and sustainable society.

=== Open Source Permafacture ===

One immediate application is fundraising for and building a small scale flexible and digital fabrication facility in Columbia - at a cost of approximately $5k for RepRap, CNC Multimachine, XYZ table, Micro XYZ table for circuit fabrication, and metal casting. This could produce just about any electromechanical device - from a heavy hoe, car, tractor, ceb press, to a wireless receiver or electric motor.

Students in the engineering field can use the equipment as hands-on projects in digital fabrication. Other students, with proper training, can learn to build just about anything - by using downloadable designs that are turned into reality with the help of a computer. The possibilities are astounding.

To be continued...

== Applied Permaculture Projects at Factor e Farm ==

Factor e Farm is dedicated as a field experiment for demonstrating the propagation, culture, and development of useful native plants. We welcome applied student projects related to open source permaculture.

= University Internship, Research, and Independent Study Point Contacts =

*'''Professor Sandy Rikoon''', Ph.D. - was interested in passing forward internship opportunities. He's head of the Sustainable Agriculture major. U. Missouri, Columbia, is the first land grant university in the United States that has a Sustainable Agriculture major
*'''Professor John Galliher''', Ph.D. of Peace Studies said that his students could do internships or directed study any time of the year - for credit - so he needs to see our internship proposals. Many research topics can fall under peace studies.
*'''Professor Mary Grigsby''' - Professional Master's program in Rural Sociology said that Master's students can do applied internships at Factor e Farm. This would be a great application for Open Source Permaculture and Sustainable Food Systems
*'''Professor Yuyi Lin''', Ph.D., PE - Capstone Seminar advisor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering - can direct students to OSE projects for their Capstone. Will be collaborating with us on Biomass to Fuel technologies based on the Personal Gasifier.
*'''Professor Amit Prasad''', PH.D. - Sociology Professor who has become our faculty advisor and is interested in helping OSE Mid MO to help get off the ground with grants and foundational funding.

[[Category:Primary_Matter|Primary Matter]] [[Category:Student_Group_Process|Student Group Process]] [[Category:Lists|Lists]]
[[Category:OSEMidMO|OSEMidMO]]

OSEMidMO

2008-10-27T16:26:56Z

Dikjosef: /* Primary Tasks */

= Open Source Ecology: Mid-Missouri =

== Overview ==

The goal of ''Open Source Ecology: Mid-Missouri'' is to foster the opportunities for applied learning towards creating a sustainable society. In particular, we focus on learning from the history of human organization in order to apply proven principles of successful human organization towards creating a prosperous and free society in the modern age. We will study and distill the learnings from history, and - in partnership with OSE - will have an opportunity to test our learnings by hands-on building of the prototype for a sustainable Global Village. This means a land-based implementation at [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=UM_Presentation Factor e Farm] - consisting of the built environment with off-grid infrastructure, communications infrastructure, and productivity infrastructure for utilizing local resources for a modern, advanced appropriate technology settlement. The scale of this is going to be a micro-village - perhaps a few key building and surrounding landscape - a one acre or so micro-village that aims to demonstrate the functioning of society on a small scale, using optimized techniques for survival and prosperity.

We will divide this task into several categories:

#Built environment
#Productivity infrastructure
##Permaculture
##Permafacture
#Education
#Governance
#Communication and trade
#Other

== Primary Tasks ==

1. Establish regular meeting times, places (7:00 thursday, 106 gwynn?)

2. [[CEC|OSEMidmo/CEC]] subcomittee

3. Plan events

1. Educational speaking events

2. Workshops

4. Coordinate visits

5. Build a base of offsite collaboration options:

1. Public Image
a. Brochures
b. Webwork
c. Whitepapers

2. Networking/advocating
a. Open Source Research
b. Open Design
c. Collaboration on GVCS on and off site

3. Project Planning
a. Permaculture plantout
b. BAV 09
c. OSE MidMO workshop

4. Better Factor E > OSE MidMO communication channels
a. Skype
b. ...

 

For more information on the Student Group Process, refer to: [[Mizzou Student ORG|Mizzou Student ORG]]

== Goals ==

Possible Goals that can be accomplished by establishing OSE Columbia.  The IAC has offered an unused office from which to operate. NOTE: This will eventually be narrowed down into viable, necessary goals with a concise schedule and action plan. 

=== Internship Opportunities ===

#Establish Internship/ Study opportunities at the Factor E Farm facility through the University and MU Extension
##In particular, develop a research/implementation program for building sustainable communities
##Student research may be used to obtain credit
##Factor e Farm will serve as a collaboratory for implementing ideas in practice

=== Funding Operations ===

#Seek, Plan and Implement funding operations for OSE

=== Community/Student Outreach, Education ===

#Workshops
#Presentations
#Films/Discussions
#Tabling

=== Offsite Collaboration with Factor E Farm ===

Establish a list of tasks that can be accomplished by those who cannot afford the time or money to visit the farm and collaborate with OSE

=== OSE web and print development ===

#Volunteer Information Packet
#Volunteer Scheduling program
#Potential Donor Information Packet

=== OSE networking ===

#Network within the university (MU Extension, Down Profs, student and faculty groups, admin) 
#Network within Columbia (Community Leaders, Volunteers, etc.) 
#Network within the Mid Missouri Bioregion

== Members ==

Richard Schulte- President, Treasurer (MU official)

 

'''Student Members:''' Jack Buthod 

Kelly Gosset

Maggie Rhein?

Danny ?

Kelly Marren

Nick Totten?

Molly Campbell?

Kelly Betz?

Jack Grelle?

 

 '''Non-Student Members:'''

Angela Stockell

Lindsey Walker?

Kat Erdel?

Vince Foley?

= Proposed Student Projects =

== [[Build A Village '08 Project|Build A Village '08 Project]] ==

To coordinate a project in which the building infrastructure at Factor E Farm will be substantially updated so as to host interns and researchers as well as non-specialized collaborators. We will organise weekend trips to the land based facility and build with the CEB press so that they can support as many as 12 people in their collaboratory. The goal is to build a village, utilizing local, sustainable resources, and to make an example that this can be done very reasonably and that it can radically alter the way people realize sustainable lifestyles. Among the technologies that will be implemented in the buildings are solar water heaters and rainwater catchment, radiant floor heating, babington burners, humanure toilets, passive solar design and hardware coming from an off-grid fabrication facility. More can be found out at the [[Build A Village '08 Project|Build A Village '08 Project]] page. 

BAV Tasks: 

=== ''[[CEB Building Technique Research|CEB Building Technique Research]]'' ===

[[Image:Cebhomes.jpg|left]]

=== ''[[Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure|Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure]]''[[Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure|Solar PV Proj]]'''[[Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure|ect and Elec]]'''[[Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure|trical Infrastru]]'''[[Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure|cture]]''' ===

''[[Babington Burner|Babington Burner]] [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Babington_Burner]''

''[[Water Filtration|Water Filtration]]''

''[[Solar Water Heater|Solar Water Heater]]''

''[[Sawmill|Sawmill]]'' (PTO attachment)

''[[Real Sustainable Bio Diesel Production|Real Sustainable Bio Diesel Production]]''

 

== Research Topics ==

=== Open Source Permaculture ===

What is open source permaculture? It is permaculture with a focus on replicability. By replicability, we mean particularly the ability to propagate plants to the extent that productive plantings may be implemented at very low cost. The application is, so to say, advanced foraging, or low-input edible landscape - which if combined with appropriate technology equipment - can provide for a large percentage of the surrounding population's diet. The application extends to other uses - such as biofuels and other useful products.

The goal is to document the plants and practices suitable for Community Supported Permaculture in the Mid-Missouri and continental climate. The focus should be twofold: (1) To document adapted species and practices; (2) to produce propagation documentation. The approach should be one of action learning: not picking stuff from books, but documenting examples with pictures and video. In particular, propagation how-to's are perhaps the most essential feature. The reason is - if one wants to engage in permaculture, one needs to have access to a wide variety of plant material. How does one gain this access in the most replicable fashion? By knowing propagation techniques - seeds, grafting, cuttings, layering, etc.

One way to implement this project is to have for-credit internships - in agriculture, journalism, rural sociology, peace studies, agricultural technology, or even engineering if it comes to appropriate technology equipment related to open source permaculture.

One immediate practical approach is to have students go on field trips to document various types of plants and how they are propagated - by taking instructional videos or pictures related to place-based, explicit examples of plants that combine to form an encyclopedic referency. I know of no database that provides propagation video at present.

A second, more theoretical approach is to collect and organize existing videos (YouTube, others) related to plant propagation/processing/use of various plants - focusing on sustainable agriculture and sustainable society.

=== Open Source Permafacture ===

One immediate application is fundraising for and building a small scale flexible and digital fabrication facility in Columbia - at a cost of approximately $5k for RepRap, CNC Multimachine, XYZ table, Micro XYZ table for circuit fabrication, and metal casting. This could produce just about any electromechanical device - from a heavy hoe, car, tractor, ceb press, to a wireless receiver or electric motor.

Students in the engineering field can use the equipment as hands-on projects in digital fabrication. Other students, with proper training, can learn to build just about anything - by using downloadable designs that are turned into reality with the help of a computer. The possibilities are astounding.

To be continued...

== Applied Permaculture Projects at Factor e Farm ==

Factor e Farm is dedicated as a field experiment for demonstrating the propagation, culture, and development of useful native plants. We welcome applied student projects related to open source permaculture.

= University Internship, Research, and Independent Study Point Contacts =

*'''Professor Sandy Rikoon''', Ph.D. - was interested in passing forward internship opportunities. He's head of the Sustainable Agriculture major. U. Missouri, Columbia, is the first land grant university in the United States that has a Sustainable Agriculture major
*'''Professor John Galliher''', Ph.D. of Peace Studies said that his students could do internships or directed study any time of the year - for credit - so he needs to see our internship proposals. Many research topics can fall under peace studies.
*'''Professor Mary Grigsby''' - Professional Master's program in Rural Sociology said that Master's students can do applied internships at Factor e Farm. This would be a great application for Open Source Permaculture and Sustainable Food Systems
*'''Professor Yuyi Lin''', Ph.D., PE - Capstone Seminar advisor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering - can direct students to OSE projects for their Capstone. Will be collaborating with us on Biomass to Fuel technologies based on the Personal Gasifier.
*'''Professor Amit Prasad''', PH.D. - Sociology Professor who has become our faculty advisor and is interested in helping OSE Mid MO to help get off the ground with grants and foundational funding.

[[Category:Primary_Matter|Primary Matter]] [[Category:Student_Group_Process|Student Group Process]] [[Category:Lists|Lists]]
[[Category:OSEMidMO|OSEMidMO]]

OSEMidMO

2008-10-27T16:25:55Z

Dikjosef: /* Primary Tasks */

= Open Source Ecology: Mid-Missouri =

== Overview ==

The goal of ''Open Source Ecology: Mid-Missouri'' is to foster the opportunities for applied learning towards creating a sustainable society. In particular, we focus on learning from the history of human organization in order to apply proven principles of successful human organization towards creating a prosperous and free society in the modern age. We will study and distill the learnings from history, and - in partnership with OSE - will have an opportunity to test our learnings by hands-on building of the prototype for a sustainable Global Village. This means a land-based implementation at [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=UM_Presentation Factor e Farm] - consisting of the built environment with off-grid infrastructure, communications infrastructure, and productivity infrastructure for utilizing local resources for a modern, advanced appropriate technology settlement. The scale of this is going to be a micro-village - perhaps a few key building and surrounding landscape - a one acre or so micro-village that aims to demonstrate the functioning of society on a small scale, using optimized techniques for survival and prosperity.

We will divide this task into several categories:

#Built environment
#Productivity infrastructure
##Permaculture
##Permafacture
#Education
#Governance
#Communication and trade
#Other

== Primary Tasks ==

1. Establish regular meeting times, places (7:00 thursday, 106 gwynn?)
2. CEC subcomittee
3. Plan events
1. Educational speaking events
2. Workshops
4. Coordinate visits
5. Build a base of offsite collaboration options

1. Public Image
a. Brochures
b. Webwork
c. Whitepapers

2. Networking/advocating
a. Open Source Research
b. Open Design
c. Collaboration on GVCS on and off site

3. Project Planning
a. Permaculture plantout
b. BAV 09
c. OSE MidMO workshop

4. Better Factor E > OSE MidMO communication channels
a. Skype
b. ...

 

For more information on the Student Group Process, refer to: [[Mizzou Student ORG|Mizzou Student ORG]]

== Goals ==

Possible Goals that can be accomplished by establishing OSE Columbia.  The IAC has offered an unused office from which to operate. NOTE: This will eventually be narrowed down into viable, necessary goals with a concise schedule and action plan. 

=== Internship Opportunities ===

#Establish Internship/ Study opportunities at the Factor E Farm facility through the University and MU Extension
##In particular, develop a research/implementation program for building sustainable communities
##Student research may be used to obtain credit
##Factor e Farm will serve as a collaboratory for implementing ideas in practice

=== Funding Operations ===

#Seek, Plan and Implement funding operations for OSE

=== Community/Student Outreach, Education ===

#Workshops
#Presentations
#Films/Discussions
#Tabling

=== Offsite Collaboration with Factor E Farm ===

Establish a list of tasks that can be accomplished by those who cannot afford the time or money to visit the farm and collaborate with OSE

=== OSE web and print development ===

#Volunteer Information Packet
#Volunteer Scheduling program
#Potential Donor Information Packet

=== OSE networking ===

#Network within the university (MU Extension, Down Profs, student and faculty groups, admin) 
#Network within Columbia (Community Leaders, Volunteers, etc.) 
#Network within the Mid Missouri Bioregion

== Members ==

Richard Schulte- President, Treasurer (MU official)

 

'''Student Members:''' Jack Buthod 

Kelly Gosset

Maggie Rhein?

Danny ?

Kelly Marren

Nick Totten?

Molly Campbell?

Kelly Betz?

Jack Grelle?

 

 '''Non-Student Members:'''

Angela Stockell

Lindsey Walker?

Kat Erdel?

Vince Foley?

= Proposed Student Projects =

== [[Build A Village '08 Project|Build A Village '08 Project]] ==

To coordinate a project in which the building infrastructure at Factor E Farm will be substantially updated so as to host interns and researchers as well as non-specialized collaborators. We will organise weekend trips to the land based facility and build with the CEB press so that they can support as many as 12 people in their collaboratory. The goal is to build a village, utilizing local, sustainable resources, and to make an example that this can be done very reasonably and that it can radically alter the way people realize sustainable lifestyles. Among the technologies that will be implemented in the buildings are solar water heaters and rainwater catchment, radiant floor heating, babington burners, humanure toilets, passive solar design and hardware coming from an off-grid fabrication facility. More can be found out at the [[Build A Village '08 Project|Build A Village '08 Project]] page. 

BAV Tasks: 

=== ''[[CEB Building Technique Research|CEB Building Technique Research]]'' ===

[[Image:Cebhomes.jpg|left]]

=== ''[[Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure|Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure]]''[[Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure|Solar PV Proj]]'''[[Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure|ect and Elec]]'''[[Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure|trical Infrastru]]'''[[Solar PV Project and Electrical Infrastructure|cture]]''' ===

''[[Babington Burner|Babington Burner]] [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Babington_Burner]''

''[[Water Filtration|Water Filtration]]''

''[[Solar Water Heater|Solar Water Heater]]''

''[[Sawmill|Sawmill]]'' (PTO attachment)

''[[Real Sustainable Bio Diesel Production|Real Sustainable Bio Diesel Production]]''

 

== Research Topics ==

=== Open Source Permaculture ===

What is open source permaculture? It is permaculture with a focus on replicability. By replicability, we mean particularly the ability to propagate plants to the extent that productive plantings may be implemented at very low cost. The application is, so to say, advanced foraging, or low-input edible landscape - which if combined with appropriate technology equipment - can provide for a large percentage of the surrounding population's diet. The application extends to other uses - such as biofuels and other useful products.

The goal is to document the plants and practices suitable for Community Supported Permaculture in the Mid-Missouri and continental climate. The focus should be twofold: (1) To document adapted species and practices; (2) to produce propagation documentation. The approach should be one of action learning: not picking stuff from books, but documenting examples with pictures and video. In particular, propagation how-to's are perhaps the most essential feature. The reason is - if one wants to engage in permaculture, one needs to have access to a wide variety of plant material. How does one gain this access in the most replicable fashion? By knowing propagation techniques - seeds, grafting, cuttings, layering, etc.

One way to implement this project is to have for-credit internships - in agriculture, journalism, rural sociology, peace studies, agricultural technology, or even engineering if it comes to appropriate technology equipment related to open source permaculture.

One immediate practical approach is to have students go on field trips to document various types of plants and how they are propagated - by taking instructional videos or pictures related to place-based, explicit examples of plants that combine to form an encyclopedic referency. I know of no database that provides propagation video at present.

A second, more theoretical approach is to collect and organize existing videos (YouTube, others) related to plant propagation/processing/use of various plants - focusing on sustainable agriculture and sustainable society.

=== Open Source Permafacture ===

One immediate application is fundraising for and building a small scale flexible and digital fabrication facility in Columbia - at a cost of approximately $5k for RepRap, CNC Multimachine, XYZ table, Micro XYZ table for circuit fabrication, and metal casting. This could produce just about any electromechanical device - from a heavy hoe, car, tractor, ceb press, to a wireless receiver or electric motor.

Students in the engineering field can use the equipment as hands-on projects in digital fabrication. Other students, with proper training, can learn to build just about anything - by using downloadable designs that are turned into reality with the help of a computer. The possibilities are astounding.

To be continued...

== Applied Permaculture Projects at Factor e Farm ==

Factor e Farm is dedicated as a field experiment for demonstrating the propagation, culture, and development of useful native plants. We welcome applied student projects related to open source permaculture.

= University Internship, Research, and Independent Study Point Contacts =

*'''Professor Sandy Rikoon''', Ph.D. - was interested in passing forward internship opportunities. He's head of the Sustainable Agriculture major. U. Missouri, Columbia, is the first land grant university in the United States that has a Sustainable Agriculture major
*'''Professor John Galliher''', Ph.D. of Peace Studies said that his students could do internships or directed study any time of the year - for credit - so he needs to see our internship proposals. Many research topics can fall under peace studies.
*'''Professor Mary Grigsby''' - Professional Master's program in Rural Sociology said that Master's students can do applied internships at Factor e Farm. This would be a great application for Open Source Permaculture and Sustainable Food Systems
*'''Professor Yuyi Lin''', Ph.D., PE - Capstone Seminar advisor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering - can direct students to OSE projects for their Capstone. Will be collaborating with us on Biomass to Fuel technologies based on the Personal Gasifier.
*'''Professor Amit Prasad''', PH.D. - Sociology Professor who has become our faculty advisor and is interested in helping OSE Mid MO to help get off the ground with grants and foundational funding.

[[Category:Primary_Matter|Primary Matter]] [[Category:Student_Group_Process|Student Group Process]] [[Category:Lists|Lists]]
[[Category:OSEMidMO|OSEMidMO]]

OSEMidMO/mtg minutes

2008-10-24T04:16:26Z

Dikjosef: /* Columbia Exchange Circle */

==First Official OSE MidMO meeting==
10/23/08 Gwynn Hall Room 106 7:00

First, we threw around some concepts about OSE goals and ideas about flex fab, open sustainability and other such things.

Then, we got down into the nitty gritty of getting a workshop going. Ideas about opening it in the new "space", in a garage, or in Kat's backyard were considered. However, this project has been set aside pending the more conceivable enaction of the following project.

===Columbia Exchange Circle===

Kat's friend Kip has undertaken a project, among other projects, of assembling a skillbase in his neighborhood of benton stephens in the intent of establishing a fundamental base for a local living economy. ''The premise is that by gathering information about different skills that the community has to offer, and uploading them to a database that can be accessed and utilized for trading, training and other capacity developing enterprises, that this can eventually provide a robust foundation for a localisation project.''

'''OSE's goal in implementing this project is twofold:'''

'''One,''' for assisting in a localisation project and bringing about full documentation to bolster a knowledgebase at somewhere like Catalytic Communities for such said projects. We will be using a similar project undertaken by students at Northwestern University which had a similar bent.

'''Two,''' for building a base of local collaborators in open design projects, first by educating them about the facets and benefits of open design and knowledge access, and eventually collaborating on open technologies for the open design base currently being developed worldwide. The initial focus could be on building capacity for more design work, so machines that could be used in these designs, and collaborative systems and taxonomies for developing these on a local, appropriate and sustainable level.

This project has been designated under the title of CEC - "Columbia Exchange Circle", and will form a subcommittee given the breadth of the project. '''Talk circulated about an informal meeting on sunday evening. Interested parties should reply to this message or participate on the talk page for CEC''' established @ http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=OSEMidMO/CEC. Its easy to register, and openfarmtech is an awesome website.

There were few actual deliberations, most of the talk was brainstorming and connecting the project to OSE MidMO's goals, which are quite congruent.

I determined a taxonomy of stakeholders for the project:

Web Programmers/Designers
Community Organisers
NGO's, nonprofits, small businesses
General Public
Skill Collectors - Collect a database of skills
Skill Traders - People who are interested in trading different skills
Skill Gatherers - Those who are actively seeking new skills to bolster their personal knowledge and capacity
Skill Holders - Those who already have skills in different areas, from singing and playing guitar to woodworking
Skill Documenters - Document the skills, pending the skillholders' approval, for open documentation to be added to a local, regional and global knowledgebase
Skill Givers - People who are willing to disseminate their skills to the community via workshops and apprenticeship-like training

this, of course, is rudimentary and hypothetical

'''Next steps:'''

''Developing a Cohesive Vision and a base of stakeholders and possible collaborators for the initiative''

''Developing an Action Plan and delegating tasks, building a base of collaborators and a task force.''

Kip spoke of this as happening conceiveably on a neighborhood by neighborhood basis, as he has already undertaken it in Benton Stephens. Further implementation can happen in east campus, north of town, etc. very easily. The implications of building such a skillbase would be paramount, and would provide an important network within which to articulate a robust LETS (Localized Exchange Trading System) for our town, and possible a local currency.

Visioning is very important, where stakeholders can participate in a process to determine the intended organisation, intent and image of such a project. Issues such as inclusion, access, and structure need to be addressed in the meeting on sunday. ''Again, for more information or to get involved, please contact Kat Erdel (kat_the_vegan4life@yahoo.com) or post on the talk page: http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=OSEMidMO/CEC .''

===Items on the Agenda which were not addressed, but will be addressed at the next meeting:===

- general mission and goals for OSE MidMO

- Image and Web development for an overworked OSE and Factor E Farm, including writing copy and making brochures and info packages.

- Fundraising via LOI's (letters of interest) for OSE, sent to NGOs, Foundations, and other groups

- Planning events, such as the presentation Lonny will be giving on the 23rd, and other presentations on campus, and a possible regional OSN unconference here in columbia (a lot easier than it sounds)

- Networking to develop service learning projects and foster researchships in open design, variously at Factor E, in development situations, and here in Columbia.

We will be repeating the time and place for the meeting next week. See you all there!

p.s. (For a living meeting minutes document, a collaborative Fire Room version will be availalable at http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=OSEMidMO/mtg_minutes)

OSEMidMO/mtg minutes

2008-10-24T04:13:41Z

Dikjosef:

==First Official OSE MidMO meeting==
10/23/08 Gwynn Hall Room 106 7:00

First, we threw around some concepts about OSE goals and ideas about flex fab, open sustainability and other such things.

Then, we got down into the nitty gritty of getting a workshop going. Ideas about opening it in the new "space", in a garage, or in Kat's backyard were considered. However, this project has been set aside pending the more conceivable enaction of the following project.

===Columbia Exchange Circle===

Kat's friend Kip has undertaken a project, among other projects, of assembling a skillbase in his neighborhood of benton stephens in the intent of establishing a fundamental base for a local living economy. The premise is that by gathering information about different skills that the community has to offer, and uploading them to a database that can be accessed and utilized for trading, training and other capacity developing enterprises, that this can eventually provide a robust foundation for a localisation project.

OSE's goal in implementing this project is twofold:

One, for assisting in a localisation project and bringing about full documentation to bolster a knowledgebase at somewhere like Catalytic Communities for such said projects. We will be using a similar project undertaken by students at Northwestern University which had a similar bent.

Two, for building a base of local collaborators in open design projects, first by educating them about the facets and benefeits of open design and knowledge access, and eventually collaborating on open technologies for the open design base currently being developed worldwide. The initial focus could be on building capacity for more designwork, so machines that could be used in these designs, and collaborative systems and taxonomies for developing these on a local, appropriate and sustainable level.

This project has been designated under the title of CEC - "Columbia Exchange Circle", and will form a subcommittee given the breadth of the project. Talk circulated about an informal meeting on sunday evening. Interested parties should reply to this message or participate on the talk page for CEC established @ http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=OSEMidMO/CEC. Its easy to register, and openfarmtech is an awesome website.

There were few actual deliberations, most of the talk was brainstorming and connecting the project to OSE MidMO's goals, which are quite congruent.

I determined a taxonomy of stakeholders for the project:

Web Programmers/Designers
Community Organisers
NGO's, nonprofits, small businesses
General Public
Skill Collectors - Collect a database of skills
Skill Traders - People who are interested in trading different skills
Skill Gatherers - Those who are actively seeking new skills to bolster their personal knowledge and capacity
Skill Holders - Those who already have skills in different areas, from singing and playing guitar to woodworking
Skill Documenters - Document the skills, pending the skillholders' approval, for open documentation to be added to a local, regional and global knowledgebase
Skill Givers - People who are willing to disseminate their skills to the community via workshops and apprenticeship-like training

this, of course, is rudimentary and hypothetical

Next steps:

Developing a Cohesive Vision and a base of stakeholders and possible collaborators for the initiative

Developing an Action Plan and delegating tasks, building a base of collaborators and a task force.

Kip spoke of this as happening conceiveably on a neighborhood by neighborhood basis, as he has already undertaken it in Benton Stephens. Further implementation can happen in east campus, north of town, etc. very easily. The implications of building such a skillbase would be paramount, and would provide an important network within which to articulate a robust LETS (Localized Exchange Trading System) for our town, and possible a local currency.

Visioning is very important, where stakeholders can participate in a process to determine the intended organisation, intent and image of such a project. Issues such as inclusion, access, and structure need to be addressed in the meeting on sunday. Again, for more information or to get involved, please contact Kat Erdel (kat_the_vegan4life@yahoo.com) or post on the talk page: http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=OSEMidMO/CEC .

===Items on the Agenda which were not addressed, but will be addressed at the next meeting:===

- general mission and goals for OSE MidMO

- Image and Web development for an overworked OSE and Factor E Farm, including writing copy and making brochures and info packages.

- Fundraising via LOI's (letters of interest) for OSE, sent to NGOs, Foundations, and other groups

- Planning events, such as the presentation Lonny will be giving on the 23rd, and other presentations on campus, and a possible regional OSN unconference here in columbia (a lot easier than it sounds)

- Networking to develop service learning projects and foster researchships in open design, variously at Factor E, in development situations, and here in Columbia.

We will be repeating the time and place for the meeting next week. See you all there!

p.s. (For a living meeting minutes document, a collaborative Fire Room version will be availalable at http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=OSEMidMO/mtg_minutes)

OSEMidMO/mtg minutes

2008-10-24T04:13:03Z

Dikjosef:

10/23/08 Gwynn Hall Room 106 7:00
==First Official OSE MidMO meeting==

First, we threw around some concepts about OSE goals and ideas about flex fab, open sustainability and other such things.

Then, we got down into the nitty gritty of getting a workshop going. Ideas about opening it in the new "space", in a garage, or in Kat's backyard were considered. However, this project has been set aside pending the more conceivable enaction of the following project.

===Columbia Exchange Circle===

Kat's friend Kip has undertaken a project, among other projects, of assembling a skillbase in his neighborhood of benton stephens in the intent of establishing a fundamental base for a local living economy. The premise is that by gathering information about different skills that the community has to offer, and uploading them to a database that can be accessed and utilized for trading, training and other capacity developing enterprises, that this can eventually provide a robust foundation for a localisation project.

OSE's goal in implementing this project is twofold:

One, for assisting in a localisation project and bringing about full documentation to bolster a knowledgebase at somewhere like Catalytic Communities for such said projects. We will be using a similar project undertaken by students at Northwestern University which had a similar bent.

Two, for building a base of local collaborators in open design projects, first by educating them about the facets and benefeits of open design and knowledge access, and eventually collaborating on open technologies for the open design base currently being developed worldwide. The initial focus could be on building capacity for more designwork, so machines that could be used in these designs, and collaborative systems and taxonomies for developing these on a local, appropriate and sustainable level.

This project has been designated under the title of CEC - "Columbia Exchange Circle", and will form a subcommittee given the breadth of the project. Talk circulated about an informal meeting on sunday evening. Interested parties should reply to this message or participate on the talk page for CEC established @ http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=OSEMidMO/CEC. Its easy to register, and openfarmtech is an awesome website.

There were few actual deliberations, most of the talk was brainstorming and connecting the project to OSE MidMO's goals, which are quite congruent.

I determined a taxonomy of stakeholders for the project:

Web Programmers/Designers
Community Organisers
NGO's, nonprofits, small businesses
General Public
Skill Collectors - Collect a database of skills
Skill Traders - People who are interested in trading different skills
Skill Gatherers - Those who are actively seeking new skills to bolster their personal knowledge and capacity
Skill Holders - Those who already have skills in different areas, from singing and playing guitar to woodworking
Skill Documenters - Document the skills, pending the skillholders' approval, for open documentation to be added to a local, regional and global knowledgebase
Skill Givers - People who are willing to disseminate their skills to the community via workshops and apprenticeship-like training

this, of course, is rudimentary and hypothetical

Next steps:

Developing a Cohesive Vision and a base of stakeholders and possible collaborators for the initiative

Developing an Action Plan and delegating tasks, building a base of collaborators and a task force.

Kip spoke of this as happening conceiveably on a neighborhood by neighborhood basis, as he has already undertaken it in Benton Stephens. Further implementation can happen in east campus, north of town, etc. very easily. The implications of building such a skillbase would be paramount, and would provide an important network within which to articulate a robust LETS (Localized Exchange Trading System) for our town, and possible a local currency.

Visioning is very important, where stakeholders can participate in a process to determine the intended organisation, intent and image of such a project. Issues such as inclusion, access, and structure need to be addressed in the meeting on sunday. Again, for more information or to get involved, please contact Kat Erdel (kat_the_vegan4life@yahoo.com) or post on the talk page: http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=OSEMidMO/CEC .

===Items on the Agenda which were not addressed, but will be addressed at the next meeting:===

- general mission and goals for OSE MidMO

- Image and Web development for an overworked OSE and Factor E Farm, including writing copy and making brochures and info packages.

- Fundraising via LOI's (letters of interest) for OSE, sent to NGOs, Foundations, and other groups

- Planning events, such as the presentation Lonny will be giving on the 23rd, and other presentations on campus, and a possible regional OSN unconference here in columbia (a lot easier than it sounds)

- Networking to develop service learning projects and foster researchships in open design, variously at Factor E, in development situations, and here in Columbia.

We will be repeating the time and place for the meeting next week. See you all there!

p.s. (For a living meeting minutes document, a collaborative Fire Room version will be availalable at http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=OSEMidMO/mtg_minutes)

OSEMidMO/mtg minutes

2008-10-24T04:12:18Z

Dikjosef:

==10/23/08 Gwynn Hall Room 106 7:00
First Official OSE MidMO meeting==

First, we threw around some concepts about OSE goals and ideas about flex fab, open sustainability and other such things.

Then, we got down into the nitty gritty of getting a workshop going. Ideas about opening it in the new "space", in a garage, or in Kat's backyard were considered. However, this project has been set aside pending the more conceivable enaction of the following project.

===Columbia Exchange Circle===

Kat's friend Kip has undertaken a project, among other projects, of assembling a skillbase in his neighborhood of benton stephens in the intent of establishing a fundamental base for a local living economy. The premise is that by gathering information about different skills that the community has to offer, and uploading them to a database that can be accessed and utilized for trading, training and other capacity developing enterprises, that this can eventually provide a robust foundation for a localisation project.

OSE's goal in implementing this project is twofold:

One, for assisting in a localisation project and bringing about full documentation to bolster a knowledgebase at somewhere like Catalytic Communities for such said projects. We will be using a similar project undertaken by students at Northwestern University which had a similar bent.

Two, for building a base of local collaborators in open design projects, first by educating them about the facets and benefeits of open design and knowledge access, and eventually collaborating on open technologies for the open design base currently being developed worldwide. The initial focus could be on building capacity for more designwork, so machines that could be used in these designs, and collaborative systems and taxonomies for developing these on a local, appropriate and sustainable level.

This project has been designated under the title of CEC - "Columbia Exchange Circle", and will form a subcommittee given the breadth of the project. Talk circulated about an informal meeting on sunday evening. Interested parties should reply to this message or participate on the talk page for CEC established @ http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=OSEMidMO/CEC. Its easy to register, and openfarmtech is an awesome website.

There were few actual deliberations, most of the talk was brainstorming and connecting the project to OSE MidMO's goals, which are quite congruent.

I determined a taxonomy of stakeholders for the project:

Web Programmers/Designers
Community Organisers
NGO's, nonprofits, small businesses
General Public
Skill Collectors - Collect a database of skills
Skill Traders - People who are interested in trading different skills
Skill Gatherers - Those who are actively seeking new skills to bolster their personal knowledge and capacity
Skill Holders - Those who already have skills in different areas, from singing and playing guitar to woodworking
Skill Documenters - Document the skills, pending the skillholders' approval, for open documentation to be added to a local, regional and global knowledgebase
Skill Givers - People who are willing to disseminate their skills to the community via workshops and apprenticeship-like training

this, of course, is rudimentary and hypothetical

Next steps:

Developing a Cohesive Vision and a base of stakeholders and possible collaborators for the initiative

Developing an Action Plan and delegating tasks, building a base of collaborators and a task force.

Kip spoke of this as happening conceiveably on a neighborhood by neighborhood basis, as he has already undertaken it in Benton Stephens. Further implementation can happen in east campus, north of town, etc. very easily. The implications of building such a skillbase would be paramount, and would provide an important network within which to articulate a robust LETS (Localized Exchange Trading System) for our town, and possible a local currency.

Visioning is very important, where stakeholders can participate in a process to determine the intended organisation, intent and image of such a project. Issues such as inclusion, access, and structure need to be addressed in the meeting on sunday. Again, for more information or to get involved, please contact Kat Erdel (kat_the_vegan4life@yahoo.com) or post on the talk page: http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=OSEMidMO/CEC .

===Items on the Agenda which were not addressed, but will be addressed at the next meeting:===

- general mission and goals for OSE MidMO

- Image and Web development for an overworked OSE and Factor E Farm, including writing copy and making brochures and info packages.

- Fundraising via LOI's (letters of interest) for OSE, sent to NGOs, Foundations, and other groups

- Planning events, such as the presentation Lonny will be giving on the 23rd, and other presentations on campus, and a possible regional OSN unconference here in columbia (a lot easier than it sounds)

- Networking to develop service learning projects and foster researchships in open design, variously at Factor E, in development situations, and here in Columbia.

We will be repeating the time and place for the meeting next week. See you all there!

p.s. (For a living meeting minutes document, a collaborative Fire Room version will be availalable at http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=OSEMidMO/mtg_minutes)

OSEMidMO/mtg minutes

2008-10-24T04:10:54Z

Dikjosef: New page: 10/23/08 Gwynn Hall Room 106 7:00 First Official OSE MidMO meeting First, we threw around some concepts about OSE goals and ideas about flex fab, open sustainability and other such thing...

10/23/08 Gwynn Hall Room 106 7:00
First Official OSE MidMO meeting

First, we threw around some concepts about OSE goals and ideas about flex fab, open sustainability and other such things.

Then, we got down into the nitty gritty of getting a workshop going. Ideas about opening it in the new "space", in a garage, or in Kat's backyard were considered. However, this project has been set aside pending the more conceivable enaction of the following project.

Columbia Exchange Circle

Kat's friend Kip has undertaken a project, among other projects, of assembling a skillbase in his neighborhood of benton stephens in the intent of establishing a fundamental base for a local living economy. The premise is that by gathering information about different skills that the community has to offer, and uploading them to a database that can be accessed and utilized for trading, training and other capacity developing enterprises, that this can eventually provide a robust foundation for a localisation project.

OSE's goal in implementing this project is twofold:

One, for assisting in a localisation project and bringing about full documentation to bolster a knowledgebase at somewhere like Catalytic Communities for such said projects. We will be using a similar project undertaken by students at Northwestern University which had a similar bent.

Two, for building a base of local collaborators in open design projects, first by educating them about the facets and benefeits of open design and knowledge access, and eventually collaborating on open technologies for the open design base currently being developed worldwide. The initial focus could be on building capacity for more designwork, so machines that could be used in these designs, and collaborative systems and taxonomies for developing these on a local, appropriate and sustainable level.

This project has been designated under the title of CEC - "Columbia Exchange Circle", and will form a subcommittee given the breadth of the project. Talk circulated about an informal meeting on sunday evening. Interested parties should reply to this message or participate on the talk page for CEC established @ http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=OSEMidMO/CEC. Its easy to register, and openfarmtech is an awesome website.

There were few actual deliberations, most of the talk was brainstorming and connecting the project to OSE MidMO's goals, which are quite congruent.

I determined a taxonomy of stakeholders for the project:

Web Programmers/Designers
Community Organisers
NGO's, nonprofits, small businesses
General Public
Skill Collectors - Collect a database of skills
Skill Traders - People who are interested in trading different skills
Skill Gatherers - Those who are actively seeking new skills to bolster their personal knowledge and capacity
Skill Holders - Those who already have skills in different areas, from singing and playing guitar to woodworking
Skill Documenters - Document the skills, pending the skillholders' approval, for open documentation to be added to a local, regional and global knowledgebase
Skill Givers - People who are willing to disseminate their skills to the community via workshops and apprenticeship-like training

this, of course, is rudimentary and hypothetical

Next steps:

Developing a Cohesive Vision and a base of stakeholders and possible collaborators for the initiative

Developing an Action Plan and delegating tasks, building a base of collaborators and a task force.

Kip spoke of this as happening conceiveably on a neighborhood by neighborhood basis, as he has already undertaken it in Benton Stephens. Further implementation can happen in east campus, north of town, etc. very easily. The implications of building such a skillbase would be paramount, and would provide an important network within which to articulate a robust LETS (Localized Exchange Trading System) for our town, and possible a local currency.

Visioning is very important, where stakeholders can participate in a process to determine the intended organisation, intent and image of such a project. Issues such as inclusion, access, and structure need to be addressed in the meeting on sunday. Again, for more information or to get involved, please contact Kat Erdel (kat_the_vegan4life@yahoo.com) or post on the talk page: http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=OSEMidMO/CEC .

Items on the Agenda which were not addressed, but will be addressed at the next meeting:

- general mission and goals for OSE MidMO

- Image and Web development for an overworked OSE and Factor E Farm, including writing copy and making brochures and info packages.

- Fundraising via LOI's (letters of interest) for OSE, sent to NGOs, Foundations, and other groups

- Planning events, such as the presentation Lonny will be giving on the 23rd, and other presentations on campus, and a possible regional OSN unconference here in columbia (a lot easier than it sounds)

- Networking to develop service learning projects and foster researchships in open design, variously at Factor E, in development situations, and here in Columbia.

We will be repeating the time and place for the meeting next week. See you all there!

p.s. (For a living meeting minutes document, a collaborative Fire Room version will be availalable at http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=OSEMidMO/mtg_minutes)

OSEMidMO/CEC

2008-10-24T03:36:32Z

Dikjosef: /* Columbia Exchange Circle */

=Columbia Exchange Circle=

OSEMidMO/CEC

2008-10-24T03:36:00Z

Dikjosef: New page: ==Columbia Exchange Circle==

==Columbia Exchange Circle==

Moose

2008-10-12T07:11:28Z

Dikjosef:

I am from Africa. I am highly interested in what you folks are doing. I am a computer consultant for unc general administration. I am passionate with permaculture. Factor e live is the coolest project I have seen. I would love to communicate more with you. Were I am from, people could learn a lot from you and cut down on youth emigration to other countries where they usually suffer a lot.

I hope to talk to your team. Where are you located? I live in Durham, NC.
Peace,
Moose

from YouTube

[[Category:Collaboration_Discussions]]

User talk:Dikjosef

2008-10-07T18:44:20Z

Dikjosef: New page: here is the talk page

here is the talk page

Watching Pages

2008-10-07T18:43:33Z

Dikjosef:

How do i know if someone left a talk on a page?

1. Click preferences at the top of the page. Scroll down.
2. Register your email. You'll need to verify if you haven't already
3. Select your notifications, including E-mail me when a page on my watchlist is changed.
4. Watch the page (tab at the top)

This will give you notifications for any change to the page or it's talk page. You'll only get an email the first time it's changed, unless you visit the page. If you visit the page, you'll get notified of the next change after that; if you don't, you'll get no more alerts.

Is
there a Talk page for the all pages?

Yes, every page on a MediaWiki wiki has this. The tab is marked "Discussion" at the top, towards the left.

Also, Recent Changes (on the left sidebar) is a great way to track everything thats happening on the wiki. it will show any and all changes made.

Organic Beekeeping

2008-10-07T16:42:02Z

Dikjosef:

=Introduction

type text here

=Topic 1=

bla bla

==Subtopic==

==Subtopic 2==

To insert pictures: just type in the following:

[[Image:Filenme_of_Image.jpg]]

After you save, you can upload an image by clicking on the filename.

==External Links==

http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/PDF/beekeeping.pdf <awesome resource

http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/beekeeping.html <even better, lots of links and works cited

http://www.ncipmc.org/index.cfm < USDA IPM center

http://ppp.missouri.edu/pestmonitoring/index.htm <MU Extension pest monitoring network

Web Image Development

2008-10-05T21:32:37Z

Dikjosef: /* Vision: */

==Goal:==

Primary: Develop A robust information source for all parties interested in OSE and specifically Factor E Farm, containing information for donors and volunteers, including on and off-site collaborators

Secondary: To further develop the web image of OSE, utilizing opensourceecology.org and reorganizing the wealth of information on Open Farm Tech.

==Vision:==

'''Primary:'''

- A simple mechanism for keeping interested parties informed about all past, current and future projects, including progress and impact of donations (i.e. showing dollar amounts connected to in progress and completed projects)

- A well developed set of publicity resources, such as PDF brochures and such, containing information for potential donors and volunteers, as well as a press kit.

- A listserv to let folks know whats goin on, that can even be updated off-site with enough information (i.e. if they are really busy, a quick skype interview), and another where collaboration and discussion can happen

'''Secondary:'''

- Development of opensourceecology.org as a main page for OSE, kind of like a portal, then further links from sidebar take you to well developed openfarmtech.org pages with embedded navigation, similar to what appropedia did with opensustainabilitynetwork.org.

- Portal would include latest Factor E Live, Weblog feed, Latest OpenFarmTech updates, and listserv feed possibly?

unfinished email:
Web Development Stuff:

this stuff is awesome, i linked to it on the http://www.openfarmtech.org/index.php?Web_Image_Development page (i have been watching the 'recent changes' page on openfarmtech, this would probably be a good one to turn into a feed for the portal.)

found this app that will turn articles into feeds, and then this for posting feeds (for the portal).

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:XFeed_-_RSS_Feed_Aggregator
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiArticleFeeds

If you turn Factor E Live into a channel or series, possibly through another site than youtube, then there can probably be a constantly updating embed. Also, we can feed latest pictures from flickr somehow i am sure.

All of this requires installing relatively simple extensions in mediawiki, or even having the surface webpage for opensourceecology.org be html with all kinds of embedded stuff, linking to the blog and openfarmtech.org, kind of like appropedias opensustainabilitynetwork.org. Then subnavigation as they do as well, etc.

If you could give us broad categories for openfarmtech, we can go through and apply those, and then do further subcategories

==Related Pages:==

These should all be great resources for pursuing these goals

[[Special:Allpages]]

[[Volunteer_Application]]

[[Marketing_Brochure]]

[[Proposal_2008]]

[[Slide_1]] - awesome presentation Marcin and Brittany gave at MU

[[Wanted_Items]]

[[Open_Source_Ecology:Site_support]]

[[Information_Architecture]]

==External Links:==

[http://forums.treehugger.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6445|Sasha’s compelling overview of why one should support us]

[http://www.appropedia.org/index.php?title=Open_Source_Ecology| OSE rundown @ appropedia]

Web Image Development

2008-10-05T21:23:55Z

Dikjosef: /* Vision: */