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Critics

2013-04-03T16:54:00Z

YK:

Apart from the well documented positive criticism OSE gets (TED, True Fans, ...) we hereby want to give negative critics a chance to be heard. Some of them seem very constructive and might help us and OSE as an organisation to become better:

<blockquote>It is worth noting that '''OSE is hierarchically structured'''([[OSE Governance| Marcin chose to use a Dictatorship]]) and that direct '''democracy is completely absent''' from its values. Folks should push for a democratized OSE/FeF giving participants democratic
control over the group.<ref>Marcus, March 8. 2013 http://forum.opensourceecology.org/discussion/1004/why-is-ose-so-quiet-lately </ref> </blockquote>

<blockquote>There were developers who left because there is no profit sharing for development work and labour when stuff got sold.
ie, you put a lot of time and effort improving the GVCS, and the piece gets sold, you get zilch of the net after material expenses. All went to OSE/Marcin.<ref>eBell, http://forum.opensourceecology.org/discussion/1004/why-is-ose-so-quiet-lately</ref> </blockquote>

<blockquote>All I see lately is voting to win money, etc. I understand the crowd funding thing didn't take off as envisioned. So no more bi-weekly ose mail? no updates anywhere (meaningful updates)<ref> Qdelima, http://forum.opensourceecology.org/discussion/1004/why-is-ose-so-quiet-lately </ref> </blockquote>

<blockquote>(...) there have been "ragequits" all the time over several years. Note how Yoonseo said he left also due in part by certain behaviour and comments by Marcin<ref>Marcin is the founder and self proclaimed leader of OSE</ref>.<ref>Beluga, March 15. 2013, http://forum.opensourceecology.org/discussion/1004/why-is-ose-so-quiet-lately</ref> </blockquote>
<br><br>
*Statement from Brianna, who was on site developing and fabricating GVCS products for 5 months as stated on http://forum.opensourceecology.org/discussion/comment/5310#Comment_5310:

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As for me, I left for a few reasons.

(1.) '''Money'''. I was working out there for $10 per hour. Very small for the type of work I was doing- design and fabrication of the ironworker. I saw Marcin unwilling to pay even the most skilled labor more than $2k per month. If you aren't even willing to pay that, how on earth can you expect any quality results? At best you will be getting college students, like me, wanting to contribute, who don't have the skills to make a quality product. Or, you will be getting people doing it as a side thing, guaranteeing no results. I saw the bank accounts, and knew the organization had more than $400k in the bank. As a result, there was nobody there designing the machines. I didn't feel qualified to be designing this stuff. I felt like there should have been experts out there designing it so I could built it. There was nobody. I felt like I was defrauding the investors.

(2.) '''Lies about the quality of the products.''' The brick press produced shit for bricks. They didn't have one flat surface on them. I personally built 4 of these, which were all shipped out without proper testing. One was shipped out a year after it was supposed to be. The power cube worked for a week AT THE LONGEST.

(3.) '''Unsafe living conditions''' and insufficient infrastructure- when I was there, the well water was contaminated, and Marcin refused to fix it. There was literally algae the water tanks, and he was doing nothing to fix it. We had to either buy all water at the store, or drink from the RO system, which I had to personally install. The RO hardly produced 1/2 gallon per day to be spent among 15+ people because of the low pressure coming from the pump at the well. The well was also not producing enough to accomodate all the people there, so we could only use toilets to poop, and had to have VERY short showers.

(4.) Everyone I talked to who was working there had told me, independently, that they had felt "decieved" at their recruitment. That '''they had been lied to to get to come out there'''.
</blockquote>

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*The CAD drawings seem to be inconsistent and lacking quality: http://forum.opensourceecology.org/discussion/915/ceb-press-iv
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2013-04-03T16:49:05Z

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== Office of the Executive Director ==
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| head = Marcin Jakubowski, PhD
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| username = Marcin
| description = {{{OED-desc|A Polish-American who is starting a new civilization -- from scratch -- in the Midwestern US. Marcin came to the U.S. from Poland as a child. He graduated with honors from Princeton and earned his PhD in fusion physics from the University of Wisconsin. Frustrated with the lack of relevance to pressing world issues in his education, he founded Open Source Ecology in 2003 in order to make closed-loop manufacturing a reality. He began development on the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) (see his 2011 TED Talk), an open source do-it-yourself (DIY) tool set of 50 different industrial machines necessary to create a small civilization with modern comforts.

His work has recently been recognized in his acceptance as a [[2012 TED Senior Fellow]], a [[2012 Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow]], and his TED Talk was named the top 6th in the [[Huffington Post Best of TED 2011]]. His goal is to create the open source economy - an economy that optimizes both production and distribution - while providing environmental regeneration and social justice. To this end, Marcin is currently building a team of global collaborators and on-site builders for his land-based facility - to take this from concept to reality. He believes that the open source economy is a prerequisite to autonomy that allows people to pursue mastery - consistent with a higher purpose.}}}
| team =
{{staff member
| name = Parker Bonnell
| username = Parker Bonnell
| position = {{{EA|Executive Assistant to the Executive Director}}}
| image = Parker_Headshot.jpg
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== Global Village Construction Set - Machine Development ==

{{staff member
| name = Tom Griffing
| username = Tom Griffing
| position = Machine Developer <br/>[[Power Cube|Power Cubes V, VI, VII]]
| image = Tom-Griffing---02.jpg
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== Fundraising ==
{{department
| image = Aaron_Makaruk_-_cropped.jpg
| head = Aaron Makaruk
| title = Resource Developer
| username = Aaron Makaruk
| description = The fundraising team develops revenue opportunities to further the mission of Open Source Ecology.
| team =
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== Agriculture ==

== Global Village Construction Set - Documentation ==

{{staff member
| name = Ian Midgley
| username = Ian Midgley
| position = Video Communications Collaborator
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== Information Technology ==
{{department
| image = Ecruz.jpg
| head = Elifarley Cruz
| title = IT Manager
| username = Elifarley
| description = The IT team manages our web sites and supports online operations.
| team =

}}

== Volunteers ==
{{department
| image = Kavitha.jpg
| head = Kavitha Swaminathan
| title = Volunteer
| username = Kavitha
| description = Open Source Ecology is fortunate to attract volunteers from all over the world.
| team =

}}

== Past Participants ==
{{department
| image = OSE_Team_-_Marshall_Hilton.JPG
| head = Marshall Hilton P.E.
| title = Production Director<br/>July - September, 2012
| username = Marshall Hilton
| description = These are previous contributors who lived and worked at Factor e Farm.
| team =
{{staff member
| name = Will Cleaver
| username = William
| position = {{{TGV|Transcendent Global Villager}}}
| image = William.jpg
}}
{{staff member
| name = Will Bratton
| username =
| position = Hardware Developer
| image = Will_Bratton.JPG
}}
{{staff member
| name = Jershonda Baker
| username = Shonda
| position = Volunteer
|image = Shonda_2.jpg
}}
}}
*Thad Getterman
*Brianna Kufa
*Jacob Dalton
*Gabrielle Leblanc
*Aidan Williamson
*Jose Bravo
*Yoonseo Kang
*Parker Bonnell
*Tristan Copley Smith
*Graham Robertson
*Shonda Baker
*Darren Vandervort
*Ted Mosher
*Alexander Briggs
*James Wise
*Mike Apostol
*Matt Schwabauer

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{{clear}}
{{About}}
== Office of the Executive Director ==
{{department
| image = marcinted.jpg
| head = Marcin Jakubowski, PhD
| title = {{{ED|Executive Director}}}
| username = Marcin
| description = {{{OED-desc|A Polish-American who is starting a new civilization -- from scratch -- in the Midwestern US. Marcin came to the U.S. from Poland as a child. He graduated with honors from Princeton and earned his PhD in fusion physics from the University of Wisconsin. Frustrated with the lack of relevance to pressing world issues in his education, he founded Open Source Ecology in 2003 in order to make closed-loop manufacturing a reality. He began development on the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) (see his 2011 TED Talk), an open source do-it-yourself (DIY) tool set of 50 different industrial machines necessary to create a small civilization with modern comforts.

His work has recently been recognized in his acceptance as a [[2012 TED Senior Fellow]], a [[2012 Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow]], and his TED Talk was named the top 6th in the [[Huffington Post Best of TED 2011]]. His goal is to create the open source economy - an economy that optimizes both production and distribution - while providing environmental regeneration and social justice. To this end, Marcin is currently building a team of global collaborators and on-site builders for his land-based facility - to take this from concept to reality. He believes that the open source economy is a prerequisite to autonomy that allows people to pursue mastery - consistent with a higher purpose.}}}
| team =
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| position = {{{EA|Executive Assistant to the Executive Director}}}
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| name = Tom Griffing
| username = Tom Griffing
| position = Machine Developer <br/>[[Power Cube|Power Cubes V, VI, VII]]
| image = Tom-Griffing---02.jpg
}}
}}

== Fundraising ==
{{department
| image = Aaron_Makaruk_-_cropped.jpg
| head = Aaron Makaruk
| title = Resource Developer
| username = Aaron Makaruk
| description = The fundraising team develops revenue opportunities to further the mission of Open Source Ecology.
| team =
<span></span>

}}

== Agriculture ==

== Global Village Construction Set - Documentation ==

{{staff member
| name = Ian Midgley
| username = Ian Midgley
| position = Video Communications Collaborator
| image = 10558759_l_e63be68383907914e60ea725df3df9a4.jpg
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}}

== Information Technology ==
{{department
| image = Ecruz.jpg
| head = Elifarley Cruz
| title = IT Manager
| username = Elifarley
| description = The IT team manages our web sites and supports online operations.
| team =

}}

== Volunteers ==
{{department
| image = Kavitha.jpg
| head = Kavitha Swaminathan
| title = Volunteer
| username = Kavitha
| description = Open Source Ecology is fortunate to attract volunteers from all over the world.
| team =

}}

== Past Participants ==
{{department
| image = OSE_Team_-_Marshall_Hilton.JPG
| head = Marshall Hilton P.E.
| title = Production Director<br/>July - September, 2012
| username = Marshall Hilton
| description = These are previous contributors who lived and worked at Factor e Farm.
| team =
{{staff member
| name = Will Cleaver
| username = William
| position = {{{TGV|Transcendent Global Villager}}}
| image = William.jpg
}}
{{staff member
| name = Will Bratton
| username =
| position = Hardware Developer
| image = Will_Bratton.JPG
}}
{{staff member
| name = Jershonda Baker
| username = Shonda
| position = Volunteer
|image = Shonda_2.jpg
}}
}}
Thad Getterman
Brianna Kufa
Jacob Dalton
Gabrielle Leblanc
Aidan Williamson
Jose Bravo
Yoonseo Kang
Parker Bonnell
Tristan Copley Smith
Graham Robertson
Shonda Baker
Darren Vandervort
Ted Mosher
Alexander Briggs
James Wise
Mike Apostol
Matt Schwabauer

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2013-01-20T00:59:03Z

YK:

This page attempts to collect all of the links to everything OSE that is on GitHub

https://github.com/OSE

http://windows.github.com/

[[Using_Github]]

=Community=

*cd iso's
*:https://github.com/ITopensourceecology/open-souce-ecology-isos

==Web==
*team culturing survey data converter
*:https://github.com/griffordson/ose-csv2wiki
*:https://github.com/subanomic/ose-csv2wiki-de

*mobile web school project
*:https://github.com/bautistaI/Open-Source-Ecology-App
*:https://github.com/cwreid/ose-mobilewebapp

*map?
*:https://github.com/ITopensourceecology/Mappa-OSE

===Server===

*server stuff?
*https://github.com/OSE/infrastructure

===Fundraising===
*True Fans Web App
*:https://github.com/jdalt/ose-specialpage-extension

=Machines=

*part database
*:https://github.com/Xienixs/OSE

==Cold Saw==

*old
*:https://github.com/openspeed/Cold-Saw

==Sawmill==

*theo's
*:https://github.com/Veradrix90/Dimensional-Sawmill

==CNC==

*StepperNug controller
*:https://github.com/OpenCapitalist/StepperNug_Simple_Stepper_Controller

==Lifetrac==

*v3
*:https://github.com/Amakaruk/OSELifeTrac

===Attachments===
*backhoe
*:https://github.com/Amakaruk/OSEBackhoe

==Microtrac==

*https://github.com/spina/MicroTrac

==CEB Press==

===Controller===

*for pause button and sensor control
*:https://github.com/dwiel/ose-cebpress-controller-board
*:[[CEB_Press_Control_Code]]
*::by zack dwiel

*2010
*:https://github.com/OSE/ceb-controller

==Steam==

*empty
*:https://github.com/OSE/steam-engine

2013-01-13T20:12:09Z

YK: /* Workarounds */

==What About Moving Stuff==

Heavy? No wheels? Flat tires? Steep hill? Stuck in mud?

Can't move it.

Look. How easy is it is to grab a pen and walk a mile? Relatively easy.

Can you walk the same distance with a laptop computer? Yes, but mildly harder.

What about with a desktop computer? Maybe. It'll hurt.

A standard size refrigerator? No.

==Without Power Tools==

Let's first consider moving stuff without power tools. We do this all the time.

Clothing! It just hangs onto us everywhere we go.

When we move things close to the center of our body (like how we move our clothing), it can seem effortless.

But start holdings things farther and farther away from your body and the lever action will really take a toll on your body.

Once our back starts bending we lose more and more stability and the bodily danger level jumps rather quickly. Ever tried bending over to pick something off the ground without bending your knees? The back strain!

Anyway- it's good to pay attention to the lever action and how strained and contorted the body is becoming when anyone tries to move stuff. Read the principles on this- it'll save your body- keeping your back straight and bending your knees and so on.

==Handles==

Our hands are a great way to hold and move stuff. Handles are often the difference between moving something with ease or difficulty.

Handles don't need to be exactly hand-fitting or solely as a handle. If you coil up an extension cord you find yourself a nice hole to slide your arm or hand into for carrying the long thing. A laptop computer doesn't have a handle but it's not so bad carrying it under one arm. Pens are small enough to just be handle-able.

But other times, especially with heavier objects, a handle is a must. A full, heavy tool box would be much less useful without a nice handle at the top or side.

==Then Again==

Many times, objects that don't get moved much don't have handles. Refrigerators, for instance, usually don't have a transportation-dedicated handle. Often, people have to find well-shaped contours and grooves to hold onto as a team to move really heavy stuff.

The rationale is probably that it's not worth the effort to add a handle function to something that doesn't move during its use (like furniture), but in practice we really should be making all parts of our technical system easy as possible. It's going to get moved. Make moving it easy.

Just add some handles, dang it- we can always remove it afterwards if aesthetics is the concern. It saves a lot of moving frustration and minimizes the risk of severe injury.

==Wheels==

As objects grow in mass towards the "can't carry" category, wheels are usually the right choice.

One of the problems with wheels is that pneumatic (air-filled) tires can burst, spokes can break, plastic hubs can crack, and so on.

The worst part? If something's heavy enough to have wheels on it, it might become junk on the ground if its tires blow out- it becomes much less junky if it's easy to replace the tires. A wheelbarrow with flat tires might still roll on the ground, but it'll be much harder to move and maneuver with.

Wheels on weird terrain is harsh too. Ever try moving a conventional wheelbarrow across a field of small, medium, and large sized rocks and mini-hills? With a heavy load it's a heck of a challenge. Things spilling everywhere and whatnot. That, mud, water, and plants are where the need came for tank treads and tracks.

Takeaways- have reliable wheels and easy replacements. Use wheels in appropriate conditions and let tracks handle the rest.

==Dependencies==

Sometimes a dependent tool network doesn't seem so bad- assuming that everything still works. Need to move your cement mixer? Oh, it's too heavy? Designed to be moved with a tractor? No tractor? What!

Tool dependency and complexity incurs an important compromise. Example- a shovel and wheelbarrow is slower at moving sand from one place to another than a bucket loader for a tractor; but a tractor has a lot more complexity risk and resource dependencies associated with its need for fuel and hydraulic fluid as well as the reliability of its transmission, steering, and power systems.

Another example- a piece of equipment is engineered such that it takes a very complex technique of hitting and positioning it into a proper form in order to transport it.

Takeaway- reliability is key when it comes to transportation dependencies. People will stick with simple, reliable tools and techniques with good reason until higher-complexity systems become reliable enough (unless the perceived benefit is extraordinary, in which case some are willing to take the risk).

==Workarounds==

Sometimes there's a tough tradeoff between movability and performance. For example, if you have a flat steel table to do work on, then adding a hook on the middle of the table prevents you from placing large objects flat on the table. The hook is nice to hoist and move the table with, but if your workpiece is high-centered and wobbling, that's no good.

Hooks on the side or underneath the table can work, but adds some moving difficulty. It's possible to cut a square hole in the middle of the table and then add a round handle or hook underneath the table that is still accessible from above. Mildly more difficult to move, but at least large stuff can be placed on the table.

Sometimes workarounds for movability are not so easily conceptualized. Other times it seems nigh impossible. Those times will bring out your ability to effectively compromise between important traits of hardware.

==Conclusion==

The world has much to do with moving stuff. If you know what really matters, you'll find moving stuff and designing for ease of transportation a simple thing.

Best of luck.

2013-01-13T19:39:59Z

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