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2012-08-03T10:37:47Z

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	On Feb. 22, 2012, Marcin Jakubowski asked Mark Norton to facilitate the discussion around starting an OSE Car project and help with negotiations.		On Feb. 22, 2012, Marcin Jakubowski asked Mark Norton to facilitate the discussion around starting an OSE Car project and help with negotiations.

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JackMcCornack: The direction of development for the OSE Car project has been determined, so I appended the press release/announcement to this correspondence page. JMcC

2012-03-07T00:26:02Z

The direction of development for the OSE Car project has been determined, so I appended the press release/announcement to this correspondence page. JMcC

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			=March 6, 2012=

			I got an email today from a guy who'd run across this press release link:

			https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hocj_UERHhz2XX6YDfRM6ELfI2Wr60VBbkp38Nv9rLg/edit

			In brief, it announces the OSE partnership with Wikispeed re the OS Car, it quotes Joe Justice and Marcin and it's dated February 24. So it looks like the decision was made a good while ago. It would have saved the rest of us some time if we'd known, but such is life.

			If you're wondering about the non sequiturs, and why some of us were still discussing points that had been settled, it's because the majority of contributors to this discussion weren't privy to the upper levels of correspondence and weren't getting cc'ed as the decisions were made.

			This post may mark the end of the Car/Correspondence page. I suspect it is far from a complete record of the car correspondence, and with the subject of the discussion determined, missing messages are moot and there's not much left to dicuss.
			[JackMcCornack 3/6/2012]

			PS--Here's the text of the press release, but you'll need to click the link above to see the illustrations and get access to the other links.



			Enabling Emerging Markets to Manufacture Their Own Ultra-efficient
			Transportation, WIKISPEED and Open Source Ecology Announce Partnership
			in Open-Hardware Movement

			Seattle, WA, and Maysville, MO, USA (February 24, 2012)

			The open-hardware movement got a tremendous boost today when WIKISPEED,
			an innovative automotive company building modular, high-performance cars
			using agile design principles, and Open Source Ecology (OSE), a group
			committed to providing free plans and processes necessary for building
			the global economy, announced that they are teaming up to revolutionize
			transportation in the developing world.

			Taking on traditional, proprietary manufacturing R & D, the two
			companies aim to create an open-source product-development methodology
			that would allow communities around the world to quickly develop their
			own machinery and processes to support themselves, removing a dependency
			on industrialized nations for costly solutions.

			OSE CEO Marcin Jakubowski is developing the Global Village Construction
			Set, identifying essential machines that are required to build and
			maintain an entire economy. Jakubowski’s work includes publishing the
			blueprints for each piece of equipment and making the plans available
			for free via the Internet.

			Above: Open Source Ecology is developing the Global Village Construction
			Set, the minimum set of tools and machinery for any community to produce
			and maintain a modern infrastructure in its entirety.

			For his part, Joe Justice, founder and team lead of WIKISPEED, has
			pioneered the use of agile rapid-delivery processes (the same method
			used by leading software companies) for physical manufacturing and
			complex problem solving. This application has been highly successful,
			allowing Justice to design and build a high-performance modular car that
			gets 100 mpg and meets all U.S. safety standards, using a globally
			distributed team, of volunteers in just three months.

			Above: The Roadster is only one of WIKISPEED’s modular, configurable cars.

			Together, Jakubowski and Justice will collaborate on a modular car,
			which can be manufactured globally using only the Global Village
			Construction Set (GVCS). OSE will adapt WIKISPEED’s current car designs,
			making them compatible with their GVCS manufacturing infrastructure,
			while WIKISPEED will provide automotive design, CAD for their current
			ultra-efficient car, agile training, and efficiency consulting to
			expedite design and development. The finished plans will be open-source
			and available to anyone. The car will target the needs of developing
			countries and economy transport while retaining U.S. automotive safety
			standards.

			According to Justice, “This is clearly the right thing to do. OSE is
			creating a new template for a global village, built around devices and
			equipment that even small, remote communities can maintain themselves.
			The modular WIKISPEED car makes sense in a community like this, and with
			OSE we will be developing a version of the car able to be produced and
			maintained with the OSE Global Village Construction Set anywhere in the
			world. The GVCS is completely revolutionary in enabling even small
			communities to create and maintain every piece of a thriving modern
			economy with contemporary comforts. Team WIKISPEED is very pleased to be
			helping reduce the environmental footprint while accelerating innovation
			and business productivity.”

			Jakubowski calls the new collaboration a “bold and noteworthy step
			toward the open-source economy, and it will serve to encourage other
			change-makers to join the effort to invent distributive enterprise.”
			Together, the companies will work to “unleash the collaborative
			potential of the open-source hardware movement—Industry 2.0. We are
			pursuing a system of optimized production where everyone has free access
			to state-of-the-art product designs and blueprints, which they can, in
			turn, produce within their local economy. It’s an idea whose time has come.”
			About WIKISPEED
			Team WIKISPEED is a green automotive-development company that builds
			cars utilizing agile methodology and has prototyped a
			mass-manufacturable, ultra-low-cost, 100-mpg commuter car. Based in
			Seattle and led by Joe Justice, WIKISPEED is an all-volunteer
			distributed agile/scrum team: members contribute their work from various
			locations globally and iteratively enhance the vehicle every two weeks.
			This model allows extremely high-speed development, especially when
			paired with rapid-prototyping manufacturing tools.
			About Open Source Ecology
			Open Source Ecology, founded in 2004 by Marcin Jakubowski, Ph.D., has a
			stated mission to create the open-source economy, which, according to
			Jakubowski, “optimizes both production and distribution by publishing
			its trade secrets openly.” Jakubowski has recently been distinguished as
			a 2012 TED Senior Fellow and a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow for his
			work on the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS), an open
			technological platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the fifty
			different industrial machines necessary to building a small civilization
			with modern comforts.

			For More information:
			Jakubowski’s TED talk
			Justice’s TEDx talk
			OSE website
			Team WIKISPEED website
			Shuttleworth Foundation website

Mjn: Bulk entry of email messages.

2012-02-29T13:05:17Z

Bulk entry of email messages.

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Mjn at 12:38, 29 February 2012

2012-02-29T12:38:25Z

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Mjn: Created page with "{Category:Car} Some email about the car."

2012-02-29T12:38:05Z

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Car/Correspondence - Revision history

Jetbeard: Fixed broken category.

JackMcCornack: The direction of development for the OSE Car project has been determined, so I appended the press release/announcement to this correspondence page. JMcC

Mjn: Bulk entry of email messages.

Mjn at 12:38, 29 February 2012

Mjn: Created page with "{Category:Car} Some email about the car."