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*Funding utilized to develop this pipeline process
*Funding utilized to develop this pipeline process
*Prioritize product selection by a metric (I can detail this metric): most significant products for timely economic decentralization
*Prioritize product selection by a metric (I can detail this metric): most significant products for timely economic decentralization
**Select 5-20 key products as Phase 1
**Explicit process for liberating people from the bottom rungs of Maslow's pyramid
**Explicit process for liberating people from the bottom rungs of Maslow's pyramid
**Explicit process for addressing pressing world issues of resource conflict and resource deprivation (war, hunger, poverty, etc)
**Explicit process for addressing pressing world issues of resource conflict and resource deprivation (war, hunger, poverty, etc)
**Focus on high value items (cars, CEB, solar turbine, etc.) to make flex fab model work
***Ex: $1k material costs for CEB, sell device for $5k - makes for a viable enterprise model when labor is considered
*Utlize funding to market the message and organize a core development team (say 1-4 directors, 12-100 experts)
*Utlize funding to market the message and organize a core development team (say 1-4 directors, 12-100 experts)
**Development process is R&D due dilligence until a solid proposal is produced
**Development process is R&D due dilligence until a solid proposal is produced
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**Aim at Factor 10 reduction in price = factor 10 increase of one's freedom
**Aim at Factor 10 reduction in price = factor 10 increase of one's freedom
**Leverage Vinay's Hexayurt as ''existence proof'' for the ''possibility of optimization''
**Leverage Vinay's Hexayurt as ''existence proof'' for the ''possibility of optimization''
*Include a physical facility in the development pipeline process
**Overhead reduction via a [http://www.flickr.com/photos/11113094@N03/ self-sustaining, land-based facility]
**Leverage existing $127k capitalization of present facility
*Utilize technology development wiki and a facility progress blog
*Partner with Fab Lab, RMI, ZERI (Gaviotas), and P2P Foundation

Revision as of 16:18, 10 October 2007

Optimal Enterprise Priorities Foundation - a Development Pipeline for Transformative Technologies

  • Premise: development of a transformative, Open Source economy
    • Utililize Vinay's white paper as model theory, extend to mainstream products, and focus on small enterprise incubation
    • Keys: open source, flex fab, open license products
    • Start with meeting needs (food-energy-housing-tranportation-wireless networks)
  • Funding utilized to develop this pipeline process
  • Prioritize product selection by a metric (I can detail this metric): most significant products for timely economic decentralization
    • Select 5-20 key products as Phase 1
    • Explicit process for liberating people from the bottom rungs of Maslow's pyramid
    • Explicit process for addressing pressing world issues of resource conflict and resource deprivation (war, hunger, poverty, etc)
    • Focus on high value items (cars, CEB, solar turbine, etc.) to make flex fab model work
      • Ex: $1k material costs for CEB, sell device for $5k - makes for a viable enterprise model when labor is considered
  • Utlize funding to market the message and organize a core development team (say 1-4 directors, 12-100 experts)
    • Development process is R&D due dilligence until a solid proposal is produced
    • Said proposal is for larger funding to actually deploy the technologies of interest
  • Technology development focuses on optimization of proven technologies (ex, solar turbine) and their subsequent integration into a family-scale or village scale infrastructures
    • Aim at Factor 10 reduction in price = factor 10 increase of one's freedom
    • Leverage Vinay's Hexayurt as existence proof for the possibility of optimization
  • Include a physical facility in the development pipeline process
  • Utilize technology development wiki and a facility progress blog
  • Partner with Fab Lab, RMI, ZERI (Gaviotas), and P2P Foundation