MJ Dogfood Session

Preparation:

Hi, my name is Marcin, founder of Open Source Ecology. I am working on the Global Village Construction Set (50 gvcs slide) - the set of the 50 Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small civilization with modern comforts. This is my second year of the Shuttleworth Fellowship.

My goal is to create the open source economy - an economy based on open collaboration. While most people here operate in software and intangible goods, my work revolves around the 80% chunk of the economy that is the physical infrastructures of humanity - or material production - expressed through open hardware.

Why am I doing this?

O was born in Poland. When I was 7 years old – tanks rolled down my streets – and unfortunately, it wasn't a parade. I grew up behind the iron curtain in a state of martial law and material scarcity. My family and I waited in long lines for butter and meat. Then we fled to America, I got into Princeton and then finished a Ph.D. in plasma physics in 2003, and discovered- that I was useless. Also, I never stopped thinking about the terrible things that happen when resources are scarce and people fight over opportunity.

I said goodbye to my theoretical chalkboard and bought a farm in Missouri. I bought a tractor, then it broke - I paid to get it repaired, then it broke again - and pretty soon, I was broke - too.

That's when I turned to our roots of crowd funding. I blogged about all that I did, got subscribers and donors, and currently have about 500 True Fans supporting the project at $10 per month.

I built the first machine in 2008, and operated on a $1000/month budget until I was put on the world stage with TED in 2011. Since then, our budget has grown about 500% per year.

The first ever replication occurred in 2011 by a guy who quit his job as a programmer and built our brick press. In 2012, we have had over a dozen replications in 5 countries around the world.

2012 was a time of great growing pains,

2013- 2015 Sell GVCS to Sustain FeF and OSE Evolve Documentation Platform Refine One Day Collaborative Design Refine One Day Production Runs Develop Curriculum for Fellow Immersion Training Ready Factor E Farm Missouri as first OSE Incubator 2016-17: Continue to Refinement GVCS Select 12 OSE Fellows for Immersive Training Each Fellows builds out 12 new OSE Incubators Each OSE incubator recruits 12 students each 2018-2019: Repeat Fellows cycle until there are 144 OSE Incubators around the world