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		<title>Jowesho: Created page with &quot;&#039;&#039;&#039;WHO&#039;&#039;&#039; are you? &#039;&#039;Name/Nationality/Ethnicity&#039;&#039; - Wes Short, North American, of mixed European descent  &#039;&#039;Location&#039;&#039; - Shasta Lake, California, USA  &#039;&#039;Contact Information&#039;&#039; –...&quot;</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Created page with &amp;quot;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;WHO&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; are you? &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Name/Nationality/Ethnicity&amp;#039;&amp;#039; - Wes Short, North American, of mixed European descent  &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Location&amp;#039;&amp;#039; - Shasta Lake, California, USA  &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Contact Information&amp;#039;&amp;#039; –...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;WHO&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; are you?&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Name/Nationality/Ethnicity&amp;#039;&amp;#039; - Wes Short, North American, of mixed European descent&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Location&amp;#039;&amp;#039; - Shasta Lake, California, USA&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Contact Information&amp;#039;&amp;#039; – Jowesho at gmail com, &amp;quot;Jowesho&amp;quot; on Skype/AIM/Yahoo!/Twitter etc..&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Resume/CV&amp;#039;&amp;#039; – My current work is as a self-employed Commercial Artist and Web Developer, offering graphics solutions in multiple medias; &lt;br /&gt;
digital, print, and signage, as well as social marketing campaigns. For the last year I have been a packaging Warehouse Manager for a &lt;br /&gt;
wholesale distributor.  For the two years prior to that (2008-2010), I was an independant design contractor in the sign industry. From &lt;br /&gt;
2002-2007 I was active duty military in the US Air Force, my job was Crash Rescue, Fire and Emergency services, where I fulfilled a number &lt;br /&gt;
of roles and duties from fireman to operations officer.  Previous to that I had a bevy of unskilled labor jobs, lived and worked in Chicago &lt;br /&gt;
for 2 years in my early twenties, and back in Missouri where I was raised, got my education, and began work as a young man. Hobbies and &lt;br /&gt;
Pastimes- disc golf, roller hockey, ping- pong, arm-chair space exploration, civilian scientist projects, documentaries, rocks (geology), &lt;br /&gt;
planetary biology and the evolution of life in this (largely hostile) universe.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;#039;&amp;#039;WHY are you motivated to support/develop this work?&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Because it may be our only rational hope for a sustainable future as a species- and I mean that.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Do you endorse open source culture?&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
The keystones of open source culture are the inherent, systematic longevity of ideas, and their adaptability to future change due to &lt;br /&gt;
organizm-like modualar collaboration.  It is as to ideas as millions of dividing cells working together in harmony are to organic life,&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Why are you interested in this work?&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
To see it&amp;#039;s full potential played out.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Are you interested in teaching about the GVCS?&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Yes, I founded Jefferson Open Source in order to do so.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Are you interested in economic relocalization possibilities arising from the GVCS?&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Yes, economic stability and autonomy are some of the main goals of the GVCS.&lt;br /&gt;
Do you want to use the GVCS technologies yourself? Do you want to build them yourself?&lt;br /&gt;
Yes, I want to build a workshop showcasing and demonstrating to the local community how to use and build GVCS machines.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Are you interested in starting up enterprise using the GVCS technologies?&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Yes. As a non-proft enterprise, also invested in develpoing other enterprises.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Are you interested in having the GVCS technologies fabricated by your local custom fabricator?&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Yes, I would love to give them the work and be building the parts in this area.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Are you interested in applying the GVCS to third world development? To redevelopment of crisis areas? To development of derelict areas in the developed world?&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
There are many applications of the tool set in this field of humanitarism.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Are you interested in starting up Industry 2.0 flexible fabrication enterprises for your local community, by drawing from a global repository of freely down-loadable designs and fabricating using open source fabrication equipment?&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Yes&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Are you interested in the potential of the GVCS for developing local food systems?&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Yes. Food systems as we know them within the US are archaic, under-designed, and horrifically inefficient (we loose 30% of all food annually to inefficiencies)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Are you interested in doing academic studies/papers, publishing books, or doing other analysis of our efforts?&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Constantly.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Are you interested in financial investment opportunities arising from our work?&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
My ultimate goal is to figure out how to do this full time, for myself and others.  That takes funding, for now and until the established &lt;br /&gt;
system is obsolete.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Are you interested in the distributive economic aspects of our work, and if so, how do you see this playing out?&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Yes.  Any concept of scarcity of information or opportunity in this world is a man-mad construct, imaginary and unreal.  We all build off &lt;br /&gt;
of eachother&amp;#039;s work, humans are a hive creature.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Are you interested in building renewable energy production facilities based on open hardware (solar concentrator electric, wind, biomass power).&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Yes, and also in feeding said energy production back to the grid.&lt;br /&gt;
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Are you interested in building resilient communities based on access to the GVCS?&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Are you interested in creating a bug-out hut using GVCS technologies?&lt;br /&gt;
Maybe someday we won&amp;#039;t need to worry about those.&lt;br /&gt;
How do you think that the GVCS can help alleviate the instabilities of global monetary systems?&lt;br /&gt;
By restalishing a commodity based ecconomy, on real production and exchange of goods and services.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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