Open Source Ecology - User contributions [en]

Open-source software alternatives

2022-01-28T07:23:39Z

RandyP:

The table below lists open-source alternatives to proprietary software:
{| class="wikitable"
! Open-source software !! Replaces !! Advantages || Link
|-
| DuckDuckGo Search Engine || Search engines; e.g. Google || privacy || https://duckduckgo.com/
|-
| DuckDuckGo Browser || Web browsers, e.g. Google Chrome, Safari || || https://duckduckgo.com/
|-
| Brave Search Engine || Search engines; e.g. Google || anonymous, tracker & ad blocker, faster || https://brave.com/
|-
| Brave Browser || Web browsers, e.g. Google Chrome, MS Bing || private, less bandwidth || https://brave.com/
|-
| Swiss Cows Search Engine || Search engines; e.g. Google || no tracking, anonymous, family friendly || https://swisscows.com/
|-
| Mastodon || Twitter || || https://joinmastodon.org/
|-
| Cryptpad || Productivity software and cloud services, e.g. Google Drive and MS Office || || https://cryptpad.fr/
|-
| LibreOffice || Productivity software || free and Opensource docs, sheets, presentation, database, math editor, charts in 119 languages, 55 million downloads || https://libreoffice.com/
|-
| Signal || Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger || || https://signal.org/en/
|-
| Diaspora || Facebook || || https://diasporafoundation.org/
|-
| Minds || Facebook || || https://www.minds.com/
|-
| Odysee || YouTube || || https://odysee.com/
|-
| PeerTube || YouTube || || https://joinpeertube.org/
|-
| Telegram || Facebook, YouTube, email || Fast, secure & free; Create or join groups & channels, upload videos & files, encrypted voice & video calls, not censored, 500 million monthly users || https://telegram.org/
|-
| FreeCAD || SolidWorks, NX, Creo, Catia || || https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/FreeCAD/
|}

=External links=
https://alternativeto.net

Open-source software alternatives

2022-01-28T07:14:38Z

RandyP:

The table below lists open-source alternatives to proprietary software:
{| class="wikitable"
! Open-source software !! Replaces !! Advantages || Link
|-
| DuckDuckGo Search Engine || Search engines; e.g. Google || privacy || https://duckduckgo.com/
|-
| DuckDuckGo Browser || Web browsers, e.g. Google Chrome, Safari || || https://duckduckgo.com/
|-
| Brave Search Engine || Search engines; e.g. Google || anonymous, tracker & ad blocker, faster || https://brave.com/
|-
| Brave Browser || Web browsers, e.g. Google Chrome, MS Bing || private, less bandwidth || https://brave.com/
|-
| Swiss Cows Search Engine || Search engines; e.g. Google || no tracking, anonymous, family friendly || https://swisscows.com/
|-
| Mastodon || Twitter || || https://joinmastodon.org/
|-
| Cryptpad || Productivity software and cloud services, e.g. Google Drive and MS Office || || https://cryptpad.fr/
|-
| LibreOffice || Productivity software || free and Opensource docs, sheets, presentation, database, math editor, charts in 119 languages, 55 million downloads || https://libreoffice.com/
|-
| Signal || Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger || || https://signal.org/en/
|-
| Diaspora || Facebook || || https://diasporafoundation.org/
|-
| Minds || Facebook || || https://www.minds.com/
|-
| Odysee || YouTube || || https://odysee.com/
|-
| PeerTube || YouTube || || https://joinpeertube.org/
|-
| FreeCAD || SolidWorks, NX, Creo, Catia || || https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/FreeCAD
|}

=External links=
https://alternativeto.net

Open-source software alternatives

2022-01-28T07:10:10Z

RandyP:

The table below lists open-source alternatives to proprietary software:
{| class="wikitable"
! Open-source software !! Replaces !! Advantages || Link
|-
| DuckDuckGo Search Engine || Search engines; e.g. Google || privacy || https://duckduckgo.com/
|-
| DuckDuckGo Browser || Web browsers, e.g. Google Chrome, Safari || || https://duckduckgo.com/
|-
| Brave Search Engine || Search engines; e.g. Google || anonymous, tracker & ad blocker, faster || https://brave.com/
|-
| Brave Browser || Web browsers, e.g. Google Chrome, MS Bing || private, less bandwidth || https://brave.com/
|-
| Swiss Cows Search Engine || Search engines; e.g. Google || no tracking, anonymous, family friendly || https://swisscows.com/
|-
| Mastodon || Twitter || || https://joinmastodon.org/
|-
| Cryptpad || Productivity software and cloud services, e.g. Google Drive and MS Office || || https://cryptpad.fr/
|-
|
|-
| Signal || Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger || || https://signal.org/en/
|-
| Diaspora || Facebook || || https://diasporafoundation.org/
|-
| Minds || Facebook || || https://www.minds.com/
|-
| Odysee || YouTube || || https://odysee.com/
|-
| PeerTube || YouTube || || https://joinpeertube.org/
|-
| FreeCAD || SolidWorks, NX, Creo, Catia || || https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/FreeCAD
|}

=External links=
https://alternativeto.net

Open-source software alternatives

2022-01-28T06:58:15Z

RandyP:

Open-source software alternatives

2022-01-28T06:53:07Z

RandyP:

Target Audience for STEAM Camps

2020-02-11T08:52:52Z

RandyP: /* Frank has X skills and Y interests... */

=Intro=
We estimate the market size for relocalization towards circular economies to be around $30T, the size of the primary and secondary sectors of the economy (see [[Google Presentation]] for tipping point calculation towards a collaborative, open economy). As such, this affords the possibility of large scale collaboration towards transforming the economy towards open and collaborative, as in the [[OSE Vision]]. The [[Open Source Microfactory Mastermind]] would be a dedicated groups of open, collaborative developers who are interested in being owner-operators of enterprises in a local, circular economy. They collaborate globally, and have lofty ideals, and build locally so they don't sit on armchair theory.

Areas of OSE development include the [[Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camps]] for broadscale participation in collaborative design, the [[Summer of Extreme Design-Build]] focusing on larger-scale prototyping, and [[Incentive Challenges]] for [[Distributive Enterprise]] development.

For the STEAM Camps, we are recruiting instructors and marketing to participants. '''The working question is clear definition of the target audience.''' Here are some notes.

=Open Source Microfactory Mastermind=
What we work on and how we work:
#We agree on a product roadmap
#Product strategy - we develop product strategy for each product
#Marketing strategy -
#Owner Operators - producers in local economies who move up in management over time
#Any investor is required to also be an operator until finalized production is defined
#Community not for community sake but for transformative movement entrepreneurship
#Teacher/builder/researcher. No basic research - applied product research for accountability to closed loop material cycles at the community scale
#Open source version of Fab City
#Collaborative version of Fab Academy
#People who envision common products being made in their own community, so that we reach the circular economy
#Distributed, open marketing templates, like Clickfunnels but open source and distributive
#Profile - disposable income higher than average. Looking for meaningful work with purpose. Sideline to full time. Interested in sharing knowledge. Has courage sufficient to share source code of economic value (product design, production engineering, product strategy, business plan). Is interested in ethical systems transformation without compromising to adapt to system (The Unreasonable Man) Understands societal critique without invoking victim mentality (They are out to get you. Who are 'They'?) See Juice Rap News 30.
#Possible profile - libre hacker ethical cooperator (distinct from supercooperators, who have no limits to working outside of their own cultural base)
#Possible profile - open-minded Fab shop owner who wants to diversify their range of services, but needs to learn more about open collarative protocols
#Possible profile - ethical entrepreneur who questions structural evil and has a successful business that participates in [[Structural Evil]] to the least extent possible.
#Someone who is well versed in systems-based conceptualization of structural evil, and has the ambition to transform it more than the ambition to benefit from it. Has the wisdom to distinguish enterprise that can move the dial (ethical scalability), vs pursuing fringe movements that do not consider systems thinking or are violent in their nature.

=Feedback - Don Jacobsmeyer=

You’ve articulated some of the “what”, you haven’t talked about the “who”. I’d encourage you to humanize this audience. Give one a name, talk about them by name. Let’s say Frank.

Frank has X skills and Y social interests. He’s fascinated by the potential for ABC but hasn’t come across a highly actionable model to take X + Y and create a small scale version of ABC. So instead he finds himself toiling away on DEF which just frustrates him further because there’s no self fulfillment in it.

Try to insert your other concepts in this narrative and see where it goes.

=Frank has X skills and Y interests...=
Profiles for different people:

'''#Jeremy''' -

'''#Don''' -

'''#Randy''' - We hoard financial, material, and proprietary intellectual resources for financial gain. Knowledge, comfort, energy and wealth have been created from intense generational effort and investment. This benefited everyone somewhat. How can we best use our discretionary time, attention, material and financial resources and clever ideas? Entire continents lack even marginal shelter, food production, healthcare, water and power. Patent protection has attracted massive investment capital and innovators. Open Source invites collaboration and sharing instead of hiding and hoarding. It attracts a different group of participants. This initiative is not attempting to build a few essential devices. It aims to change the relative composition of users and producers in the local and worldwide economy for the benefit of all. As a financial professional, mba, cpa, I have worked with established corporations, and a new company developing hydrogen energy and computer hardware and software. I co-founded a consulting company with clients such as United Technologies, GE Plastics, Cytec, Mississippi Chemical, Rubbermaid, and Chrysler. We observed and documented all manufacturing equipment. I helped re-write the Constitution of the State of Hawaii as an elected delegate in 1978. I have an MA in Curriculum & Development, and taught math in urban public middle and high schools. I love supporting the vision of Marcin, Catarina, and others I have met as we continue to iterate and improve Open Source documentation, devices, structures, events, and participants. If you examine a graph of exponential growth, for a long time it appears as though there is almost no growth. Suddenly growth explodes. Open Source will follow that curve. Open Source is practical, accessible, and inevitable.

'''#Vasco'''
-
'''#Ian''' - I'm a technologist and educator currently on the leadership team of a small charter-like high school. I am also the digital technology teacher at the school. I am passionate about equipping youth (specifically indigenous youth) with the tools to create their own career pathways, having the technical skills to solve real-world problems and ultimately building the future that them, their family and communities want. I believe the OSE has the right vision and skill to empower a generation of collaborative innovators on a global scale that together could achieve any level of self-determined aspirations.

#Daniel -

'''#Benoit''' - I'm interested in learning how things work and being able to replicate without the help of any black box. Replication (can be called reinventing the wheel) is interesting because it validates your understanding and gives more autonomy - relying too much on the technology of a hyper-specialized civilization is a bit like believing in magic. Also I enjoy it very much. So I got acquainted with some maths/algorithms, DIY signal processing, robotics, reverse eng, electronics; things that can be done in front a computer for the most part. At some point, interacting with the real world becomes necessary; with a limit set of resources and without a very broad set of skills it gets very difficult. In order to build useful and interesting machines/processes and make this knowledge available, without jumping through so many hoops, I'm keen on learning manual skills, applied engineering and whatever else at the OSE STEAM Camp. Hopefully I'll also be useful with my less hardware oriented skills.

'''#Jessica''' - Jessica is an urbanist, designer, sculptor, and community catalyst. A licensed landscape architect,raised in the northern forests, trained in the legacy arts of stone carving and metallurgy, she understands the world as a continuum, and strives not to critique existing ''modus operandi'' but to replace them with something entirely new. She teaches ecological systems to architecture and landscape architecture students where an understanding of how the abiotc, biotic, built/ social, and disturbance patterns create the unevenness of space we experience becomes a tool for design from global to detail scales. In her design practice that has taken her around the globe, she seeks models other than the traditional client and consultant roles to build, apply, and develop the most creative solutions imaginable to serve the community of ''place''. This has been the most challenging at home where progressive ideas are thrown around as political tactics and market forces are the rip tide to equity. She has been looking for others who know what an engaged design process means and can do to empower a community. In need of collaborators and expertise in electronics and programming to develop she trusts her intuition about OSE STEAM Camp and intends to share her experience and provide training for others who are interested in making the collective the five legged bottom line.

'''#Mutton''' - Mutton is a movement entrepreneur interested in solving all of the world's most pressing grand challenges. He is fascinated by the potential of collaborative development, and thinks that all of the world'd problems can be solved by first identifying them, and creating a school in which students work explicitly on tackling these problems. His mental model states that we must start at the level of how the world provides an economic basis for people - literally turning abundant dirt and twigs into the lifestuff of modern civilization. He has been looking for a way to fund a school based on a promise of distributed, relocalized, circular economies, and has discovered that people are willing to pay for applied, hands-on, entrepreneurial education. But right now, Mutton is missing the organizational support to translate his vision to build his school. He further wants to have no investors who are not direct stakeholders (either students or teachers) in the school - making startup harder. He has found that finding such direct stakeholders is difficult, so he decided to join the OSE STEAM Camps program to find more aligned people, so he can staff the school that he wants and populate it with students.

'''#Jeff''' -

=Links=
*Announcement for STEAM Camp instructors by [[Andreas Log]] - how do we vet that through the above? [https://docs.google.com/document/d/169v3knwWDK0OhecMQTPpzW6e-mVABCA82UOvMlfiqPk/edit#]

Target Audience for STEAM Camps

2020-02-11T07:58:22Z

RandyP: /* Frank has X skills and Y interests... */

=Intro=
We estimate the market size for relocalization towards circular economies to be around $30T, the size of the primary and secondary sectors of the economy (see [[Google Presentation]] for tipping point calculation towards a collaborative, open economy). As such, this affords the possibility of large scale collaboration towards transforming the economy towards open and collaborative, as in the [[OSE Vision]]. The [[Open Source Microfactory Mastermind]] would be a dedicated groups of open, collaborative developers who are interested in being owner-operators of enterprises in a local, circular economy. They collaborate globally, and have lofty ideals, and build locally so they don't sit on armchair theory.

Areas of OSE development include the [[Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camps]] for broadscale participation in collaborative design, the [[Summer of Extreme Design-Build]] focusing on larger-scale prototyping, and [[Incentive Challenges]] for [[Distributive Enterprise]] development.

For the STEAM Camps, we are recruiting instructors and marketing to participants. '''The working question is clear definition of the target audience.''' Here are some notes.

=Open Source Microfactory Mastermind=
What we work on and how we work:
#We agree on a product roadmap
#Product strategy - we develop product strategy for each product
#Marketing strategy -
#Owner Operators - producers in local economies who move up in management over time
#Any investor is required to also be an operator until finalized production is defined
#Community not for community sake but for transformative movement entrepreneurship
#Teacher/builder/researcher. No basic research - applied product research for accountability to closed loop material cycles at the community scale
#Open source version of Fab City
#Collaborative version of Fab Academy
#People who envision common products being made in their own community, so that we reach the circular economy
#Distributed, open marketing templates, like Clickfunnels but open source and distributive
#Profile - disposable income higher than average. Looking for meaningful work with purpose. Sideline to full time. Interested in sharing knowledge. Has courage sufficient to share source code of economic value (product design, production engineering, product strategy, business plan). Is interested in ethical systems transformation without compromising to adapt to system (The Unreasonable Man) Understands societal critique without invoking victim mentality (They are out to get you. Who are 'They'?) See Juice Rap News 30.
#Possible profile - libre hacker ethical cooperator (distinct from supercooperators, who have no limits to working outside of their own cultural base)
#Possible profile - open-minded Fab shop owner who wants to diversify their range of services, but needs to learn more about open collarative protocols
#Possible profile - ethical entrepreneur who questions structural evil and has a successful business that participates in [[Structural Evil]] to the least extent possible.
#Someone who is well versed in systems-based conceptualization of structural evil, and has the ambition to transform it more than the ambition to benefit from it. Has the wisdom to distinguish enterprise that can move the dial (ethical scalability), vs pursuing fringe movements that do not consider systems thinking or are violent in their nature.

=Feedback - Don Jacobsmeyer=

You’ve articulated some of the “what”, you haven’t talked about the “who”. I’d encourage you to humanize this audience. Give one a name, talk about them by name. Let’s say Frank.

Frank has X skills and Y social interests. He’s fascinated by the potential for ABC but hasn’t come across a highly actionable model to take X + Y and create a small scale version of ABC. So instead he finds himself toiling away on DEF which just frustrates him further because there’s no self fulfillment in it.

Try to insert your other concepts in this narrative and see where it goes.

=Frank has X skills and Y interests...=
Profiles for different people:

'''#Jeremy''' -

'''#Don''' -

'''#Randy''' - We hoard financial, material, and proprietary intellectual resources for financial gain. Knowledge, comfort, energy and wealth have been created from intense generational effort and investment. This benefited everyone somewhat. How can we best use our discretionary time, attention, material and financial resources and clever ideas? Entire continents lack even marginal shelter, food production, healthcare, water and power. Patent protection has attracted massive investment capital and innovators. Open Source invites collaboration and sharing instead of hiding and hoarding. It attracts a different group of participants. This initiative is not attempting to build a few essential devices. It aims to change the relative composition of users and producers in the local and worldwide economy for the benefit of all. As a financial professional, mba, cpa, I have worked with established corporations, and a new company developing hydrogen energy and computer hardware and software. I co-founded a consulting company with clients such as United Technologies, GE Plastics, Cytec, Mississippi Chemical, Rubbermaid, and Chrysler. We observed and documented all manufacturing equipment. I helped re-write the Constitution of the State of Hawaii as an elected delegate in 1978. I have an MA in Curriculum & Development, and taught math in urban public middle and high schools. I love supporting the vision of Marcin, Catarina, and others I have met as we continue to iterate and improve Open Source documentation, devices, structures, events, and participants. If you examine a graph of exponential growth, for a long time it appears as though there is almost no growth. Suddenly growth explodes. Open Source will follow that curve.

'''#Vasco'''
-
'''#Ian''' - I'm a technologist and educator currently on the leadership team of a small charter-like high school. I am also the digital technology teacher at the school. I am passionate about equipping youth (specifically indigenous youth) with the tools to create their own career pathways, having the technical skills to solve real-world problems and ultimately building the future that them, their family and communities want. I believe the OSE has the right vision and skill to empower a generation of collaborative innovators on a global scale that together could achieve any level of self-determined aspirations.

#Daniel -

'''#Benoit''' - I'm interested in learning how things work and being able to replicate without the help of any black box. Replication (can be called reinventing the wheel) is interesting because it validates your understanding and gives more autonomy - relying too much on the technology of a hyper-specialized civilization is a bit like believing in magic. Also I enjoy it very much. So I got acquainted with some maths/algorithms, DIY signal processing, robotics, reverse eng, electronics; things that can be done in front a computer for the most part. At some point, interacting with the real world becomes necessary; with a limit set of resources and without a very broad set of skills it gets very difficult. In order to build useful and interesting machines/processes and make this knowledge available, without jumping through so many hoops, I'm keen on learning manual skills, applied engineering and whatever else at the OSE STEAM Camp. Hopefully I'll also be useful with my less hardware oriented skills.

'''#Jessica''' - Jessica is an urbanist, designer, sculptor, and community catalyst. A licensed landscape architect,raised in the northern forests, trained in the legacy arts of stone carving and metallurgy, she understands the world as a continuum, and strives not to critique existing ''modus operandi'' but to replace them with something entirely new. She teaches ecological systems to architecture and landscape architecture students where an understanding of how the abiotc, biotic, built/ social, and disturbance patterns create the unevenness of space we experience becomes a tool for design from global to detail scales. In her design practice that has taken her around the globe, she seeks models other than the traditional client and consultant roles to build, apply, and develop the most creative solutions imaginable to serve the community of ''place''. This has been the most challenging at home where progressive ideas are thrown around as political tactics and market forces are the rip tide to equity. She has been looking for others who know what an engaged design process means and can do to empower a community. In need of collaborators and expertise in electronics and programming to develop she trusts her intuition about OSE STEAM Camp and intends to share her experience and provide training for others who are interested in making the collective the five legged bottom line.

'''#Mutton''' - Mutton is a movement entrepreneur interested in solving all of the world's most pressing grand challenges. He is fascinated by the potential of collaborative development, and thinks that all of the world'd problems can be solved by first identifying them, and creating a school in which students work explicitly on tackling these problems. His mental model states that we must start at the level of how the world provides an economic basis for people - literally turning abundant dirt and twigs into the lifestuff of modern civilization. He has been looking for a way to fund a school based on a promise of distributed, relocalized, circular economies, and has discovered that people are willing to pay for applied, hands-on, entrepreneurial education. But right now, Mutton is missing the organizational support to translate his vision to build his school. He further wants to have no investors who are not direct stakeholders (either students or teachers) in the school - making startup harder. He has found that finding such direct stakeholders is difficult, so he decided to join the OSE STEAM Camps program to find more aligned people, so he can staff the school that he wants and populate it with students.

'''#Jeff''' -

=Links=
*Announcement for STEAM Camp instructors by [[Andreas Log]] - how do we vet that through the above? [https://docs.google.com/document/d/169v3knwWDK0OhecMQTPpzW6e-mVABCA82UOvMlfiqPk/edit#]

Category:Guiding philosophies.CircularEconomy

2019-09-14T14:24:43Z

RandyP: Principles of a Circular Economy

'''Principles of a Circular Economy'''
'''1. Preserve and enhance natural capital by controlling finite stocks and balancing renewable resource flows''' ReSOLVE levers:
a. regenerate,
b. virtualize,
c. exchange
'''2. Optimise resource yields by circulating products, components and materials in use at the highest utility at all times in both technical and biological cycles.'''
ReSOLVE levers:
a. Regenerate
b. Share
c. Optimize
d. Loop
'''3. Foster system effectiveness by revealing and designing out negative externalities.''' All ReSOLVE levers.

== ''RENEWABLES'' ==

A consumer contributes and recyclables are collected. Others may use items collected through Thrift Stores, Habitat for Humanity ReStore, Freight Salvage, CraigsList, and similar enterprises. The process should minimize systematic leakage, damage, waste, contamination, and other negative externalities.

From items unable to be reused for their initial application, component parts, metals, and biochemical feedstock may be extracted.

Remaining “trash” may be used (burned) to create biogas.

Regeneration is the process of using biochemical feedstock in farming which regenerates food for humans, animals and fish.

Renewable materials may optimally be substituted for finite materials.

'''
== FINITE MATERIALS ==
'''
Three major groups contribute to the creation of products:
1. '''Parts''' manufacturers
2. '''Product''' manufacturers
3. '''Service''' providers

Parts manufacturers benefit in some cases by recycling finite materials.

Part and Product manufacturers sometimes refurbish or re-manufacture to reduce scrap. Products can often be reused or redistributed.

Service providers maintain products to prolong their useful service.

Users are able to employ items for their intended use, share with others to extend the benefit, and to collect and contribute obsolete or broken items to be recycled.

Wiki instructions

2019-09-14T13:48:41Z

RandyP: /* Style Guidelines */

{{RequiredReading}}

{| align="right"
| __TOC__
|}

== Policies ==

A wiki is a place where a large number of people can contribute to content generation and organization. A wiki '''can be used as a repository for a large amount of information which can be organized later'''. We encourage you to internalize this point and start using wikis as a place where human knowledge can be collected, and value can be added to that knowledge by further organization towards applications.

The goal is organize this initial input into distilled, high-quality content. A successfully-implemented wiki has the capacity to self-organize under the guidance of clear procedures in the hands of wiki moderators. Please familiarize yourself with these procedures:

* The [[Wiki Login Policy]] states that users have to log in before creating new pages or editing existing ones.
* The [[Wiki Transparency Policy]] states that the wiki can be viewed by anybody.
* The [[Wiki Documentation Standards]] page describes a workflow to ensure good quality of the OSE wiki.

== Curation ==

A great wiki relies on a high level of curation. Let's work together to keep quality high. If you feel like changing anything to improve this wiki, please do so.

== Content ==

A wide scope of things can be included in the wiki - anything related to accelerated innovation via open source development.

The wiki is designed to be a 'braindump'. Add new information whenever you think it is missing. Before adding new content, search for pages with similar topics. Do not repeat yourself (DRY).

Short entries, or stubs, are acceptable because they can be used as a definition later. Please '''do not''' erase any articles or stubs because database memory is cheap - and well-organized or features articles are not affected in any way by the much wider pool of stubs or less prominent articles.

=== No advertisement ===

There shall be '''no''' advertising on this wiki. Sourcing information and product reviews are allowed, as long as they are directly related to the creation of [[Distributive Economics]].

== Structure ==

We structure information within the wiki using templates and grouping.

We use [[Dozuki]] as a external presentation layer for GVCS machines and modules. Dozuki serves as a nice looking link collection to wiki pages. The main data storage is the wiki.

=== Templates ===
* How to create a template: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:A_quick_guide_to_template
* Good examples for templates include [[Template:GVCS_Sidebar]]
* Find most used / unused / ... templates on [[Special:SpecialPages]]

=== Grouping ===
* Use '''Categories''' to organize a large number of pages, media, and even other categories. Read [[Using Categories]] for more information.
* Use '''[[#Creating Subpages|Subpages]]''' to group pages hierarchically. Don't use too many levels of nesting as this will lead to long names.
* Discuss here how to create [[Subcategories]]

== Style Guidelines ==

We make the wiki easy to read and fun to edit by following style guidelines.

* Keep it simple and positive.
** Use short words and phrases. <s>Never use a long word or phrase where a short one will do.</s>
** Try to find an everyday English equivalent for foreign phrases, scientific or jargon words. <s>Acronyms, foreign phrases, jargon and neologisms must be avoided.</s>
** Use active instead of the passive. <s>Never use the passive where you can use the active.</s> (e.g. say "We built the house on Tuesday" rather than "The construction of the house took place on Tuesday".)
** Break any of these rules in favor of simplicity.
* Do not repeat yourself (DRY).
* When writing about measurements, list both imperial and metric values. List both Fahrenheit and Celsius for temperatures.
* The first sentence of an article should be a one-sentence summary of the whole topic
** The next paragraph should be a longer summary of it.
** Then go into details.

Bold italics are helpful in parsing, or chunking. You want a group of words considered as if it is a single concept, so that the reader is not trying to see if one of the words is an adjective modifying the next word, and so forth. This is especially helpful when the phrase is long or contains many words. An example is '''Open Source Ecology'''''Italic text''. Because it is a name which requires all three words together it is easier to read '''Open Source Ecology'''''Italic text'' than the words individually where you might wonder if open- is just one type of ecology with another being closed-source ecology.

Another reason is to highlight a term that is [I hate to use the word] proprietary or representative of OSE such as the '''Global Village Construction Set'''''Italic text''. Those words mean something when used all together, and are unique to OSE.

When describing the '''Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camp'''''Italic text'' it is a single concept though it has several words. The terms "Open Source" and "Microfactory" both contribute valuable additional information to STEAM Camp. So it is useful to use the entire phrase from time to time, but readers are aided by thinking of it as a single idea rather than considering each separate word. I thought OSE might have introduced the concept of STEAM "Camp," but they are everywhere, according to Google. The phrase, however, is useful to consider as a single term.

Quotation marks sometimes enclose terms comprised of several words, but they seem too formal for repeated usage.

== How To's ==

{{Hint|This should be embedded as Google Doc - Dozuki Guide is another platform and we are disusing it since it's not open source}}

This section describes some important tasks when editing the wiki.

'''Getting Started Guide'''
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<script type="text/javascript"
data-dozuki-embed='3'
src="http://d1luk0418egahw.cloudfront.net/static/embed/ifixit-embed.3.js#id=193&site=opensourceecology.dozuki.com">
</script>
</html>

=== Log In ===

{{Info|Log in first!|Before creating new pages or editing existing ones, you have to '''[[How_to_Get_an_Account_on_the_Wiki|log in first]]'''.}}

Any person contributing to the project in a substantial way should fill out the [http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Tech_Team_Culturing_Survey Tech Team Culturing Survey], and therefore, any name should be linkable with a full description of the person, such as [[Marcin Jakubowski]]. This will facilitate referencing and connection between projects and developers. The potential contributions of a person should be transparent if they fill out their abilities in the [[Team Culturing]] Survey.

Please see '''[[How_to_Get_an_Account_on_the_Wiki|How to Get an Account on the Wiki]]''' for more details or if you are unable to log in. Also, check out our Open ID Step Instructions: [[File:Step_Guide_to_Logging_in_With_OpenID.pdf]]

=== Commenting ===

To discuss the content of a page, begin by clicking on the '''Discussion''' tab in the upper left corner, just to the right of the '''Page''' tab. Here you can leave suggestions and constructive criticism. At the end of your comment be sure to '''sign it''' using the sign button which is located in the group of buttons directly above the text editing field, second from the right.

=== Searching ===

You can search for content by typing your search terms on the '''search box''' at the '''top right corner''' and clicking one of the search buttons at the right.
* The '''first button''' will search for text matches on '''this wiki only'''
* The '''second button''' will perform a ''custom Google search'' on '''this wiki''', on '''our [http://blog.opensourceecology.org/ blog]''', on '''our [http://forum.opensourceecology.org/ discussion forum]''' and '''other related sites''', like ''Appropedia''.
** For more details, see the page about the [[OSE custom search engine]]

{{Tip|Search before creating a page|Articles on our wiki should be cross-referenced against articles on [[Special: interwiki|neighboring wikis]] (like ''P2P Foundation'' or ''Appropedia'') to avoid re-inventing the wheel any more than we have to.
So, before creating a page, use the ''second'' search box to see if there are any existing articles on related wikis. If so, creating a link to it may be better than creating a new page, unless the existing page on the other wiki does not contain enough information.

Articles from any wiki listed at [[Special: interwiki]] can be linked to by using the value at the ''Prefix'' column, like this:
'''<html><pre>[[Appropedia: Comparison of electrical motors]]</pre></html>'''
which creates this:
[[Appropedia: Comparison of electrical motors]]
}}

===Uploading a File===

====Simple Way====
# [[How_to_Get_an_Account_on_the_Wiki|Create an account on the wiki.]]
# In the sidebar, under “{{lcfirst:{{int:toolbox}}}}”, click “'''{{int:upload}}'''.”
# Click “'''Browse'''” next to the “'''{{int:sourcefilename}}'''” to locate the file on your computer (the name of the “browse” button depends on your web browser).
# Change the “'''{{int:destfilename}}'''” to something descriptive, if necessary.
# Fill in the “'''{{int:filedesc}}'''”, if necessary.
# Click the “'''{{int:uploadbtn}}'''” button.
# When the file is uploaded, you will be shown a link to the file destination on the OSE wiki.
# To embed the file in your Work Log or on another page, put the file link (such as File:filename.ext) between double brackets - [[]] - and paste into the page that you are editing.

If it is a large file, you may need to wait several seconds for the upload to complete.

====Advanced Way====
To upload a file, go into Edit Mode and use double brackets, followed by File:filename.extension, followed by a closing double bracket. For example (click Edit to see actual code) [[File:filename.ext]]
# Click Save
# Upon saving, a link is created
# when you click on that link, Mediawiki will ask you to upload the corresponding file. Any file type can be used.

=== Creating New Pages ===

To start a new page or to edit an existing one, just type the desired page name in the [[#Searching|search box]] at the top left corner (the one '''above''' the ''OSE custom search engine'' box) and click on the button labeled '''Go'''. If a similar page already exists, you might want to edit that page instead of creating a new one. Otherwise, click on the message '''Create the page "''your page name''" on this wiki!''' (at the top of the search results) to create the new page.

Then you can start editing the page. Also, while editing a page, you can create links to new or existing pages with double brackets around their title, for example: <pre>[[My New Additions]]</pre>

=== Creating Subpages ===

{{Tip|When to use subpages|
A subpage can be used to group pages belonging to some topic or main page
* to create user-specific pages in a given user's ''[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Link#User_space user space]''.
* to create [[Translation#Page_Title_Convention|other language versions of an article]]
* to create '''archives of old discussions''' under a talk page
* to create '''scratchpad editing spaces''' under a user page
}}

{{Info|User Spaces|Pages on user spaces do not have to follow strict quality guidelines, as they '''are not official''' OSE content.
Other pages should reflect more closely the official OSE stance on a given issue.}}

If you want to create a [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Subpages subpage] named '''A subpage name''' under a given page (for instance, '''My Parent Page'''), all you have to do is to ''create a page'' whose title is '''My Parent Page/A subpage name''' ''(see [[#Creating_New_Pages|how to create a page]])''.

You can also link to subpages from the parent page using a [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Link#Subpage_feature specific link format].

==== Examples ====

* [[User:Elifarley/pds]] - a subpage named '''pds''' in [[User: Elifarley| Elifarley]]'s user space

=== Deleting Pages ===

A page is a good candidate for deletion if it is advertising or some other malicious attack. Otherwise, everything, no matter how silly, should not be considered for deletion - because this wiki is a sandbox where people explore many things including editing wiki pages. Since memory is cheap, do not delete others' pages as a general rule.

Only Sysops can delete pages. If you're not a Sysop and you would like to mark a page as a candidate for deletion '''(see the [[#When_to_Delete|criteria for deletion above]])''', you should add the following text at the top of the page you would like to delete:
<nowiki>{{delete}}</nowiki>
This will include the [[Template: delete| delete]] template and will add that page to a list of [[:Category: candidates for speedy deletion| candidates for speedy deletion]].

And if a page is to be deleted, all pages pointing to it should be changed BEFORE the deletion occurs, to avoid broken links.

=== Redirecting ===

You can redirect a page to another page by replacing the contents of the original page with a '''#REDIRECT''', like this:
<pre>
#REDIRECT [[My destination article]]
</pre>

You can redirect a page to an [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links#Interwiki_links interwiki link] too:
<pre>
#REDIRECT [[Appropedia: Justa stove]]
</pre>

[[Using Categories|Adding a category]] may help others find the page, since it'll be listed on the corresponding category page:

<pre>
#REDIRECT [[Appropedia: Justa stove]]
[[Category: Cooking]]
</pre>

{{Tip|Too many redirect pages?|If you're afraid that the wiki will get cluttered with redirected pages, fear not. You can see this as a feature (a good one), not a bug, since anytime someone tries to add a page with title X (X being one of those redirected pages), they would be redirected to the appropriately-named page, instead of being given the chance to create a page with different title but similar content.}}

=== Editing Pages ===

{{Tip|Tips|
* '''Before editing''' a page, click the '''discussion''' tab at the top to check what others are saying about that page
** You can add your own considerations or questions there too
* '''To edit existing pages''', just click the '''edit''' tab
* '''Before saving''' your changes, click the '''Show preview''' button located just below the editing window to make sure everything is as expected
* '''To save''' your work, click the '''Save page''' button
* '''To create links''' to pages inside this wiki or to files uploaded to this wiki, '''ALWAYS''' use [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links#Internal_links internal links] ('''never''' use regular links of the form <nowiki>http://opensourceecology.org/...</nowiki>)
}}

While in edit mode, there are some buttons at the top of the editing window to help with formatting text, creating links, inserting objects, etc.

== Wiki Syntax ==

You need the wiki syntax to format pages, include images and structure content.

To learn about wiki syntax:
* Read http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting.
* See how the syntax looks like at the [[Wiki_Cheatsheet]].
* Click "edit" on any page you like and use it as a good example. Copy the syntax and use it on other pages.
* Use the [[Sandbox]] to try your new skills.

Some of the most important syntax features are described below.

=== Sections ===

'''[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext_examples#Section_headings Section headings]''' are created by creating their headings, as below:
<pre>
== First Section ==
=== First sub-section ===
==== First sub-sub-section ====
== Second Section ==
</pre>

{{Tip|Top-Level Sections|Top-level sections should start with '''2 equal signs at each side''', as in '''<html><pre>==My Top-Level Section Example==</pre></html>'''

Sections with only one equals sign per side causes a title the size of the page name. On Wikimedia wikis they are used only sparingly and in prescribed circumstances.
}}

=== Inserting Tables ===

You can copy and paste your data from your spreadsheet to http://area23.brightbyte.de/csv2wp.php and it will convert it to a cut and pasteable mediawiki table.

=== Inserting Templates ===

You can insert a [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Template template] using this code:
<nowiki>{{My Template}}</nowiki>

To '''create or edit a template''' named ''My Template'', '''simply create a page''' named ''[[Template: My Template]]'' (see [[#Creating_New_Pages|how to create a page]]).

=== Text Markup ===

Text color: Put in the name of the color in this markup.

<pre><span style="color: green">Some text</span></pre>
The example above generates this:

<span style="color: green">Some text</span>

Strikethrough: <s>Strikethrough</s>

=== Inserting Images ===

==== Uploaded Images ====

To insert an image, anywhere in the body of a page, type:
<pre>
[[Image:filename.jpg]]
</pre>
Then click ''Save page''. After the page is saved, you'll be allowed to click on that filename, and the wiki will prompt you for an image file to upload.

==== External Images ====

You can simply paste links to images from any of the sites defined on [[MediaWiki: External image whitelist]].
See also: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgEnableImageWhitelist $wgEnableImageWhitelist]

Example: '''<nowiki>http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-printer.png</nowiki>''' gives this image:

http://openfarmtech.org/temp-gvcs-icons/3d-printer.png

==== Inserting Image Galleries ====

[[Image:fefrepstrap1.jpg]]

Use the ''gallery'' tag. Example code:
<pre>
<gallery>
Image:fefrepstrap1.jpg
Image:fefrepstrap2.jpg
Image:fefrepstrap3.jpg
Image:fefrepstrap4.jpg
Image:fefrepstrap5.jpg
</gallery>
</pre>

Produces this:

<gallery>
Image:fefrepstrap1.jpg
Image:fefrepstrap2.jpg
Image:fefrepstrap3.jpg
Image:fefrepstrap4.jpg
Image:fefrepstrap5.jpg
</gallery>

=== Directly Linking to Uploaded Files ===
You can create links to any kind of uploaded file (be it an image, a PDF file, etc).

Please see instructions at the top of the [[Special: Upload]] page.

(See also [[#Editing Pages]])

=== Inserting Movies ===

[[File:Example.jpg]]====Youtube Videos====
To insert clickable thumbnails of YouTube videos, use [[Template: YoutubePopup]], as in this example:

* YouTube video you want to embed: <nowiki>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=</nowiki>'''6dwdAF2qr7g'''<nowiki>&feature=player_embedded</nowiki>
* Wiki syntax you should use: <nowiki>{{YoutubePopup|</nowiki>'''N9NnW7ScjpQ'''<nowiki>}}</nowiki>

which produces

{{YoutubePopup|N9NnW7ScjpQ}}

====Other Videos====
To insert videos in general, see this example:

<nowiki>
<html>
<object width="526" height="374"><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"></param><param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talk/stream/2011U/Blank/MarcinJakubowski_2011U-320k.mp4&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/MarcinJakubowski-2011U.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=512&vh=288&ap=0&ti=1122&lang=eng&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=marcin_jakubowski;year=2011;theme=design_like_you_give_a_damn;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=the_rise_of_collaboration;theme=tales_of_invention;theme=talks_from_ted_fellows;event=TED2011;tag=Culture;tag=Technology;tag=open-source;tag=ted+fellows;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;" /><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgColor="#ffffff" width="526" height="374" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talk/stream/2011U/Blank/MarcinJakubowski_2011U-320k.mp4&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/MarcinJakubowski-2011U.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=512&vh=288&ap=0&ti=1122&lang=eng&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=marcin_jakubowski;year=2011;theme=design_like_you_give_a_damn;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=the_rise_of_collaboration;theme=tales_of_invention;theme=talks_from_ted_fellows;event=TED2011;tag=Culture;tag=Technology;tag=open-source;tag=ted+fellows;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;"></embed></object>
</html>
</nowiki>

The code above generates this:

<html>
<object width="526" height="374"><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"></param><param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talk/stream/2011U/Blank/MarcinJakubowski_2011U-320k.mp4&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/MarcinJakubowski-2011U.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=512&vh=288&ap=0&ti=1122&lang=eng&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=marcin_jakubowski;year=2011;theme=design_like_you_give_a_damn;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=the_rise_of_collaboration;theme=tales_of_invention;theme=talks_from_ted_fellows;event=TED2011;tag=Culture;tag=Technology;tag=open-source;tag=ted+fellows;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;" /><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgColor="#ffffff" width="526" height="374" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talk/stream/2011U/Blank/MarcinJakubowski_2011U-320k.mp4&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/MarcinJakubowski-2011U.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=512&vh=288&ap=0&ti=1122&lang=eng&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=marcin_jakubowski;year=2011;theme=design_like_you_give_a_damn;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=the_rise_of_collaboration;theme=tales_of_invention;theme=talks_from_ted_fellows;event=TED2011;tag=Culture;tag=Technology;tag=open-source;tag=ted+fellows;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;"></embed></object>
</html>

For any video, insert the <nowiki><html> and </html></nowiki> tags, and put in the html code that you get from YouTube or some other video format.

=== Embedding Google Docs ===

[[How to Embed a Google Doc]]

=== Embedding from Blip.tv ===

Here is a sample embed settings screen from blip.tv. Note that you do 'share', 'legacy player', then click 'go.' Then, make sure you select 'in-line player', flv for flash video - and then click 'update embed code above'. Then, copy the code into the blog, and in the blog, make sure you are in HTML, not visual, mode.

[[Image:blipembed.jpg]]

=== Subtitling Videos ===

Here's how to activate Universal Subtitles for your videos:

1- Go to http://universalsubtitles.org/ and click on "Subtitle a video"
2- Paste the URL of the video you want to have subtitled. The URL can point to a file in Ogg, WebM or FLV format, or it can point to a video hosted on YouTube or Blip.TV (Vimeo support will be available soon). Examples of URL:

WebM file: http://content.bitsontherun.com/videos/m3P14laP-283112.webm
YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shqrdCBTD70
Blip.TV video: http://blip.tv/file/3841170/

3- A black page with a central video and a close button (a red tab on the top right corner) will appear. This is the initial step where users can start typing the subtitles for the video. Since you probably don't want to create the subtitle text right away, but instead want the embed code to paste on your blog, you can just click on the close button.

4- In the next screen, the embed code can be found inside the text box below "Embed this video in your site". Just click on the 'Copy to clipboard' icon next to it. The embed code will look like this:

<pre>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://s3.www.universalsubtitles.org/embed.js">

(

{"video_url": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shqrdCBTD70"}

)

</script>
</pre>

This embed widget is in alpha stage, so it may have some bugs. I have tested it with youtube videos and it worked quite well. With Blip.TV, the video wouldn't play though.

It'll be really great when it's working correctly with Vimeo and Blip.TV

=== Inserting Mathematical Symbols ===

You can write [http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/latex.html LaTeX] code to render math symbols on our wiki, which uses [http://www.mathjax.org/ MathJax] to display them.

Example:
'''<pre>
<math>
\operatorname{erfc}(x) =
\frac{2}{\sqrt{\pi}} \int_x^{\infty} e^{-t^2}\,dt =
\frac{e^{-x^2}}{x\sqrt{\pi}}\sum_{n=0}^\infty (-1)^n \frac{(2n)!}{n!(2x)^{2n}} + \sfrac{(2a)!}{n!(2b)^{2n}}
</math>
</pre>'''

produces this:

<math>
\operatorname{erfc}(x) =
\frac{2}{\sqrt{\pi}} \int_x^{\infty} e^{-t^2}\,dt =
\frac{e^{-x^2}}{x\sqrt{\pi}}\sum_{n=0}^\infty (-1)^n \frac{(2n)!}{n!(2x)^{2n}} + \sfrac{(2a)!}{n!(2b)^{2n}}
</math>

while this

'''<pre>this is $ \sfrac{1}{4} $ of a minute...</pre>'''

produces this:

this is $ \sfrac{1}{4} $ of a minute...

=== Inserting Source Code ===

Always wrap source code in 'pre' tags. This ensures proper formatting, and means that someone can copy code without having to 'edit' the page first.

An example looks like this (you can view the markup in Edit mode):

<pre>
int mainup = 5; // Define pins by plugin of hydraulics
int maindown = 6;
int secin = 10;
int secout = 11;
// Define pins 5, 6, 10, and 11 according to their hydraulic
// function on the CEB press - moving main cylinder up and down,
// and moving secondary cylinder in and out. 'In' is defined as
// the direction of brick ejection motion out of the machine.
</pre>

== Technical details ==
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