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Civilization Starter Kit Credits

2012-04-18T18:46:43Z

TriSimon:

The following is a comprehensive list of individuals who contributed to the Civilization Starter Kit DVD v0.01. Please write your name and contribution if your name is not shown.

'''Machines and CAD'''

#[[Brianna Kufa]] - CEB machine fabrication procedure lead
#[[Tom Griffing]] - Power Cube fabrication procedure lead, 2D and Sketchup modifications
#[[James Slade]] - build of bent loader arms; first CEB replication; machine disassembly instructionals
#[[Mike Apostol]] - full CAD drawings of CEB press, Pulverizer; Pulverizer fabrication procedure
#[[Marcin Jakubowski]] - [[OSE Paradigm]] page, others
#[[Yoonseo Kang]] - electrohydraulic integration to mechanical part of CEB; videos and instructions
#[[James Wise]] - OSE CEB Controller board development
#[[William Cleaver]] - LifeTrac III CAD
#[[Daniel Worth]] - Power Cube fabrication drawings
#[[Mike Doty]] - Full Fabrication drawings, CEB mechanical
#[[Chris Fornof]] - Power Cube frame inSstructionals in Sketchup
#[[Rob Beddingfield]] - CEB drawer and shaker Fabrication Drawings
#[[Hardi Meybaum]] - GrabCAD challenge on tractor
#[[Frank Anzaldua]] - Tractor fabrication drawings.

'''Video'''

#[[Isaiah Saxon]] - [[GVCS in 2 Minutes]] video, [[Kickstarter Video]]
#[[Ian Midgley]] - major video contribution, such as [[Practical Post Scarcity Video]], disassembly of machines, others
#[[Rebecca Roger]] - construction update video
#[[Sean Church]] - machine operation videos, construction review

'''Construction'''

#[[Floyd Hagerman]] - construction detail, shallow insulated foundation
#[[Pawel Sroczynski]] - model 40 sq meter CEB/Straw microhouse
#[[Larry Dobson]] - gasifier hot water stove plans
#[[Ken Morton]] - beginning of ergonomic analysis of construction

'''Editing/Publishing DVD'''

#[[Matt_Maier]] - organization of Table of Contents, background info on hydraulic systems
#[[Simon_Walter-Hansen]] - DVD publishing

'''Other'''
#[[Mark Norton]] - Product Ecology Diagrams
#[[Aaron Makaruk]] - [[OSE Enterprise Plan Video]] video

'''Kickstarter Supporters'''

Special thanks go to [[True Fans]] and the [[Kickstarter]] Supporters who funded The Last Mile on the construction tool kit. Here is the list of a total of 1384 [[Kickstarter Supporters]].

Civilization Starter Kit DVD v0.01

2012-04-08T18:40:11Z

TriSimon: /* Street Team */ Added sticker and t-shirt designs

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[http://opensourceecology.org/w/images/e/e3/Civilization_Starter_Kit_-_v.0.01_-_PDF.pdf Download PDF].

=Foreword=

1.0 [[Forward from the Founder – Video]]
1.1 What is Open Source Ecology? The [[Open Source Ecology Paradigm]]
1.2 Global Village Construction Set: [[Rollout Plan]]
1.3 Getting Involved: [[So, you want to build a new civilization?]]
1.4 From the Founder: [[My Story]]

=Introduction=

2.1 [[GVCS in 2 Minutes Video]]
2.2 [[TED Talk Video]]
2.3 [[Kickstarter Video]]
2.4 [[Practical Post-Scarcity Video]]
2.5 [[OSE Enterprise Plan Video]]
2.6 [[How to Build the 4 Machines in a Basic Workshop]]

=CEB Press=

3.1 [[CEB Press Design Rationale, Product Ecology]]
3.2 [[CEB Press Master CAD File]] - To be updated Jan,2012 
3.3 [[CEB Press Manufacturing Instructions]]
3.4 [[CEB Press Fabrication Master PDF]] - 89 pages
3.5 [[CEB Press Fabrication videos]] - Mechanical fabrication
3.6 [[CEB Press Electrical Fabrication videos]]
3.7 [[CEB Press Control Code]] - Needs to be linked. 
3.8 [[CEB Press Ergonomics of machine assembly]] - full assembly video (11 min)
3.9 [[CEB Press Fabrication Drawings]] - take these to your local metal fabricator - Coming 1.1.2012 
3.10 [[CEB Press User Manual]]

=Tractor=

4.1 [[Tractor Design Rationale, Product Ecology]]
4.2 [[Tractor Master CAD File]]
4.3 [[Tractor Bill of Materials]]
4.3 [[LifeTrac Manufacturing Instructions]]
4.4 [[Tractor Fabrication PDF]] - Coming 1.15.2012 
4.5 [[Tractor Assembly]] - full assembly video (12 min)
4.6 [[Tractor Fabrication Drawings]] - take these to your local metal fabricator - Coming 1.15.2012 
4.7 [[Tractor User Manual]]

=Soil Pulverizer=

5.1 [[Soil Pulverizer Design Rationale, Product Ecology]] (needs Tractor with Power Cube)
5.2 [[Soil Pulverizer Master CAD File]]
5.3 [[Soil Pulverizer - Bill of Materials]]
5.4 [[Soil Pulverizer/Manufacturing Instructions|Soil Pulverizer Fabrication Instructions]]
5.5 [[Soil Pulverizer Fabrication PDF]] - New! 
5.5 [[Soil Pulverizer Fabrication and Assembly videos]]
5.6 [[Soil Pulverizer - Fabrication Drawings]] – Take these to a metal fabricator
5.7 [[Soil Pulverizer User Manual]]

=Power Cube=

6.1 [[Power Cube Design Rationale]]
6.2 [[Power Cube - Bill of Materials]]
6.3 [[Power Cube A-Z Instructionals]]
6.4 [[Power Cube Fabrication PDF]] - New!
6.5 [[Power Cube Fabrication and Assembly videos]]
6.6 [[Power Cube Fabrication Drawings]] - Coming 1.15.2012 
6.7 [[Power Cube User Manual]]

=Construction=
7.1 [[Field Testing Results]] - Videos
7.2 [[OSE Microhouse]] - Construction Plans - Full architectural detail coming 1.5.2012 

=Street Team=
8.1 Sticker & Magnet designs:
• [[Media:OSE_B&W_LOGO.pdf |OSE B&W Logo]]
• [[Media:OSE_COLOR_LOGO.pdf |OSE Color Logo]]
8.2 T-shirt design:
• [[Media:Tractor_T-Shirt.pdf‎ |Tractor]]

=Appendix=

[[Civilization Starter Kit Credits]] (collaborators and contributors)
[[OSE License for Distributive Economics]]
[[OSE Specifications]]
[[Tractor Scaling Calculations and CAE Analysis]]

=PDF=

[[Media:Civilization_Starter_Kit_-_v0.01_-_Foreword.pdf|Foreword]]
[[Media:Compressed_Earth_Brick_Press_-_Design_Rationale.pdf#page=1|Compressed Earth Brick Press: Design Rationale]]
[http://opensourceecology.org/w/images/f/f0/CEB_a-z_Build_1.0.pdf#page=1 Compressed Earth Brick Press: Fabrication Manual]
Compressed Earth Brick Press: Fabrication Drawings
[[Media:Compressed_Earth_Brick_Press_-_User_Manual.pdf|Compressed Earth Brick Press: User Manual]]
[[Media:LifeTrac_-_Design_Rationale.pdf|LifeTrac: Design Rationale]]
LifeTrac: Fabrication Manual
LifeTrac: Fabrication Drawings
LifeTrac: User Manual
[[Media:Soil_Pulverizer_-_Design_Rationale.pdf|Soil Pulverizer: Design Rationale]]
[http://opensourceecology.org/w/images/f/f9/Pulverizer_PDF.pdf Soil Pulverizer: Fabrication Manual]
[[Media:Soil_Pulverizer_-_Drawings_-_PDF_Package_-_2011-12-28.pdf|Soil Pulverizer: Fabrication Drawings]]
[[Media:Soil_Pulverizer_-_User_Manual.pdf|Soil Pulverizer: User Manual]]
[[Media:Power_Cube_-_Design_Rationale.pdf|Power Cube: Design Rationale]]
[http://opensourceecology.org/w/images/2/25/Powercube.pdf Power Cube: Fabrication Manual]
Power Cube: Fabrication Drawings
[[Media:Power_Cube_-_User_Manual.pdf|Power Cube: User Manaul]]
[[Media:Power_Cube_-_Failure_Modes_and_Troubleshooting.pdf|Power Cube: Failure Modes and Troubleshooting]]
[[Media:Appendix_-_Credits.pdf|Appendix: Civilization Starter Kit Credits]]
[[Media:Appendix_-_OSE_License_for_Distributive_Economics.pdf|Appendix: OSE License for Distributive Economics]]
[[Media:Appendix_-_OSE_Specifications.pdf|Appendix: OSE Specifications]]
[[Media:Appendix_-_Tractor_Scaling_Calculations.pdf|Appendix: Tractor Scaling and CAE Analysis]]
[[Media:Compressed_Earth_Brick_Press_-_Hydraulic_System_Troubleshooting.pdf|Appendix: Hydraulic System Troubleshooting]]
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File:Tractor T-Shirt.pdf

2012-04-08T18:28:12Z

TriSimon:

File:OSE COLOR LOGO.pdf

2012-04-08T18:27:59Z

TriSimon:

File:OSE B&W LOGO.pdf

2012-04-08T18:27:18Z

TriSimon:

Task List for the Civilization Starter Kit DVD v0.01

2012-04-07T20:11:24Z

TriSimon: checking off items

See also [[Civilization Starter Kit DVD]] and [[Civilization Starter Kit DVD v0.01]]

Marcin email - opensourceecology at gmail dot com

=DVD Publishing=
Last updated Feb 18,2012 

We are tying up loose ends and publishing hard copies of the first version (v0.01) of the Civilization Starter Kit DVD. While full instructionals on fabrication are almost complete (Tractor fabrication procedure is being finished currently), remaining pieces that are to be added are technical fabrication drawings for the tractor and Power Cube.

This DVD iso will be freely downloadable. We will also make it available for sale to fund further development of the DVD in order to improve our publishing standards. We will do this by recuiting a [[Civilization Starter Kit DVD Manager]] to continue the ongoing process of editing and updating content, recruiting contributors, following up with contributors, placing commits in the [[Open Pario Repository]], and publishing future releases of the DVD.

=Top 30 Priority - Technical=
==General==
#Production assistance for DVD
#Need Lead Editor to manage entire content
#GVCS t-shirt design
#GVCS sticker design
#[[Distributive_Enterprise_Business_Plan_for_Earth]] - DPV by [[Aaron Makaruk]]
#Animation with Construction Tool set product ecology
#Animation showing the product ecology of 50 machines.
#Building of a collaboration platform site - DPV at Factor e Farm
==CAD/CAE/CAM==
#CAD- 100 hours of assemblies and parts - CEB and Pulverizer. Status - [[CAD_Current_Work]] . Contact [[Mike Apostol]] - mike.apostol at gmail.com
##CEB has 28 assembly/weldment drawings and about 75 piece part drawings
##Pulverizer - 5 assemblies/weldments and 30 piece parts or so just thinking about it right now
#CEB - fabrication drawing PDF
#CEB - fabrication procedure PDF -Currently [[A-Z Instructionals| on wiki]], still needs CAD fab drawings for each step. Will be transfered to MAKE project pages so it can be exported as PDF- - [[Brianna Kufa]] (12/12/11)
#Tractor - fabrication drawing PDF
#Tractor - fabrication procedure PDF
#Pulberizer - fabrication drawing PDF
#Pulverizer - fabrication procedure PDF
#Power Cube - fabrication drawing PDF
#Power Cube - fabrication procedure PDF
#CAE Tractor
##1-7/8" CR wheel shaft torque limit in presence of 3/4" throught bolt hole
##torque limit of 3/4" through bolt in wheel collar mounting - shear limits of bolt and collar with welded nuts
##Motor shaft and coupler torque limits
##Wheel shaft max load capacity
#CAE CEB
##Frame maximum pressure limits
##Chamber maximum pressure limits
#Power Cube CAD - [[Tom Griffing]]
#Power Cube - complete set of fabrication drawings - [[Tom Griffing]]?
#Fabrication drawings - 100 hours of fabrication drawings
#Fabrication procedures - 100 hours collating material
#[[SnapLock]] CNC collaboration - milling controllers - need to identify someone who built them to helps

==Construction==
#400 sf basic microhouse plans and architectural drawings
#Embodied energy of construction calculations: workshop, living units, and 400 sf microhouse
#Design of a [[Closed Loop Blackwater System]] for [[HabLab]]. One good resource is Hyphae Design Laboratory. Brent from Hyphae was recommended to me - they sound like cutting edge designers.
#Architectural drawing detail for CEB construction - Floyd Hagerman did a sketch - full instructional video should be produced to include dry-in strategy for CEB construction; shallow insulated footers, Dutch bond, etc.

=Top Priority for Instructionals=
#Disassembly video - CEB - email Ian - il.midgley at gmail.com - dropbox download
#Disassembly video - Tractor - for product manual -
#Disassembly video - Power Cube - use existing footage from [[Marcinose YouTube]] channel; needs indexing first
#Disassembly video - Pulverizer
#Fabrication video - surface mount CEB controller - YouTube footage
#Index all of marcinose YouTube videos by topic - CEB, construction, tractor, pulverizer, power cube
#CEB Controller fabrication - [[Yoonseo Kang]]
#CEB Integration - mechanical, code, electrical, hydraulic - [[Yoonseo Kang]]
#CEB mechanical - fabrication - Currently [[CEB Press/Manufacturing Instructions| on wiki]], still needs CAD fab drawings for each step. Will be transfered to MAKE project pages so it can be exported as PDF- - [[Brianna Kufa]] (12/12/11)
#CEB mechanical - assembly - [[Ian Midgley]]
# Soil pulverizer fabrication video - download footage from Ian's dropbox. Compose script. Contact Ian.
#Ergonomics of Tractor Assembly - Ian
#Ergonomics of CEB assembly - Ian
#Ergonomics of Pulverizer Assembly
#Introduction Video shoot with Marcin and crew
#LifeTrac operation, safety video - Ian
#CEB operation and safety - Ian
#Pulverizer operation and safety - Ian
#Walk around analyzing Machines for Field Testing results with Marcin
#Machine Field Testing video - Ian
#Write and record Pulverizer assembly script
#Power Cube Operation and Safety - Ian
#Construction results on Workshop - Ian
#Construction results to date on Hab Lab - Ian
# Index [[Marcinose YouTube]] channel videos
#Continue building repository of [[Open Source Soundtracks]]

=Top Priority, Publishing=
#DVD production - DVD publishing assistance – interface and DVD burn - email Marcin
#ToC editor - need master editor
#GVCS T-shirt design
#GVCS T-shirt production
#GVCS sticker design
#GVCS sticker production
#GVCS refrigerator magnets

=DVD v0.01 - Needs=
'''Project Lead''': [[Simon_Walter-Hansen|Simon Walter-Hansen]]

* <s>Download content of sourceopen.org from archive.org for posterity</s>
* Edit raw video footage here: http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/CEB_Press_Fabrication_videos (''Feb 19'')
* Receive deliverables from:
** <s>Mike Doty (''Feb 27 - Mar 5'')</s>
** <s>Matt Maier (''Feb 26'')</s>
* Connect with Roger Olson, Casey Foster, and Daniel Worth regarding commitments. (''Feb 16 - Feb 22'')
** Receive deliverables (''Feb 18 - Mar 5'')
** On regrets:
*** Locate & Contact alternate contributors (''Feb 18 - Feb 22'')
*** Reallocate commitments (''Feb 23'')
* <s>Download PDF plans for all tools from MakeProject (''Feb 19'')</s> - None of the MakeProject files are complete.
* Download CEB Press solenoid driver playlist from YouTube. (''Feb 19'')
** Edit into comprehensive video (''Feb 19'')
* Proof-read CSK v0.01 content (''Feb 20 - Feb 22'')
* Format CSK v0.01 layout for clarity, consistency, and usability (have added navigation to CSK ToC for most pages) (''Feb 20 - Feb 24'')
* Test viewing of content from DVD/.iso without internet access (''Mar 4'')
* Compress .iso for upload (''Mar 5'')
* Upload .iso to Trepstar for production (''Mar 5'')
* Upload .iso for distribution on OpenSourceEcology.org (''Mar 5'')
** Determine host(s) and mirrors for .iso (''Feb 19 - Mar 4'')
* Obtain OSE/GVCS graphics (''Feb 19 - Feb 27'')
** Generate graphics file for DVD surface and DVD sleeve (''Feb 27'')
* Order test copies of "economy" DVD to evaluate product quality (''Feb 27'') - Completing a test batch before v0.01 GM ensures quicker delivery when v0.01 goes GM.
* Create an order page for CSK DVD v0.01 (''Feb 19 - Mar 5'')
* Create/assign task of uploading order spreadsheet to Trepstar (''Mar 1 - Mar 5'')

=Next 30 Priority - Technical=
#Lead Documentation on CNC Torch Table - [[Luke Iseman]]
#Develop automatic z-height control for torch table
#Continue developing [[CAD/CAM Problem Statement]]. Email [[Mike Apostol]].
#Ironworker documentation lead - [[Brianna Kufa]]
#Torch table project - documentation
#Torch table project
#Sawmill – full CAD (4 days). The complete carriage minus blades is waiting to be drawn up in full CAD. Requires Factor e Farm visit. Email Marcin.
#Sawmill - DPV - sourcing hydraulic motors and field testing complete sawmill at Factor e Farm - 1 month. 4 years of full time Farming or sawyer experience required.
#Cement mixer – CAD - 4 days DPV
#Interview with Reid Enniss, San Diego, CA, custom fabricator and builder of balers. Need to prepare questions on design strategy for an open source baler, hydraulically driven.
#CEB construction techniques – annotated architectural detail drawing - for foundation through roof section

[[Category:Tasks]]
[[Category:DVD]]

Civilization Starter Kit DVD v0.01

2012-04-07T19:56:03Z

TriSimon: Added "Street Team" to ToC

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[http://opensourceecology.org/w/images/e/e3/Civilization_Starter_Kit_-_v.0.01_-_PDF.pdf Download PDF].

=Foreword=

1.0 [[Forward from the Founder – Video]]
1.1 What is Open Source Ecology? The [[Open Source Ecology Paradigm]]
1.2 Global Village Construction Set: [[Rollout Plan]]
1.3 Getting Involved: [[So, you want to build a new civilization?]]
1.4 From the Founder: [[My Story]]

=Introduction=

2.1 [[GVCS in 2 Minutes Video]]
2.2 [[TED Talk Video]]
2.3 [[Kickstarter Video]]
2.4 [[Practical Post-Scarcity Video]]
2.5 [[OSE Enterprise Plan Video]]
2.6 [[How to Build the 4 Machines in a Basic Workshop]]

=CEB Press=

3.1 [[CEB Press Design Rationale, Product Ecology]]
3.2 [[CEB Press Master CAD File]] - To be updated Jan,2012 
3.3 [[CEB Press Manufacturing Instructions]]
3.4 [[CEB Press Fabrication Master PDF]] - 89 pages
3.5 [[CEB Press Fabrication videos]] - Mechanical fabrication
3.6 [[CEB Press Electrical Fabrication videos]]
3.7 [[CEB Press Control Code]] - Needs to be linked. 
3.8 [[CEB Press Ergonomics of machine assembly]] - full assembly video (11 min)
3.9 [[CEB Press Fabrication Drawings]] - take these to your local metal fabricator - Coming 1.1.2012 
3.10 [[CEB Press User Manual]]

=Tractor=

4.1 [[Tractor Design Rationale, Product Ecology]]
4.2 [[Tractor Master CAD File]]
4.3 [[Tractor Bill of Materials]]
4.3 [[LifeTrac Manufacturing Instructions]]
4.4 [[Tractor Fabrication PDF]] - Coming 1.15.2012 
4.5 [[Tractor Assembly]] - full assembly video (12 min)
4.6 [[Tractor Fabrication Drawings]] - take these to your local metal fabricator - Coming 1.15.2012 
4.7 [[Tractor User Manual]]

=Soil Pulverizer=

5.1 [[Soil Pulverizer Design Rationale, Product Ecology]] (needs Tractor with Power Cube)
5.2 [[Soil Pulverizer Master CAD File]]
5.3 [[Soil Pulverizer - Bill of Materials]]
5.4 [[Soil Pulverizer/Manufacturing Instructions|Soil Pulverizer Fabrication Instructions]]
5.5 [[Soil Pulverizer Fabrication PDF]] - New! 
5.5 [[Soil Pulverizer Fabrication and Assembly videos]]
5.6 [[Soil Pulverizer - Fabrication Drawings]] – Take these to a metal fabricator
5.7 [[Soil Pulverizer User Manual]]

=Power Cube=

6.1 [[Power Cube Design Rationale]]
6.2 [[Power Cube - Bill of Materials]]
6.3 [[Power Cube A-Z Instructionals]]
6.4 [[Power Cube Fabrication PDF]] - New!
6.5 [[Power Cube Fabrication and Assembly videos]]
6.6 [[Power Cube Fabrication Drawings]] - Coming 1.15.2012 
6.7 [[Power Cube User Manual]]

=Construction=
7.1 [[Field Testing Results]] - Videos
7.2 [[OSE Microhouse]] - Construction Plans - Full architectural detail coming 1.5.2012 

=Street Team=
8.1 Sticker design
8.2 T-shirt design

=Appendix=

[[Civilization Starter Kit Credits]] (collaborators and contributors)
[[OSE License for Distributive Economics]]
[[OSE Specifications]]
[[Tractor Scaling Calculations and CAE Analysis]]

=PDF=

[[Media:Civilization_Starter_Kit_-_v0.01_-_Foreword.pdf|Foreword]]
[[Media:Compressed_Earth_Brick_Press_-_Design_Rationale.pdf#page=1|Compressed Earth Brick Press: Design Rationale]]
[http://opensourceecology.org/w/images/f/f0/CEB_a-z_Build_1.0.pdf#page=1 Compressed Earth Brick Press: Fabrication Manual]
Compressed Earth Brick Press: Fabrication Drawings
[[Media:Compressed_Earth_Brick_Press_-_User_Manual.pdf|Compressed Earth Brick Press: User Manual]]
[[Media:LifeTrac_-_Design_Rationale.pdf|LifeTrac: Design Rationale]]
LifeTrac: Fabrication Manual
LifeTrac: Fabrication Drawings
LifeTrac: User Manual
[[Media:Soil_Pulverizer_-_Design_Rationale.pdf|Soil Pulverizer: Design Rationale]]
[http://opensourceecology.org/w/images/f/f9/Pulverizer_PDF.pdf Soil Pulverizer: Fabrication Manual]
[[Media:Soil_Pulverizer_-_Drawings_-_PDF_Package_-_2011-12-28.pdf|Soil Pulverizer: Fabrication Drawings]]
[[Media:Soil_Pulverizer_-_User_Manual.pdf|Soil Pulverizer: User Manual]]
[[Media:Power_Cube_-_Design_Rationale.pdf|Power Cube: Design Rationale]]
[http://opensourceecology.org/w/images/2/25/Powercube.pdf Power Cube: Fabrication Manual]
Power Cube: Fabrication Drawings
[[Media:Power_Cube_-_User_Manual.pdf|Power Cube: User Manaul]]
[[Media:Power_Cube_-_Failure_Modes_and_Troubleshooting.pdf|Power Cube: Failure Modes and Troubleshooting]]
[[Media:Appendix_-_Credits.pdf|Appendix: Civilization Starter Kit Credits]]
[[Media:Appendix_-_OSE_License_for_Distributive_Economics.pdf|Appendix: OSE License for Distributive Economics]]
[[Media:Appendix_-_OSE_Specifications.pdf|Appendix: OSE Specifications]]
[[Media:Appendix_-_Tractor_Scaling_Calculations.pdf|Appendix: Tractor Scaling and CAE Analysis]]
[[Media:Compressed_Earth_Brick_Press_-_Hydraulic_System_Troubleshooting.pdf|Appendix: Hydraulic System Troubleshooting]]
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Media Repository

2012-03-26T22:29:08Z

TriSimon: /* List */ Added Media Assets page

{{Organization}}

==Overview==
This page is a list of media-related links for [[OSE]] and the [[GVCS]].

==Goal==
Currently there are several terrabytes of OSE related footage, photos, and video spread across many people's hard-drives in many locations. One eventual goal is a [[Media Repository]] to unite all of this information, which can have portals to this media cross-embeded back onto the wiki.

==List==
'''Videos'''
{{videos}}

'''Materials'''
* [[Brochure]]
* [[GVCS Thumbs]]
* [[GVCS Images]]
* [[High Resolution GVCS Media]]
* [[Media Assets]]

'''Photos'''
*[[:Category:Photographs_of_Machines]]
*[[:Category:Photographs_of_Machine_Fabrication]]
*[[:Category:Photographs]]
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/sean_church/collections/72157624665558025/ Sean Church Flickr]

'''Websites'''
* [http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs.php OSE Website: GVCS]

'''Ideas'''
* [[Pogoplug]]

==See Also==
*[[Press]]
*[[Marketing]]
*[[Interviews]]
*[[GVCS]]

[[Category:Media]]

Finite Element Analysis

2012-03-22T18:25:38Z

TriSimon: Updated z88 info

These are some open source software options for Finite Element Analysis:

'''[http://www.opencascade.org OpenCASCADE]'''
* Open CASCADE Technology is software development platform freely available in open source. It includes components for 3D surface and solid modeling, visualization, data exchange and rapid application development.

'''[http://www.z88.org z88]'''
*Z88 is a fast, powerful and compact Finite Elements Analysis Program especially designed for PCs running the great LINUX, workstations and large computers with UNIX and PCs with WindowsXP/95. Z88 features 20 finite element types covering plane stress, plate bending, axial symmetric structures and spacial structures up to 20-node Serendipity hexahedrons. Z88 comes with a user-friendly interface, a powerful mesh generator, a DXF-converter, two plot programs and, of course, two powerful solvers. Import of COSMOS files from Pro/ENGINEER and Pro/MECHANICA is supported. The new version Z88 12.0 is GNU-GPL Freeware.
** '''Latest version:''' Z88 Aurora V1c
** '''Runs on:''' Windows XP/Vista/7, Mac OS 10.6+, Ubuntu 9.04,10.04,11.04
** '''Supported Geometry Formats:''' .STP (STEP), .STL, .DXF (Autocad)
** '''Supported FE data:''' NASTRAN (*.BDF, *.NAS), ABAQUS (*.INP), ANSYS (*.ANS) and COSMOS (*.COS).

'''[http://www-rocq.inria.fr/OpenFEM/ OpenFEM]'''
*OpenFEM is an open-source software freely distributed under the terms of the "GNU Lesser Public License" (LGPL). It is a general purpose multi-physic FEM environment. (at http://www-rocq.inria.fr/OpenFEM/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=3 looks really good,
**needs http://www.scilab.org/ Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, or other good linux distro in ix86 architecture are best bets for getting this going

'''[http://femml.sourceforge.net femML]'''
*The finite element modeling Markup Language (femML) effort is addressing the problems of data interpretation and application interoperability in the Finite Element Modeling domain. femML is an XML-based language for describing finite element models and associated results for inter - and intra- application data exchange and integration.

'''[http://www.csc.fi/english/pages/elmer Elmer]'''
*Elmer is open-source software for performing multiphysical simulations including fluid dynamics, structural mechanics, electromagnetics, heat transfer and acoustics through partial differential equations and using the finite element method.

*To get Elmer on Ubuntu, 1. The source files can be downloaded from the Elmer official site, then compiled and installed. OR 2. Elmer can be directly downloaded and installed through the Ubuntu Software Center that can be accessed through Applications>Ubuntu Software Center

*To get Elmer on Windows, 1. Binary files to be downloaded and installed with for windows are available from the Elmer official site

*ASCII STL Mesh files can be imported into Elmer from CAD software such as FreeCAD

[[Category:Software]]

Talk:XM Project Page

2012-03-18T20:31:02Z

TriSimon: Need to complete User Story statement.

The User Story is incomplete without the "....so..." statement. Why do we want the world to know what is going on with the project?
• So we can get more donations?
• So we can get more volunteers?
• ??

Gasifier Burner/Research Development

2012-03-04T19:37:01Z

TriSimon: Added Prototype section, link to prototype #1

{{GVCS Header}}
{{Category=Biofuel}}

=Study of Industry Standards=

See also [[Industry Standard Pellet Burners]] - not necessarily gasifier burners

== Design Criteria ==
The gasifier should be designed in such a way that it can satisfy a specific set of use cases. These use cases should consider the availability of three products produced by the gasification process, namely Heat, Ash or char and combustible gases.

Use of excess heat:
*heat air in a shelter
*dry fuel for the gasifier
Use of ash and char:
*soil amendments
*lye production for:(ash may have to much carbon for quality lye production)
**soap products
**lye stabilized earth
Use of combustible gases:
*Steam Generator
*Power Cube
*Truck
*Car
*Kiln

=== Portability ===
Unit should be available in both portable and fixed arrangements. portable configurations should enable vehicle (trailer?) mounting.
reactor module design could be impacted. Will refractory cement handle the jostling around?

=== Modularity ===
A good design should allow for flexibility in design variability without loosing compatibility between the various components. This need may be more pronounced during development.
modules include:
*fuel bin
**different Sizes
**Autoloading? (designed with this in mind not necessarily needed)
*reactor core and ash collection
**variability in configuration depending on feedstock
**hearth material may vary depending on portability
*cyclone filter
*gas cooler
*filters
*manifold for gas delivery (optional)
*flare

===Capability===
How large a generator should this unit supply? A gasifier operating above designed capacity can cause damage to the reaction chamber and grate and operating significantly below capacity can lead to high tar production, the most difficult problem facing engines ran on producer gas.

===Other Considerations===
ability to interface with:
*screw type ash cleanout
*auto fuel loader

=Research=
*Gasifier construction set: [http://allpowerlabs.org/gasification/gek/index.html]
*Mike Koch's gasifier, U. Missouri, Columbia, 2008 Capstone Project, Mechanical Engineering: [http://openfarmtech.org/BiomassGasifier.ppt]
*A gasifier can also be used to make [[biochar]]. Here are some simple design examples for charcoal/biochar-producing biomass gasifiers:
**[http://www.repp.org/discussiongroups/resources/stoves/English/bigtop.htm 50 kilowatt wood pellet gasifier]
**[http://www.arti-india.org/content/view/80/52/ Charcoal kiln at A.R.T.I.]
**Folke Günther's design: [http://www.holon.se/folke/carbon/simplechar/simplechar.shtml "the simplest of the simple - a two-barrel charcoal retort"]
**[http://www.hedon.info/TheTurboWood-gasStove Tom Reed's TurboStove]

==Build and design documents==
*[http://www.soilandhealth.org/03sov/0302hsted/fema.woodgas.pdf FEMA Gasifier Plans](PDF)
*[http://www.soilandhealth.org/copyform.aspx?bookcode=030224 Producer Gas for Motor Vehicles](PDF and registration)
*[http://taylor.ifas.ufl.edu/documents/Handbook_of_Biomass_Downdraft_Gasifier_Engine_Systems.pdf Handbook of Biomass Downdraft Gasifier Engine Systems](PDF)

[[File:gasifierben.jpg|450px|right|thumb|Ben's gasifier - not open source, though]]

==Conversation with Ben Hansen==
*Ben is building a 40 kW gasifier CHP system, and may be interested in a steam engine
*Packed bed, downdraft:
*Modified fluidyne gasifier.
*Doug Williams – fluidyne gasifier - http://www.fluidynenz.250x.com/
*Fab shop in Viroqua – friend of Ben – Roger Tullifson, Tollifson repair– did a heat exchanger for diesel exhaust.
*Dig up solenoid valves contact – some open source people
*The [http://gekgasifier.pbworks.com/ Gasifier Experimenters Kit (GEK) Wiki]

==GEK Gasifier powering a Car==
*http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/masongekhonda
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</html>

=Prototypes=
==Prototype I - Larry Dobson's Roundy==
[[Gasifier_Burner_with_Heat_Exchanger_Prototype_I]]

=See Also=
*[[Compressed Fuel Gas]]
*[[Biomass to FuelFischer-Tropsch]]

=GEK Gasifier powering a 6 hp combustion engine=
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<iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="480" height="390" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed//-oM18NVW-xQ" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen></iframe>
</html>

==See Also==
*[[Biochemicals from Pyrolysis]]
*[[Biomass to FuelFischer-Tropsch]]
*[[Compressed Fuel Gas]]
*[[Pyrolysis Oil]]
*[[Biochar]]
*[[Micro-Gasification]]

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Gasifier Burner/Bill of Materials

2012-03-04T19:32:17Z

TriSimon: Created placeholder page

Placeholder for Bill of Materials

Gasifier Burner/User's Manual

2012-03-04T19:31:38Z

TriSimon: Placeholder page created

Placeholder for Gasifier Burner User's Manual.

Category:Gasifier Burner

2012-03-04T19:09:07Z

TriSimon: Create Gasifier Burning category page

Pages related to the Gasifier Burner

Simon Walter-Hansen/Log

2012-02-29T20:22:51Z

TriSimon: /* Februrary */

Daily tracking of my involvement at OSE

=2012=
==Februrary==

===29th===
* Email correspondence with Daniel Worth Re: Power Cube fab drawings. '''Needs:''' Usable model of engine, type/size of small parts (connectors, fittings, filters, etc)
===28th===
* Scrum/Kanban process meeting with Mia Van Meter
===27th===
* Skype call with Aaron Makaruk Re: GVCS PDF and CSK DVD development
===26th===
* LifeTrac (Tractor) correspondence with Matt Maier
===23rd===
* Phone conversation with Larry Dobson Re: Gasifier Burner prototyping and documentation. '''Needs:''' Funding information for material purchase
===22nd===
* Skype conference call with Marcin, Aaron Makaruk, Khuong, Tom, Mia.
* Created [[Videoconferencing]] for defining cross-platform software available for utilization in Scrum management framework
* Replied to forum posts regarding open-source permaculture software, defining "modern" comforts.
===21st===
* Replied to Larry Dobson re: Gasifier Burner documentation
===20th===
* Watched Joe Justice videos on Scrum as applied to WIKISPEED development
* Replied to Aaron regarding wiki reorganization
* Read emails from Aaron regarding wiki reorganization
===19th===
* Skyped with Marcin Re: DVD progress, recruiting
===18th===
* Added timeline for completion of DVD v0.01 to [[Task_List_for_the_Civilization_Starter_Kit_DVD_v0.01|CSK Task List]]
* Emailed [[Aaron_Makaruk]] Re: Collaboration on Re-structuring wiki (CC: Mia Van Meter)
* Emailed [[Aaron_Tarfman]] Re: Generating fabrication drawings from CAD files. Response: Has capability and availability. Awaiting go ahead on Tractor and Power Cube.
* Emailed Larry_Dobson (lad@fundamentalform.com) re: Gasifier Burner Documentation
* Added timeline for meeting needs to [[Task_List_for_the_Civilization_Starter_Kit_DVD_v0.01|CSK Task List]]
* Added DVD v0.01 needs to [[Task_List_for_the_Civilization_Starter_Kit_DVD_v0.01|CSK Task List]]
* Skyped with Marcin regarding DVD v0.01 progress, proposal for completion, wiki organization, locating CAD contributors, CiviCRM
===17th===
* Visited [http://adxportland.com ADX Portland] as potential prototyping/fabrication space
===16th===
* Emailed contributors for unfinished DVD content
===15th===
* Created [[Simon_Walter-Hansen|Log]] page to track my OSE involvement
* Organizing CSK v0.01 wiki pages
===14th===
* Generated current needs for CSK DVD v0.01 production
* Downloaded CSK v0.01 videos for DVD production
===13th===
* Organized some CSK v0.01 wiki pages
* Downloaded some CSK v0.01 videos for DVD production
===11th===
* Downloaded CSK v0.01 wiki content for DVD production
===10th===
* Downloaded some Civilization Starter Kit (CSK) v0.01 wiki content for DVD production
* Skyped with Marcin regarding project involvement
===9th===
* Filmed Team Culturing Video
===7th===
* Posted Team Culturing Survey answers
[[Category:Logs]]

Talk:Daily SCRUM

2012-02-26T19:47:42Z

TriSimon: /* Call-in time and instructions */ new section

would it make any sense to schedule two scrums a day. like one at 12pm and 12am central? or is that to fragmented? --[[User:Dorkmo|Dorkmo]] 10:23, 7 February 2012 (CET)
:I think since we're just starting it's easier to have one SCRUM, last time only two people called in anyways. As more people call-in I think it will make sense to actually split this up by project instead of having one big one, then the one general SCRUM can be moved to being weekly (find a time so that it's possible for everyone around the world to call-in) and each group can have their smaller SCRUMS daily under whatever schedule makes sense. -- [[User:Lex Berezhny|Lex Berezhny]] 17:39, 7 February 2012 (CET)

== Call-in time and instructions ==

Greetings. This is the first time seeing mention of a daily Scrum standup. I'm not regular on the forum.

'''Can you post the following''':
* Call-in time (GMT)
* Call-in instructions (phone number, link, etc).
* Standup format (for new folks)

I realize the daily Scrum has been suspended, but this will help people when it resumes.
I will be following the wiki page to see when the daily scrum gets restarted.
I'm in-favor of getting it going again.
My recommendation would be 9:00 am CST (15:00 GMT)

Community Needs Assessment - February 2012 - Results

2012-02-26T19:37:38Z

TriSimon: Removed double posts

__NOTOC__

= Survey Results Map =
[[image:Community_Needs_Assessments_-_February_2012_-_Map.jpg]]

=Summary=

[[Community_Needs_Assessment_Summary]]

= Questions =

#"What's needed most in the project, and what are you willing to commit to the project to address this need? What relevant experience do you have that qualifies you to take on this task?"
#Are you currently affiliated with OSE in any way? How?
#"What challenges do you face in your life that could be addressed by the results of our work, in the short term (<1 year), and in the long term (5+ years from now)?"
#"What are you most concerned about regarding the success of the project, and what solution do you propose?"
#"What unique talents can you offer to the project, and how much commitment can you provide either as a volunteer or for pay?"
#List 3 ways that you can start getting involved in the project.
#"Can you recommend someone else who could join the project, and what relevant skills do they have?"
#"Can you recommend any foundations that we should write grants to? Who do you know, if anyone, at the listed foundation that we can talk to?" #Can you recommend any on-contingency grant writers that we can recruit to the project?
#Can you recommend a pro-bono lawyer that would like to help us file for tax-exempt status?
#"City, State/Country"
#Put a 1 in the text box to show up on our map.

= Marcin Jakubowski =
opensourceecology@gmail.com

"Most needed at this point is a more rigorous procedure for technical development and management of this procedure. This is necessary if the project is to deliver stated results on predictable timelines. As the project scales, it is difficult to keep the quality control on the results. A better platform would assure better results, as the project scales into a general Open Source Product Development Pipeline. My learning to date is that it is difficult to run a complex, integrated project solely on volunteers and random contributions. While such contributions are essential to open source development, and are the backbone of our current operations - more structure is needed to take the project to the next level. To this end, I am taking 2 weeks right now away from the project to define the methodology, and to recruit a team to implement this procedure. I am personally buried right now and trying to surface, due to our tremendous growth. My relevant experience that qualifies me to take on this role is 5 years of on-the-ground experience with prototyping on a crowdsource budget, and my ability to solve a problem from basic principles - to create the necessary management structure for a Learning Organization that is destined to change the world. This is an interesting challenge: a mix of proven enterprise practices, infused with iconoclastic, open source innovation."
I am the Founding Director.
"Society is cracking at the seams, as we rely on the modern equivalent of slavery and colonialism to provide the lifestyles that we lead - and at the same time, we are alienated from our true interests and higher purpose. In the short term, I would like to demonstrate at Factor e Farm that we can generate a resilient economy by providing healthy local food, renewable energy, natural housing, and robust economic production at Factor e Farm. In 5 years, I would like to see the global economy start converting itself to an open source economy - where open source unleashes productive power of individuals and communities - to finally put an end to all forms of corruption and geopolitial compromises."
I am most concerned about the lack of the proper organizational infrastructure to take the project to the next level.
"I offer the unique talent of generalist thinking and practice, and an ability to focus in a way aligned with passionate pursuit of a goal. I am an integrator who sees a clear goal, and who is taking concrete steps by addressing the material needs of civilization as a prerequisite to further human evolution."
"I would recommend Peter Senge's group, which offers critical insights to the management of a learning organization."
"Maysville, Missouri"
1
= LennStar =
pirat@lennstar.de

More reports about OSE national and international. Especially in the related movements - Open Source software, makers, 3rd world developement organisations (Fair Trade?)
I could write about it in my Pirate Party Germany.
(Nice psychological question btw.)" interested reader myself nothing I would think cost of prototypes money + time - - - - - -
"Bernburg, Germany"
1

= Benjamin Kirkup =
bckirkup@gmail.com

I'm not sure what's needed most. I would presume that complete set of all 50 technologies, up and running, would be the most serious immediate priority, with at least two communities using them actively as the next priority. I don't have experience that make me qualified to achieve these goals. "
"I am a minor, but not completely marginal, donor. "
"I'm hoping that I have no short term challenges riding on this project. I live in a small community of ~7 adults and 5 children, with a 1000 sq ft communal garden. We are in the suburbs, not off the grid, and reasonably affluent. In the long term, I'm not sure what will happen, but I would like local fabrication to be available to the children, in 10 or 15 years."
"Well, I'm concerned that all the plans will be made, a few copies generated, and then it will stall. I suggest that critical mass of adoption, forking, and so on, will be the most important piece. Farmers in America are too few and too idiosyncratic to make it to critical mass. However, by partnering with religious charities that operate routinely in the developing world, there might be room to create a sustainable foment."
"Well, I'm a microbiologist, a microbial ecologist. I'll assist when that specialty is needed. At one point, someone was working on a fermenter to produce energy from waste and manure. I was happy enough to try to help, though that effort stalled before I could contribute much at all. I don't see much in OSE that requires microbiology; most seems to be mechanical engineering, with some electrical, etc. "
"I already keep tabs on it, and I donated a little money, and spread the word a bit. I guess I need to wait until fermentations, cheese making, soil microbiology, or something else like that comes up in the project. Microbes are very powerful and hard to control." Not off hand. I'd suggest talking to Rick Warren once you have enough of the technologies together to consider spreading them in Africa.
No. I didn't realize people did this.
No.
"Silver Spring, Maryland"
1

= Joseph Post =
12tone@gmail.com
I can help organize local lectures and provide free music for videos. I am a professional composer and audio engineer.
"I helped Marcin out when I lived in King City, MO and I provided some music for a CNC torch table video."
"In the short term, I'm always interested in ways I can live more sustainably. For example, technology relating to plant food production.
Within 10 years I plan to be living sustainably off the grid, utilizing several OSE developed technologies to build my home and produce what I need. "
"Currently I don't have any concerns, I'm really excited to see how quickly everything is developing. "
"I can provide music for videos and help set up local lectures. I can help if hands are needed on a work day. I fluctuate in-between a heavy workload and little work, so it would be during the slow months I could help out most."
"Overland Park, Kansas"
1

= Quintin de Lima =
quintindelima@yahoo.com
"Proper documentation, clear step by step build plans. This is key to the goal of success. I am prepared to build prototypes and test the build plans on GVCS prior to full release. I am a hands on kind of person and i'm keen on buildings a number of GVCS for my home."
i'm a truefan
"South Africa has an occasional power supply problem. the costs for electricity are projected to increase 30% in the next 2 years. i've already converted my water heaters to solar evacuated tube technology to save money. i'm extremely interested in the gasifier and its potential development path that can lead to home biofuel creation. also i am interested in the solar concentrator, steam engine, battery and inverter. Deep cycle batteries are extremely expensive here and make the cost to convert to photovoltaic un economical. i like the idea of making them myself. my goal is to build the OSE car, if it meets my daily transport needs."
"To keep the team motivated and focused on the original scope, i see negative statements often in the forums. These are generally from people who have never had vision or run a large project comprising of many different individuals. Proper documentation and build instructions are paramount. I understand how the BOM is seen as important, but to be fair, costs are relative to your geographical region. The costs to build these machines are going to be significantly cheaper where i live."
"I've signed up as a true fan, as time progresses and if the project lives up to its potential i will contribute more financially.
also i want to replicate these machines and use them, i've been researching some of them for years but have struggled to find freely available build instructions. this is what sets OSE apart. "
"true fan seems the most important, it will provide funding for people to do this full time.
review work and attempt to replicate machines and provide feedback."
"i have already. engineer, inventor. they have built and operated some of the GVCS before."
"Johannesburg, South Africa"
1

= James Slade =
jamesslade@creationflame.org
Prototype testing. Verifying that the equipment is capable of doing its job time and time again in a variety of situations to see what it can and cannot do. 7 years of QA and QC experience. Yes. Replication of the CEB. Testing of the LifeTrac and likely future prototypes.
"Building our homestead and fabrication work. Long term would be building our community up. We're a part of a larger picture involving many homes and families coming together."
Safety. That we keep safety in the foreground of the designs. Even when prototyping and of course fully covering safety on completed projects.
"DIYer, community organizer, PR. We work on OSE as much as we can here to implement it into our projects and show that it works.

As funds allow, I do it full time."
"Fabrication locally - Offers another site to build prototypes and relay info with FeF. Allows for more hands to help by having another location. We can host a lot of folks from our region here.
Testing - Putting each piece through real life testing.
Education - Bringing the GVCS to the public around Texas, showing how it works and its robustness for DIY."
Dan Schellenberg - Fabrication and a DIYer
"Cedar Creek, Texas"
1

= Craig Ambrose =
craig@craigambrose.com
true fan
"We're building an ecovillage, at the moment largely based on closed source machinery. I see a lot of opportunity here to replicate GVCS designs and also build a local economy around the idea of open source hardware."
"Probably a human resources bottleneck and Factor-E farm. I know you guys are aware of this and I'm not terribly concerned. As you know, greater parellisation, presumably involving a lot of sites and project teams, will be needed to get things done quickly."
Not much I'm afraid. Ruby on rails development at reduced rates. I'm not able to offer volunteer help at the moment.
"Motueka, New Zealand"
1

= Mike =
mikew1231@gmail.com
"I 'm wondering how you will get the ""blue prints"" so to speak to your intended customer. I don't think that your customer will have ready access to a wireless connection.
Maybe what I'm saying too, is that you will need to identify who your perfect customer is, and work towards meeting their need(s).
You must have a business plan, I would like to read it, maybe I could be of help defining your perfect customer and help brainstorm on how to reach them."
No None.
"What I'm seeing so far is that the people who I think that you want to help, won't have the skills to build the items that are proposed. They will need training, and access to the raw materials.
My solution would be to incorporate existing resources that people might have, and to help develop the equipment along side the people that are manufacturing the device. Just thinking, but maybe have a kit (with detailed instructions i.e. lots of pictures) and look for volunteers to travel with the kit to assist with fabrication as needed and start-up advice."
"I might be able to help with instructions, that is break down the steps of the device fabrication to as easy as steps as needed, again, I would say that it would be a case by case approach."
"I could read any instructions and ad any needed steps.
Fabricate parts of a device to see if it works as intended.
Moral support! Good Job!!
"Ruthton, Minnesota" 1

= Brian Beck =
"San Angelo, Texas" 1

= A.J. Tarnas =
alextarnas@gmail.com
"Marcin is the wrong person to lead OSE, and he has chosen the wrong location to accomplish his goals. I will do what I can over the next 3 years to start a separate OSE location in Pittsburgh PA, growing from a membership-based tool-lending library. I will make it pay, rather than relying on donations."
"No, just as a frequent internet visitor of the project and poster on the forums, and a booster of the project IN REAL LIFE."
"I want a world of abundance. OSE will bring the rough-and-ready mechanical power of machinery circa 1920 to the home and farm-scale producer, at long last. The GVCS will not accomplish much more than this -- free plans for motivated individuals to build and sell at a profit, and the first ecomomy of scale for standardized parts in a robust mechanical toolkit since the 1920s."
"OSE will not learn from the best of the past. It needs competent mechanics and engineers, and open-book financial know-how. Learn from Jack Stack at Springfield Remanufacturing, and in the ag world, Darren Doherty, Alan Savory, Willie Smits, Sepp Holzer, and Joel Salatin. Learn from the mistakes of Gaviotas, and recruit the former engineers of Gaviotas. Immediately seek out chemists and physicists who can make nanomaterials (filtration, catalysts) and biomimicry-based low-power devices (Benyus, Gunter Pauli). Give up the fixation on using metal for everything and start using wood for rapid prototyping (via Woodgears). "
"Last year I made $7k. I lived on $4k. This year I own a home and land in Pittsburgh that cost me $4k. I have projected livings costs of $3k. My talent is living frugally. I am completely directed toward the sort of bootstrap research for the benefit of the poor that Marcin and OSE embrace. I am not a chemist, programmer, mechanic, or engineer, so I have almost nothing to contribute at a technical level. But I am very widely read, a handy person, and motivated. I want to make a living at this, but I would happily volunteer years of my life to get it done, though I will not donate money to it."
"- Start another GVCS project site in Pittsburgh.
- Port designs to a wood- rather than metal-centric material basis.
- Demonstrate geopolymer and nanomaterial formulas."
"- Jorge Zapp of Bogota, Colombia -- bootstrap engineer.
- Jack Stack of Springfield, MO -- machine shop foreman and bootstrap businessman.
- Matthias Wandel of Woodgears -- engineer and maker-extraordinaire.
No personal references."
N/A No. No.
"Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania" 1

= Ederieux =
I can do this.
"Gladewater, Texas" 1

= Jacob Dalton =
jacobrdalton@gmail.com
"I see two goals as most important: 1) delivering on the promise of scrap metal to useful complex machinery and 2) demonstrating these machines can be used to create a viable business or sustainable farm. Crossing these lines of uncertainty would give the project the pragmatic viability to change it's base from dreamers to early adopters (or perhaps going from Stallman to Torvalds as a GNU/Linux analogy).
As for my own contribution in this regard--currently I'm a true fan. Also I'm moving back home with my parents this summer. They own a former dairy farm on 280 acres of land in north western Wisconsin. My father owns a small landscaping business that installs lawns, and I would like to incorporate GVCS principles into our business and machinery. I'm thinking of building a hydroseeder (or retro-fitting our hydroseeder) with a powercube design to make it more maintainable and technically robust. I would also like to build a micro-tractor and fit it with a small harley rake to increase automation for use-cases in between tractor and manual labor.
I've done landscaping with my father for a period of about 7 years, and as a stake holder in small business I'm well qualified to evaluate the utility of any GVCS technology we incorporate in our business. I'm a pretty good interface between the cultures of internet enthusiasts/entrepreneurs (who help promote and support OSE) and blue collar entrepeneurs who have experience running businesses and running machinery in their every day lives.
"As stated above, I'm a true fan. In the passive sense, I check the blog and Marcin's youtube channel daily."
"I'm a young man (26 years old) with a lifetime ahead of him. In the short term, I think the GVCS could help our family business gain some advantages over our competitors by lowering the capital load we have invested in machinery and building out our own solutions to in between use cases that can lower our labor inputs while increasing efficiency.

Assuming I pay off my student debt during the summer, I would be available to a) work on site at FeF as a fabricator, prototyper, programmer, or documentor or b) extend the facilities at my parents' farm to create another fab-lab and independently pursue the same goals (assuming I have enough capital and/or a business plan that makes this viable). We have a pretty good array of dormant resources on the farm having converted from a dairy farm to a crop farm. In the long term, I would like to start or be a part of an OSE village in the United States or abroad."
"Efficiency and Usability. By efficiency I mean creating machines that are capable of running a small business or sustainable farm operated by people of average ability. Creating machines that are feature complete is not necessarily good enough if they don't sufficiently meet the needs of users. I see the goal of reaching a feature complete GVCS 50 as a reachable within the next 1-2 years which would be outstanding in itself, but the goal of high adoption of sustainable farms and small enterprise as a much more difficult target to hit.
I see a tension between efficiency and usability and I think the example of open source software is telling. The difference between the developer perspective and the user perspective often goes unresolved and small nagging problems for everyday users persist when they don't affect the developers. There's a cognitive problem here too--engineers think in a way that's amenable to a remote collaborative process because objective means of success can be agreed upon. However designers typically work in an individualist mode that's highly dependent on intuition and eschews active collaboration. Very very few developers are good designers since the super skill of development is analyzing unintuitive abstract information while the super skill of design is connecting intuitions to information in a concise and simple way that's relevant to the maximum number of people. Some version of this problem is certain to manifest itself in OSE.
I think that resolving the tension between making machines that are easy to build and understand and making machines that are efficient and economically viable doesn't likely have objective means of resolution. Personally I would focus maximum effort on getting a rock solid tool chain to bootstrap production and perhaps sacrifice feature completeness for high standards of quality and efficiency--obviously the machines must be viable before they're accessible. Upon reaching some sufficient threshold of proven viability, I would swing efforts strong and hard towards the problem of accessible/usable design that anyone can use.
I'm sure OSE already already has a wealth of experience addressing these problems, and I don't think the strategy I outlined is in any way novel. I just think that the example of desktop Linux and its lack of mainstream adoption (despite great success with early adopters, engineers, and enthusiasts) is illuminating. Furthermore I think the success of the open source process in engineering and its weakness in design is the fundamental institutional problem facing open source and the wider DIY movement."
"The quick version: programming, shooting and editing video, web development, and product testing. I have experience farming--operating machinery and caring for livestock. I have some experience welding and using a lathe. I can probably learn or be taught to fabricate in a short period of time. I'm interested in working full time onsite or remotely for OSE and should be available in this capacity at the end of October. I can devote some of my time to the project during the spring and summer but will be busy helping run a small business, so I don't think it would be wise for me to offer a consistent allotment of time for that period.
More detail:
I had an extremely diverse university experience (I graduated from UW-Madison where Marcin got his PhD) which I studied variously: mathematics, computer science, creative writing, and video production. I graduated with a double major in Math and English with a certificate (ie Minor) in Computer Science. I also grew up on a dairy farm, and I've been involved in my father's small business projects which include: tree transplanting, landscaping (mainly lawn installation), and general contracting (residential home construction). For the last 2 years I've been teaching English in South Korea (in large part to pay off student debt and also for the experience of being abroad) and will return home to Wisconsin on March 1st. During the summer I hope to pay off my remaining student debt after which I can work as a volunteer or for pay so long as my basic needs of food, shelter, and perhaps health insurance can be provided for." "1) Build a micro-tractor, report results
2) Visit FeF
3) Build a powercube based hydroseeder
4) Field test useful prototypes
5) Become a fabricator at FeF" Nope. I've lived in South Korea for two years and my social circled is quite limited here.
n/a n/a n/a
"New Richmond, Wisconsin" 1

= (Anonymous) =
I hope in the next 5yrs to but some land and use OSE to help me live simpler and closer to the land.
I would hate to see the project sputter out. Continue doing what you have been doing and I believe it will keep going. I am an IT person by trade. I been trying to think of what I can do to be of use on a volunteer basis.
"Longmont, Colorado" 1

= Graham Kelly =
gkelly@fastmail.fm
I have networker skill sets..
"Yes, I donate monthly to Marcin"
"The ONLY challenge I have is US government regulations, and the upcoming revolution."
"The OSE needs to go offshore. I am a permanent traveler, so I can give you guys some offshore solutions."
"I'll volunteer, but I'm not sure what you need."
"1. Financially
2. Financially
3. Financially"
"I have 125,000 customers, half of whom I cannot deal with any more, due to US regulations. Shame. See my website for details. www.GoldNow.St" "I don't circulate in those areas. Most folks I know are in survival mode (the 99.9%), which I why I'm interested in OSE."
sorry
sorry
"Wellington, New Zealand" 1

= elaine =
esantore@hotmail.com
"New York City, New York" 1

= Ferd Irizarry =
Modelers...guys who can help visualize different outcomes in struggling areas. No.
"ST: providing low cost options to people in the very worst regions of the world. LT: same focus but working on strategic options and concepts and operating within principle of ""do no harm""."
Don't know enough th have an opinion.
None at this time.
Reading the blogs and websites.
TIDES at the national defense university.
"Fayetteville, North Carolina" 1

= Anna Dawson =
annadawson@berk.com
Producing healthy frozen and vacuum packaged whole food plant based meal kits.
no
I want to share my ten years of research on creating locally produced healthy frozen whole foods for all at a reasonable price.
"see www.hometownfoods.harvestkitchens.net. I want to share a simple kitchen design for tray freezing, packaging and distributing healthy locally sourced foods from small farmers and gardeners and mid scale diversified farmers."
"I have spent 50 years teaching foods and growing farm crops. At 70 yrs. of age, I can develop a series of video clips to teach people what I do. I am busy learning how to do power points for teaching on line. However, I could use some computer geek help."
"1. Learn more about you. I just heard a short radio blip about your organization.
2. I have a 1400 sq. ft. Harvest Processing Kitchen that can develop new products, do nutrition analysis, create video clips etc.
3. I want to support the set up of Harvest Processing Kitchens while mentoring cooks at my place or online. I have created a floor plan for a mobile kitchen that would focus on processing vegetables, fruits, grains and dry beans. This goose neck trailer can be built ten miles from me for transport anywhere in the country. Tray freezers are built nearby too."
USDA Rural Development may be interested in funding this idea. NESARE might fund the creation of educational materials. I believe these organizations are all over the country.
no
no
"Kinderhook, New York" 1

= Ahmad Faramarzi =
ahmad.faramarzi@noblis.org
"Bought a farm a year ago and have finally moved and live there. I have many projects ranging from building eco friendly structures (small homes) to water managemengt and pond expansion on the farm. No specific project at this time but more info will be provided soon.
I have an engineering background in various fields (mechanical, nuclear, aerospace) but theoretical. The past year on the farm I have been forced to learn some basic mechanical skills. I also have a lot of energy and enthusiasm, and always ready for a challange."
No
"We have a very bad soil that is mostly clay. It is called ""black jack"" with a very high shrink/swell characteristics and lousy perculation. Since we have 30 acres of relatively flat land, flooding and water management is an issue. I'm doing my own research but additional brain power would be good. "
TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD
"Culpeper, Virginia" 1

= Elaine Bearden =
elaineintransition@gmail.com
"Just heard about you on NPR's Sunday edition.

I've been a community organizer/advocate for many years; rec'd permaculture design certification from Peter Bane and have taught basic permaculture principles through the TransitionUS movement here in the southern Blue Ridge region of the Appalachians.

Many of the ideas generated through a community forum I started here in the Upstate of SC in 2005 have come to fruition, including a local farmers' market and the evolution of similar conversation groups on essential community resources like food and water. " "Must review and think about this, but I see and believe in what you are doing. "
"Would love to come for a week and offer helping hands in whatever way I can, to participate in/support the vision."
"I know that Transition may have funding opportunities; have you contacted any UN/USAID orgs for sources re: low-cost, low-energy strategies for developing areas? "
"Travelers Rest, South Carolina" 1

= robert terhune =
tjoe204@sbcglobal.net
non carcinogenic oil refining /in expensive waste purification unit...single family/water purificatin
just learned about the program on npr lack of work/time on my hands liability issues "ibew electrician,hands on design build "
pay attention
"my father russell terhune old school slide rule engineer...retired high school teacher...82 yrs old...needs a legacy
larry howard electronic circuit cabnet builder,sound stage reinforcement co. peculiar sound
ibew local 124 816 942 7500"
"coffman,kcmo"
hensley law office raymore mo. "Belton, Missouri" 1

= Chris Kleps =
chriskleps@yahoo.com
"I own a 33 acre woodlot in Clackamas County, Oregon. I have done most of the work myself since 1982. I am a retired veterinarian. I have taken and support the Clackamas County Extension ""Master Woodland Manager"" program. My nephew in Christian Shearer, who is involved in Permaculture. He has property in Missouri. I wonder if you know of him?"
no
"I am pushing 70. I am looking at winding down and passing the farm along
to the next generation. I am hoping that it will be my children."
"I am a life-long gearhead, and a former Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador. I have had a life-long commitment to self-sufficiency. Tell me how I can help."
"Estacada, Oregon" 1

= wolf =
wuf@toast.net
Build mining equipment and heavy equipment repair.
"No, but exploring"
"AZ desert dweller and 30 miles from nearest city... Make do with what we have or build.. Recycle maniac... (lol).. Hope to move further out in next 5 years. Not off the grid yet, but working on it."
Self reliance
"Machine and equipment design, inventor/experimenter, welder, electrical/electronic, hydraulic, mechanical background."
Look at project and see where I might possibly be able to fit in
"Gladen, Arizona" 1

= Gedan =
"Enthusiasm and awareness are the greatest needs. The open source model needs people who are inspired contributors in terms of thinking, trying, promoting, and resourcing, and these are enlisted through recruiting. I'm willing to keep learning and promoting, at this point.

The project seems perfect for community college innovation and learning grant funding. They involve a wide array of skills in interdisciplinary departments. An inspired CC leader/dean could pull this off. A tech school could be a great partner, too. Small engine, welding, milling, programming, marketing, business, organizational leadership, etc.

If I were in the public system, I would be that leader.

The other source of leadership and volunteers would be a community of retired engineers. I live in such a community and am thinking about how to mobilize a chapter." Interested observer wondering about the best way to participate given time limitations. "What appeals most are personally meaningful contributions to economic and food resiliency, social justice, the cool factor. I've got 25 good years left and am searching for a way to leverage what I know to leave a lasting contribution to the world." "The technical side is fascinating and progressing through the genius of your volunteers. There's a people/organizational side that is about the adoption.

What's the economic/business model that creates a sustainable model that meets stakeholder needs? Do we know stakeholders' needs? Do we need more than one experiment of the 200/200 or various sized x/x projects?

What are the right structures organizationally? What roles are needed? I saw your org chart for the eFarm.

What's the right legal structure to ensure shared prosperity and proper governance? How do people participate at different levels (stock-holder, remote volunteer, present volunteer). How are assets held?" "I am a university administrator thinking about early retirement. I also have software, grant writing, writing, social community/networking, construction talents.

Tied up right now, but looking to get more time." "Awareness of what your doing.
Critical friend offering advice.
Promotion of your work." I'm contacting a famer/electrical engineer and a farmer/software engineer of like mindset. No. No. But I am considering contributing my own efforts. No. "Monument, Colorado" 1

== Foot ==
Health needs of a sustainable nature suited to the surrounding community focused on lifestyle mitigations. no "As a physician, renumination fairly for results produced is the core of of the challange facing healthcare. This includes food, which in many successful societies was the medicine of the community. Sanity has to return to food production-NO GMO" ability to continue "As a podiatrist, I assume you have some feet there!" Do not know enough about the project. Not at this time Not at this time Not at this time Not at this time "Chicago, Illinois" 1

= Michael Hunter =

Hunter@fltg.net

"I believe what would benefit this project is the ability for systems to be created to fill voids where needs are at present. I am an electrician, with robotics, PLC and automation experience. As well as experience in water filtration and waste oil processing. " No connection. "I am working on developing a process to connect local farmers to restaurants through growing seed, pressing seed for oil, filtering oil, packing oil in a contract form, so to have ownership of the oil after it is used. Collect used oil, filter oil, split oil into fuel for farm equipment and run generators to sustain the farm . Also with the by-product of the pressing oil, take the meal and combine it with another biomass(switchgrass, corn husk/stalks, ag waste) to pelletize it for a heat source." "Being able to make a system that is flexible enough to change with the needs of each particular farmer in a region?
Making a seed press, making a packaging machine,making a centrifuge, making an engine converter for different fuels.
My idea is to create modules that can be interchanged in and out to create the exact model the farmer is looking for." "I am always challenging myself, my wife and my 2 sons to enhance the way of life not for just ourselves but for others that are committed to endure the challenges of something different.
Being creative with what I have been given, and using knowledge from as many experienced persons as possible." "Brain storming
Safety protocols
Troubleshooting" SARE no no "Trumansburg, New York" 1

= Ed Tokas =
"At this stage it is absolutely necessary to consider ecological impact of the manufacture of equipment. If you haven't yet addressed the issues of worker safety, and/or water, soil, and air pollution, it's not too late.

I worked my professional life as a chemist in the chemical industry. For all of their wrongs they do some things right. My experience with the above issues would appear to be of use to the continued growth of your Open Source Ecology Farm (OSEF).

I'm very interested in determining what role I might play in the future of OSEF." No. In the short term my challenges are to help lessen the impact of development on our lives. In the long run I'm concerned with what we are leaving behind for our children and grandchildren. "Not knowing details of your setup I'd imagine addressing the ecological impacts are growing exponentially as you build prototypes and beta testable equipment. If these safety and environmental concerns can be shown to be on the drawing board , and being reduced to practice, you will avoid a lot of the pitfalls that existing larger industries experienced during their startup.

The solution seems obvious, develop a plan and address them in order of impact importance, like worker safety (glasses, gloves, masks, etc.)/environmental impact ( fuels, hydraulic fluids, toxic cleaners, etc)." "Honestly I'd prefer to be on the payroll, but can't rule out some volunteering. My talents are being able to reduce to practice the above mentioned needs as a result of experience on both sides of the fence, meaning as a chemist and as a safety coordinator." I have the luxury of having some free time in between running a home based business with my wife and trout fishing. This would not be hard to do. "St Louis, Missouri" 1

= janet =
jannetschraer@yahoo.com

"NEEDED MOST; All the machines developed will need energy to run. Some can work with just human energy, most will need fuel of some sort. My fantasy, similar to yours, is 'appropriate scale alcohol fuel production.' Towns or farms can produce their own fuel from locally, sustainably, organically-grown energy crops, resulting in revitalized communities, no wars, local control of energy, no pollution....
WILLING TO COMMIT: I recently started an ethanol Meetup to educate folks on the oil industry-sponsored myths about ethanol, and perhaps develop a small still. http://www.meetup.com/Ethanolmeetup-com/
Please view the work of David Blume, ""Alcohol Can be a Gas.' www.alcoholcanbeagas.com. Thankyou for your nobel and graceous effort.
EXPERIENCE: High energy and tenacity, and I can write and speak publicly." No. "Challenges addressed by OSE work?
My life is small, but the planet's challenges are large. I do not see west civ. returning to 'prosperity' as touted by politicians because the earth is tapped out of easy energy. There are no plans to divest from fossil fuels, and since matter and energy are related, the toxic, destabilizing, energy like oil, is a cultural dead end. The only 'way' is to return control of resources to local regions/municipalities etc.
The earth does have an abundance of solar energy, however, I am not an advocate of large-scale anything, including solar as it is plowing up delicate desert ecology here in CA. But plant solar photosynthesized into energy, (plant-based trapped then harvested solar energy), is a solution. " "Again, your machine ethics are beyond reproach. However the energy they will run on commits the user to the old paradigm; dependence on the large-scale or foreigh or inorganically or toxic or corporate-controlled.... Again, a life of dependence, not independence. " "TALENTS: Juicy rants, tenacious commitment, clear vision....and I can write.
VOLUNTEER/PAY: I have a few hours a week to volunteer if we are on the same page.
" What do you want? "David Blume, Blume Distillation
http://blumedistillation.com/" "Oakland, California" 1

= Khuong Dinh =
nscholar@gmail.com A strategic roadmap. I have ten years of Systems Engineering and Program Management that I can contribute to the project. No. I'd like to live a simpler life. I'd like to make Thoreau and Emerson proud by leaving this place a bit better than when I first entered. I think the OSE can be a great venue for me to achieve this. "Hard to tell right now, but it seems like you guys are doing a great job with getting the word out.

As for the technical and systematic approach, I think that you guys would need a coherent roadmap and someone with great leadership to spearhead that project and tie it all together. " I can fully commit with my expertise in Systems Engineering and Program Management. "1. Strategic Roadmap development
2. Overall Test and evaluations strategies to evaluate the prototypes
3. Provide lessons learned and failures that I learned from the Department of Defense. " "Try this:

http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/RD_Grants.html" "Charlottesville, Virginia" 1

= David King =
chair@slola.org "A human powered thresher - primarily of wheat, as that is one of the primary grains in our society. My focus is on local sustainability, local food and food justice. I am primarily a grower of food in Los Angeles, CA. If the current US system of food production should become stressed with a pathogen that acts on our corn supply, which is vulnerable to such stress, much like the potato famine in Ireland, communities will need to rely on their own food production. We can grow vegetables and process them, but without access to grains (wheat, corn, rice) the amount of vegetables just to make subsistence living feasible without these grains poses an insurmountable problem. Thus, grains become an essential component of the solution. Growing and harvesting grain without specialized tools is possible and the specialized tools for such low-tech harvesting already exist, as is the technology to grind the threshed grain into flour. The major problem to solve in this chain is the threshing. It is either a labor intensive procedure best accomplished by actuating the angst of angry teenagers or using huge machines that are expensive to buy and impossible for a good many small endeavors of the kind imagined to mitigate a food crises. I have given this a good deal of thought, but I am not so mechanically inclined and I have had little success in engaging others to do this. I am thinking of a bicycle powered unit - or series of units to do this. The current model houses many different operations in one unit (the combine). But for small acreage, these units are not practical. A human powered device would be less expensive (although it might not get the teenagers off the hook) and could be much more practical and efficient process to get the grain to the grinding stage." No. I heard of your project on NPR this AM. Currently I am working to breed a variety of wheat that can be grown easily in Los Angeles. I am on the Mayor's Urban Agriculture Working Group with the intention of providing relief to the food dessert of Los Angeles' inner city. Short term (1 year) the intent is to provide relief from chronic hunger with those economically stressed and the homeless; long term we would like to make Los Angeles more self-sufficient in producing a large share of our caloric intake here in this very fertile basin. "The complexity of a combine is mind-boggling! I don't know how to create an affordable, simple machine to take its place. I don't know if the solution is a series of machines (one machine to hull the grain and then machines to separate the wheat from the chaff, or the separating might take several machines). Should these all be attached to one power unit (bicycle) and be unattached and re-attached as needed? I don't know. In fact, I have found very little on this idea in any literature. " "I would be willing to commit time and effort to make the item - I have a community of bicycle mechanics I could get involved in the project. My lack of progress on this is that I am already investing all my extra money into growing the grain and buying almost all of that with my own money. I am only a few tools, I might be able to enlist the help of welders etc. But I don't know beans about how a combine works - in fact I've only seen one in operation in the last decade. (I grew up in northeast Kansas, I was familiar with grain harvesting then, but I didn't take good notes...) " "1. I am already working on a strain of wheat that was grown in southern California prior to 1942.
2. I am part of the Seed Library of Los Angeles and I can enlist gardeners to grow the grain .
3. I am willing to approach a community of bicycle mechanics to help build the thing once there is something to build." "Rodale Institute? I know they do projects that involve sustainable food supply. Sharon Rempel in Canada and her Demeter Project might find the project worthwhile. Sustainablegrains.org, based in California also might be interested in a project of this type. All of these are interested in distributing more heritage grain through out commerce and this project, with many local growers taking the place of large centralized growers might pique their interest.
The Bikerowave project in Los Angeles is a community of bicycle enthusiasts who teach bicycle repair to interested persons might be induced to provide the mechanical skills to create a designed machine as a group project. " Rodale Foundation? "Not this second, but I will enlist some." The Seed Library of Los Angeles (SLOLA) operates under the 501(c)3 status of The Learning Garden. I believe this project could be operated under that umbrella. "Los Angeles, California" 1

= Andrew =
aamacnab@eastlink.ca "Lunenburg, Canada" 1

= Mantas =
mantuxas@inbox.lt I'am reading all your info and watching videos and goind to donate some money. "Kurš?nai, Lithuania" 1

= Jacopo Amistani =
jacopo.ose@gmail.com A good presentation to the european culture must be started. the gap that still exist between US and Europe as the simple way of thinking or the most commplex social structure and culture must be reanalised and reused to adapt OSE to UC cultural Standard. Coordiantor for the OSE Initiative In Italy "in short term the creation of an assosciation that develop a community that wont to improve enlarge the project in Italt. On long term, the creation of a coop entreprise based on OSE principle " "the biggest problem for europe is:
1) omologation tu Uropian Community lows (Machinery Directive)
2) progect also in metric sistem" Coordiantion skills and great comunications capabilites creating OSE Italy; Starting the network brtween peaple and institutions or organaisations/ Founriesing an development of the project no no no "Padova, Italy" 1

= Ann Klefstad =
klefkal@cpinternet.com "Basic-skills training for potential participants: basic-skills institutes where people can learn wood, metal, textile, etc. working skills. A network of such institutes, perhaps allied with community colleges that already exist, to teach in short low-cost or no-cost classes basic materials skills, would enable a much broader participation in the project. I'd be interested in helping to develop a description of such a program and researching interested institutional networks. I'm a communicator by trade: writer, artist, editor, journalist. " No "Short term, acquiring skills and tools that would enable a broader sculptural practice; longer term, the need for a teaching/enabling practice that would enable travel to many locales in the world. " "Concerned about waste: wasted effort and materials as people take on challenges that their lives cannot accommodate.

Training institutes, kind of like the folk schools in Norway, that are hyperlocal, have funding sources (grant and loan programs) that would allow people to take time to develop and marshall skills and tools, and that could be loci for social life that would enable people to help each other with larger challenges." "I'm an awardwinning communicator / journalist and lifetime maker of things. Right now I'm raising two kids alone, writing and making art, and so have no time that I can commit for free. After I complete two longterm projects this summer I could make a full-time paid commitment to the project." "I can develop and hone a description of the project for potentially involved educational institutions and funders.

I can research such allies.

I can educate myself about the project and its local manifestations and potentials through interviews and reading. " I'd have to ask! "Blandin Foundation in Grand Rapids, MN, as they are particularly interested in rural economies. Rural places are great reservoirs of the kinds of skills that the project is built on. You might speak to Bernadine Joselyn at the Blandin Foundation.

McKnight Foundation in Minneapolis, MN. They fund many third-world and rural development initiatives. Kate Wolford is now their president; she ran Lutheran World Relief, a notably successful and efficient NGO, before she came to McKnight.

" "Perhaps myself, though I have no free time at the moment. I do grantwriting, but will not have time to do on-contingency projects until next fall. " "Talk to Springboard for the Arts in St Paul, Minnesota. They should be able to hook you up with someone. " "Duluth, Minnesota" 1

= Paul Ricci =
paul27@myfairpoint.net "Suggest find chemical engineers to develop a heat-tolerant plastic from renewables like wood chips to make into car bodies, tires and electric motor components so that vehicles can be made locally.
Sorry I am an ex-dancer and accountant - this is just an idea." No Surviving the coming collapse Is there enough time left Organizing and manual labor "Am moving to Vermont in near future and will look to network with others of like mind. Wish to develop a template for forming small sustainable economies (eco-tribes?) that either alone or in affiliation with other similar units can survive off the doomed national energy and resource grid and still lead a civilized, technologically advanced lifestyle. Feel that Vermont is the most likely state to adopt this philosophy statewide and in its political system." Not yet "Putney, Vermont" 1

= (Anonymous) = I can build almost anything. "Not yet, just learned of it." Machinist. You can do that yourself as I have. You do *not* need a lawyer. "Tallahassee, Florida" 1

= Gary Harvey =
harvey_gary@msn.com "Kennewick, Washington" 1

= Elmo Mäntynen =
elmo.mantynen@iki.fi I'm going for full replication within the next five years and starting an intentional community/village in the spirit of FeF. "Sourcing of parts should be as easy as possible. Things that would help in that regard: Identifying appropriate commonly available second hand parts and making allowances for them to be used in the designs; Using parts that are commonly sold as replacement parts for common equipment; Where appropriate, defining interfaces between subassemblies so that localized versions can be made; Making designs parametric with vitamin dimensions as input (a 'la Prusa mendel RepRap); Consulting agricultural etc. repair/maintenance professionals around the world. Also, Metric!" I might be able to help in localizing/testing the designs next year when most of the GVCS is in beta and I'll be studying to be a professional welder. "Helsinki, Finland" 1

= Barry Campbell =
barryncampbell@gmail.com "I just heard a program about OSE on CBC Radio, and came to see the website. I am not sure yet what is needed in the project or what I can commit." No I live on a rural property in Canada and am trying to be less reliant on external inputs "My daughter, Sonja Campbell, she is young and has boundless enthusiasm." "Enterprise, Ontario, Canada" 1

= Joe Williams =
jtwgearhead@gmail.com "Equipment usable by small landowner (up to 2 acres) - earthmoving, CEB, etc. I realize this is not the main charter, but it's where you could find a significant market and support (e.g. Mother Earth News) for your main goals. I have a Master's in Mechanical Engineering. Work experience focused on electromechanical systems, controls & instrumentation, advanced engines and engineering management." No Significant earthmoving and landscaping in the next year. I'm also a huge fan of the open-source and Maker movements and find it professionally satisfying to work on such projects. "I'm a skilled CAD operator, design reviewer, and project manager. Right now I could offer only an hour or two per week, but more in the future." "Kirkland, Washington" 1

= Giovanni Marco Zaccaria =
gianmarco.zaccaria@gmail.com "I think that one of the most important goals, is to spread the word, knitting the fabric between communities and actors. Here in Europe, there are centuries of intensive work on rural infrastructure. We have the unique chance to combine the GVCS, with larger common infrastructure for communities of 500+ people. I spend my spare time traveling for eco-communities and eco-villages, forging human relationships. Here, there are a lot of people cheering for you!" "Sure, at the time I carry out the role of technical coordinator for OSE Italy. Also I carry out dissemination activities between Italy and Spain, I made the translation of various materials, including the official translation of the flyer in Italian. I also created media materials to disseminate OSE." "I'm writing a proposal trough a crowfounding platform, for a personal project, an open source device ables to produce hot water from waste.

In the short term, I plan to apply for a Master degree in Environment Technologies as a way to learn deeply the topic, to visit more eco-communities and villages around europe.

In the long term I hope to live in a eco-village." "That the project can be truly global. Each country has different regulations on the approval of the machines. There is also a problem for the translation of the units and components outside the U.S. I suggest, in the near future, the creation of regional development teams to provide the same standard of quality of the original devices.
" "What has made me closer to Open Source Ecology is the opportunity to express myself and to grow as an Eco-engineer.
I am excited about the opportunity to be part of this iniciative and I put my full available capabilities and skills in engineering and creativity, as well as in communication and dissemination to reach the goal!
I'm young and I have not enough resources to continue to participate in the project without money. I wish strongly work for OSE." "- Making crowfounding campaigns in Europe
- Dissemination around EU Universities.
- Creation of media materials for social networs platforms." I am in contact with the team behind Arduino. I spoke with them about the OSE initiative and they seem very excited. The research center is in Italy and next month I'm going there to visit and discuss with them. "Barcelona, Spain" 1

= Ben Millstein =
Bmills@ak.net As a board member of a remote recycling operation I am wondering if the pellet or brick makers would function well with recycled paper and cardboard to use for stove fuel. I also wonder if recycled plastic can be processed locally for reuse to add value and reduce shipping costs and carbon footprint. I would also love to see an open source design for a multifuel burner for a boiler or furnace. I'm inspired by what you do and hope to become involved as my time becomes more available. "Kodiak, Alaska" 1

= Stefan Ludwig =
dipl-ing.ludwig@web.de "First thing: buidling up the structure of OSE on cybernetic principles

the cybernetic principles give the most availability for
- long-term viability
- effective control combined with self organasation

second thing:
Information for multiplicators around the world. A lot of people sympasise with the ideas of ""open source"", ""ecology"", a ""fair economy"".

Whenever I point such people to OSE they like it.
I think contacting people around the world to spread the information
""OSE is here"" is important." "Yes I made some small contributions to an OS-stepper-motor-driver
" "Me personally building electronics myself with a PCB-mill, industrial robots

building cheap houses.

In general:
I expect the world economy to break down between 2014-2016.
Stockmarkets,assets prices of gold, oil, houses etc. will fall down dramatically 70-90% like in 1929.

So an alternative economy based on DIY is highly needed to recover from this great deperession ahead." "The timeline is very ambitious. Finsihing prototyping for all 50 machines is a big challenge. Cybernetic management has tools to be very effective on reaching targgets and has very effective tools to clear up what is important and what are the ways to go. (espessialy the method syntegration)
see http://www.syntegration.com/_flash/player_2.swf?scale=noscale

" sorry - I don't have talents that match this description "1: translating the basic description of what OSE is doing to inform the german speaking central europe about OSE

2: going on developing my stepper-motor-controller based on the propeller-chip

3: informing people in my area about OSE trying to launch a project that does build the machines which are already here
" "

http://www.reinhardkahl.de

" "http://www.ashoka.org/

" Franz Alt "Wolfhagen, Germany" 1

= Jozef Trubac =
jozeftrubac@gmail.com
I supported kickstarter project "short term - feeling that there could be option to live reasonable, sustainable and happy life
long term - not just feeling like stated abowe but real option." "you are doing the great job out there. many cool projects going on. maybe I would be also thinking about how to substitute oil. probably I would go for hydrogen on site production. check out mit profesor Daniel Nocera discoveries.
My second concern is about human factor. things like greed or envy. I would be really carefull about choosing people to this pivot village. but I hope all of the people there are really passionate about what they do and why. " I have been watching open source ecology for one year or so. now I am really convinced about becoming true fun. but in coincident I get new job. so still in probing period. but after that definitely will support you guys. will see how things gonna turn out. maybe someday will aply with my cv ;) looking forward to become a true fan. I can maybe recommend contacting people/forums/movements like zeit geist. I know you are not about these conspiracy things. but in my humble opinion these people are more then likely to get involved. "Trnava, Slovakia" 1

= Benjamin Timby =
bentimby@gmail.com "I feel that pedal powered technology is highly appropriate to meeting the most essential human needs. The parts and tools are readily available world-wide; all that's really needed is the instruction to people in those areas. Last summer, I spent some time with Carlos at Mayapedal (http://mayapedal.org/) where solutions are being developed as we speak. Not only are bicycles a simple and readily-available means of providing tools and transportation, but they're much more environmentally sustainable than any alternative I've seen on this site. As I'm currently in school, I don't have much time to devote to the project, but hope to in the near future." No. "In my dream of having a small, sustainable family farm, my biggest challenge is providing prices that enable more people to eat healthy food. I don't like that locally-produced food is only available to the affluent in our society. Maybe by cutting the costs of tools and equipment, and finding creative ways to eliminate the middle man I can undercut industrial agriculture. In the next 5 years, I could seriously see myself building a few implements using this site in the next 5 years." "My main concern is that this project never gains enough momentum to become a reality, that it will forever remain half-finished. However, I think everything you're doing in building teams and setting deadlines is directly addressing that." "I was trained as a bicycle mechanic at Bike Against Collective in Fort Collins, CO at 17 years old, and have since then obtained ASE certification and have built many of my own implements." "-Pass it along to many of my friends involved in appropriate technologies
-Research and possibly build and document a prototype MIG welder" "My friend Pons Maternum, an electronics guru and an avid proponent of creative commons. I don't know his specific skills but I sent him you're site and I imagine you'll be hearing from him if he's able to contribute." MIT D-lab "Berea, Kentucky" 1

= Peter Put =
put.peter@gmail.com "St. Albert, Alberta, Canada" 1

= Josh Hoy =
flying_w_ranch1996@yahoo.com "Cedar Point, Kansas" 1

= Josh Hoy =
flying_w_ranch1996@yahoo.com "Cedar Point, Kansas" 1

= Vikki =
mtnsugarpine@yahoo.com "Midpines, California" 1

= Jack Taylor =
digitalpitchfrokfarm@gmail.com
"I like how everything is going, and am very excited to start working on some of the projects." nope "I need a tractor, and several buildings, so the tractor and CEB are on my first years project list." Not sure just yet. "I know welding, electronics, a little programming, permaculture...." "1. DL some of parts lists and start building things
2.Contribute to the wiki
3. I'm sure something else will present itself " not at the moment Not a big fan of receiving/writing grants. nope "Maybe we should find a way around being in the whole ""tax"" system. Is this project not focused on being apart from the current failing system?" "Travelers Rest, South Carolina" 1

= Karen Fruchtenicht =
Sacramento, California
1

= Gay Abarbanell =
no
"North Fork, California"
1

= Bryce E Miller =
bryceEmiller@gmail.com
"I am a subscriber to OSE's "
"1000 True Fans"" monthly. "
"Las Vegas, Nevada"
1

= Giora Pasca =
giorapasca@gmail.com
"Don't know enough about it yet. Just found out about it by listening to NPR.
So maybe this is what is needed, knowledge dissemination.
This needs to go viral, now!
I am doing my share of letting people know about it.
Already a farmer friend in Northern CA, that is living off the grid for over 20 years is blown away and he's a mechanic so it appeals to him on many levels.
" Not yet. "I have concerns regarding the possible collapse of the global economy coupled with the knowledge that for the good of Earth it can't happen soon enough...;)
On a thought process level, what you guys are doing, really shows how we don't have to give up technology moving forward. You are putting my mind at ease." It is so simple and abstract. It's such a radical paradigm shift that requires a different mindset. I am wondering how to help this move forward. How to keep the spark going? "I signed up for a monthly payment to begin with...
I am sales person, or consultant, in the solar PV industry in Southern CA. I am engaged in one of those trades that will soon become obsolete.
I have a degree in Biology. Can't think of a practical skill pertinent.
" "Los Angeles, California" 1

= Rhett =
barkerr6@gmail.com "I am most interested in the steam, peletizer, generator system. I am a Mechanical Engineer and am currently interested in the power of steam to do work. producing a viable biomass energy production unit has me chomping at the bit." no I am trying to rework my lifestyle to better suit my interests. I am dumping consumer debt and the disposable mentality for the locally mfg and self produced. It has occurred to me that trading time for money to trade for things made around the world that arent quite what I want is insane. better to skip the middle man and produce it myself or have someone locally make it for me the way that I want. I am concerned that the information gathered is going to be warehoused in a way that will make it difficult to access for low or no cost. I think that reproducing and re-disseminating the information is the best way to keep it alive and free. "I am a fairly good researcher and manufacturer, at this time my problem is time. I trade around 70-90 hrs of my week to a corporation for money hopefully that will soon be cut to 60-70 hrs. I plan on building a small scale steam expander soon, as well as a small steam generator. I sorta set my own hrs at work so if I could make some money doing the research and mfg of a steam system then I cold work on it more." "Elk City, Oklahoma" 1

= Paul =
wpaulharper@gmail.com "Willing to commit: by 04/01/12
1.Open Source Ecology presentation with intent to engage 30 individuals w/ ? 10 engaged.

2. Establish a project demonstration site in Athens OH.

3. Draft an Open Source Ecology – Athens OH project plan for the time frame 04/01/12 to 04/01/12

I have some group and project management experiences and competencies that may be relevant to this project." "My affiliation began today, 19 Feb .

NPR initial exposure to Open Source Ecology project;

Linkage communication w/4 of 6 identified collaborators in Open Source Ecology – Athens OH and Open Source Ecology – Monroe Co. OH w/ ask to investigate and assess.

Reviewed GVCS components with the take away to be a prioritized list of machine" "Both short and long term problems relate to 2 individual projects:

Re. Woodland Ridge Farm Enterprise: articulation, the implementation and the evaluation of targeted sustainability in food and energy production objectives over the next 12/60 months, respectively.

Re. Clean Energy Enterprise: Identification, alignment and linkage of clean energy advocates and resources in the Wood County WV and Athens County OH to assist in completed Clean Energy (product to market) project production objectives over the next 12/60 months, respectively.
" "I am most concerned about the systems by which the project is communicated to a larger regional community and with the system engaging increased project participation and impact expansion.

I propose:
1.. Immediate Linkage communication w/4 of 6 identified potential project collaborators in Open Source Ecology – Athens OH and Open Source Ecology – Monroe Co. OH w/ ask to investigate and assess.
2... Commitment to: a)Open Source Ecology presentation with intent to engage 30 individuals w/ ? 10 engaged. 2)Establish a project demonstration site in Athens OH. 3) Draft an Open Source Ecology – Athens OH project plan for the time frame 04/01/12 to 04/01/12
" I have a unique portfolio of group and project management competencies that may be relevant to this project. Re: commitment - Directly related to my ability to align and connect previously mentioned sustainable farm and clean energy projects w/ Open Source Ecology Project. Am thinking high probablity "Willing to commit: by 04/01/12
1.Open Source Ecology presentation with intent to engage 30 individuals w/ ? 10 engaged.
2.Establish a project demonstration site in Athens OH.
3.Draft an Open Source Ecology – Athens OH project plan for the time frame 04/01/12 to 01/01/13" "Yes will do that over time. Should have a few, this week." "Again, I think I can help, here but will need a bit of review." "Again, I think I can help, here. Want to talk w/ any referral prior." Not right off. "Athens, Ohio" 1

= Jake Smith =
jnscartersville@gmail.com
"People with the desire to work on these projects and troubleshoot the designs in real world applications. I have a small farm. It needs a lot of work. I have some goats and plant a field, but have room for expansion just not the resources. I would like to participate, I just have little to no experience building anything. I'm a pharmacist that wishes to be more of a farmer, or at least become self sufficient." Nope "I really like the CEB, the bobcat like tractor design, in fact all the different attachments to the tractor design, the energy solutions such as the solar or wind energy converters with generator. I'm into the farm equipment side of this and the bricks for making solid structures. " "I would like to learn more from the ground up. I know nothing about welding or building machinery. I am, however, an intelligent person and would like to learn to be a self sufficient farmer. I also have an aversion toward mainstream anything really, such as going out and buying name brand farm equipment or products. I would like to be able to do things myself. " "I can attempt to build the products and test them out in real world settings, doing practical things on a farm. I need to clear off a grown over pond and dig out a spring to supply it with a good water source. So i would like to build a bobcat like structure, that has the ability to use a backhoe. I also am drawn to the CEB, and would like to use it to assemble necessary structures." "I am more than likely not going to travel. But I would like to start learning how to build the CEB, and possibly some of the other equipment. Then I can provide feedback." "Not really. I will have people that can probably help me out occasionally, but I can't say they will commit a lot of time consistently." Nope Nope Nope "Fairmount, Georgia" 1

= Jake Smith = "Fairmount, Georgia"
1

= Jake Smith = "Fairmount, Georgia"
1

= Raymond Betemps =
rbetemps@hotmail.com
I am still investigating your site.
No
Removing stumps. Placing culverts.
"Grassy Plains, British Columbia, Canada"
1

= Steven Biles =
steven.r.biles@gmail.com
"What's needed most - Organization. I think it would benefit the project greatly to build an organization with some structure. A hierarchical, redundant structure would enable the project to leverage the considerable enthusiasm i've seen without depending on full time contributors. I understand that full time contributors are ideal, but I bet OSE could recruit 100 times as many part time volunteers. Professional engineering associations such as NACE and ASME are all run by part time contributors and produce some very good results.

I have worked for the last five years as an engineering consultant specializing in Pipeline Integrity Management. Part of my job is to create plans that leverage an organization's structure and needs to achieve an engineering goal - in my case, the goal is preventing pipeline ruptures. OSE has a much more ambitious engineering goal but i think the same ideas can be applied here." I learned about the project recently. I'm working on digesting all the information available and determining the best place to dive in. "In the short term, I'm interested in working on engineering projects outside my narrow specialization. In the long term, I would like to make my family more self-reliant and sustainable, and to increase my personal freedom to work on what I want to without depending on a corporate job." "I'm concerned that OSE will produce some great equipment designs and noone will use them. This is a hard problem and i don't have the solution. One things that would help would be to get people involved. Lots of people. The videos do a great job telling people about the project, but if there is nothing to *do* i think people will move on to the next cool thing. Have events at Factor e Farm, set up committees, split tasks into chunks that someone can do in an evening or weekend, and demonstrate how the technology can be better than the status-quo. Some of this is already going on and I applaud that. I believe someone who is *invested* in the project, either because they designed part of a machine or because they have friends who are involved, will be a candidate to take the project to the next level and actually implement the OSE vision.

" "I have 5 years experience in engineering, some programming and database skill, and project management experience.

I could volunteer 10-20 hours per week." "I'm particularly interested in the solar collector. I want to dig deeper on that.

" "If I find someone who is interested, I will let you know." "Denver, Colorado, USA" 1

= Cynthia Cowgill =
COWGILLRC@GMAIL.COM
"DO NOT KNOW, BUT I AM WILLING TO EXPERIMENT AND TRY THINGS OUT. I AM WORKING AS A PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEER IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC FOR NEXT 27 MONTHS" "NO, JUST HEARD OF IT TODAY ON NPR" I AM IN TRAINING TO BE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATOR/COMMUNITY GARDEN LEADER. ALSO HAVE 18 YEARS TEACHING EXPERIENCE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. My husband would like to get involved but also is committed to Peace Corps for next 27 months. He is doing appropriate technology so will be building/brainstorming/designing what is needed in the Dominican Republic. Perhaps we will keep in contact with OSE when we have internet connection. "Mokelumne Hill, California" 1

= ken morton =
"From the outside it looks as if the biggest need is for a better organizational structure and planning. One thing I have noticed over the years is that the Beehag (big hairy audacious goals) do not get met on time. I am thinking that FeF might be more productive in the long run by setting more manageable goals. I understand the desire and need to push oneself along, but I think that having overly zealous goals might actually be counterproductive. Also, Marcin has been capitalizing on his many strengths for years, but like everyone else he probably has weaknesses too. As the project mushrooms he may be thrust into new roles where his natural gifts may not be sufficient; he really needs to get the right management team that he can work with and that can complement/coach him.

More specifically, for the tractor and ceb press, I would like to see performance data of these items from an independent evaluator. I have been following the development of these two items for years and very much want them to hit the big time. I want to use them myself. With LIfetrac 4 they are beginning to deal with issues such as safety, better wheels and loader arm, etc. However, at the same time that I am getting closer to actually plunking down the money or writing grants to get the money, I am having questions such as: Can the tractor blade dig down and remove the topsoil so you can get to the subsoil needed for blocks? (They used a bobcat for this last fall because the tractor was still not ready for prime time). What started out to be a tractor has become a skid-steer loader with rear-mount motors that block vision: can it still be used as a farm tractor? What about the noise level with two power cubes running? Are the ceb in the videos the best that the press can do? (Size was not always uniform and some did not seem to be well pressed--though the latter may have been because the soil was too wet and they were in a hurry.) I think I saw somewhere on the site that they are thinking of doing a redesign of the ceb press. If so, will/can they make provision for interlocking blocks, rebar, and/or can they make stabilized blocks?
I do not have the skills that are currently needed but am thinking that in 2013 I may be able to make a dedicated project visit. I would want to see/use the tractor and ceb press before buying one; by 2013 there may be a need for other skills at FeF that I could provide. " true fan--about # 120. when i retire (2013?) i want to start building houses for poor people. I also want the tractor and ceb to do some work on my place. can't do much until after retirement. "Jefferson City, Tennessee" 1

= Dani Eder =
"Needed most: better distribution of the work and communication. It is too centralized and closed to be a proper open source project.

Willing to do: help organize regional groups

Experience: Many years with a non-profit educational group with local chapters." "Not officially, but have been building prototype hardware and adding to wiki documentation." "No life challenges, I'm retired. I would like to further the development of open source hardware." "Overly centralized work right now with lack of communication is stifling new members joining. Without more people, the goal of finishing the GVCS within a year or two will not be met. Failing to meet over-ambitious schedule risks labeling the whole project as a failure." "Retired aerospace engineer, have been study manager/lead engineer, so I know how to work with other people on a technical project. Have written many engineering documents and manuals." "Well, already involved. My goal is to aquire land near Atlanta that can be developed as a community farm and workshop, since making a sustainable technology ecosystem is more than one person can reasonably manage on their own." Nope. "Atlanta, Georgia" 1

= Dan Chay =
danchay@gmail.com
"Marcin needs to use ""We"" more than ""I"" in his interactions (e.g., TED talk). Even if his ego isn't interfering as might be inferred, it's a pragmatic leadership thing to do if he wants to build a movement." I'm a regularly returning lurker assessing a future role. "Modular construction, modern fabrication, and agile development are all tools I could better internalize. Long-term, we're thinking of a variation on factor e farm." "I'm eager to see this work. I'm most concerned that in the scaling, interpersonal stresses might overwhelm constructive organizational development. Solution: cultivate self-awareness, trustworthy behavior, respectful, courteous interactions, distributed leadership, and interest-based interpersonal problem-solving." I'm not in a position to make an offer at this time. "Reading, watching, learning, and occasional feedback." "I have been actively making referrals to this project, and will continue to do so." "Kenai, Alaska" 1

= Josh P =
pedsrn007@gmail.com
Do you have a plan for comprehensive healthcare for your community once it is built?
"Is it sustainable? Will there be additional social infrastructure to support sustainability and growth? Or, are you simply trying to kickstart this community/business along with others like it and assume the social infrastructure will follow?

I feel this is very important to address (sustainability after the community is developed)" "knoxville, Tennessee" 1

= Tom =

"Helping Island communities (Pacific Island communtites/villages in Fiji, Tonga, Samoa etc)rebuild after natural disasters " "Auckland, New Zealand" 1

= Rich =
"Rockton, IL" 1

= tom bamford =
t.bamford1@gmail.com "Whitehorse, Yukon, Canda" 1

= Mark Axhorn =
m_axhorn@hotmail.com Exposure... I'm willing commit time and energy for this great cause. I have a background in the Visual Arts and Social Work. I've taking 3 yrs of University Business courses and graduated with a degree in Human Behaviour. No "

Exposure... I'm willing commit time and energy for this great cause. I have a background in the Visual Arts and Social Work. I've taking 3 yrs of University Business courses and graduated with a degree in Human Behaviour.
I face the burden of being raised in a culture of consumption and waste. To quote David Suzuki - We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit. - I want to be more present in my life and to use another quote – Be the change I want to see- I have been doing informal research on getting back to the land and Social Change for years.
In the short term you will give me fuel for my dreams. In the long term you will provide with the blueprints to transition my dreams to a reality of my creation. It is very encouraging to find others who think as I do. I feel that we need to hit the reset button and we could be the catalyst to that.
" I need you guys to succeed and for it to be replicated all over the world proving that it is possible. Solution: Do not deviate from the mechanical Best practices and begin add another layer of Social Best Practices. " My name is Mark Axhorn (only person of this name in the world) I am a 36 yr old married male, born and raised in Alberta, living in Nova Scotia for the past 10 yrs. I went to University on a Football scholarship and graduated with a BA in Sociology. I then did a 2 yr internship in Aboriginal Visual Arts Administration at The Banff Centre of Continuing Education, where I was also an artist in residence (Printmaking, Ceramic sculpture and limited bronze sculpture). I have worked over 12 years in the security & bar industry the vast majority of it being stage security for live venues and large outdoor events. I worked several years for the province of Nova Scotia as an income assistance (welfare) case manager with transient (homeless males). I am currently working as an Employment Services Case manager with the Province. I have had many jobs such as short stints in the oil field, dock yards and mud jacking. I one of those jacks of all trades...if I see you do it I can do it do. I do not know what I could commit to at this time but am not looking for a paid position." "Spreading the awareness of the project.

Making myself avaliable online to the project.

I maybe able to visit the project site on a Arts Grant. " Not yet but maybe in the future. Canadain Arts Grants. Get any Canadians you have working on the project to apply to art grants. It seems to me that you are set up to have a artist in residence specializing in metal work or ceramics. I have experience applying for Arts Grants and adjudicating Arts for residencies. No "New Glasgow, Nova Scotia" 1

= jim daniels =

jdaniels@siumed.edu "test site 160 acre farm close to you.wife retired attorney,started areas first csa 4 years ago now have industrial grade greenhouse,using susainable ag.we are converting land from row crop back to natural habitat ,vegies etc...I teach at SIU school of medicine (background in rural family med,public health) currently wotrk at office with medical home model ..want to eventually link young people up with older generation farmers to learn lost skills of sustainable ag...I have public speaking skills and some mechanical skills " no "we already have built a few structures on the farm but idea is to eventually link up with local university to act as an"" incubator"" site for sustainable ag teach 360 degree skills to run sustainable farm ..in our opinion this has great effect on both individual and group health..our first project before the greenhouse was to build a structure for meetings and to house visitors this summer we are building an industrial outdoor brick oven,over next 5-10 years develop site to be a multi functioning farm/learning center your ""tool"" box would be a way cooler way to do this than using standard equipment " time and energy ..my wife Kate is devoting almost a full time effort ..my day job supports things ....I will one day transition but right now it is people power that we need ..she is president of WISAS western Illinois sustainable ag society so we have tapped into local like minded farmers and we have worked with the local community college..we even had an intern last summer "as noted above we need no pay will volunteer...what about building one or more of your tools by partnering with local community college..classes work shops etc our farm could be a test site to not only teach how to build the projects but we could then use these to farm,and construct building etc that would in turn be used to teach and expand the project" 1 get plans for your tools 2talk to local community college about this idea3 draw up a budget "as above my wife ,farmers from WISAS,I have a few freids with outstanding skills ie mason,electrician,carpenter,welder etc" "Marian Gradner Foundation,local community foundations great river comminity foundation,john wood comminity college" "I have written grants for medical education (500,ooo) there are some full time grant writers in our area though who have gotten good results ..our community just recieved onof the big Kroc grants to build a large commuinty center" my wife Kate "Quincy, Illinois" 1

= Jozef Trubac =
jozeftrubac@gmail.com "I already took the survey once so take this like update. I am an it guy so I hesitated to offer you help. I worked so far 4 years like system administrator. my skills are covering network, servers and clients configuration, management, monitoring, troubleshooting and optimizing. I am not a programmer but I can script some things. so if you think I can help you somehow just let me know anytime." 1

= Frederick Wibe =
frederick.c.wibe@gmail.com "One of the greatest challenges right now, as I see it, is to spread and explain the idea of Open Source Ecology in such a way that a majority of ""ordinary"" peoples receives it and understands it. And also to illustrate why OSE, as it stands, is the best solution for many of our biggest world problems but also for the many everyday problems that an ordinary person suffers from in this current system. We need to do this because for this to work optimal we need to raise public awareness to be able to recruit the most qualified people

I'm willing to commit my time to this project by creating a short film defining and explaining the current problems, explaining OSE and why it's a valid solution in such a good way that it hopefully gets viral. I qualified because I've worked 5 years in the Swedish movie industry (you can IMDB me), I am a skilled director, editor and a screenplay writer. I'm currently 3 month from completing my medical studies (the movie industry was killing my soul) and have a lot of useful experience through my education." I'm a true fan. "Short term... I think your work addresses my growing distress of seeing allot of problems in society , ranging from physical to psychological, that grows from a system with no humanitarian purpose.
Long term... I'm hopping you will be a solution for those problems." "I have tried to show people existing videos of OSE but most people doesn't ""get"" it. Currently you have to devote a certain amount of time to understand the concept. I propose a holistic explanatory short-film that hopefully makes the general public aware of this great project.

" See above. As a volunteer a could commit maybe 1-2 hours per day. For pay I could commit full-time for a limited period. "Stockholm, Sweden" 1

= Joel Kennington =
jdkennington@gmail.com One of the bigest tasks is to bring these iniciatives to the poor to thouse who truely need them. I can also I draw in sketchup and can help. Forum member only Construction equipment The procedure for incorporating it in to the third world. "Multicutural and multilingual, " "Keep reading or wathching. This is almost like a TV show for me. I check dayily.
Redraw for documentation.
Work on a concrete mixer. " "Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico" 1

= Jason =
nope
Home-based energy production
"Niagara Falls, New York"
1

= Evan Bell =
evan.t.bell@gmail.com
"Program/Project management, leadership, and community building." "True Fan for 6 Months, followed blog and wiki carefully last 2+ years. Occasionally posts to forum." "Short term - Satisfying practical contribution to issues that concern me
Long term - give access to industrial means of production, provide another option instead of wage slavery. " "Marcin is not a skilled leader of people, does not understand how to make concessions, prioritize, delegate responsibility effectively and detach himself from overall goals of OSE to further the 'cause' and build a community. Many unfortunate incidents could have been avoided.

HOWEVER, it does appear he is getting much better at this and may end up surprising naysayers. If he matures into the role of a visionary leader, not only a rabid dictator with a 'my way or the highway' mentality, then his dream of massive parallel production is possible. " "Nothing right now, I work as a web analyst and project manager that keeps me very busy. Would like to come do a dedicated project visit in the spring or summer of 2013 potentially." "Post on forum - not read by OSE leadership
Post on wiki - no process/governance for contributions
Publicize - no process/governance for grassroots PR, outreach" "Someone who can make better decisions, admit that they are wrong, and collaborate better." "Toronto, Ontario" 1

= Sandra Hunt =
sandrah.hunt@gmail.com
"Inspired teachers where teaching all students is more important than pay or personal benefits.I am a teacher who specializes in working with children not covered by current education systems due to language learning problems. High intellegence children who cannot demoonstrate that intellegence in a written language form." No I am disabled and my students must come to me. I am not sure how your project really works but am interested. I need more information "Kirkland, Washington" 1

= Phil Koontz =
phil.koontz@gmail.com
"A renewable fuel/energy supply. Local technology for producing power. Better energy efficiency to the point that very little or no fossil fuel is required. You get the idea. Efficiency and conservation first.

Note some of the big preliminary assumptions the project makes--money and resources are readily available but not developed (consider the odds of someone owning farmland but no tractor for example--or a full machine and metal-fab shop but with no projects to work on). " No. "Might try to work up something similar to the micro-tractor, starting from a 13 hp hydraulic system I have on a log splitter.

Long term, off the grid homesteading and zero energy housing. " "Although I'm entirely in favor of the concept of open source, DIY technology, I see a lot of re-inventing the wheel. The tractor, for example--very similar to a Bobcat, but without the depth of research, technical expertise, longevity, reliability, and maintainability that comes with an established commercial product. The engine is a consumer grade two cylinder instead of, say, an nice little diesel. The steel tube frames and ad-hoc bearings will probably be maintenance problems in the long term. I would rather spend the time and money on a good ole tractor instead of building one. Just me--" "I'm slow, but I started on this path about 30 years ago. Our family has a multi-generation community coming along, harvesting trees, milling our own lumber and building with logs. I have a decent little machine shop, my son has the auto mechanic shop, and we both do woodworking with hand tools. My daughter in law keeps chickens and has a small truck farm in progress.

All of this is in remote Alaska, on the bank of the Yukon River. " "Well, let's see--I would like to take a shot at a few of the projects. The micro tractor and forge press, plus maybe a steam engine.

I have a nice big lathe (14.5"" swing), and some backgroung with engineering thermo and steam.

I want to do some metal casting one of these days, probably brass and aluminum to start with.

I'm closely involved in a local biomass district heating and CHP (combined heat and power) project to provide heat for our local boarding school and possibly power for the local electrical utililty. " "Galena, Alaska" 1

= Zoltan Farkas =
zoltan.farkas@brendan-research.eu
"Most needed: field tests. Given a set of constrains (eg. no access to fertilizers and/or pesticides, limited water resources, etc) provide field tests on what can be achieved in terms of sustainable ecology = how many people can we feed from a given piece of arable land. Another item: open source health care - how to cure now common diseases without access to modern medicines.

Willing to commit: actual field tests on my own land, translations of knowledge base to/from English/Hungarian, any IT related help, evangelization.

Experience: my own experiments on poultry, fruits, horses (as in ""horsepower"", taken literally :-), plus IT skills - I'm in the process of setting up a Hungarian OSE-like portal; that's how I found this website." not yet. "<1 year: better ""parametrization"" of my experiments, community building.
5+years: I'm afraid, I will have to eat my ""dog food"", experiments will turn ito everyday practice, and not on a voluntary basis." "Creating either a common subset of skills (tech+agriculture+science) for individuals and/or setting up teams/communities to share the tasks & cooperate. In other word, the human factor." "I started my ""experiments"" a couple of years ago, so I have some ""professional"" background. I also have experiences on the human factor mentioned above. I have my own piece of land dedicated to this purpose, have a small team of various professionals (vet, agr. engineer, two experts on herbs and bio-pesticides, a good mechanic, etc), all actually working on OSE related topics. Plus, I'm originally an IT engineer and I'm interested in automation of various agricultural processes, such as irrigation, feeding (poultry), etc, all with embedded, open source systems. If needed I can help with generic IT issues as well." "1. Tool development/testing related to agriculture (hay cutter, microcombine, etc)
2. IT related stuff such as automation, remote control, remote monitoring, etc.
3. Localization of documentation." "not yet, most probably at a later stage." "In Hungary EU structural funds are available for such projects, as well as the new resources from the Norwegian Fund. These need well - written proposals in which I have some local experts to help with. " "Local only (Hungary, Romania, Croatia)." n/a. "Veszprem, Hungary" 1

= Raymond Blec =
raybelec@hotmail.com
"I am a red seal general machinist with 25 years experience. I work as a cnc programmer/machinist with a mining equipment manufacturer. I also have a home based tool and die shop. I own a lathe, milling machine,surface grinder and metal casting and heat treating oven. I am interested in buiding parts"
"I an not yet affliated wit OSE. I just learned about OSE on cbc radio.
"I would like tobuild parts and send them to OSE.
"join a development team design and build prototypes share skills and knowlege"
"Chaput Hughes, Ontario, Canada" 1

= CSTeacher =
"This has nothing to do with the actual deliverables, but I think that what is most needed is prayer - prayers for guidance, prayers to find the right people to work on the projects, prayers for discernment regarding technology and its use. I am willing to work to address this need. I will write letters and contact any and all missionary organizations and religious organizations I can find to ask for prayer support and to request them to publicize the efforts amongst both those who can use the technology and those who might be able to contribute their knowledge. I also think the project needs visibility in Mexico, Central and South America, and India. All of these places have educated people highly interested in the goals of this project. I think there are universities and farmer cooperatives in these areas that would be willing to make some of the prototypes. The more diverse the group of thinkers, the sounder the tools will be. I and my coworkers have contacts in Honduras (farmer cooperative), Costa Rica (EARTH University), and Mexico (Monterrey Tech) that could help spread the word.
" No. "Just knowledge of real time systems software that I can offer during the summer as a volunteer. Most likely, I could work on support documentation and publicity. " "1) Recruit prayer support from and publicize project to every imaginable religous group I can find.
2) Publicize the effort (and the needs) to local universities' engineering departments
3) Through contacts at my school, try to get out the word in other countries.
" My uncle developed motors for a living and is a futurist. I will send him the info on the program. I hope he would be excited enough to want to help. http://www.gatesfoundation.org/grantseeker/Pages/funding-agricultural-development.aspx "Dallas, Texas" 1

= Travis Boyd =
travis@wallowavalley.net
"I think that what's needed most, is what Marcin is working on now - scaling the organization to gracefully handle the increased funding. The open-source community will take care of the actual tech development, but it's like herding cats. It's critical to develop a structure to properly channel the interest, and organize the results.

I'd also like to see more work on modern farming techniques - permaculture / aquaculture/ponics, agroforestry, swaling, water retention and recirculation, and so-on. " No. "In Wallowa County, a low income base and the demise of the timber industry have left people dependant on tourism and small-scale farming. Food security is very important to us, as is bringing as much of the means of production into local hands as possible.

" "We have a whole valley full of tradesmen & artisans, farmers who still remember how to plow with oxen, loggers who use horse teams, a functional steam railroad and a rapidly growing base of solar-powered infrastructure, micro-hydro installations, and much more.

We have a blacksmith who intends to replicate the ironworker, and the induction furnace, farmers eyeing the Lifetrac and powercubes, and the potential for lots more.

I myself am a full-time wireless ISP operator (wallowavalley.net), but have interest in aquaculture and am eagerly awaiting the ability to produce plastic panels from local materials for greenhouse use.

" "I would like to put your organization in touch with a local non-profit, Wallowa Resources. They have some experience in working with rural populations, solar/hydro/biomass, landscape stewardship, watershed restoration and more.

Feel free to reach out to them on your own - www.wallowaresources.org

" "Blacksmiths, potters, small-holding farmers, several CSAs, the local high schools would love to build USEful things in their shop classes, believe me we have quite a list of interested folks.

" "Have you contacted the NRCS, FHA and USDA? " Sarah Skaar or Matthew King - matt@wallowaresources.org - they might have some useful information or contacts. "Enterprise, Oregon" 1

= Wesley Bruce =
wesleybruce@grapevine.com.au
"Adding occupational health and safety criteria to all design stages. Just in case.
Adjusting the project subsystems to the differing bio-regional problems. I.E. flood resistant lifetrack in flood zones.
Qualifications: Many years studying renewables and Cold Fusion, including a Bachelor of Science sustainable development, industrial ecology, and Sustainable agriculture, Permaculture certificate.
Adapting to operations on mars and beyond. That sounds hard but its not. " Email and editing a few pages. Too far away for hands on help. "Not many. My day job is unrelated to the project. I don't believe we will need the OSE to rebuild from economic or military collapse but it will help in the third world and remote Australia where dis-economies of scale play a part in blocking development.
5+ years someone will be making a variant of lifetrack on mars. Shipping billion dollar spanners to Mars is not viable. OSE will work over there. That's not the priority though. The third world is. " "In the light of the current economic crisis, which will get worse, we need to keep funding demands to a minimum. Don't rush into big builds even if you think the funds are promised and watch out for bank default where the organisation has its money. " "Studied appropriate technology and high technology together. have a comprehensive training in integrated energy and systems design but I'm not a greenhouse fanatic. Studies how to use crops for both food and fuel at once. Need to link up with builders and testers to refine some solutions.
I don't have a lab or workshop I can access. " "Created new pages on various energy and material options.
spell checked a few pages and added links.
Looking at OS boat options and marinizing power cube.
Adding new crops to the mix, particularly for non temperate areas, currently not well covered.

" No not at this time. "NASA, the NSS or the Mars Society may cover some of your designs because any Moon, Mars or asteroid mission will need a variant of OSE and its a waste of their money and time reinventing the wheel. In the case of some of the hardware adaptation of OSE to Mars would save them many steps in the design process. Any colony out there must build with what's there in terms of resources. " No. No. "Canberra, Australia" 1

= Brandin Watson =
brandin@gmail.com
"Need effective designs for the core machines and a free or affordable CAD program that can translate to and from existing proprietary programs would be a big help.

I have a few existing skills but I am currently studying manufacturing engineering in school which should be a big help down the road.

I don't think that it is a priority machine but I have experience with water well drilling and so I am particularly interested in that project and could probably already do a lot of the design engineering." True Fan. Helped out with Buckminster Fuller Challenge entry a while back. Spreading the word. Always looking out for ways to benefit OSE. I am currently starting up a hackerspace and I want to have a strong fabrication and machining element. OSE tools would lower the barrier to entry. "As designs branch off from each other, I am afraid that some best practices may get lost in the noise.

There should probably be a single library for people to deposit their design changes and justifications at. There should also be a way for people to rank design decisions for when the libraries become bulky." "I am a big picture guy that can understand potential markets for OSE. I am also developing a decent comprehension of engineering fundamentals, especially in regards to modern manufacturing processes.

I have strong leadership skills and I am good at building organizations.

My time at the moment is very limited due to school and also because I am working to get a hackerspace off the ground.

I could could work over the summers for a stipend that is enough to pay the bills." "Pomona, California" 1

= John B =
wm041148@live.ca "Toronto, Ontario, Canada" 1

= ian uber =
ianuber39@gmail.com
simple hand tools
no
"food production, energy production"
"ballarat, victoria, Australia" 1

= Alexandre Nault =
alex@naultbogue.com "Rimouski, Québec, Canada" 1

= Kurt Belser =
thewingnuttery@gmail.com
"Appropriate scale machinery for farms to process what they grow into value added products to increase sales and net income of what they grow. I am a beginning farmer. I plan on growing nuts in a silvopasture system with a couple other folks who are focusing on other products (i.e. medicinal herbs, goats, chickens, pigs, etc...). I made the decision a few years back to start the processing end of the nut business before having land due to the abundance of black walnut and hickory nuts in the wild in our area. We have received a grant (another pending) to research on farm processing of such products. Due to the specialized and centralized nature of the food processing industry, it is extremely hard to find machinery that is of an appropriate scale, effective and affordable for the scale at which small farms can operate. We have reached a point in our society where we have lost a lot of knowledge around regional processing of the products that our regions produce. One of the biggest missing links in the processing of any product is the separation of waste materials from the product your are looking to sell. Optical sorters came onto the market only recently but have become all the craze for almost any sorting application. The problem for people like us is that most start at $150,000. The industry is not making these sorters at a scale that is attuned to the small farmer. This also makes it extremely hard to compete as a small farmer with big industry, because they have access to machines that produce a far superior product.
Part of our grant was to try and find machinery that was widely applicable for all the various nuts we would grow/buy from local landowners (i.e. chestnuts, hazelnuts, walnuts, and hickories). This has been a somewhat successful endeavor. We have had leads, such as the optical sorters that seem appealing given that with minor adjustments these machines could sort almost anything that could come from our farm (medicinal herbs, nuts, veggies, feed, etc...), but again the scale and cost of these machines has made that impossible to justify as an expense.
The experience I bring to the table is that have a great understanding of farm production and will be actively farming on a scale that is needed, environmentally sound and economically appropriate. My position in the local food movement is unique in that I have also been trying to figure out (via grant funding) how I would eventually bring the staple foods that are not yet apart of local food economies to our markets, restaurants and so much more." No. I have simply been an active listener and reader of yalls stuff. "Short Term: developing strategy for regionally appropriate and environmentally sound niche farms to get their products to market in an affordable way that competes with the centralized large scale models of the processing industry.
Long Term: develop machinery that is multifunction for various processing functions and products for regionally scaled individual farms or co-ops." "I am most concerned about the relationship yall have with the needs of the farming community. I believe that demographic, which I represent needs a voice in helping yall fill the gaps we face. I propose that we actively engage more people in this demographic and glean knowledge from them." "If yall are as excited about research, development and implementation of things related to what I am talking about, I would gladly bring myself to the table. Of course all the research I have done thus far with the current grant I have and the pending one is open source. Although it is attuned to nut processing I work closely with other farmers and producers who have found this research applicable or useful. As I mentioned before I, and my collective will be actively farming for a living which gives us a unique perspective in the community. I have written many grants, of which I received my first this past year and am waiting on another.
Given my economic situation I do need some sort of compensation if I am to be actively involved (farmers do not make a livable wage as it is nor have all that much spare time)." "Any of the other members of our collective, who will also be farming (producing different products but also need to figure out how they will process them into a end product). We represent a wide range of expertise (i.e. welding, computer skills and repair, construction, carpentry, plant management, permaculture, animal husbandry, teaching, grant writing, etc...)." SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education). USDA (specifically the value added producers grants or rural development grants). myself "Athens, Ohio" 1

Team Wikispeed

2012-02-23T19:11:54Z

TriSimon: Added Email Lists to "Tools" and Team Trust and Contract First Development to "Principles"

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

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

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

For clarity, and because I wasn't clear on this point until I researched it, it is important to point out that Team Wikispeed was eliminated in the first round of on-location testing at the X-Prize competition. "Without even bothering to look at the finite element analysis and computational fluid dynamics Justice had brought as proof of his design’s validity, the inspector rejected the car outright. Justice felt like he’d been slapped in the face. “It was like fireworks going off in my cheeks,” he says. “This is something I’ve had a whole lot of design input into, and this one person is saying, ‘This isn’t good enough.’...Rather than spending hours pulling apart the SGT01 to get to the suspension, the team simply unbolted the body, removed the suspension module, and began fabricating a new one. They got it done, too, just in time. The only problem was that as they finished, minutes before the deadline, Justice and another team member cut a wire in the electrical system. The car wouldn’t start, and Wikispeed’s run for the X Prize was done. They finished in a tie for 10th in their division." [http://www.seattlemet.com/issues/archives/articles/wikispeeds-100-mpg-car-january-2011/3/ article]

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

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

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

==Keynote American Council of Engineering Companies==
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==Summary: Scrum Gathering in Seattle==
<html><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed//pjempylJy1w" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

This is a summary of the talk:
===History===
* Initial Goal: build the lightest chassis.
* Share on the blog
** asked silly and nerdy questions
* passes technical deliverables for the [http://www.xprize.org/ X prize].
** became finalist to compete with 136 cars, most of them funded by millions of dollars
** iterating the car at the race track, inspired a higher driver of a team competing against WikiSpeed to spend a lot of time hanging out with the Team.
** got 10th place.
** Received several tens of thousands of dollars in road legal certification and testing.
** Press
* Team grew: 56 members in 6 countries.

===Learned===

* Contract-first Design: by Modules.
** Suspension - changed for 10 minutes - adjustable in caster, tow?, camber, wheel-base and track, individually per wheel.
** Interior in the race car version - aluminum bathtub that lifts out. The 4-seat interior for the contest can be easily exchanged with the 2-seat interior for testing.
** Engine - at the back of the car. The entire Power Train, with its transmission, fuel tank and cooling system can be rolled out in the time it takes to change a tire while it is running. This let us have one engine on the test bench being evaluated and another engine in the car doing testing, bring the car, switch the engines, test the other one - able to develop and test engines independently of each other.
** Chassis - all other modules connect to. Side, front, front impact. Peak stress. Our entire car absorbs the weight. 5 star crash rating equivalence.
** Car Body - cut foam with CNC machine from a CAD design, sand it, (70 volunteers in 6 countries in multiple locations)
*** from Structural Carbon Fiber (normally used in airspace and exotic automobiles) was really expensive, but the material itself wasn't expensive, but the knowledge how to use it was. So Joe Justice went to composite school for few weeks and then they built the carbon fiber body for $800 in 3 days (body would cost $36,000 in 3 months time with traditional manufacturing techniques).
* Went to [http://www.naias.com/ North American International Auto Show] - put WikiSpeed on the main floor between Ford and Chevrolet. Met the creator of the car body, Rob Mohrbacher of http://mohrcomposites.com from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germantown,_Montgomery_County,_Maryland Germantown, Maryland].

===How - Agile and Scrum===

* Weekly stand-up meetings
* prioritized backlogs
* and demos

====Tools====
* FreeConferenceCall - for stand-up meeting
** What I did, what I will do, what is blocking me
* Skype free
* Google Groups - up-to-date daily, pictures, updates, backlog from a Google Doc
* Google Docs - documents collaboration
** Trust the Team. It is versioned - who changed, what when. Can be reverted.
* Avoid planning more than 2 weeks out - we learn so fast that things change what we will do next
* Facebook and LinkedIn for team and public status updates.
** don't repeat information sharing.
* DropBox and SkyDrive for sharing large files
* Youtube to share videos
* Scrumy - online project management tool loosely based on Scrum.
* LibreCAD - open source CAD for Windows, Apple, Linux
* Email Lists
** Always Reply All to approximate being in a Scrum room. Allows distributed team to skim emails and be appraised of the current state of the project.<ref>http://futureofprojectmanagement.com/2011/12/02/joe-justice-built-a-100mpg-car-using-principles-of-agile-lean-and-scrum-how-did-he-do-it/</ref>

====Principles - What worked well====
* By minimizing cost of making change we innovate quickly. Changes in team members, changes in goals, changes in machinery, changes materials.
* By loosely coupling modules, we make changes in parallel.
** E.g. split the car into its component modules. Have people working on the suspension system, drive train, emission system, headlights, electronic control mechanism, all in parallel.
** Modularity: Interior module, Chasses, Pedal Plate, Front Crush Structure, Suspension Module, Engine, Transmission, Fuel System, Emission System, Fuel Injection System, Breaking system.
** When we started designing the car, we didn't know how the chassey would end up being like, we didn't know what type of drive train, type of suspension, we will be using. So what we wanted to do is to reduce the cost to make change between those parts. So we architect a contract - the way these modules will talk to each other and hold together in a structural way and the way they communicate.
* By working collaboratively and in shared space we unblock quickly.
** E.g. everytime we had a blocking issues the team was able to bulldoze it that same day. Pairing and Swarming worked very well.
* By first automating test we quickly know if we improved. (Test-driven manufacturing)
** Example
*** 100mpg on a highway cycle
*** etc.
** When changes came we quickly knew whether we moved entirely forward, or moved forward on a few fronts, but actually backed on to other fronts. So we had to quickly kill work that would have been actually damaging and thus we were moving forward very fast.
* Test our success criteria - everyone cared about the metrics!
* Team morale (motivation) is a multiplyer for velocity.
** Make sure people are never or rarely frustrated and that they are get to share successes. Celebrating every iteration.
* Team trust is empowering
** Question access restrictions on documents, avoid group subjugation. Empowerment keeps velocity high.
* Single Backlog - all prioritized tasks are visible and in one place

====Modular Inventory====
* Whenever possible tools are visually next to their consumables.
* Fewest possible categories always inside of each other (See everything from where you stand)
* Minimize time spent doing anything but creative problem solving.

====From Software====
* Agile - reduse cost to make change and iterative development
* Test-Driven Design - tester and manufacturing
* XP - pairing and swarming
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development) Scrum] - almost everything. Clearly defined roles and responsibilities.
* OOP - clearly defined modules, classes and interfaces
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_(development) Kanban] - work in progress limits, not to overload people.
* Contract First Development - Define precise and verifiable component interface specifications.

====Wikispeed Future Developments====
* Making a family car
* Developing a truck

=Next Step in History=

Assessment: car is highly [[OSE Specifications]] compliant. OSE should determine desirability of adaptation of this design as the [[Open Source Automobile]]

=References=
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Open Source Automobile]]

Simon Walter-Hansen/Projects

2012-02-23T01:30:12Z

TriSimon: Added DVD v0.01 project proposal

This page is to list my OSE project involvement

= CSK DVD v0.01 =
====Project Goal====
Complete Civilization Starter Kit DVD v0.01
====Time Frame====
Feb 18th - Mar 5th.
====Deliverables====
* Downloadable .iso
* hard-copy DVD
* DVD fulfillment service set-up

==Needs==
* Download content of sourceopen.org from archive.org for posterity (''Pending'')
* Edit raw video footage here: http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/CEB_Press_Fabrication_videos (''Feb 19'')
* Receive deliverables from:
** Mike Doty (''Feb 27 - Mar 5'')
** Matt Maier (''Feb 26'')
* Connect with Roger Olson, Casey Foster, and Daniel Worth regarding commitments. (''Feb 16 - Feb 22'')
** Receive deliverables (''Feb 18 - Mar 5'')
** On regrets:
*** Locate & Contact alternate contributors (''Feb 18 - Feb 22'')
*** Reallocate commitments (''Feb 23'')
* Download PDF plans for all tools from MakeProject (''Feb 19'')
* Download CEB Press solenoid driver playlist from YouTube. (''Feb 19'')
** Edit into comprehensive video (''Feb 19'')
* Proof-read CSK v0.01 content (''Feb 20 - Feb 22'')
* Format CSK v0.01 layout for clarity, consistency, and usability (have added navigation to CSK ToC for most pages) (''Feb 20 - Feb 24'')
* Test viewing of content from DVD/.iso without internet access (''Mar 4'')
* Compress .iso for upload (''Mar 5'')
* Upload .iso to Trepstar for production (''Mar 5'')
* Upload .iso for distribution on OpenSourceEcology.org (''Mar 5'')
** Determine host(s) and mirrors for .iso (''Feb 19 - Mar 4'')
* Obtain OSE/GVCS graphics (''Feb 19 - Feb 27'')
** Generate graphics file for DVD surface and DVD sleeve (''Feb 27'')
* Order test copies of "economy" DVD to evaluate product quality (''Feb 27'') - Completing a test batch before v0.01 GM ensures quicker delivery when v0.01 goes GM.
* Create an order page for CSK DVD v0.01 (''Feb 19 - Mar 5'')
* Create/assign task of uploading order spreadsheet to Trepstar (''Mar 1 - Mar 5'')

= Wiki Re-structuring =
* Request for collaboration

= Gasifier Burning =
* Request for documenting

Team Wikispeed

2012-02-23T01:06:13Z

TriSimon: Added two pieces of software mentioned in presentation video

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

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

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

For clarity, and because I wasn't clear on this point until I researched it, it is important to point out that Team Wikispeed was eliminated in the first round of on-location testing at the X-Prize competition. "Without even bothering to look at the finite element analysis and computational fluid dynamics Justice had brought as proof of his design’s validity, the inspector rejected the car outright. Justice felt like he’d been slapped in the face. “It was like fireworks going off in my cheeks,” he says. “This is something I’ve had a whole lot of design input into, and this one person is saying, ‘This isn’t good enough.’...Rather than spending hours pulling apart the SGT01 to get to the suspension, the team simply unbolted the body, removed the suspension module, and began fabricating a new one. They got it done, too, just in time. The only problem was that as they finished, minutes before the deadline, Justice and another team member cut a wire in the electrical system. The car wouldn’t start, and Wikispeed’s run for the X Prize was done. They finished in a tie for 10th in their division." [http://www.seattlemet.com/issues/archives/articles/wikispeeds-100-mpg-car-january-2011/3/ article]

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

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

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

==Keynote American Council of Engineering Companies==
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==Summary: Scrum Gathering in Seattle==
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This is a summary of the talk:
===History===
* Initial Goal: build the lightest chassis.
* Share on the blog
** asked silly and nerdy questions
* passes technical deliverables for the [http://www.xprize.org/ X prize].
** became finalist to compete with 136 cars, most of them funded by millions of dollars
** iterating the car at the race track, inspired a higher driver of a team competing against WikiSpeed to spend a lot of time hanging out with the Team.
** got 10th place.
** Received several tens of thousands of dollars in road legal certification and testing.
** Press
* Team grew: 56 members in 6 countries.

===Learned===

* Contract-first Design: by Modules.
** Suspension - changed for 10 minutes - adjustable in caster, tow?, camber, wheel-base and track, individually per wheel.
** Interior in the race car version - aluminum bathtub that lifts out. The 4-seat interior for the contest can be easily exchanged with the 2-seat interior for testing.
** Engine - at the back of the car. The entire Power Train, with its transmission, fuel tank and cooling system can be rolled out in the time it takes to change a tire while it is running. This let us have one engine on the test bench being evaluated and another engine in the car doing testing, bring the car, switch the engines, test the other one - able to develop and test engines independently of each other.
** Chassis - all other modules connect to. Side, front, front impact. Peak stress. Our entire car absorbs the weight. 5 star crash rating equivalence.
** Car Body - cut foam with CNC machine from a CAD design, sand it, (70 volunteers in 6 countries in multiple locations)
*** from Structural Carbon Fiber (normally used in airspace and exotic automobiles) was really expensive, but the material itself wasn't expensive, but the knowledge how to use it was. So Joe Justice went to composite school for few weeks and then they built the carbon fiber body for $800 in 3 days (body would cost $36,000 in 3 months time with traditional manufacturing techniques).
* Went to [http://www.naias.com/ North American International Auto Show] - put WikiSpeed on the main floor between Ford and Chevrolet. Met the creator of the car body, Rob Mohrbacher of http://mohrcomposites.com from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germantown,_Montgomery_County,_Maryland Germantown, Maryland].

===How - Agile and Scrum===

* Weekly stand-up meetings
* prioritized backlogs
* and demos

====Tools====
* FreeConferenceCall - for stand-up meeting
** What I did, what I will do, what is blocking me
* Skype free
* Google Groups - up-to-date daily, pictures, updates, backlog from a Google Doc
* Google Docs - documents collaboration
** Trust the Team. It is versioned - who changed, what when. Can be reverted.
* Avoid planning more than 2 weeks out - we learn so fast that things change what we will do next
* Facebook and LinkedIn for team and public status updates.
** don't repeat information sharing.
* DropBox and SkyDrive for sharing large files
* Youtube to share videos
* Scrumy - online project management tool loosely based on Scrum.
* LibreCAD - open source CAD for Windows, Apple, Linux

====Principles - What worked well====
* By minimizing cost of making change we innovate quickly. Changes in team members, changes in goals, changes in machinery, changes materials.
* By loosely coupling modules, we make changes in parallel.
** E.g. split the car into its component modules. Have people working on the suspension system, drive train, emission system, headlights, electronic control mechanism, all in parallel.
** Modularity: Interior module, Chasses, Pedal Plate, Front Crush Structure, Suspension Module, Engine, Transmission, Fuel System, Emission System, Fuel Injection System, Breaking system.
** When we started designing the car, we didn't know how the chassey would end up being like, we didn't know what type of drive train, type of suspension, we will be using. So what we wanted to do is to reduce the cost to make change between those parts. So we architect a contract - the way these modules will talk to each other and hold together in a structural way and the way they communicate.
* By working collaboratively and in shared space we unblock quickly.
** E.g. everytime we had a blocking issues the team was able to bulldoze it that same day. Pairing and Swarming worked very well.
* By first automating test we quickly know if we improved. (Test-driven manufacturing)
** Example
*** 100mpg on a highway cycle
*** etc.
** When changes came we quickly knew whether we moved entirely forward, or moved forward on a few fronts, but actually backed on to other fronts. So we had to quickly kill work that would have been actually damaging and thus we were moving forward very fast.
* Test our success criteria - everyone cared about the metrics!
* Team morale (motivation) is a multiplyer for velocity.
** Make sure people are never or rarely frustrated and that they are get to share successes. Celebrating every iteration.

====Modular Inventory====
* Whenever possible tools are visually next to their consumables.
* Fewest possible categories always inside of each other (See everything from where you stand)
* Minimize time spent doing anything but creative problem solving.

====From Software====
* Agile - reduse cost to make change and iterative development
* Test-Driven Design - tester and manufacturing
* XP - pairing and swarming
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development) Scrum] - almost everything. Clearly defined roles and responsibilities.
* OOP - clearly defined modules, classes and interfaces
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_(development) Kanban] - work in progress limits, not to overload people.

====Wikispeed Future Developments====
* Making a family car
* Developing a truck

=Next Step in History=

Assessment: car is highly [[OSE Specifications]] compliant. OSE should determine desirability of adaptation of this design as the [[Open Source Automobile]]

[[Category:Open Source Automobile]]

Simon Walter-Hansen/Log

2012-02-22T21:01:27Z

TriSimon: Updates for Feb 19th-22nd.

Daily tracking of my involvement at OSE

=2012=
==Februrary==
===22nd===
* Created [[Videoconferencing]] for defining cross-platform software available for utilization in Scrum management framework
* Replied to forum posts regarding open-source permaculture software, defining "modern" comforts.
===21st===
* Replied to Larry Dobson re: Gasifier Burner documentation
===20th===
* Watched Joe Justice videos on Scrum as applied to WIKISPEED development
* Replied to Aaron regarding wiki reorganization
* Read emails from Aaron regarding wiki reorganization
===19th===
* Skyped with Marcin Re: DVD progress, recruiting
===18th===
* Added timeline for completion of DVD v0.01 to [[Task_List_for_the_Civilization_Starter_Kit_DVD_v0.01|CSK Task List]]
* Emailed [[Aaron_Makaruk]] Re: Collaboration on Re-structuring wiki (CC: Mia Van Meter)
* Emailed [[Aaron_Tarfman]] Re: Generating fabrication drawings from CAD files. Response: Has capability and availability. Awaiting go ahead on Tractor and Power Cube.
* Emailed Larry_Dobson (lad@fundamentalform.com) re: Gasifier Burner Documentation
* Added timeline for meeting needs to [[Task_List_for_the_Civilization_Starter_Kit_DVD_v0.01|CSK Task List]]
* Added DVD v0.01 needs to [[Task_List_for_the_Civilization_Starter_Kit_DVD_v0.01|CSK Task List]]
* Skyped with Marcin regarding DVD v0.01 progress, proposal for completion, wiki organization, locating CAD contributors, CiviCRM
===17th===
* Visited [http://adxportland.com ADX Portland] as potential prototyping/fabrication space
===16th===
* Emailed contributors for unfinished DVD content
===15th===
* Created [[Simon_Walter-Hansen|Log]] page to track my OSE involvement
* Organizing CSK v0.01 wiki pages
===14th===
* Generated current needs for CSK DVD v0.01 production
* Downloaded CSK v0.01 videos for DVD production
===13th===
* Organized some CSK v0.01 wiki pages
* Downloaded some CSK v0.01 videos for DVD production
===11th===
* Downloaded CSK v0.01 wiki content for DVD production
===10th===
* Downloaded some Civilization Starter Kit (CSK) v0.01 wiki content for DVD production
* Skyped with Marcin regarding project involvement
===9th===
* Filmed Team Culturing Video
===7th===
* Posted Team Culturing Survey answers
[[Category:Logs]]

Videoconferencing

2012-02-22T20:51:30Z

TriSimon:

Videoconferencing is a way to connect multiple distributed parties via global communication networks to allow for video and audio exchanges between multiple parties simultaneously. This article is to describe what cross-platform software is currently available for cheap or free and their capabilities.

=Skype=
http://skype.com

Available for:
* Mac
* Windows
* linux
* Android (audio only in group video chat)
* iOS (audio only in group video chat)

Pricing:
* One-to-one video conferencing: free
* Unlimited audio conferencing: free
* More than two simultaneous video conferencing parties: $4.95/mo

=ooVoo=
http://oovoo.com

Available for:
* Mac
* Windows
* Android
* iOS
* Web-based

Pricing:
* Up to 6 simultanuous video conferencing parties: Free (with ads)
* Up to 6 simultanuous video conferencing parties: $9.95/mo (no ads)
* Up to 12 simultaneous video conferencing parties: $29.95/mo

=buzzumi.com=
https://buzzumi.com

Available for:
* Web-based

Pricing:
* Up to 6 simultaneous video conferencing parties: Free

''based on OpenTok API ''

=Expressway Flexchat=
http://videochatsoftware.ca/

Available for:
* Web-based (multiple rooms)

Pricing:
* Unlimited domain license: $300

=Notes=
Joe Justice promotes freeconferencecall.com, a web-based audio conferencing software, as used in Scrum project management of WIKISPEED.

[[Category:Communications]]
[[Category:Organization]]

Videoconferencing

2012-02-22T20:49:47Z

TriSimon:

Videoconferencing is a way to connect multiple distributed parties via global communication networks to allow for video and audio exchanges between multiple parties simultaneously. This article is to describe what cross-platform software is currently available for cheap or free and their capabilities.

=Skype=
http://skype.com

Available for:
* Mac
* Windows
* linux
* Android (audio only in group video chat)
* iOS (audio only in group video chat)

Pricing:
* One-to-one video conferencing: free
* Unlimited audio conferencing: free
* More than two simultaneous video conferencing parties: $4.95/mo

=ooVoo=
http://oovoo.com

Available for:
* Mac
* Windows
* Android
* iOS
* Web-based

Pricing:
* Up to 6 simultanuous video conferencing parties: Free (with ads)
* Up to 6 simultanuous video conferencing parties: $9.95/mo (no ads)
* Up to 12 simultaneous video conferencing parties: $29.95/mo

=buzzumi.com=
https://buzzumi.com

Available for:
* Web-based

Pricing:
* Up to 6 simultaneous video conferencing parties: Free

''based on OpenTok API ''

=Expressway Flexchat=
http://videochatsoftware.ca/

Available for:
* Web-based (multiple rooms)

Pricing:
* Unlimited domain license: $300

=Notes=
Joe Justice promotes freeconferencecall.com, a web-based audio conferencing software, as used in Scrum project management of WIKISPEED.

{{Category:Communications}}
{{Category:Organization}}

Videoconferencing

2012-02-22T20:48:37Z

TriSimon: Created page to offer videoconferencing software solutions

Videoconferencing is a way to connect multiple distributed parties via global communication networks to allow for video and audio exchanges between multiple parties simultaneously. This article is to describe what cross-platform software is currently available for cheap or free and their capabilities.

=Skype=
http://skype.com

Available for:
* Mac
* Windows
* linux
* Android (audio only in group video chat)
* iOS (audio only in group video chat)

Pricing:
* One-to-one video conferencing: free
* Unlimited audio conferencing: free
* More than two simultaneous video conferencing parties: $4.95/mo

=ooVoo=
http://oovoo.com

Available for:
* Mac
* Windows
* Android
* iOS
* Web-based

Pricing:
* Up to 6 simultanuous video conferencing parties: Free (with ads)
* Up to 6 simultanuous video conferencing parties: $9.95/mo (no ads)
* Up to 12 simultaneous video conferencing parties: $29.95/mo

=buzzumi.com=
https://buzzumi.com

Available for:
* Web-based

Pricing:
* Up to 6 simultaneous video conferencing parties: Free

''based on OpenTok API ''

=Expressway Flexchat=
http://videochatsoftware.ca/

Available for:
* Web-based (multiple rooms)

Pricing:
* Unlimited domain license: $300

=Notes=
Joe Justice promotes freeconferencecall.com, a web-based audio conferencing software, as used in Scrum project management of WIKISPEED.

{{Category:Communication}}
{{Category:Organization}}

Simon Walter-Hansen/Projects

2012-02-19T03:49:33Z

TriSimon: Simon's OSE Project Involvement

This page is to list my OSE project involvement

= CSK DVD v0.01 =
[[http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Task_List_for_the_Civilization_Starter_Kit_DVD_v0.01#DVD_v0.01_-_Needs|CSK Task List]]

= Wiki Re-structuring =
* Request for collaboration

= Gasifier Burning =
* Request for documenting

Simon Walter-Hansen/Log

2012-02-19T03:38:33Z

TriSimon: Feb 18th, 2012 update

Daily tracking of my involvement at OSE

=2012=
==Februrary==
===18th===
* Added timeline for completion of DVD v0.01 to [[Task_List_for_the_Civilization_Starter_Kit_DVD_v0.01|CSK Task List]]
* Emailed [[Aaron_Makaruk]] Re: Collaboration on Re-structuring wiki (CC: Mia Van Meter)
* Emailed [[Aaron_Tarfman]] Re: Generating fabrication drawings from CAD files. Response: Has capability and availability. Awaiting go ahead on Tractor and Power Cube.
* Emailed Larry_Dobson (lad@fundamentalform.com) re: Gasifier Burner Documentation
* Added timeline for meeting needs to [[Task_List_for_the_Civilization_Starter_Kit_DVD_v0.01|CSK Task List]]
* Added DVD v0.01 needs to [[Task_List_for_the_Civilization_Starter_Kit_DVD_v0.01|CSK Task List]]
* Skyped with Marcin regarding DVD v0.01 progress, proposal for completion, wiki organization, locating CAD contributors, CiviCRM
===17th===
* Visited [http://adxportland.com ADX Portland] as potential prototyping/fabrication space
===16th===
* Emailed contributors for unfinished DVD content
===15th===
* Created [[Simon_Walter-Hansen|Log]] page to track my OSE involvement
* Organizing CSK v0.01 wiki pages
===14th===
* Generated current needs for CSK DVD v0.01 production
* Downloaded CSK v0.01 videos for DVD production
===13th===
* Organized some CSK v0.01 wiki pages
* Downloaded some CSK v0.01 videos for DVD production
===11th===
* Downloaded CSK v0.01 wiki content for DVD production
===10th===
* Downloaded some Civilization Starter Kit (CSK) v0.01 wiki content for DVD production
* Skyped with Marcin regarding project involvement
===9th===
* Filmed Team Culturing Video
===7th===
* Posted Team Culturing Survey answers
[[Category:Logs]]

Task List for the Civilization Starter Kit DVD v0.01

2012-02-19T03:37:11Z

TriSimon:

See also [[Civilization Starter Kit DVD]] and [[Civilization Starter Kit DVD v0.01]]

Marcin email - opensourceecology at gmail dot com

=DVD Publishing=
Last updated Feb 18,2012 

We are tying up loose ends and publishing hard copies of the first version (v0.01) of the Civilization Starter Kit DVD. While full instructionals on fabrication are almost complete (Tractor fabrication procedure is being finished currently), remaining pieces that are to be added are technical fabrication drawings for the tractor and Power Cube.

This DVD iso will be freely downloadable. We will also make it available for sale to fund further development of the DVD in order to improve our publishing standards. We will do this by recuiting a [[Civilization Starter Kit DVD Manager]] to continue the ongoing process of editing and updating content, recruiting contributors, following up with contributors, placing commits in the [[Open Pario Repository]], and publishing future releases of the DVD.

=Top 30 Priority - Technical=
==General==
#Production assistance for DVD
#Need Lead Editor to manage entire content
#GVCS t-shirt design
#GVCS sticker design
#[[Distributive_Enterprise_Business_Plan_for_Earth]] - DPV by [[Aaron Makaruk]]
#Animation with Construction Tool set product ecology
#Animation showing the product ecology of 50 machines.
#Building of a collaboration platform site - DPV at Factor e Farm
==CAD/CAE/CAM==
#CAD- 100 hours of assemblies and parts - CEB and Pulverizer. Status - [[CAD_Current_Work]] . Contact [[Mike Apostol]] - mike.apostol at gmail.com
##CEB has 28 assembly/weldment drawings and about 75 piece part drawings
##Pulverizer - 5 assemblies/weldments and 30 piece parts or so just thinking about it right now
#CEB - fabrication drawing PDF
#CEB - fabrication procedure PDF -Currently [[A-Z Instructionals| on wiki]], still needs CAD fab drawings for each step. Will be transfered to MAKE project pages so it can be exported as PDF- - [[Brianna Kufa]] (12/12/11)
#Tractor - fabrication drawing PDF
#Tractor - fabrication procedure PDF
#Pulberizer - fabrication drawing PDF
#Pulverizer - fabrication procedure PDF
#Power Cube - fabrication drawing PDF
#Power Cube - fabrication procedure PDF
#CAE Tractor
##1-7/8" CR wheel shaft torque limit in presence of 3/4" throught bolt hole
##torque limit of 3/4" through bolt in wheel collar mounting - shear limits of bolt and collar with welded nuts
##Motor shaft and coupler torque limits
##Wheel shaft max load capacity
#CAE CEB
##Frame maximum pressure limits
##Chamber maximum pressure limits
#Power Cube CAD - [[Tom Griffing]]
#Power Cube - complete set of fabrication drawings - [[Tom Griffing]]?
#Fabrication drawings - 100 hours of fabrication drawings
#Fabrication procedures - 100 hours collating material
#[[SnapLock]] CNC collaboration - milling controllers - need to identify someone who built them to helps

==Construction==
#400 sf basic microhouse plans and architectural drawings
#Embodied energy of construction calculations: workshop, living units, and 400 sf microhouse
#Design of a [[Closed Loop Blackwater System]] for [[HabLab]]. One good resource is Hyphae Design Laboratory. Brent from Hyphae was recommended to me - they sound like cutting edge designers.
#Architectural drawing detail for CEB construction - Floyd Hagerman did a sketch - full instructional video should be produced to include dry-in strategy for CEB construction; shallow insulated footers, Dutch bond, etc.

=Top Priority for Instructionals=
#Disassembly video - CEB - email Ian - il.midgley at gmail.com - dropbox download
#Disassembly video - Tractor - for product manual -
#Disassembly video - Power Cube - use existing footage from [[Marcinose YouTube]] channel; needs indexing first
#Disassembly video - Pulverizer
#Fabrication video - surface mount CEB controller - YouTube footage
#Index all of marcinose YouTube videos by topic - CEB, construction, tractor, pulverizer, power cube
#CEB Controller fabrication - [[Yoonseo Kang]]
#CEB Integration - mechanical, code, electrical, hydraulic - [[Yoonseo Kang]]
#CEB mechanical - fabrication - Currently [[CEB Press/Manufacturing Instructions| on wiki]], still needs CAD fab drawings for each step. Will be transfered to MAKE project pages so it can be exported as PDF- - [[Brianna Kufa]] (12/12/11)
#CEB mechanical - assembly - [[Ian Midgley]]
# Soil pulverizer fabrication video - download footage from Ian's dropbox. Compose script. Contact Ian.
#Ergonomics of Tractor Assembly - Ian
#Ergonomics of CEB assembly - Ian
#Ergonomics of Pulverizer Assembly
#Introduction Video shoot with Marcin and crew
#LifeTrac operation, safety video - Ian
#CEB operation and safety - Ian
#Pulverizer operation and safety - Ian
#Walk around analyzing Machines for Field Testing results with Marcin
#Machine Field Testing video - Ian
#Write and record Pulverizer assembly script
#Power Cube Operation and Safety - Ian
#Construction results on Workshop - Ian
#Construction results to date on Hab Lab - Ian
# Index [[Marcinose YouTube]] channel videos
#Continue building repository of [[Open Source Soundtracks]]

=Top Priority, Publishing=
#DVD production - DVD publishing assistance – interface and DVD burn - email Marcin
#ToC editor - need master editor
#GVCS T-shirt design
#GVCS T-shirt production
#GVCS sticker design
#GVCS sticker production
#GVCS refrigerator magnets

=DVD v0.01 - Needs=
'''Project Lead''': [[Simon_Walter-Hansen|Simon Walter-Hansen]]

* Download content of sourceopen.org from archive.org for posterity (''Pending'')
* Edit raw video footage here: http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/CEB_Press_Fabrication_videos (''Feb 19'')
* Receive deliverables from:
** Mike Doty (''Feb 27 - Mar 5'')
** Matt Maier (''Feb 26'')
* Connect with Roger Olson, Casey Foster, and Daniel Worth regarding commitments. (''Feb 16 - Feb 22'')
** Receive deliverables (''Feb 18 - Mar 5'')
** On regrets:
*** Locate & Contact alternate contributors (''Feb 18 - Feb 22'')
*** Reallocate commitments (''Feb 23'')
* Download PDF plans for all tools from MakeProject (''Feb 19'')
* Download CEB Press solenoid driver playlist from YouTube. (''Feb 19'')
** Edit into comprehensive video (''Feb 19'')
* Proof-read CSK v0.01 content (''Feb 20 - Feb 22'')
* Format CSK v0.01 layout for clarity, consistency, and usability (have added navigation to CSK ToC for most pages) (''Feb 20 - Feb 24'')
* Test viewing of content from DVD/.iso without internet access (''Mar 4'')
* Compress .iso for upload (''Mar 5'')
* Upload .iso to Trepstar for production (''Mar 5'')
* Upload .iso for distribution on OpenSourceEcology.org (''Mar 5'')
** Determine host(s) and mirrors for .iso (''Feb 19 - Mar 4'')
* Obtain OSE/GVCS graphics (''Feb 19 - Feb 27'')
** Generate graphics file for DVD surface and DVD sleeve (''Feb 27'')
* Order test copies of "economy" DVD to evaluate product quality (''Feb 27'') - Completing a test batch before v0.01 GM ensures quicker delivery when v0.01 goes GM.
* Create an order page for CSK DVD v0.01 (''Feb 19 - Mar 5'')
* Create/assign task of uploading order spreadsheet to Trepstar (''Mar 1 - Mar 5'')

=Next 30 Priority - Technical=
#Lead Documentation on CNC Torch Table - [[Luke Iseman]]
#Develop automatic z-height control for torch table
#Continue developing [[CAD/CAM Problem Statement]]. Email [[Mike Apostol]].
#Ironworker documentation lead - [[Brianna Kufa]]
#Torch table project - documentation
#Torch table project
#Sawmill – full CAD (4 days). The complete carriage minus blades is waiting to be drawn up in full CAD. Requires Factor e Farm visit. Email Marcin.
#Sawmill - DPV - sourcing hydraulic motors and field testing complete sawmill at Factor e Farm - 1 month. 4 years of full time Farming or sawyer experience required.
#Cement mixer – CAD - 4 days DPV
#Interview with Reid Enniss, San Diego, CA, custom fabricator and builder of balers. Need to prepare questions on design strategy for an open source baler, hydraulically driven.
#CEB construction techniques – annotated architectural detail drawing - for foundation through roof section

[[Category:Tasks]]
[[Category:DVD]]

Task List for the Civilization Starter Kit DVD v0.01

2012-02-19T03:36:52Z

TriSimon: Added ETA windows for delivery of specific DVD needs

See also [[Civilization Starter Kit DVD]] and [[Civilization Starter Kit DVD v0.01]]

Marcin email - opensourceecology at gmail dot com

=DVD Publishing=
Last updated Feb 5,2012 

We are tying up loose ends and publishing hard copies of the first version (v0.01) of the Civilization Starter Kit DVD. While full instructionals on fabrication are almost complete (Tractor fabrication procedure is being finished currently), remaining pieces that are to be added are technical fabrication drawings for the tractor and Power Cube.

This DVD iso will be freely downloadable. We will also make it available for sale to fund further development of the DVD in order to improve our publishing standards. We will do this by recuiting a [[Civilization Starter Kit DVD Manager]] to continue the ongoing process of editing and updating content, recruiting contributors, following up with contributors, placing commits in the [[Open Pario Repository]], and publishing future releases of the DVD.

=Top 30 Priority - Technical=
==General==
#Production assistance for DVD
#Need Lead Editor to manage entire content
#GVCS t-shirt design
#GVCS sticker design
#[[Distributive_Enterprise_Business_Plan_for_Earth]] - DPV by [[Aaron Makaruk]]
#Animation with Construction Tool set product ecology
#Animation showing the product ecology of 50 machines.
#Building of a collaboration platform site - DPV at Factor e Farm
==CAD/CAE/CAM==
#CAD- 100 hours of assemblies and parts - CEB and Pulverizer. Status - [[CAD_Current_Work]] . Contact [[Mike Apostol]] - mike.apostol at gmail.com
##CEB has 28 assembly/weldment drawings and about 75 piece part drawings
##Pulverizer - 5 assemblies/weldments and 30 piece parts or so just thinking about it right now
#CEB - fabrication drawing PDF
#CEB - fabrication procedure PDF -Currently [[A-Z Instructionals| on wiki]], still needs CAD fab drawings for each step. Will be transfered to MAKE project pages so it can be exported as PDF- - [[Brianna Kufa]] (12/12/11)
#Tractor - fabrication drawing PDF
#Tractor - fabrication procedure PDF
#Pulberizer - fabrication drawing PDF
#Pulverizer - fabrication procedure PDF
#Power Cube - fabrication drawing PDF
#Power Cube - fabrication procedure PDF
#CAE Tractor
##1-7/8" CR wheel shaft torque limit in presence of 3/4" throught bolt hole
##torque limit of 3/4" through bolt in wheel collar mounting - shear limits of bolt and collar with welded nuts
##Motor shaft and coupler torque limits
##Wheel shaft max load capacity
#CAE CEB
##Frame maximum pressure limits
##Chamber maximum pressure limits
#Power Cube CAD - [[Tom Griffing]]
#Power Cube - complete set of fabrication drawings - [[Tom Griffing]]?
#Fabrication drawings - 100 hours of fabrication drawings
#Fabrication procedures - 100 hours collating material
#[[SnapLock]] CNC collaboration - milling controllers - need to identify someone who built them to helps

==Construction==
#400 sf basic microhouse plans and architectural drawings
#Embodied energy of construction calculations: workshop, living units, and 400 sf microhouse
#Design of a [[Closed Loop Blackwater System]] for [[HabLab]]. One good resource is Hyphae Design Laboratory. Brent from Hyphae was recommended to me - they sound like cutting edge designers.
#Architectural drawing detail for CEB construction - Floyd Hagerman did a sketch - full instructional video should be produced to include dry-in strategy for CEB construction; shallow insulated footers, Dutch bond, etc.

=Top Priority for Instructionals=
#Disassembly video - CEB - email Ian - il.midgley at gmail.com - dropbox download
#Disassembly video - Tractor - for product manual -
#Disassembly video - Power Cube - use existing footage from [[Marcinose YouTube]] channel; needs indexing first
#Disassembly video - Pulverizer
#Fabrication video - surface mount CEB controller - YouTube footage
#Index all of marcinose YouTube videos by topic - CEB, construction, tractor, pulverizer, power cube
#CEB Controller fabrication - [[Yoonseo Kang]]
#CEB Integration - mechanical, code, electrical, hydraulic - [[Yoonseo Kang]]
#CEB mechanical - fabrication - Currently [[CEB Press/Manufacturing Instructions| on wiki]], still needs CAD fab drawings for each step. Will be transfered to MAKE project pages so it can be exported as PDF- - [[Brianna Kufa]] (12/12/11)
#CEB mechanical - assembly - [[Ian Midgley]]
# Soil pulverizer fabrication video - download footage from Ian's dropbox. Compose script. Contact Ian.
#Ergonomics of Tractor Assembly - Ian
#Ergonomics of CEB assembly - Ian
#Ergonomics of Pulverizer Assembly
#Introduction Video shoot with Marcin and crew
#LifeTrac operation, safety video - Ian
#CEB operation and safety - Ian
#Pulverizer operation and safety - Ian
#Walk around analyzing Machines for Field Testing results with Marcin
#Machine Field Testing video - Ian
#Write and record Pulverizer assembly script
#Power Cube Operation and Safety - Ian
#Construction results on Workshop - Ian
#Construction results to date on Hab Lab - Ian
# Index [[Marcinose YouTube]] channel videos
#Continue building repository of [[Open Source Soundtracks]]

=Top Priority, Publishing=
#DVD production - DVD publishing assistance – interface and DVD burn - email Marcin
#ToC editor - need master editor
#GVCS T-shirt design
#GVCS T-shirt production
#GVCS sticker design
#GVCS sticker production
#GVCS refrigerator magnets

=DVD v0.01 - Needs=
'''Project Lead''': [[Simon_Walter-Hansen|Simon Walter-Hansen]]

* Download content of sourceopen.org from archive.org for posterity (''Pending'')
* Edit raw video footage here: http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/CEB_Press_Fabrication_videos (''Feb 19'')
* Receive deliverables from:
** Mike Doty (''Feb 27 - Mar 5'')
** Matt Maier (''Feb 26'')
* Connect with Roger Olson, Casey Foster, and Daniel Worth regarding commitments. (''Feb 16 - Feb 22'')
** Receive deliverables (''Feb 18 - Mar 5'')
** On regrets:
*** Locate & Contact alternate contributors (''Feb 18 - Feb 22'')
*** Reallocate commitments (''Feb 23'')
* Download PDF plans for all tools from MakeProject (''Feb 19'')
* Download CEB Press solenoid driver playlist from YouTube. (''Feb 19'')
** Edit into comprehensive video (''Feb 19'')
* Proof-read CSK v0.01 content (''Feb 20 - Feb 22'')
* Format CSK v0.01 layout for clarity, consistency, and usability (have added navigation to CSK ToC for most pages) (''Feb 20 - Feb 24'')
* Test viewing of content from DVD/.iso without internet access (''Mar 4'')
* Compress .iso for upload (''Mar 5'')
* Upload .iso to Trepstar for production (''Mar 5'')
* Upload .iso for distribution on OpenSourceEcology.org (''Mar 5'')
** Determine host(s) and mirrors for .iso (''Feb 19 - Mar 4'')
* Obtain OSE/GVCS graphics (''Feb 19 - Feb 27'')
** Generate graphics file for DVD surface and DVD sleeve (''Feb 27'')
* Order test copies of "economy" DVD to evaluate product quality (''Feb 27'') - Completing a test batch before v0.01 GM ensures quicker delivery when v0.01 goes GM.
* Create an order page for CSK DVD v0.01 (''Feb 19 - Mar 5'')
* Create/assign task of uploading order spreadsheet to Trepstar (''Mar 1 - Mar 5'')

=Next 30 Priority - Technical=
#Lead Documentation on CNC Torch Table - [[Luke Iseman]]
#Develop automatic z-height control for torch table
#Continue developing [[CAD/CAM Problem Statement]]. Email [[Mike Apostol]].
#Ironworker documentation lead - [[Brianna Kufa]]
#Torch table project - documentation
#Torch table project
#Sawmill – full CAD (4 days). The complete carriage minus blades is waiting to be drawn up in full CAD. Requires Factor e Farm visit. Email Marcin.
#Sawmill - DPV - sourcing hydraulic motors and field testing complete sawmill at Factor e Farm - 1 month. 4 years of full time Farming or sawyer experience required.
#Cement mixer – CAD - 4 days DPV
#Interview with Reid Enniss, San Diego, CA, custom fabricator and builder of balers. Need to prepare questions on design strategy for an open source baler, hydraulically driven.
#CEB construction techniques – annotated architectural detail drawing - for foundation through roof section

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Aaron

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Aaron Tarfman

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=Team Culturing Information=

last updated: 4. September, 2011

==='''WHO''' are you?===
*''Name'' - Aaron

*''Location (city, country)'' - Portland, America

*''Contact Information (email, phone, Skype)'' - aaron (at) tarfman (dot) net

*''Introductory Video'' - http://www.flickr.com/photos/60961560@N00/3026593692/in/set-72157607894122095/

*''Resume/CV'' - I have been using Autocad for 15 years and more recently Autodesk Inventor and Solidworks (4yrs and 1yr respectively). I have a well grounded knowledge of construction drawings and have the ability to produce 2d and 3d assembly drawings for small and large scale fabrication

==='''WHY''' are you motivated to support/develop this work?===
*''Do you endorse open source culture?''
I very much appreciate the open source culture. I use Linux (with VMware for cad) and feel that supporting each other is of paramount importance.

*''Why are you interested in collaborating with us?''
It shows on your site that you have need for computer aided design. My cad skills are highly developed and if this can be of use to you, than I'm happy to share with you.

*''How do you think that the GVCS can address pressing world issues?''
Developing technology that people can create on the local level to maintain civilization removes power from those who abuse it and empowers the individual and community.

*''What should happen so that you become more involved with the project?''

*''What are you missing in the project?''

*''What are your suggestions for improvement of the project?''

==='''WHAT'''===
*''List all of your skills in these areas: Communications - Organizational - Computer Support - Finances - Design - Natural Building - Electronics - Automation - Metallurgy - Engineering - Fabrication - Agriculture - Energy - Architecture - Video/Graphics/Art - PR/Marketing - Education - Construction - Industry - CNC - Chemistry - Product Design - Other''
Open Office, Autocad, Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, Architecture, Low energy building design, human-powered vehicle design

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

==='''HOW''' can you help?''===
*''How are you interested in contributing to the work of GVCS development?''
creating cad construction drawings or 3D animations of existing designs

*''Can you volunteer to work with us, and if so, how many hours per week?''
at this time 5 hrs per week. more as the dark winter days approach

*''Are you interested in working with us for pay? If so, what services can you offer, and what is your hourly or per-project rate?''
if you find that my services are sufficient to offer a salary, I would happily work for $10/hr. If a salary does occur, than I could certainly offer more time.

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

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

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

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

*''Would you like to see yourself working with us on a full-time basis?''
do not know at this time

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

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

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Task List for the Civilization Starter Kit DVD v0.01

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See also [[Civilization Starter Kit DVD]] and [[Civilization Starter Kit DVD v0.01]]

Marcin email - opensourceecology at gmail dot com

=DVD Publishing=
Last updated Feb 5,2012 

We are tying up loose ends and publishing hard copies of the first version (v0.01) of the Civilization Starter Kit DVD. While full instructionals on fabrication are almost complete (Tractor fabrication procedure is being finished currently), remaining pieces that are to be added are technical fabrication drawings for the tractor and Power Cube.

This DVD iso will be freely downloadable. We will also make it available for sale to fund further development of the DVD in order to improve our publishing standards. We will do this by recuiting a [[Civilization Starter Kit DVD Manager]] to continue the ongoing process of editing and updating content, recruiting contributors, following up with contributors, placing commits in the [[Open Pario Repository]], and publishing future releases of the DVD.

=Top 30 Priority - Technical=
==General==
#Production assistance for DVD
#Need Lead Editor to manage entire content
#GVCS t-shirt design
#GVCS sticker design
#[[Distributive_Enterprise_Business_Plan_for_Earth]] - DPV by [[Aaron Makaruk]]
#Animation with Construction Tool set product ecology
#Animation showing the product ecology of 50 machines.
#Building of a collaboration platform site - DPV at Factor e Farm
==CAD/CAE/CAM==
#CAD- 100 hours of assemblies and parts - CEB and Pulverizer. Status - [[CAD_Current_Work]] . Contact [[Mike Apostol]] - mike.apostol at gmail.com
##CEB has 28 assembly/weldment drawings and about 75 piece part drawings
##Pulverizer - 5 assemblies/weldments and 30 piece parts or so just thinking about it right now
#CEB - fabrication drawing PDF
#CEB - fabrication procedure PDF -Currently [[A-Z Instructionals| on wiki]], still needs CAD fab drawings for each step. Will be transfered to MAKE project pages so it can be exported as PDF- - [[Brianna Kufa]] (12/12/11)
#Tractor - fabrication drawing PDF
#Tractor - fabrication procedure PDF
#Pulberizer - fabrication drawing PDF
#Pulverizer - fabrication procedure PDF
#Power Cube - fabrication drawing PDF
#Power Cube - fabrication procedure PDF
#CAE Tractor
##1-7/8" CR wheel shaft torque limit in presence of 3/4" throught bolt hole
##torque limit of 3/4" through bolt in wheel collar mounting - shear limits of bolt and collar with welded nuts
##Motor shaft and coupler torque limits
##Wheel shaft max load capacity
#CAE CEB
##Frame maximum pressure limits
##Chamber maximum pressure limits
#Power Cube CAD - [[Tom Griffing]]
#Power Cube - complete set of fabrication drawings - [[Tom Griffing]]?
#Fabrication drawings - 100 hours of fabrication drawings
#Fabrication procedures - 100 hours collating material
#[[SnapLock]] CNC collaboration - milling controllers - need to identify someone who built them to helps

==Construction==
#400 sf basic microhouse plans and architectural drawings
#Embodied energy of construction calculations: workshop, living units, and 400 sf microhouse
#Design of a [[Closed Loop Blackwater System]] for [[HabLab]]. One good resource is Hyphae Design Laboratory. Brent from Hyphae was recommended to me - they sound like cutting edge designers.
#Architectural drawing detail for CEB construction - Floyd Hagerman did a sketch - full instructional video should be produced to include dry-in strategy for CEB construction; shallow insulated footers, Dutch bond, etc.

=Top Priority for Instructionals=
#Disassembly video - CEB - email Ian - il.midgley at gmail.com - dropbox download
#Disassembly video - Tractor - for product manual -
#Disassembly video - Power Cube - use existing footage from [[Marcinose YouTube]] channel; needs indexing first
#Disassembly video - Pulverizer
#Fabrication video - surface mount CEB controller - YouTube footage
#Index all of marcinose YouTube videos by topic - CEB, construction, tractor, pulverizer, power cube
#CEB Controller fabrication - [[Yoonseo Kang]]
#CEB Integration - mechanical, code, electrical, hydraulic - [[Yoonseo Kang]]
#CEB mechanical - fabrication - Currently [[CEB Press/Manufacturing Instructions| on wiki]], still needs CAD fab drawings for each step. Will be transfered to MAKE project pages so it can be exported as PDF- - [[Brianna Kufa]] (12/12/11)
#CEB mechanical - assembly - [[Ian Midgley]]
# Soil pulverizer fabrication video - download footage from Ian's dropbox. Compose script. Contact Ian.
#Ergonomics of Tractor Assembly - Ian
#Ergonomics of CEB assembly - Ian
#Ergonomics of Pulverizer Assembly
#Introduction Video shoot with Marcin and crew
#LifeTrac operation, safety video - Ian
#CEB operation and safety - Ian
#Pulverizer operation and safety - Ian
#Walk around analyzing Machines for Field Testing results with Marcin
#Machine Field Testing video - Ian
#Write and record Pulverizer assembly script
#Power Cube Operation and Safety - Ian
#Construction results on Workshop - Ian
#Construction results to date on Hab Lab - Ian
# Index [[Marcinose YouTube]] channel videos
#Continue building repository of [[Open Source Soundtracks]]

=Top Priority, Publishing=
#DVD production - DVD publishing assistance – interface and DVD burn - email Marcin
#ToC editor - need master editor
#GVCS T-shirt design
#GVCS T-shirt production
#GVCS sticker design
#GVCS sticker production
#GVCS refrigerator magnets

=Top Priority, DVD v0.01=
'''Project Lead''': [[Simon_Walter-Hansen|Simon Walter-Hansen]]

'''Needs''':

* Download content of sourceopen.org from archive.org for posterity
* Edit raw video footage here: http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/CEB_Press_Fabrication_videos
* Receive deliverables from:
** Mike Doty
** Matt Maier
* Connect with Roger Olson, Casey Foster, and Daniel Worth regarding commitments.
** Receive deliverables
** On regrets:
*** Contact alternate contributors
*** Reallocate commitments
* Download PDF plans for all tools from MakeProject
* Download CEB Press solenoid driver playlist from YouTube.
** Edit into comprehensive video
* Proof-read CSK v0.01 content
* Format CSK v0.01 layout for clarity, consistency, and usability (have added navigation to CSK ToC for most pages)
* Test viewing of content from DVD/.iso without internet access
* Compress .iso for upload
* Upload .iso to Trepstar for production
* Upload .iso for distribution on OpenSourceEcology.org
** Determine host(s) and mirrors for .iso
* Obtain OSE/GVCS graphics
** Generate graphics file for DVD surface and DVD sleeve
* Order test copies of "economy" DVD to evaluate product quality
* Create an order page for CSK DVD v0.01
* Create/assign task of uploading order spreadsheet to Trepstar

=Next 30 Priority - Technical=
#Lead Documentation on CNC Torch Table - [[Luke Iseman]]
#Develop automatic z-height control for torch table
#Continue developing [[CAD/CAM Problem Statement]]. Email [[Mike Apostol]].
#Ironworker documentation lead - [[Brianna Kufa]]
#Torch table project - documentation
#Torch table project
#Sawmill – full CAD (4 days). The complete carriage minus blades is waiting to be drawn up in full CAD. Requires Factor e Farm visit. Email Marcin.
#Sawmill - DPV - sourcing hydraulic motors and field testing complete sawmill at Factor e Farm - 1 month. 4 years of full time Farming or sawyer experience required.
#Cement mixer – CAD - 4 days DPV
#Interview with Reid Enniss, San Diego, CA, custom fabricator and builder of balers. Need to prepare questions on design strategy for an open source baler, hydraulically driven.
#CEB construction techniques – annotated architectural detail drawing - for foundation through roof section

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Open Source Ecology Paradigm

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The
Open Source Ecology Paradigm
Marcin
Jakubowski, Ph.D., 12.24.2011
part
of the OSE Christmas Gift to the World of 2011
 

Introduction
 

The Open Source
Ecology Paradigm is an idea that the open source economy is a route
to human prosperity in harmony with natural life support systems. 

 

Open Source Ecology (OSE) is a movement
to create the open source economy. The movement consists of hundreds
of entrepreneurs, producers, engineers, makers, and supporters around
the world – who believe in the power of open
– who share the open
ethic. The 'Ecology' in the name refers to the interaction of
natural and human ecosystems – the environmental, societal, and
technological systems – as they interact along open
principles. Read a further description of the OSE concept as it was
formulated initially in 2003 (see Appendix below). Since then, the concept
has evolved to a platform for creating distributive enterprise, as a
solid foundation for a sound economy - a third economic option beyond
capitalism or socialism. The distributive economy paradigm centers
around open access to efficient production as a means to transcend
artificial material scarcity. The paradigm uses open source tools and
techniques to produce advanced civilization – by unleashing the
power of the responsible
use of technology.
 

The main current
project of OSE is the Global Village Construction Set – a set of 50
Industrial Machines that allow for the creation of a small scale
civilization with modern comforts. 

 

OSE
Mission
 


The
mission of Open Source Ecology is to create an open source economy -
an economy that optimizes both production and distribution, while
providing environmental regeneration and social justice.

 

Overview
of the OSE Paradigm

 


The
backbone of Open Source Ecology is open access to
economically-significant information – product designs, techniques,
and rapid learning materials for achieving this. Collaborative
development, 24/7 around the globe, leads to best practice designs -
accessible openly via the internet. When economic productivity is
unleashed as such, there is a direct effect on community prosperity.
As a result of lowered barriers to entry, each community can increase
the range of products and services that it can provide. Global
collaboration in open product and process design leads to best
practices being commonly available. This is opposed to the dominant
paradigm of today – where a few companies having the best products
or monopoly control, and by definition, the rest is mediocre. Open
economic development has the potential to raise the bar on the
quality of products in the productive economy – as opposed to the
enforcement of mediocrity through protectionism and monopoly.

 


All
wealth comes from nature – rocks, plants, sunlight, and water.
These are found ubiquitously. Yet the presence of strategic resources
results in conflicts over their appropriation. “Hey, that's my oil
under your land.” Open source technology can address this problem –
via principles of substitutability. There are many routes to
producing any economically significant product or service. Resilience
of communities depends on having a diversity of options. As open
access to technology becomes commonplace, every community can
increase its level of productivity and appropriate technology – to
the point that it can substitute any strategic material with local
options – without any reduction in the standard of living – while
contributing positively to global peace. 


 


Transparency
of the connection between technology and nature means that people
begin to respect nature. This happens when people begin to respect
that their well-being comes from nature. This transparency is
facilitated when economically productive activities happen as close
to the community as possible – not out of sight, out of mind in
remote locations. This is true environmental accountability – as
one tends to not destroy their own environment. Thus, there is a
direct connection between transparency of production to natural
regeneration – as people begin to make more sound production
choices – by understanding the connection of production to the
land. This means that industry no longer needs to occur in the form
of toxic wastelands – but instead – eco-industry, on a human
scale – serving the needs of people, not centralized industries
competing for world domination. 


 


Thus,
technology and technological literacy are a way to reconnect to
nature – not to destroy it.

 


The
above depends on increasing the density of knowhow and technology in
every community – which comes from the open paradigm – open
information, open communication, open everything. The limit of
optimal density of productive knowhow is the point that any community
is capable of producing the full range of essential resources
necessary for it to exist, grow, and prosper. This is not to say that
trade should not happen – but for community stability – trade
should be avoided on essential products that the community needs. As
much as a community would want otherwise – when placed in a
scarcity condition – rationality goes out the window and people
start to kill each other.

 


For
the first time in history – we have a chance to do otherwise.
Unleashed access to information and technology – as availed by the
computer age – means that any conflicts related to material
scarcity can become a thing of the past. This includes resource
conflicts, poverty, overpopulation, and even bureaucracy – as
bureaucracy is not much more than a mechanism to manage scarce
resources. Further, regulatory costs are minimized via technological
transparency - as a technologically-literate populace of the open
source age becomes increasingly responsible for its own actions.

 


This
is not a case for conflict between the rich and poor, the city or the
country, the first or third worlds – it is a case where open
access to information helps everyone. As barriers to entry are
lowered, social upheaval is minimized. As production remains high –
and increases due to the elimination of competitive waste –
prosperity can only increase.

 


This
is a paradigm shift. That is the core of Open Source Ecology.

 


This
does not address evolving as humans – in cultural and scientific
advancement - or in wisdom that prevents us from reverting to
insanity. Open Source Ecology only lays a starting point and
foundation - from which evolution becomes possible.

 

Open

 

We
support everything open.
See the notions of open
at the Shuttleworth Foundation -
<A HREF="http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/about-us/our-philosophy/communication/">http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/about-us/our-philosophy/communication/</A>

 

Economy
and Ecology

 


Distributive
Enterprise - The distinguishing feature of this paradigm is a
focus on distributive enterprise – open publishing of not only
product designs, but also of open enterprise models so that others
can replicate best practices. There is a direct relationship between
open design and lowering of barriers to entry. Productive enterprise
forms the backbone for communities' infrastructures and their
prosperity. Open access to unprecedented high densities of productive
information means economic prosperity – and everybody wins.

 


The
open source economy is an economic system marked by open access to
best-practice designs and techniques for producing
economically-significant products and services. One feature of the
open source economy is Industry 2.0 – or distributed, flexible
production – where access to a down-loadable repository of open
source design feeds local, multipurpose digital fabrication
facilities. Such facilities - or powerful Microfactories - can
produce just about anything that a community will need - local food,
energy, housing, or cars. This is distinct from centralized
production facilities that exist today.

 


An
open source economy produces designs by global collaboration, with
development cycles 24/7 around the globe. When a sufficient number of
stakeholders join a development process, it is a matter of time
before the development cycle yields the best designs – and these
designs evolve continuously.

 

Integrated
Economy –
open
fosters rapid learning (open IP) and low capitalization (open source
products) – ie., lower barriers to entry. Lower barriers to entry
indicate that a single economic agent can have a broader range of
productivity, therefore more resilience from economic shocks. In the
limit of extreme diversity on the part of the producers, every
community can attain a complete economy. If product evolution
involves advanced techniques for material substitution, then every
community can attain a complete economy based
on local resources.
This is the solution to resource conflicts. This is stability in the
face of global economic upheaval.

 

The
end of artificial material scarcity –
Artificial material scarcity may be defined as the condition where –
in the absolute abundance of resources – namely rocks, plants,
water, and sunlight – the distribution to humans is drastically
uneven. Lowering barriers to entry helps to distribute production
more widely. Product optimization from open development includes
optimization for lifetime of use. Lifetime design (ie, lower
maintenance costs), combined with high productivity and low barriers
to entry - indicates that material abundance can be the general human
condition. This is a solution to poverty.

 

Transparency
of Resource Use and Feedback
– Rapid learning in the open source economy helps people gain
numeracy and technological literacy. Technological literacy promotes
the understanding of production – and specifically, the
relationship between natural resources and human population. Local
resource use fosters a high level of resource feedback loops – as
the state of the local environment is easily observable. Such
transparency of resource use is the solution to overpopulation in a
rational (materially abundant) society. 


 

Lower
Cost –
by eliminating competitive waste, the cost of buying or making open
source products is reduced significantly. 


 

Competitiveness
with Globalization
- When
IP access barriers are eliminated in the open source economy, cost of
production is reduced to production capitalization and labor. The
cost of production capitalization, under the assumption of flexible
fabrication assisted by automation - goes to zero in the scenario of
community-supported manufacturing (think Open Source Fab Lab in every
community). In the open economy of DIY ethics and local capacity and
transparency - the cost of labor goes down – as the user can also
learn to be the producer. In the limit of DIY ethic, this cost,
defined as cost of external labor - goes to zero – and is replaced
by one's time. Further, in the limit of lifetime-design products, the
time
required for production is minimized, as production has to happen
only once. Thus, competitiveness with globalization is achieved by
zero access barriers and local skill, and local social capital – a
different paradigm. 


 

Ecology

 

Closing
the Nature-Technology Divide
– Truly sound technology is not at odds with nature. We have a
choice to produce technology in an environmentally sound way. For
just about every harmful and polluting industrial process, a clean
alternative may be found. Biomimicry shows us the way to do this in
many cases. Moreover, truly sound technology should bring us closer
to nature - 


ie,
if we appreciate that nature provides all material wealth, we are
inclined to take care of nature. This is a case for educating
generalists – not technologists or environmentalists – people who
understand technology deeply to the point that they respect nature –
and people who understand the environment deeply to the point that
they they respect technology. Technological literacy is facilitated
by introduction of true technical education, as opposed to industry
standard marketing forces. 


 

Product
Development Ecology
– In the mainstream, the designer is not the draftsman, the
draftsman is not the engineer, the engineer is not the fabricator,
the fabricator is not the user, and the user is not the repairman.
While is is touted as the pinnacle of specialization, this introduces
a lack of accountability between all these steps, and therefore,
inferior product design when considered from the human ergonomic
factors, product service, environmental issues, or wealth
distribution issues. Open source design addresses this, as it is
design by the people, for the people – and it is infinitely
customizable.

 

Environmental
Regeneration – There is a
direct link between open source technology and environmental
integrity. Open technology implies optimal technology – and one
part of optimization is optimization for environmental friendliness.
Thus, the trend of environmental degradation can be reversed to
regeneration.
 

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Appendix –
Legacy Site for OSE
 

This is the
legacy site for Open Source Ecology from 2005. 

 

Archived on
February 10, 2005, see Mission at
<A HREF="http://web.archive.org/web/20050210084651/http://sourceopen.org/">http://web.archive.org/web/20050210084651/http://sourceopen.org/</A>


 


Our
Mission
by <A HREF="mailto:marcin@sourceopen.org">Marcin
Jakubowski</A>,
11.30.03
<BLOCKQUOTE STYLE="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; widows: 2; orphans: 2">
 I.
What is Open Source?</BLOCKQUOTE>
Open
Source refers to the model of providing goods and services which
includes the possibility of the end-user's participation in the
production of these goods and services. This concept has already been
demonstrated in Linux, the open source computing system. With Linux,
a large number of software developers have contributed to creating a
viable alternative to the proprietary Windows computer operating
system. Many people can readily see the advantages- all Linux
software is free. Please read these articles on the concept of <A HREF="http://web.archive.org/web/20050204102323/http://sourceopen.org/webpage/GlobalBizNet_OS_1.pdf">Open
Source software</A> and
its implications for <A HREF="http://web.archive.org/web/20050204102323/http://sourceopen.org/webpage/GlobalBizNet_OS_2.pdf">changing
business</A>.   
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II. What is
Open Source Economics?</BLOCKQUOTE>
Our
mission is to extend the Open Source model to the provision any goods
and services- Open Source Economics. This means opening access to the
information and technology which enables a different economic system
to be realized, one based on the integration of  natural
ecology, social ecology, and industrial ecology. This economic system
is based on open access- based on widely accessible information and
associated access to productive capital- distributed into the hands
of  an increased number of people. Read about an inspiring
example of such an economic model being currently put into practice
with respect to manufacturing <A HREF="http://web.archive.org/web/20050204102323/http://sourceopen.org/webpage/OS_Car.pdf">vehicles</A>.

We believe that a
highly distributed, increasingly participatory model of production is
the core of a democratic society, where stability is established
naturally by the balance of  human activity with sustainable
extraction of natural resources. This is the opposite of the current
mainstream of centralized economies, which have a structurally
built-in tendency towards of overproduction.   
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Open Source Ecology?</BLOCKQUOTE>
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We derive our
organization's name from a concept which refers to the integration of
the natural, societal, and industrial ecologies- Open Source Ecology-
aiming at sustainable and regenerative economics. We are convinced
that a possibility of a quality life exists, where human needs are
guaranteed to the world's entire population- as long as we ask
ourselves basic questions on what societal structures and productive
activities are truly appropriate to meeting human needs for all. At
the end of the day, the goal is to liberate our time to engage in
exactly that which each of us wants to be doing- instead of what we
need to do to survive. All have the potential to thrive. Today, an
increasingly smaller percentage of the world's population is in this
position. </BLOCKQUOTE>
 

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Daily tracking of my involvement at OSE

=2012=
==Februrary==
===17th===
* Visited [http://adxportland.com ADX Portland] as potential prototyping/fabrication space
===16th===
* Emailed contributors for unfinished DVD content
===15th===
* Created Log page to track my OSE involvement
* Organizing CSK v0.01 wiki pages
===14th===
* Generated current needs for CSK DVD v0.01 production
* Downloaded CSK v0.01 videos for DVD production
===13th===
* Organized some CSK v0.01 wiki pages
* Downloaded some CSK v0.01 videos for DVD production
===11th===
* Downloaded CSK v0.01 wiki content for DVD production
===10th===
* Downloaded some Civilization Starter Kit (CSK) v0.01 wiki content for DVD production
* Skyped with Marcin regarding project involvement
===9th===
* Filmed Team Culturing Video
===7th===
* Posted Team Culturing Survey answers
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[[File:Machine.jpg|right|400px|thumb|CEB Pers (alias "The Liberator", vrij vertaald "De Bevrijder")]]
==Overview==
[[File:Liberator_bricks.JPG|right|400px|thumb|Bricks pressed on [[The Liberator]]]]
De '''"Liberator" Compressed Earth Block Press''' (Geperste Aarde Blokken Pers) is een machine die geperste aarde blokken, als bouwstenen, maakt ('''CEB'''s).

[[CEB Press/Videos]]
[[CEB Press/Field Testing 2011|Field Testing 2011]]

==Details==
The [[CEB Press]] takes earth/dirt/soil and compresses it tightly to make solid blocks useful for building. Compressed earth blocks have many advantages as a building material: by making the building materials from the readily available dirt on the building site, they eliminate the need to transport bricks from elsewhere, reducing the financial cost and environmental impact of transport. Compressed earth blocks are very strong and insulate well against both heat and sound, making for very energy-efficient building (especially combined with the energy savings from not needing to transport them from offsite). Best of all, the material they use is already on-site and does not need to be purchased -- quite literally, dirt-cheap! See the wiki page on [[Compressed Earth Blocks]] and the [[:Category:CEB|CEB category]] for more details on building using CEBs.

The Liberator has been fully designed and tested by the [[Open Source Ecology]] team. Because the Liberator is an open source technology, you can freely download instructions to build your own from materials you can obtain yourself, or contact ''opensourceecology[at]gmail[dot]com'' to buy a kit or a finished machine.

Building a machine yourself might seem intimidating, but every step of the process is fully documented and the OSE community is available on our [http://openfarmtech.org/forum/ discussion forums] if you need help, advice, or a little hand-holding.

Using the CEB Press, two people can build a 6 foot high (1.83m) round wall, 20 feet (6.1m) in diameter, 1 foot (30cm) thick, in one 8 hour day, though construction time will vary somewhat depending on preparation time, what equipment is available (tractor to prepare the ground and move the blocks where they need to go), the quality of the soil, and other factors. The bigger the block size, the faster a wall can be erected, but at the cost of heavier blocks that are more of a strain to work with. Blocks from ''The Liberator'' average 25 pounds (11.3kg).

see [[CEB Design]] for more information.

==Product Ecology==

[[Image:4b-Constructioneco.png|thumb|600px|center|Construction [[Product Ecology]]]]

{{Product Ecology
|Product={{CEB}}
|From=
*{{Furnace}}
*{{Welder}}
*{{Torch Table}}
*{{Ironworker}}

|Uses=
*{{PowerCube}}
*{{Tractor}}
*[[Earth]]

|Creates=
*[[CEB Bricks]]

|Enables=
*[[Workshop]]
*[[Greenhouse]]
*[[HabLab]]

|Components=
*Hopper
*Grate
*Grate shaker
*Frame
*Compression chamber
*Hydraulic Cylinders
*Soil Drawer
*[[QA Plate]]
*Pressure gauge
*[[Controller Box]]
}}

==Status==
[[Image:creationreplication.jpg|thumb|James Slades' first independent replication of the CEB Press in process as of Sep. 2, 2011. Welding the soil loading drawer.]]
*Currently the CEB is at product release status and is being actively manufactured at Factor e Farm and in Texas. The presses will be used heavily as a part of the [[Factor e Farm Infrastructure Buildout 2011]].
*The CEB documentation is being actively upgraded to meet [[Fabrication_Procedure_Standards]] with the goal of serving as a reference implementation for [[GVCS]] documentation.
*Eventually the [[CNC Torch Table|torch table]] will be used to automate the fabrication of the CEB machine, reducing fabrication time by an estimated 20 hours and, thus, the cost to build the machine.
*The first independent replication is in process as of Sep. 2, 2011, by [[James Slade]] and Jason Smith in Texas.

==See Also==
*[[CEB Design]]
*[[Compressed Earth Blocks]]
*[[Cinva Ram]]

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Getting
Involved
 


We
aim to make this one of the most collaborative projects in the world,
and we aim to train movement entrepreneurs dedicated to developing
distributive enterprise.
 

So,
You Want to Build a New Civilization?

 


All
right. Please go to the OSE Wiki and sign in. You will see a list of
the <A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/GVCS">50 GVCS
technologies</A>, There is plenty of work left on the GVCS 50. Pick
one, and start contributing information. There is research and
development, where you can contribute conceptual design, analysis of
industry standards, diagrams, prior art, background research, and
other supporting information. Then comes the design stage – CAD,
calculations, simulations, CAE analysis, fabrication drawings, etc.
Peer review is useful. Then comes the build – which requires a bill
of materials., sourcing, and a facility to build. We encourage you to
work remotely and contribute test data. We invite you to write a
<A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Proposal_Template">Proposal
Brief</A>, and we can fund your work upon technical merit. Or you can
come for a <A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Dedicated_Project_Visits">Dedicated
Project Visit</A> to Factor e Farm.

 


The
first step you should take when you get involved is to fill out the
<A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Team_Culturing">Team
Culturing Survey</A>. This helps to provide transparency and to
introduce you to the rest of the global team. The beauty of the
project is that collaborative development is beginning to take place
24/7 around the world. We should also develop a better human
resources platform – where people are listed by their skills and
contributions, promises and delivered products – so it becomes
transparent who is doing work and fulfilling on their promises. This
applies to volunteers and paid people.

 


How
do you know what are the current priorities? First, see the Wiki, and
the basic approach is - “If it is not on the wiki, it doesn't
exist.” From this point, you have to analize the state of
development critically. If it is not clearly documented on the wiki,
it is probably in development or untested. Click on any device at the
<A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/GVCS">50 GVCS technologies</A>
page. Ask yourself: Is there a project leader? What preliminary
research has been done? Does full CAD exist? Are full fabrication
procedures documented? Does a complete PDF of plans exist that you
can take to your local fabricator? Does economic analysis exist so
you can start your own enterprise? If not, those are to be completed
– and it is a chance for you to get involved.

 


Current
project leaders as of 12/25/11 include:

 

<OL>
<LI>
Yoonseo
Kang – CNC Circuit Mill, Inverter component of the Universal Power
Supply
<LI>
Brianna
Kufa – Ironworker Machine
<LI>
Mark
Norton – Modern Steam Engine
<LI>
Larry
Dobson – Gasifier Burner and Heat Exchanger
<LI>
James
Slade, Mike Apostol – CEB Press, LifeTrac
<LI>
Tom
Griffing – Power Cube
<LI>
Marcin
Jakubowski – CNC Torch Table, Induction Furnace
<LI>
Aaron
Makaruk – Resource Development
<LI>
Mike
Apostol – OS CAD/CAM solution


</OL>

Contact
these leaders on the latest progress.

 


The
wiki is a huge sandbox, and the magic of it is that over time, even
with many random contributions, editors organize content into a more
cohesive form. The basic product template for each of the
technologies at the <A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/GVCS">GVCS
50</A> page contains general headings. You can search for information
on the wiki, and if you find something relevant to one of the
headings, you can edit to put the content at the right place.

 


Is
a technology of your choice not part of the official 50 GVCS list?
Then start new pages on the wiki for non-GVCS tools. The wiki is
infinitely expandable. The GVCS is only a limited but sufficient set
– limited so it remains a tractable project with a clear
deliverable. We don't really know if the choices made are the best –
but we will reevaluate after the set is done by year-end 2012. We
can't tell until we see all the devices work together as a complete
set. We just selected the 50 best ones according to <A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/OSE_Specifications">OSE
Specifications</A> and the <A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Product_Selection_Metric">Product
Selection Metric</A> almost 4 years ago.

 


If
you are a subject matter expert, designer, video editor, CAD
draftsman, or other technical contributor in any of the 50
technologies – you are welcome to bid on work. We suggest you
submit a Proposal Brief. The key to the project is finding qualified
people – and we found that word of mouth and references from
trusted sources tend to provide best results. Help us find these
people. 


 


We
are also looking for full time people to join Factor e Farm –
master builder, farmer, fabrication manager, CEO, CTO, and
co-founder. With the farmer - we need to continue field testing the
equipment while feeding our team. With the builder, we want to
continue building out infrastructure, building out our electrical
grid. With the fabrication manager, we want to continue production
runs as a first-hand test of our economic significance, and to
continue building the tools that we use on site. We are looking for
startup instigators, not employees – as this type of risk-sharing
is part of the responsibility that we seek in our partners. 


 


There
are other support roles. We also welcome you to join us in resource
development – the OSE Enterprise is an open business plan that you
can use. We are working on developing remote video editing capacity,
where you can edit remotely after downloading footage from our
repository – such as YouTube. Our current plant is to use
smartphones for constant uploads of content – indexed by topic.
Then, remote editors can take the content to make quality videos from
the raw footage. We are also looking for ongoing CAD, fabrication
drawing, simulation, and analysis support for prototyping.

 


At
best, as the team grows at Factor e Farm, remote support functions
would include: 


 

<OL>
<LI>
video
editing support – ongoing instructionals
<LI>
CAD
support – converting videos with measurements into CAD files;
<LI>
Fabrication
drawings support – converting CAD files into fabrication drawings
that one can take to a local fabricator
</OL>
<OL START=3>
<LI>
CAE
support – converting CAD files into CAE analysis for structural,
thermal and other properties;
<LI>
modeling
support – animations modeling the function of machines, as part of
explanatory material 

<LI>
blogging
support – keeping track of a project with the project lead to
provide regular blog updates on a given project – such as checking
in ½ hour each week by phone and writing a blog post. Strong
journalism/reporting/creative writing skills are required to provide
context and to pique the reader's interest. This is critical as we
have a regular backlog of reporting from Factor e Farm and other
locations.
<LI>
collaboration
support – dedicated searching for allied efforts, collaborators,
peer reviewers, funding support, bidders, subject matter experts,
and any other support that 

<LI>
media
and music repository support – keeping a repository of <A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/High_Resolution_GVCS_Media">high
resolution media</A>, graphics, diagrams, and other materials for
use in press releases, reports, and other publications; <A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Open_Source_Soundtracks">open
source soundtrack</A> repository for videos
<LI>
nonprofit
fundraising – join <A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Aaron_log">Aaron
Makaruk</A> in raising funds for OSE. See his <A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Contract_Aaron">sample
contract</A>.
</OL>

 

OSE
Branches and Allied Efforts

 


There
are 3 main forms of OSE-related operations: independent OSE efforts,
chartered OSE organizations, and certified OSE/GVCS Producers

 

<OL TYPE=I>
<LI>
Independent
OSE Efforts
</OL>

 


OSE
is a movement to create an open source economy by developing and
using economically significant, open source information (open product
and process design and techniques of production). OSE refers to more
than just an open source economy. The distinction is that OSE
produces not only open design, but also produces distributive
enterprise as the means to affect the economic process. On top of
this, it connects to environmental regeneration and social justice as
discussed at the <A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Open_Source_Ecology_Paradigm">OSE Paradigm</A> section.

 


We
encourage that the OSE message be spread far and wide as the third
economic paradigm. To this end, we do not restrict anybody from using
the OSE name as long as they are following the <A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Open_Source_Ecology_Paradigm">OSE Paradigm</A>. Others
are welcome to use the official OSE name or official logo in branding
their work or group as an independent OSE effort, without explicit
permission, if they are an individual, group, or organization.
Independent OSE Efforts are intended to promote that work of OSE,
while not demanding that any resources on the part of OSE
International.

 


To
be an independent OSE effort in good standing – the effort may be
one or more of the following:

 

<OL>
<LI>
A
user of GVCS technologies
<LI>
Doing
outreach about the <A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Open_Source_Ecology_Paradigm">OSE Paradigm</A>
<LI>
Developer
or prototyper of GVCS technologies
<LI>
Engaging
in the development of any other, non-GVCS technologies while
publishing designs and open business models. We believe in open
everything, and the wiki is infinitely expandable. We recommend that
you publish on the <A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Main_Page">OSE
Wiki</A> for recognition
<LI>
An
effort for raising money (nonprofit sector or otherwise) by using
the OSE brand. In the case that you are raising money, we request
that if you use the OSE brand, that you contribute 25% of your net
funding raised to promote the work of OSE International. This money
will be used directly for GVCS prototyping in 2012, so your funding
will help the entire movement to achieve its goals faster.
</OL>

 


While
others are allowed to use the GVCS designs for profit - they are not
allowed to use the official OSE logo to brand their products. They
are welcome to sell products under their own label. If one wants to
sell products under the official OSE/GVCS label, then one is required
to become a certified OSE/GVCS producer, as discussed below.

 


If
you are using the OSE identity to run some form of operation or
effort, please let the greater community know as a matter of
courtesy, by posting your organization's name, date formed, contact
details, and activities at <A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Independent_OSE_Efforts">Independent
OSE Groups</A> on the wiki.

 

<OL TYPE=I START=2>
<LI>
Chartered
OSE Organizations – OSE Development Facilities
</OL>

 


OSE
has a good chance to change the world. To maintain and enhance a
strong identity as a world-changing organization that produces
transformation of economies, we are setting high standards for new
facilities. New facilities, if chartered as an official part of the
core development work of OSE, must comply with the distributive
economic goals of the <A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Open_Source_Ecology_Paradigm">OSE Paradigm</A>. Moreover, if the OSE Paradigm is
indeed effective – then the new organization should have a
significant and visible effect on the economy – not only in terms
of achieving a post-scarcity economy on its own soil – but also in
instigating the same in surrounding communities. Visible economic and
political transformation should occur on sub-decade timescales in
these communities. A network of thousands of communities as such is
expected to arise within about 3 years of GVCS completion of year-end
2012. This is a seed for thorough global transition to the open
source economy, and to Open Source Ecology.

 


To
achieve this, a Chartered OSE Organization must be:

 

<OL>
<LI>
A
land-based facility, where the land is placed in a trust as a site
of permanent human heritage. This is intended to guarantee
continuity and significance to any new effort of this nature. 

<LI>
A
beacon of light for its local community, which demonstrates in
itself a functional community operating under the conditions of
material post-scarcity.
<LI>
A
development and education center and a place of lifelong learning,
with the ideal of creating the next generation of responsible
stewards of their communities and of the greater world in the
context of the open source economy.
<LI>
A
productive facility and a product development center capable of
producing all of its essential needs from local resources.
<LI>
A
change agent for surrounding communities, the success of which is
measured by the adoption of open source economic and OSE practices
in the surrounding communities
<LI>
Populated
by full-time individuals who live a post-scarcity economy lifestyle
– where a high standard of living is achieved from local
productivity.
</OL>

 


The
enabling technology base for such a community is the complete set of
50 GVCS tools, or a related infrastructure package that provides for
all of the community's material and energy resources.

 


The
above is not an easy task, and we are looking for initial discussions
with small core groups of movement entrepreneurs interested in
starting such new facilities. These core groups must have
demonstrated the practical, tactical, and people skills to organize
rapid learning and development efforts required for the successful
startup of such communities.

 


The
benefit of OSE-chartered status is the publicity, funding, and access
that comes from that relationship. We are willing to consider other
types of chartered organizations under specific terms. Otherwise,
another route is operating as an independent OSE effort as in the
previous section.

 


 

<OL TYPE=I START=3>
<LI>
Certified
OSE Producers


</OL>

OSE
International is currently developing training programs and
infrastructures for producer training. Typically, a producer is a
skilled craftsman who picks up additional skills during a build of
one or more complete machines as part of their training. Another
route to producer training is for independent producers to submit
finished copies of devices for quality control approval by members of
the OSE International certification committee. 


 


Certified
producers may sell under the OSE brand. OSE can provide marketing
assistance. In return for certification, OSE Certified Producers are
required to pay 5% of their net. This funding goes to support the
development of the GVCS and the replication of OSE Development
Facilities. Non-certified producers do not have to pay a license fee
if they sell under their own label. 


 

Chartered
OSE Organizations

 


Becoming
a chartered OSE Organization is not a task to be taken lightly, as
the goal of OSE as a movement is to produce disruptive change.
Starting a branch means creating the substance of the next economy.
Our goal is to create a strong identity for OSE as a clear and
positive change agent who delivers tangible results. Anything short
of this is diluting the message, and does not help the movement as a
whole.

 


If
you would like to be endorsed as an official OSE facility, the first
thing is a charter – defining your goals clearly. This includes the
resources you aim to secure, distributive enterprises that you aim to
develop – and the team that will help you get there.

 We
are interested in assisting startup facilities in the full
capitalization and infrastructure to create powerful development and
productive facilities – starting with land. To facilitate this –
we suggest that the timing for this would occur after the 50 GVCS
tools are developed, or after Dec. 21, 2012. The reason for this is
that once the 50 tools are available, startup costs will be decreased
significantly – perhaps from $1M for a new facility to $100k. 


 


We
aim to provide startup assistance in the form of immersion training
and capitalization assistance. We suggest that a core team of 2-4
people come to Factor e Farm for 6 months of immersion training. The
core team would pick up a wide range of practical village
construction skills – from digital fabrication, integrated
agriculture, renewable energy, housing construction, and others. This
training may be funded by grants or production earnings.
 

Capitalization
Assistance Model

 


During
the immersion training, trainees will have a chance to build real
products that can be sold. With the economic power of the GVCS and
social capital of OSE, marketing is not expected to be a barrier to
successful fundraising by production. We expect that a single trainee
should be able to generate $5k of value per month, assuming ½ time
participation in production at 50% capacity compared to a
professional fabricator. We have initial evidence that with proper
guidance and sound ergonomic design of the workshop – this is a
realistic proposition. For a 6 month duration, that is $30k value
generated per person. This is sufficient to generate significant
capital for startup. If the cost of training is $10k per person, then
a core team of 4 trainees can leave their 6 month immersion training
with: (1), a highly integrated, practical skill set covering all
sectors of the productive economy (agriculture, construction, energy,
technology); (2), connection to a network of change agents around the
globe; and (3), $80k of startup capital for their own facility.

 


This
is the type of commitment that we expect from startup instigators in
other locations around the world – if the expectation is full
endorsement and support from OSE headquarters.

 

Note
On Strategy
 


In
2013, we will be expanding to other goods and services, but for now,
we are focusing on the GVCS 50 as the strategic core. Once developed,
this will provide the track record, process, and economic power to
diversify into other products and to facilitate the creation of
communities, enterprises, and new countries. Remember that this is an
Apollo Program for the GVCS – and we expect to finish the 50 beta
product releases by December 21, 2012. If things continue as they are
now, we may be done ahead of schedule. Completion of the GVCS
provides everyone with a much larger index of possibilities for 2013.

 


Strategically,
OSE International is putting all its effort into securing and
allocating the $5.5M that it will take to develop the GVCS 50 by
year-end 2012. This is a monumental organizational task, and it
requires our full attention. Anything not related to this plan is a
distraction to the core effort. We ask the rest of the community to
help out in the GVCS 50, and in particular, in the Factor e Farm
experiment. This focus has to happen for only 1 year. Access to all
the 50 technologies will mean about a 10x reduction in startup cost
of any new OSE-related effort. The GVCS 50 is key to viral
replication. Therefore, it is better for the whole movement that all
effort is spent on the GVCS 50 – and get it done even ahead of
schedule. Then, the possibility of viral replication will be real. 


 


If
you are considering replication right now – you have to consider
that we have only 4 beta product releases – which does not address
fuel, power, or fabrication aspects of a robust community. Yes, new
facilities can be built right now – but at high startup costs. My
personal frustration is that everyone thinks that we have all the
technology already. We don't – we are in development – and
moreover, these products need to go through the thousands of hours
necessary for general adoption by the rest of the world. As such I
ask this Christmas day that we all work together to get there, and
magic will follow.

 


I
know that many people are itching to get involved – this was
exactly my state about 6 years ago. I found out that access to the
enabling tools crushed my whole initial plan. That is a condition
that anyone will still face today – until many more of the GVCS 50
tools are done. We have too few of the tools developed as of yet to
make replication a painless process. Even with all the tools
available – there are enough things that can go wrong – that my
best advice to anyone is not to do this until all the tools are
available. It will simply be easier for everybody involved.

 


We
would like to continue making this one of the most collaborative
projects in the world: open engineering, open economic development,
and distributive enterprise for the common good. Let's work together
to make this happen.

 

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Tactical
Approach

 


To
create an open source economy, we are starting with a small but
sufficient subset, the GVCS 50. By developing the GVCS technology
kernel, we enable the community-based solution of relocalized
production. Because the GVCS tools are selected based on their large
economic significance, this has widespread applications – such as
enterprise startup, regeneration of urban decay, and building of
communities – both in the developed and developing world. Because
the GVCS is comprehensive, it is designed to provide a robust
solution for rebuilding communities from the ground up.

 

Rollout
Plan

 


We
currently have $1/2M of funding to begin rapid parallel development
of the GVCS, with development of 14 further tools starting January 1,
2012. We aim to produce beta product releases of most of these tools
by April 1, 2012. From then, we will deploy the remaining 32
technologies, while documenting all results with global CAD and
instructionals support. Our goal is to secure a total of $5.5M for
2012 by January 31, 2012. We are including $2.5M for prototyping,
$2.5M for documentation and field testing, and $1/2M for deploying
the fully-featured, open source CAD/CAM solution. See OSE Enterprise
Plan video.

 


We
have grown from about $20k/year for the past 4 years to $500k in the
last 2 months, and we have the ambitious goal of $5M more secured
within one month. We pride ourselves in efficiency of resource
allocations. We spend about 98% of our resources directly on
prototypes built, and our overhead for the nonprofit sector donations
is 2% via a fiscal sponsor. We encourage you to donate and to put
your energy into this work. We are doing a lot of the development
with volunteers, and Factor e Farm is the main development facility.
We are also outsourcing as much of the design, prototyping, and
documentation work as possible – as funding allows. Increased
resources mean increased burn-down rate for the GVCS 50 technologies.

 


The
next 14 tools are:

 

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<LI>
CNC
Multimachine – we are currently considering Dan Granett, a
precision machining expert – to build out the CNC Multimachine,
while utilizing any relevant techniques from a collaborating group -
the Open Source Multimchine project 

<LI>
CNC
Circuit Mill – Yoonseo Kang is the project lead on this at
Factor e Farm, and we are considering the <A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/SnapLock">SnapLock
CNC</A> as our platform of choice, evaluating it at present before
starting deployment in January. Proposal Brief is forthcoming.
<LI>
Ironworker
Machine – Brianna Kufa is project lead, with initial design work
completed, and Proposal Brief forthcoming. We currently have a
<A HREF="http://blog.opensourceecology.org/2011/12/ironworker-shear-assembly-challenge-live-at-grabcad/">design
challenge up on GrabCAD</A> to develop an open source cutting blade
design.
<LI>
CNC
Torch Table – prototype I has been tested in producing tractor
parts with success, and optimization is needed for the software
tool-chain. We are currently considering an upgraded gantry shown
under <A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/CNC_Torch_Table">Prototype
II on the wiki</A>, a simple DIY design which has seen many hundreds
of hours of production time and is a stable design. Z height control
needs to be developed.
<LI>
Induction
Furnace – <A HREF="http://blog.opensourceecology.org/2010/02/open-source-induction-furnace-continued/">conceptual
design</A> done. Considering recruiting consulting assistance from
<A HREF="http://www.superior-power-components.com/">Superior
Induction</A>. Looking for subject matter experts to join this
project, Dedicated Project Visit or remote collaboration.
<LI>
Sawmill
– Prototype I 75% complete, ready for motor and blade attachment;
looking for Dedicated Project Visitor for field testing.
<LI>
Backhoe
– <A HREF="http://www.enniss.net/">Enniss Inc.</A> is being
considered for prototyping. 

<LI>
Bulldozer
– considering modified LifeTrac frame and weights, jack shaft
wheel drive and steel wheels like in old agricultural traction
engines from 100 years ago; 10,000 lb weight for first prototype.
<LI>
Well-drilling
rig – considering design consulting from Enniss, Inc. Looking
for subject matter experts.
<LI>
Modern
Steam Engine – current plan is to use the <A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Modern_Steam_Engine_Build">Wally
Munster</A> scalable modern design. Collaboration with Tom Kimmel of
Steam Auto Club of America to develop a plant for the next
generation of modern steam Power Cubes, about 4x3x3 feet in size for
s 25 hp Prototype 1. Plant includes Gasifier Burner, Heat
Exchanger, oil pump, water pump. Plan for Heat Exchanger is to
work with Tom using his open source coil winder.
<LI>
Gasifier
Burner – Larry Dobson is completing plans for an <A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Gasifier_Burner_with_Heat_Exchanger_Prototype_I">advanced
gasifier burner</A> with heat exchanger for heating water. Plans
will be completed on January 31, 2011.
<LI>
Pelletizer
– Need design and fabrication drawings. Can be fabricated by
Sweiger Shop readily. See pelletizer dies on <A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Pelletizer/Research_Development">research
and development page</A> - and design around those.
<LI>
Power
Inverter – following the development of the CNC circuit mill,
we will prototype the inverter. Need power electronics subject
matter experts to join the team.
<LI>
Solar
Concentrator – the current plan is to build on documentation
available from the <A HREF="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Solarfire">SolarFire
project</A>. Collaborating with <A HREF="http://www.calpoly.edu/~phys/faculty_pages/pschwartz.html">Dr.
Peter Schwartz</A> of Cal Poly on design evaluation.
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Hi my name is Marcin - founder of Open Source Ecology.

Today, we are proud to share the full documentation of our first 4 tools in the Global Village Construction Set -- the tools of construction. We’re publishing everything that you’ll need to build yourself - an automated Compressed Earth Brick Press, Multipurpose Tractor, Soil Pulverizer, and Hydraulic Power Unit. We are also including initial testing data from CEB construction in 2011.

Full plans are now complete and available for the 4 machines - in beta release - suggested for use by developers and makers. '''These now await the thousands of hours of field testing necessary for general adoption by the rest of the world.''' So please join us as early adopters - and do your part - to demonstrate the power of open source hardware.

Let's build open source. Let's build - civilization.

Merry Christmas 2011 - this is our Christmas Gift to the World.

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The
Open Source Ecology Paradigm
Marcin
Jakubowski, Ph.D., 12.24.2011
part
of the OSE Christmas Gift to the World of 2011
 

Introduction
 

The Open Source
Ecology Paradigm is an idea that the open source economy is a route
to human prosperity in harmony with natural life support systems. 

 

Open Source Ecology (OSE) is a movement
to create the open source economy. The movement consists of hundreds
of entrepreneurs, producers, engineers, makers, and supporters around
the world – who believe in the power of open
– who share the open
ethic. The 'Ecology' in the name refers to the interaction of
natural and human ecosystems – the environmental, societal, and
technological systems – as they interact along open
principles. Read a further description of the OSE concept as it was
formulated initially in 2003 (see Appendix below). Since then, the concept
has evolved to a platform for creating distributive enterprise, as a
solid foundation for a sound economy - a third economic option beyond
capitalism or socialism. The distributive economy paradigm centers
around open access to efficient production as a means to transcend
artificial material scarcity. The paradigm uses open source tools and
techniques to produce advanced civilization – by unleashing the
power of the responsible
use of technology.
 

The main current
project of OSE is the Global Village Construction Set – a set of 50
Industrial Machines that allow for the creation of a small scale
civilization with modern comforts. 

 

OSE
Mission
 


The
mission of Open Source Ecology is to create an open source economy -
an economy that optimizes both production and distribution, while
providing environmental regeneration and social justice.

 

Overview
of the OSE Paradigm

 


The
backbone of Open Source Ecology is open access to
economically-significant information – product designs, techniques,
and rapid learning materials for achieving this. Collaborative
development, 24/7 around the globe, leads to best practice designs -
accessible openly via the internet. When economic productivity is
unleashed as such, there is a direct effect on community prosperity.
As a result of lowered barriers to entry, each community can increase
the range of products and services that it can provide. Global
collaboration in open product and process design leads to best
practices being commonly available. This is opposed to the dominant
paradigm of today – where a few companies having the best products
or monopoly control, and by definition, the rest is mediocre. Open
economic development has the potential to raise the bar on the
quality of products in the productive economy – as opposed to the
enforcement of mediocrity through protectionism and monopoly.

 


All
wealth comes from nature – rocks, plants, sunlight, and water.
These are found ubiquitously. Yet the presence of strategic resources
results in conflicts over their appropriation. “Hey, that's my oil
under your land.” Open source technology can address this problem –
via principles of substitutability. There are many routes to
producing any economically significant product or service. Resilience
of communities depends on having a diversity of options. As open
access to technology becomes commonplace, every community can
increase its level of productivity and appropriate technology – to
the point that it can substitute any strategic material with local
options – without any reduction in the standard of living – while
contributing positively to global peace. 


 


Transparency
of the connection between technology and nature means that people
begin to respect nature. This happens when people begin to respect
that their well-being comes from nature. This transparency is
facilitated when economically productive activities happen as close
to the community as possible – not out of sight, out of mind in
remote locations. This is true environmental accountability – as
one tends to not destroy their own environment. Thus, there is a
direct connection between transparency of production to natural
regeneration – as people begin to make more sound production
choices – by understanding the connection of production to the
land. This means that industry no longer needs to occur in the form
of toxic wastelands – but instead – eco-industry, on a human
scale – serving the needs of people, not centralized industries
competing for world domination. 


 


Thus,
technology and technological literacy are a way to reconnect to
nature – not to destroy it.

 


The
above depends on increasing the density of knowhow and technology in
every community – which comes from the open paradigm – open
information, open communication, open everything. The limit of
optimal density of productive knowhow is the point that any community
is capable of producing the full range of essential resources
necessary for it to exist, grow, and prosper. This is not to say that
trade should not happen – but for community stability – trade
should be avoided on essential products that the community needs. As
much as a community would want otherwise – when placed in a
scarcity condition – rationality goes out the window and people
start to kill each other.

 


For
the first time in history – we have a chance to do otherwise.
Unleashed access to information and technology – as availed by the
computer age – means that any conflicts related to material
scarcity can become a thing of the past. This includes resource
conflicts, poverty, overpopulation, and even bureaucracy – as
bureaucracy is not much more than a mechanism to manage scarce
resources. Further, regulatory costs are minimized via technological
transparency - as a technologically-literate populace of the open
source age becomes increasingly responsible for its own actions.

 


This
is not a case for conflict between the rich and poor, the city or the
country, the first or third worlds – it is a case where open
access to information helps everyone. As barriers to entry are
lowered, social upheaval is minimized. As production remains high –
and increases due to the elimination of competitive waste –
prosperity can only increase.

 


This
is a paradigm shift. That is the core of Open Source Ecology.

 


This
does not address evolving as humans – in cultural and scientific
advancement - or in wisdom that prevents us from reverting to
insanity. Open Source Ecology only lays a starting point and
foundation - from which evolution becomes possible.

 

Open

 

We
support everything open.
See the notions of open
at the Shuttleworth Foundation -
<A HREF="http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/about-us/our-philosophy/open-reporting/">http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/about-us/our-philosophy/open-reporting/</A>

 

Economy
and Ecology

 


Distributive
Enterprise - The distinguishing feature of this paradigm is a
focus on distributive enterprise – open publishing of not only
product designs, but also of open enterprise models so that others
can replicate best practices. There is a direct relationship between
open design and lowering of barriers to entry. Productive enterprise
forms the backbone for communities' infrastructures and their
prosperity. Open access to unprecedented high densities of productive
information means economic prosperity – and everybody wins.

 


The
open source economy is an economic system marked by open access to
best-practice designs and techniques for producing
economically-significant products and services. One feature of the
open source economy is Industry 2.0 – or distributed, flexible
production – where access to a down-loadable repository of open
source design feeds local, multipurpose digital fabrication
facilities. Such facilities - or powerful Microfactories - can
produce just about anything that a community will need - local food,
energy, housing, or cars. This is distinct from centralized
production facilities that exist today.

 


An
open source economy produces designs by global collaboration, with
development cycles 24/7 around the globe. When a sufficient number of
stakeholders join a development process, it is a matter of time
before the development cycle yields the best designs – and these
designs evolve continuously.

 

Integrated
Economy –
open
fosters rapid learning (open IP) and low capitalization (open source
products) – ie., lower barriers to entry. Lower barriers to entry
indicate that a single economic agent can have a broader range of
productivity, therefore more resilience from economic shocks. In the
limit of extreme diversity on the part of the producers, every
community can attain a complete economy. If product evolution
involves advanced techniques for material substitution, then every
community can attain a complete economy based
on local resources.
This is the solution to resource conflicts. This is stability in the
face of global economic upheaval.

 

The
end of artificial material scarcity –
Artificial material scarcity may be defined as the condition where –
in the absolute abundance of resources – namely rocks, plants,
water, and sunlight – the distribution to humans is drastically
uneven. Lowering barriers to entry helps to distribute production
more widely. Product optimization from open development includes
optimization for lifetime of use. Lifetime design (ie, lower
maintenance costs), combined with high productivity and low barriers
to entry - indicates that material abundance can be the general human
condition. This is a solution to poverty.

 

Transparency
of Resource Use and Feedback
– Rapid learning in the open source economy helps people gain
numeracy and technological literacy. Technological literacy promotes
the understanding of production – and specifically, the
relationship between natural resources and human population. Local
resource use fosters a high level of resource feedback loops – as
the state of the local environment is easily observable. Such
transparency of resource use is the solution to overpopulation in a
rational (materially abundant) society. 


 

Lower
Cost –
by eliminating competitive waste, the cost of buying or making open
source products is reduced significantly. 


 

Competitiveness
with Globalization
- When
IP access barriers are eliminated in the open source economy, cost of
production is reduced to production capitalization and labor. The
cost of production capitalization, under the assumption of flexible
fabrication assisted by automation - goes to zero in the scenario of
community-supported manufacturing (think Open Source Fab Lab in every
community). In the open economy of DIY ethics and local capacity and
transparency - the cost of labor goes down – as the user can also
learn to be the producer. In the limit of DIY ethic, this cost,
defined as cost of external labor - goes to zero – and is replaced
by one's time. Further, in the limit of lifetime-design products, the
time
required for production is minimized, as production has to happen
only once. Thus, competitiveness with globalization is achieved by
zero access barriers and local skill, and local social capital – a
different paradigm. 


 

Ecology

 

Closing
the Nature-Technology Divide
– Truly sound technology is not at odds with nature. We have a
choice to produce technology in an environmentally sound way. For
just about every harmful and polluting industrial process, a clean
alternative may be found. Biomimicry shows us the way to do this in
many cases. Moreover, truly sound technology should bring us closer
to nature - 


ie,
if we appreciate that nature provides all material wealth, we are
inclined to take care of nature. This is a case for educating
generalists – not technologists or environmentalists – people who
understand technology deeply to the point that they respect nature –
and people who understand the environment deeply to the point that
they they respect technology. Technological literacy is facilitated
by introduction of true technical education, as opposed to industry
standard marketing forces. 


 

Product
Development Ecology
– In the mainstream, the designer is not the draftsman, the
draftsman is not the engineer, the engineer is not the fabricator,
the fabricator is not the user, and the user is not the repairman.
While is is touted as the pinnacle of specialization, this introduces
a lack of accountability between all these steps, and therefore,
inferior product design when considered from the human ergonomic
factors, product service, environmental issues, or wealth
distribution issues. Open source design addresses this, as it is
design by the people, for the people – and it is infinitely
customizable.

 

Environmental
Regeneration – There is a
direct link between open source technology and environmental
integrity. Open technology implies optimal technology – and one
part of optimization is optimization for environmental friendliness.
Thus, the trend of environmental degradation can be reversed to
regeneration.
 

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Appendix –
Legacy Site for OSE
 

This is the
legacy site for Open Source Ecology from 2005. 

 

Archived on
February 10, 2005, see Mission at
<A HREF="http://web.archive.org/web/20050210084651/http://sourceopen.org/">http://web.archive.org/web/20050210084651/http://sourceopen.org/</A>


 


Our
Mission
by <A HREF="mailto:marcin@sourceopen.org">Marcin
Jakubowski</A>,
11.30.03
<BLOCKQUOTE STYLE="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; widows: 2; orphans: 2">
 I.
What is Open Source?</BLOCKQUOTE>
Open
Source refers to the model of providing goods and services which
includes the possibility of the end-user's participation in the
production of these goods and services. This concept has already been
demonstrated in Linux, the open source computing system. With Linux,
a large number of software developers have contributed to creating a
viable alternative to the proprietary Windows computer operating
system. Many people can readily see the advantages- all Linux
software is free. Please read these articles on the concept of <A HREF="http://web.archive.org/web/20050204102323/http://sourceopen.org/webpage/GlobalBizNet_OS_1.pdf">Open
Source software</A> and
its implications for <A HREF="http://web.archive.org/web/20050204102323/http://sourceopen.org/webpage/GlobalBizNet_OS_2.pdf">changing
business</A>.   
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II. What is
Open Source Economics?</BLOCKQUOTE>
Our
mission is to extend the Open Source model to the provision any goods
and services- Open Source Economics. This means opening access to the
information and technology which enables a different economic system
to be realized, one based on the integration of  natural
ecology, social ecology, and industrial ecology. This economic system
is based on open access- based on widely accessible information and
associated access to productive capital- distributed into the hands
of  an increased number of people. Read about an inspiring
example of such an economic model being currently put into practice
with respect to manufacturing <A HREF="http://web.archive.org/web/20050204102323/http://sourceopen.org/webpage/OS_Car.pdf">vehicles</A>.

We believe that a
highly distributed, increasingly participatory model of production is
the core of a democratic society, where stability is established
naturally by the balance of  human activity with sustainable
extraction of natural resources. This is the opposite of the current
mainstream of centralized economies, which have a structurally
built-in tendency towards of overproduction.   
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III. What is
Open Source Ecology?</BLOCKQUOTE>
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We derive our
organization's name from a concept which refers to the integration of
the natural, societal, and industrial ecologies- Open Source Ecology-
aiming at sustainable and regenerative economics. We are convinced
that a possibility of a quality life exists, where human needs are
guaranteed to the world's entire population- as long as we ask
ourselves basic questions on what societal structures and productive
activities are truly appropriate to meeting human needs for all. At
the end of the day, the goal is to liberate our time to engage in
exactly that which each of us wants to be doing- instead of what we
need to do to survive. All have the potential to thrive. Today, an
increasingly smaller percentage of the world's population is in this
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Hi my name is Marcin - founder of Open Source Ecology.

Today, we are proud to share the full documentation of our first 4 tools in the Global Village Construction Set -- the tools of construction. We’re publishing everything that you’ll need to build yourself - an automated Compressed Earth Brick Press, Multipurpose Tractor, Soil Pulverizer, and Hydraulic Power Unit. We are also including initial testing data from CEB construction in 2011.

Full plans are now complete and available for the 4 machines - in beta release - suggested for use by developers and makers. '''These now await the thousands of hours of field testing necessary for general adoption by the rest of the world.''' So please join us as early adopters - and do your part - to demonstrate the power of open source hardware.

Let's build open source. Let's build - civilization.

Merry Christmas 2011 - this is our Christmas Gift to the World.

-Marcin

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How to Build the 4 Machines in a Basic Workshop

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=Basic Workshop=

A basic workship incudes these tools:

#MIG Welder - 200 amps - $1000 used
#Acetylene Torch - $500
#[[Magnetic Drill]] - $385
#15 Amp and 5 Amp grinders - $80
#Abrasive 14" metal cutoff saw - $150

and other hand tools such as C clamps, vise clamps, a vise, hammers, wrenches, allen wrenches, pipe wrenches, holding magnets, speed square, L angle, mesuring tape, soapstone marker, and others.

'''For about a $2,100 investment in the above tools - one has sufficient tooling to build the entire tractor, CEB press, Pulverizer, and Power Cube.''' The only part not covered is about 2-4 hours of lathe work to produce tractor wheel shaft couplers. Otherwise, all else is obtained by cutting, drilling, and welding of stock steel metal sections. Simplicity of design allows one to build serious equipment with minimal effort. Skill is required - but that skill can be picked up when one really wants to do the

If one has access to a CNC Torch Table, Ironworker Machine, metal band saw - then the cutting and hole-making could go much faster - but for one-off production, the 5 main tools + hand tools above are sufficient.

=Basic Advanced Workshop=

A basic advanced workshop contains these 7 tools:

#CNC Torch Table for cutting steel parts - [http://torchmate.com/products/torchmate_3/ $12k off-shelf] - [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2010/01/reptab-open-source-torch-table-in-make-zine/ $1500 OSE]
#120 Ton Ironworker machine for rapid shearing and hole punching of 1" thick metal - [http://www.edwardsironworkers.com/120ton.html $21k off-shelf] - [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2010/07/open-source-150-ton-hole-puncher/ $1600 OSE (hole punch only)]
#CNC Mill - [http://compare.ebay.com/like/330407948304?ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar&rvr_id=153012188215&crlp=1_263602_304662&UA=L*F%3F&GUID=6cefd2a012a0a06c1b734cc3ffef596b&itemid=330407948304&ff4=263602_304662 $17k used off shelf] - $4k OSE
#CNC Lathe - [http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=400163124262&hlp=false&rvr_id=153032086286&crlp=1_263602_304652&UA=L*F%3F&GUID=6cefd2a012a0a06c1b734cc3ffef596b&itemid=400163124262&ff4=263602_304652 $15k used off shelf] - [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2010/01/initial-steps-to-the-open-source-multimachine/ $4k OSE after CNC addition]
#Heavy Duty Drill Press (2" hole drilling capacity) - [http://www.toolorbit.com/Jet/Jet-354040.html $10k off shelf] - [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2010/07/open-source-drill-press-prototype-debut/ $600 OSE]
#200 Amp MIG Welder - [http://www.google.com/products/catalog?client=ubuntu&q=millermatic+252&oe=utf-8&hl=en&cid=12110604904551249361&ei=iOu1TO3qD4bc2gTE86WrCQ&sa=title&ved=0CAcQ8wIwADgA#p $2k off shelf] - $500 OSE
#Acetylene Torch - [http://www.google.com/products/catalog?client=ubuntu&q=acetylene+torch&oe=utf-8&hl=en&show=dd&cid=14262758315025162865&ei=H-y1TMOhOouA2wSOzJ2pCQ&sa=title&ved=0CCsQ8wIwCTgU#p $400 off shelf]

*'''$77,400 off shelf''' + maintenance costs of the same about every 10 years; for a lifetime (20 yr) enterprise, the cost doubles.
*'''$14,100 OSE cost''' + lifetime service, as people can maintain their own machines.

=Discussion=

This would allow one to build all the above tools (self-replication), plus things like tractors, microtractors (lawnmowers), pelletizers to have people harvest their own fuel from grass clippings; cars; engines, hydraulic motors, and other things from open plans, using CNC assist. The predicted value of labor captured is $100 per hour, or a total return of $16k/person/month with 8 hour shifts in a 1000 sq foot workshop.

Make a 4000 square foot workshop to accommodate 4 people, and you have $64k/month earning capacity with 4 people.

Such earning depends on the full product release plans for all devices, and implies transcendence of artificial material scarcity in communities worldwide.

=So, you want to build a new civilization?=

The best way to do it is to do it. There is no magic. If you see the purpose in this course of action, all you need to do is spend $2.5k, quit your job, and start building. After a few hours of practice, you will gain basic proficiency in torching and welding. If you want to become a master, it will take you a lifetime.

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