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=Oekonux 4 OSE Presentation=
(See [http://blog.opensourceecology.org/?p=611 corresponding blog post for a video of this presentation])


In this presentation, I will tell:
Oekonux Conference, Manchester, UK - March 27-29, 2009
#Introduce that we are building a replicable Global Village
#GVCS
#So, You want to build a village?
#You'll need to start with an economy. Food.
#Building.
#Energy.
#Fab
#Is it an economy? Yes, all tools are productive
##Show productivity - ag, fab
#How do we know? We've done a bunch of experiments already. Ag, fab - tractor + CEB
#Closed Energy cycle - from Mathew
#In fact, this constitutes an economy/money system
#Wait a minute? It would take too long to make this happen.
##We will offer immersion training,
#Cost analysis:
##LifeTrac infrastructure- $25k and about 6 months labor, vs $250k plus $25k yearly costs of depreciation
##Food infrastructure- $3k stock, plus $50k in ousourced labor ($50/hour at 40 hr weeks for 28 weeks with heavy equipment)
##One man year for eternal freedom? Case for BOAB
#Impossible? How about 1-year immersion training?
#Transformative economics - CSP, at cost production
#Transformative economics - Closing the industrial divide
#Transformative economics - local fuel
#Transformative economics - NGO, private contract, your own economy, your own money, transparency by documenting production
#Challenges - 90% slavery per individual; slavery is voluntary
#Transitional movement - check out, and invest in a real future
#Where are we now? CEB press, towards product release - to close off accountability cycle?
#Collaboration - much more challenging
#Crowd funding - quite successful; workshop is paid for
#Conclusions - There is a small and robust set, that is replicable if it's open source.
#Subscribe, or tell us what we're missing.


See [http://www.oekonux-conference.org/program/index.html conference schedule] under Day 2, 2:30 PM.


*Who we are? Farm, os product developer, fab lab developer
*What have we done theoretically? GVCS
*What have we done practically? Tractor and CEB
*Part of a bigger package:
**Fab
**Tractor
**OS Agroecology - we know permaculture, but now we have a key to its replicability
***Gene stock
***Equipment
*Why is it important?
**Innovative biz model for econ transformation via at cost production - CSM
**New option - Buy out at the Bottom, skip on life of wage slavery
*Challenges - very low acceptance, of True Fans concept, very few people really want to be free
**Either can't comprehend/believe it because they don't have skill to comprehend/believe, or they want to be slaves?
*Huge liberatory and transformative potential.
*What are we doing currently? CEB press
*What are predicted practical implications?
**Closed energy cycle - Food, energy, fabrication, show diagram
**Closing of industrial divide, show diagram
**Solar Power System Ecology - sun/biofuel to liquid fuel/electricity
*Self-Replicability Potential
**Clear with open source agroecology, if you have nursery and gene bank
**Self-replicating machinery with Furnace, machining, and HydraRaptor
*Learnings that there is very little ''actual'' support, that it is slow
**There are many people super excited, but they don't have the skill, are in debt, suffer from the 90% tax on their life, or all of the above
*On the other hand, we have 9 people lined up by May, others are constantly knocking at our door, to the point that we have a $50 dollar first-time visitor fee


'''Abstract:''' We are building the world's first, replicable, open source Global Village. We are a land-based social experiment for creating unprecedented quality of life using on-site resources. Our working assumption is that open source physical infrastructure is the enabling prerequisite of such an experiment, and that the power of efficient, integrated, and ecological production must be seized in order for such a community to thrive and to be competitive with mainstream lifestyles. Initial technology development results have surpassed predictions, and we are currently developing a more rigorous program for a rapid-deployment, open source technology development pipeline. This pipeline relies on design of products that are simple, optimal, high-performance, low-cost, and therefore replicable. We observed clear indications of memetic replicability of such open source, technologically and ecologically integrated communities. Initial results, strategies, crowd-based support methods, and operational challenges are covered in this presentation. End goals are livelihoods beyond the ongoing struggle for survival, and personal evolution to freedom - and the first milestone to this is a complete, 30 person villlage - to be built by year-end 2010.
For the physical reality of our experiment, see the Distillation video series for an overview of the technology base:
http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Distillations




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*[[Slide Oekonux4 22]] - GVCS Program is Transformative on Many Fronts
*[[Slide Oekonux4 22]] - GVCS Program is Transformative on Many Fronts


 
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*[[Slide Oekonux4 23]]


==Slide 24==
==Slide 24==
*[[Slide Oekonux4 24]] - Summary
*[[Slide Oekonux4 24]] - Summary


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=Transcript=
 
You can read the transcript at the [[Oekonux 4 OSE Transcript]]
 
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(See corresponding blog post for a video of this presentation)

Oekonux Conference, Manchester, UK - March 27-29, 2009

See conference schedule under Day 2, 2:30 PM.


Abstract: We are building the world's first, replicable, open source Global Village. We are a land-based social experiment for creating unprecedented quality of life using on-site resources. Our working assumption is that open source physical infrastructure is the enabling prerequisite of such an experiment, and that the power of efficient, integrated, and ecological production must be seized in order for such a community to thrive and to be competitive with mainstream lifestyles. Initial technology development results have surpassed predictions, and we are currently developing a more rigorous program for a rapid-deployment, open source technology development pipeline. This pipeline relies on design of products that are simple, optimal, high-performance, low-cost, and therefore replicable. We observed clear indications of memetic replicability of such open source, technologically and ecologically integrated communities. Initial results, strategies, crowd-based support methods, and operational challenges are covered in this presentation. End goals are livelihoods beyond the ongoing struggle for survival, and personal evolution to freedom - and the first milestone to this is a complete, 30 person villlage - to be built by year-end 2010.

For the physical reality of our experiment, see the Distillation video series for an overview of the technology base:

http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Distillations


Slide1

  • Slide Oekonux4 1 - Building the World's First, Replicable, Open Source, Off-Grid Global Village

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  • Slide Oekonux4 1' - We propose the Global Village Construction Set and Lifestyle Engineering

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Slide 2

  • Slide Oekonux4 2 - Infrastructure Set Sufficient for Creating Advanced Civilization
    • End of Resource Conflicts by local sustainable production
    • Abundance - a rigorous condition of skill and wisdom
    • Promise: unprecedented quality of life and emergent small-scale republics

Slide 3

Slide Oekonux 4 3

  • So, you want to build a village?
    • If you could, why not?
    • Here are the tools
    • Here are the skills to use them

Slide 4

  • Slide Oekonux4 4 - You might want to start with a full economy. Agriculture, housing, energy, transportation, fuel, technology.
    • It's all in there.

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Slide 9

  • Slide Oekonux4 9 - We are Engaged Actively in Building the Construction Set
    • Tractor proto
    • CEB proto, bricks, building
    • Orchard-goat-chicken-garden-facility
    • Designs - lathe, torch table, microtrac, sawmill

OSE Product Cycle - scalable

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Slide16

  • Slide Oekonux4 16 - Economic Analysis Without GVCS
    • About $1M for infrastructure for a 30 person community (cheap)

Slide17

  • Slide Oekonux4 17 - Economic Analysis with GVCS Available
    • Sweat equity can be utilized for village replication (cheaper)

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Slide 19

  • Slide Oekonux4 19 - GVCS is About Social Technology, not Hardware Technology
    • Present strategy: Review/bid -> fund -> deploy&document
      • Testing, production replication by on-site team
    • Noone has cracked the collaborative hardware development nut
    • Bids are a good strategy (such as OpenMusic), but careful analysis is required prior to bidding

Slide 20

  • Slide Oekonux4 20 Open Source Design Rationale (OSDR) is Defined for a Particular Implementation
    • Careful, point-by-point description to novice with high school education
    • WikiPedia model is not easy to apply in our case, becuase of attention span requirements
    • Break it down to 0-attention span chunks

Slide21

  • Slide Oekonux4 21 - OSDR Standards
    • Diagram of all design points
    • OSE Specifications for guiding design principles
    • Red Pages for development support
    • Full explanation of points
    • Diagram can be connected to 3D design
    • 3D design annotated with BOM
    • BOM spreadsheet
    • Fab procedure
    • Review/bid process based on Resource Map, involves experts
    • Funding via open proposal writing, via OSDR content
    • Status should be transparent by viewing OSDR content

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Transcript

You can read the transcript at the Oekonux 4 OSE Transcript

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