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[[Image:charleskraus.jpg|thumb|100px|Charles Kraus. Joined February, 2011.]]
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'''Charles Kraus''', United Kingdom
The work you are doing (and I shall quote my Facebook status) is “Literally the most amazing project I have ever seen”.
For a long time I have been interested in the idea of being self-sufficient, and in fact have had a dream of one day buying my own island and starting up a completely self-sufficient, live off the land society. It’s obviously never going to happen but without our dreams what else is there to live for?


So when I see an entire group of individuals dedicating their time and effort to quite literally the foundations of my dreams I felt like I had to contribute something, in fact you’re the first cause I have ever given to on a monthly basis!
'''Mark Norton'''


What I would love to see is a number of completely self-sufficient towns being set up, I have over the years visited some communal farming projects in Israel however most of these have had to close so I’m hoping with your construction set you will be able to improve on projects that have come before. I also think that with some work your tools could be very useful in the third world Africa etc, so seeing your tools being put into practise would be great. [[True Fans|read more]]
A friend of my pointed me at Marcin's TED talk. After watching it, there was no turning back. I've been fascinated by the Maker movement for years now but never quite had the motivation to jump in, in spit of being handy with tools. I live on a small farm (Phase 3 Farm) that my wife and I are turning into a self-sufficient homestead that we hope will supply all of out needs one date. Farms need tools and it struck me that the GVCS was a great way to get what I needed - by literally building them myself. By profession, I am a software developer and I've worked on several major open source efforts over the years, so I understand quite well why the work of OSE is so important and also some of the challenges it faces, especially around sustainability. As such, I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is and became a True Fan. '''({{LinkLang|True Fans|more...}})'''

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Mark Norton

A friend of my pointed me at Marcin's TED talk. After watching it, there was no turning back. I've been fascinated by the Maker movement for years now but never quite had the motivation to jump in, in spit of being handy with tools. I live on a small farm (Phase 3 Farm) that my wife and I are turning into a self-sufficient homestead that we hope will supply all of out needs one date. Farms need tools and it struck me that the GVCS was a great way to get what I needed - by literally building them myself. By profession, I am a software developer and I've worked on several major open source efforts over the years, so I understand quite well why the work of OSE is so important and also some of the challenges it faces, especially around sustainability. As such, I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is and became a True Fan. (more...)

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