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=Build a Village Project=
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On February 9, 2009 - we've succeeded in historic clarification of our approach after several days of in-depth debate among core team members. [[Jeremy]], [[Marcin]], and [[Joseph Zarr]] arrived at the following.
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We are clarifying our path to building the '''''world's first, replicable post-industrial village'''''. Has one already been made? If so, [mailto:opensourceecology@gmail.com please tell us about it.]
 
We are calling this the '''''Build a Village Project'''''.
 
What is our goal? It's a fully-functioning village, with a built-in economy, of about 30 people living a real life setting, in an off-grid community of about 30 acres. Our goal is abundance and high quality of life.
 
Our means to this are the [[Global Village Construction Set]] as an inftrastructure base for this village - a basic set of 40 or so open source technologies for integrated, regenerative living. Our social approach to this is gathering a group of [[Integrated Humans]] to subject their lives to this experiment. While we are clarifying the [[Build a Village Project]] here, and actively seeking participants, the group who is going to make it happen is largely self-selecting. If you might be one of these people, look into being a volunteer.
 
=Social Technology Approach=
 
Last year, we have proven that we could build technology - with successful deployment of the open source tractor, [[LifeTrac]], and of a high-performance [[CEB press]].
 
We have also demonstrated that we could fund open source product development work via [[crowd funding]] methods.
 
Thus, the missing frontier to date has been acknowledged as the lack of people.
 
Our approach until today focused on creating the building infrastructure of [[CEB press]], [[LifeTrac]], and [[Sawmill]]. The challenge with this approach is that even if we develop this infrastructure fully over the next few months, we will still need people to do the actual building. So why not focus on getting people first?
 
That's tricky business, since we don't have the accommodations to house these people. This is a catch 22 of our current bootstrapping approach: we can't develop the infrastructure without the people, and we can't house the people to build the infrastructure without having infrastructure to begin with.
 
As radical as this sounds - our only solution is: Bring Your Own Housing so you can Build Your Own Housing. Strange? Not necessarily if the decaying economic system now affords dirt cheap wares around the country. Vacation campers may be one of these wares.
 
If bringing your own housing is not an option you can also build your own basic housing for about $350 for an 8x8' insulated [[solar cubicle]], complete with drywall. Add a $60 stove for cold weather and you're set until our self sufficient habitat infrastructure is up and running.
 
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