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Critique of LifeTrac

2009-11-21T18:38:26Z

Olleolleolle: moved source to before article text

This from [http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2009/02/bleg-for-open-source-ecology-open.html Mutualist]:

<blockquote cite="http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2009/02/bleg-for-open-source-ecology-open.html">The Life Trac is trying to do too much in one machine, and should have been split among different devices. Also, they should not have gone for hydraulics, as it is too high technology for convenient construction and maintenance under field conditions. They should have taken interwar tractors like Ford's as their guide. There is no mention of the power unit or how biomass would be used as fuel. The only rational fuel approach in those circumstances is gasifying with a simple device like Georges Imbert's or the FEMA gasifier (see Gengas), so I hope they weren't thinking of fermenting and distilling liquids or making biodiesel. The only rational approach to power units is to use scavenged engines that can be adapted to the fuel and can be maintained (which means older style petrol engines, not diesel), or two stroke split piston engines which can be made and maintained at that scale.<blockquote>

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Critique of LifeTrac

2009-11-21T18:37:07Z

Olleolleolle: Formatting with blockquote, for readability

<blockquote cite="http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2009/02/bleg-for-open-source-ecology-open.html">The Life Trac is trying to do too much in one machine, and should have been split among different devices. Also, they should not have gone for hydraulics, as it is too high technology for convenient construction and maintenance under field conditions. They should have taken interwar tractors like Ford's as their guide. There is no mention of the power unit or how biomass would be used as fuel. The only rational fuel approach in those circumstances is gasifying with a simple device like Georges Imbert's or the FEMA gasifier (see Gengas), so I hope they weren't thinking of fermenting and distilling liquids or making biodiesel. The only rational approach to power units is to use scavenged engines that can be adapted to the fuel and can be maintained (which means older style petrol engines, not diesel), or two stroke split piston engines which can be made and maintained at that scale.<blockquote> Source: [http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2009/02/bleg-for-open-source-ecology-open.html Mutualist]

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Talk:OSE Logo

2009-11-21T10:55:49Z

Olleolleolle: /* Vector versions? */ signed with sig

== Vector versions? ==

It'd be neat to have access to original design files (under a permissive license), so that one could remix and create more of this. --[[User:Olleolleolle|Olleolleolle]] 10:55, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Talk:OSE Logo

2009-11-21T10:54:58Z

Olleolleolle: Asking for the original design files for the logo. Or at least an EPS file.

== Vector versions? ==

It'd be neat to have access to original design files (under a permissive license), so that one could remix and create more of this.

File:Olleolleolle.jpg

2009-11-20T15:25:00Z

Olleolleolle:

True Fans

2009-11-20T15:24:27Z

Olleolleolle: Added fandom

=Introduction=

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

=True Fans=

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| '''Benjamin Kaplin'''
I'm a mechanical engineering student, and I support the OSE because a completed Open Source Village kit would represent several orders of magnitude of improvement over existing projects to improve living conditions around the globe with technology. I grew up reading Stephenson, and one of the most powerful images in his book <em>Diamond Age</em> is The Seed, a nanotechnology McGuffin that one of the main characters devotes his life to that would take the control of production and self-determination out of the hands of the McCorporations and put it into the hands of revolutionaries and the impoverished.
Needless to say, nanotech is still several decades away from that dream, and contributing to the True Fans campaign helps a realistic Seed program without pulling me away from my studies.
|[[Image:0213090948.jpg|thumb|Benjamin Kaplin]]
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| '''Marcin Jakubowski''', opensourceecology at gmail dot com, marcin_ose on Skype
I started the campaign because I have observed how little of humanity's true potential has been tapped. Everyone slaves their life away to a system that is crumbling at the seams. I believe that we can all reach absolute prosperity and evolve to freedom - by becoming skilled and productive [[Integrated Humans]], and by helping anyone else to do the same. History has shown that this is a general formula for lasting prosperity. As long as we're wise, it should be trivial to get beyond the economics of scarcity. We need to show the world how to build the world's first, replicable, open source Global Village.
|[[Image:marcin.jpg|thumb|Marcin Jakubowski]]
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| '''Jeremy Mason''', jeremymaso at gmail dot com
I am supporting OSE because I want to someday replicate Factor e Farm and help everyone evolve to freedom.
|[[image:jeremy.jpg|thumb|Jeremy Mason]]
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| '''Scott Akridge'''
As I get older I'm more and more interested in helping people. A couple weeks back I enlisted the help of a friend to help in developing a CEB press when I began doing research and found www.openfarmtech.org with the open source CEB press. I continued looking for more information but kept coming back to this site for more info and learned more about the project and found I wanted to get involved. I started by becoming a member and donating $10 a month with plans to build the CEB press and build a couple structures then make the effort a cooperative. After reading more I've decided to also build a sawmill, assuming I can recruit some help. I think this is a great project and am excited to be a part of it in a small way.
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| '''Toby Martin'''
I support OSE because...
* It's an intelligent and direct effort to address some of the most serious problems we face as individuals and as a society.
* It's one of the most interesting and creative projects I've ever heard of.
* I see no reason in principle that it can't improve people's lives.
* It's actually happening.
|[[Image:TF2.jpg|thumb|Toby Martin]]
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| '''Lucas González''', imagina (dot) canarias at gmail dot com
I support OSE because both the model and the elements add some important missing pieces to what I perceive is going on.
* I think it's important to have local possibilities for water, food and energy everywhere. Not just at the household level but more importantly at the village or more aggregated levels. Even if you end up buying stuff from elsewhere, it's best if that happens by choice, not by necessity. It was not by choice when things were local by default and it's not by choice now that things are global by default.
* The whole process of open sharing of ideas, processes, know-how is intriguing and, at the very least, extremely fun to watch. (I really wish I had more time to join in myself, but I'm doing things that need doing. So I translate, tell others, and chip in with a little cash, less than what others spend in smoking. My choice.)
* I'm particularly interested in some items for specific locations. Energy for water in sunny places is a must. Shelter and water collection systems. You name it.
* Do we really know how far and how fast this can go? I think there's bound to be a catalitic process so that more and more technologies will come out openly, in an exciting incarnation of the Stone Soup story. So I want to help keep the fire going.
* It really looks like this can be done, should be done, will be done in 2 years. Less than 2 years now. The whole world now has a sense of urgency, I feel. I'd like to see what we can do after this. But the time is ripe for this, now.
* It's interesting to note how open content gives us a sense of ownership. Many have felt that with software. I want to see that with hardware.
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'''Joseph Zarr''', joseph.zarr@gmail.com [[Image:DSC_0169.JPG|thumb|Joseph Zarr]]

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

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

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

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

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

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

2009-11-20T08:22:35Z

Olleolleolle: Added a microscopic personal page.

Olle Jonsson, enthusiastic, Swede.

Skype name: ''olleolleolle''

[http://ollehost.dk/blog Personal blog]

Integrated Human

2009-11-20T08:20:31Z

Olleolleolle: speling correction of generalist

An 'integrated human' is a person who is working towards excellence in all areas, including: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. It is a person who is striving to be a generalist, not a specialist. It is a person who is more powerful and effective, from a wholistic perspective - than a specialist.

<blockquote>A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

-- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein Robert A. Heinlein]</blockquote>

=Physical=
*Physical fitness
*Flexibility
*Agility
*Diet
*[[Nutrition]]
*Healthy body, healthy mind
*[[Yoga]]
*Hand-eye coordination

=Mental=
*Thirst for Knowledge
*Critical thinking
*Researching skills
*Willpower to do physical and mental work to get things done
*Awareness
*[[Philosophy of Liberty]] and Abundance, not Greed and Theft
*Knowledge or intuition of how the world works
*Follow the golden rule, treat others as you would wish to be treated
*Forethought, good judgment
*Open minded
*Able to work independently
*Able to cooperate with others
*[http://www.successconsciousness.com/index_000004.htm Focus, concentration], control of the mind and [http://www.successconsciousness.com/index_00002b.htm inner dialogues]

=Emotional=
*Control of emotions, not controlled by emotions
*Empathy and Compassion
*Respect for one's self and others
*Independent
*Cooperative
*Mindset of sustained sufficiency, rather than consumption of resources
*Able to honestly change mind based on facts, not hung up on ego attached to something
*Self assured, not dependent on what others think
*Resilient "survivor" personality, able to thrive in challenging conditions
*Accepts other people as they are, no one can force another to change, individuals can only change themselves
*Looks past the superficial surface of things to try to see the core, the true nature
*Can take direction
*Can give direction

=Spiritual=
*Spiritual, separate from religious
*[[Yoga]] or any of a large number of mind-body integration practices
*Intuition, informed by knowledge
*Meditation

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