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Dear Community,
Dear Community,


Welcome to the next installment of OSEmail. The big picture of OSE for the last 4 years is: we have been focusing on technical developments that can lead to creating Open Source Blueprints for Civilization. We have shown 6 critical proofs of concept (see notes under [[Permaculuture Voices Slide 15]], and pictures/comments in slides 17-54) - that make the notions of ''civilization startup'' realistic. Having gained much experience, we are ready to regroup for the next phase - focus on a strong community with evolved collaboration techniques. Our next milestone is achieving compression of design time 100-fold from 5 years to 2 weeks by using extreme swarming techniques. Critics say that only a small team can work efficiently, but we have inklings of evidence that extreme coordination of larger groups is feasible.
Welcome to the next installment of OSEmail. The big picture of OSE for the last 4 years is: we have been focusing on technical developments that can lead to creating Open Source Blueprints for Civilization. We have shown 6 critical proofs of concept (see notes under [[Permaculuture Voices Slide 15]], and pictures/comments in slides 17-54) - that make the notions of ''civilization startup'' realistic. Having gained much experience, while discovering how little we know - we are ready to regroup for the next phase. This is a focus on a strong community with evolved collaboration techniques. Our next milestone is achieving compression of design time 100-fold from 5 years to 2 weeks by using extreme swarming techniques based on solid development teams. Critics say that only a small team can work efficiently, but we have inklings of evidence that extreme coordination of larger groups is feasible.


'''Community Development''' Jonathan Kocurek has risen to the role of OSE's Commmunity Manager. We are developing cohesive [[Working Teams]] to facilitate involvement and continuity. Continuity is a major challenge in any open development project - so more effective role allocation and improved orientation materials will help. So will clear development of team governance - where [[Diana Leafe Christian]] has also joined the team as OSE's Project Consultant.  
'''Community Development''' Jonathan Kocurek has risen to the role of OSE's Commmunity Manager. We are developing cohesive [[Working Teams]] to facilitate involvement and continuity. We are working on continutity, effective role allocation and improved orientation materials. We are developing clear team governance - where [[Diana Leafe Christian]] has also joined the team as OSE's Project Consultant to help us with Dynamic Governance and other team-building issues.  


'''Financial Sustainability''' - One of our milestones is building machines in a single day - which leads to exciting possibilities for creating value. Based on the 1 day build - we are transitioning now to a sustainable revenue model.  It is the workshop production model - as an economically sustainable move forward based on open hardware.


This is important because this is a bootstrap approach that can scale the movement to many locations - as we intend to scale this work globally.
'''Distributive Enterprise'''. This year, we would like to take the CEB Press, Aquaponics Greenhouse, and 3D Printer to full economic replicability. This means - designing and streamlining production - and publishing exhaustive documentation - so that, for example - someone can work with a local fabricator to build and sell the CEB Press -  We call our model [[Distributive Enterprise]]. We do this to spread economic power to the world. Our next step on economic replicability - which we favor because it combines education and production - is [[Extreme Manufacturing Workshops]]. We ran several developing training so others can run


The economics work. The machine costs $4000-5000 in materials. We sell the machine for $10k, and the nearest competitor costs $52k. Tn our workshop last year, we make $5k from the sale, and $5k from tuitions - $10k net earned over a weekend.


We are taking these methods to Housing as well - showing that we can build a house on the time scale of a weekend. So far, it took us 5 days to build our 800 sf microhouse 4 addition - up to the roof and insulation. We did not finish the interior during that time - but we learned a lot as a proof of concept to see what is needed to achieve completion. We disovered that CEB by itself is difficult, so we intend to provide the house as a Product Service system - via our tractor + CEB press infrastructure and skill. It turns out that hybrid CEB - carpentry can be a highly replicable business model.
'''Aquaponics''' - As a result of the Permaculture Voices Conference, where I gave a Keynote - we rounded up a working team on the Aquaponic Greenhouse. Because this team has so much expertise, we believe we can design a 2000 square foot facility that can
 
'''Distributive Enterprise'''. This year, we would like to take the CEB Press, Aquaponics Greenhouse, and 3D Printer to full economic replicability. This means - designing and streamlining production - and publishing exhaustive documentation - so that, for example - someone can work with a local fabricator to sell the CEB Press -  We call our model [[Distributive Enterprise]].
 
 
'''Aquaponics'''


'''Schedule for 2015'''
'''Schedule for 2015'''

Revision as of 18:06, 16 March 2015

Dear Community,

Welcome to the next installment of OSEmail. The big picture of OSE for the last 4 years is: we have been focusing on technical developments that can lead to creating Open Source Blueprints for Civilization. We have shown 6 critical proofs of concept (see notes under Permaculuture Voices Slide 15, and pictures/comments in slides 17-54) - that make the notions of civilization startup realistic. Having gained much experience, while discovering how little we know - we are ready to regroup for the next phase. This is a focus on a strong community with evolved collaboration techniques. Our next milestone is achieving compression of design time 100-fold from 5 years to 2 weeks by using extreme swarming techniques based on solid development teams. Critics say that only a small team can work efficiently, but we have inklings of evidence that extreme coordination of larger groups is feasible.

Community Development Jonathan Kocurek has risen to the role of OSE's Commmunity Manager. We are developing cohesive Working Teams to facilitate involvement and continuity. We are working on continutity, effective role allocation and improved orientation materials. We are developing clear team governance - where Diana Leafe Christian has also joined the team as OSE's Project Consultant to help us with Dynamic Governance and other team-building issues.


Distributive Enterprise. This year, we would like to take the CEB Press, Aquaponics Greenhouse, and 3D Printer to full economic replicability. This means - designing and streamlining production - and publishing exhaustive documentation - so that, for example - someone can work with a local fabricator to build and sell the CEB Press - We call our model Distributive Enterprise. We do this to spread economic power to the world. Our next step on economic replicability - which we favor because it combines education and production - is Extreme Manufacturing Workshops. We ran several developing training so others can run


Aquaponics - As a result of the Permaculture Voices Conference, where I gave a Keynote - we rounded up a working team on the Aquaponic Greenhouse. Because this team has so much expertise, we believe we can design a 2000 square foot facility that can

Schedule for 2015

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