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August 18 - September 18

10/03/11

• OSE Certification
  • Power Cube Producer - Tom Griffin from Texas, 1st replication, aiming for OSE Certification.
    • OSE provides Marketing assistance, publicize in our networks
    • He is contributing back to the community.
  • OSE License relates to the OSE Specifications, features the OSE products embody.
  • Certified people will comment and describe how their product meets each point of the OSE Specification. It will be transparent for the user if he gets a product from somebody else or us, so he know exactly what he is getting, particularly on a life-time design and modularity aspects of our equipment. The world benefits by knowing what they are getting into, and the certified producer benefits by the having access to our marketing channels.
  • OSE License is for building a distributing economics. It is not for us building an empire, but for us distributing as much productive power to everybody out there as possible.
    • To support the open sourcing of civilization, the producers would contribute a reasonable amount back to the OSE project, like 3%, we will have to decide on that, we don't want to overtax them, but a little kickback to the project to continue further open source development.
    • We will custom design these agreements, it will on a case by case basis.
  • With this OSE distributive economics license we focus on the fact that whoever is a producer is documenting the work completely, meaning the bills of materials and designs and they will pass our mark only when they are truly bringing about distributive economics for the whole world to benefit with. And that's a beautiful package that nobody can disagree with, that can get a lot of public support on many fronts.
  • That's about the OSE License, we will keep developing it, as people get on line to produce it we hope to have people actually funding the project through donations back to the commons in terms of developing further open source goods.

• Message to Jason Fields from the Urban Farming Guys
  • Ian produced 7 minutes video for the entire procedure to build the frame of the LifeTrac.
  • Start writing the script and preparing your Kickstarter materials asap.
  • Create a simple jig and I am hoping that even you guys will complete the whole tractor frame within hours.

• Dear True Fans and Supporters - Update
  • about 42 days of construction. Foundation will be poured tomorrow. Excavation is done. Right now we are doing haying for the hay bales.
  • Next week we will be full-time producing and laying CEB Bricks. SHonda is getting the CEB up. We go now to Sweiger to work on the Sawmill, hay cutter and pulverizers.
  • Kauffman Foundation may would have 103,000 dollars for us, but I would like to see this money across the table, there are a lot of technical difficulties there.
  • If we can show the straw bales and cut lumber from our own tree, that would be beautiful. We are finishing the Sawmill, we didn't get the blade till tonight, we will try to secure that.
  • By the end of this week we aim to have 3 Tractors with 6 Power Cubes so we can start construction.
  • Yoonseo Kang is coming this Thursday. And Ted Mosher anytime this week.
  • Revenue streams from non-profit, real production, investors, loans.

10/02/11

• Hay conditioner 101 - International 1086 Tractor - about 130HP, Hesston hay conditioner (a rotary cutter), 1 steel and 1 rubber roll. In Action.

• 1500 bales to be pressed - Meet the hay conditioner
• Beginning to clear vegetation, Starting the dozing
• Secondary cylinder mounting
• Brianna explains 1) Squaring CEB Drawer, 2) Frame Jig, 3) Fitting Cylinder, 4) Frame and Roller Guide Holes, 5) Frame Jig Turning, 6) Frame Welding, 7) Making Bolts, 8) Shims Squaring Drawer, 9) Squaring Hyd Cylinder, 10) Squaring Hyd Cylinder, 11) Torching Sensor Holes.
• Loading the Soil Pulverizer

10/01/11

• Nearly finished grading
• Clearing off vegetation

9/30/11

• Column foundation forms - a laser level would be useful that sense out an array of lines across the whole field so that we don't have to mess with the water level.

• Hammering Foundation pads - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfcSDbkpJEw

9/28/11

HabLab

Excavation started	Gravel trucks and spreading
Excavation	Bulldozing

• $60k construction grant is in

• CEB vault prototype 1 and 2
• Cat D7 bulldozer fuel consumption - 10 gal/hr, 90 gal fuel tank
• Monday midnight oil update - shipping 2 Power Cubes, Bulldozer came.