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• HABITAT: CEB Press - Sawmill - Living Machines - Modular Housing Units
  
• AGROECOLOGY: LifeTrac Multi Purpose Tractor - MicroTrac - Power Cube - Agricultural Spader - Agricultural Microcombine - Hammer Mill - Well Drilling Rig - Organoponic Raised Bed Gardening - Orchard and Nursery - Modular Greenhouse Units - Bakery - Dairy - Energy Food Bars - Freeze Dried Fruit Powders
  
• ENERGY: Pyrolysis Oil - Babington Burner - Solar Combined Heat Power System - Steam Engine Construction Set - Solar Turbine - Electric Motors/Generators - Inverters & Grid Intertie - Batteries
  
• FLEXIBLE INDUSTRY: Lathe - Torch Table - Multimachine & Flex Fab - Plastic Extrusion & Molding - Metal Casting and Extrusion
  
• TRANSPORT: Open Source Car
  
• MATERIALS: Bioplastics

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Introduction

This wiki is dedicated to the open, collaborative development of a basic and robust infrastructure for a Global Village economy, as embodied in the list of the 28 of the above products and services. Such a village is by design

• one which promotes the highest autonomy and freedom
• grounded in self-sufficiency
• dedicated to voluntary pursuits, right livelihood, and quality of life

The basic assumption for a New Village economy is that humans are capable of transcending struggle for survival and resource conflicts, where this preoccupation is replaced by higher pursuits, as indicated by Maslow's pyramid.

The selection of 28 products is based on

• Availability of a land or facility base
• Essential contribution to an infrastructure for living and working
• Essential goods and services of wide use and large markets
• Provision of a robust village economy and sufficient surplus for further developments
• Generative nature of the product, thus promoting self-replication of the village
• Selection of a widely applicable and sufficient, but not complete, range of economic activity to support a community
• Viability of a community on a village scale, perhaps 100 people, but as few as 2 or as many as sustained by the land base

In effect, the 28 products serve as a basis for a Global Village Construction Set.

Economy creates culture and culture creates politics. Politics sought are ones of freedom, voluntary contract, and human evolution in harmony with life support systems. Note that resource confilicts and overpopulation are eliminated by design.

Furthermore, it should be noted that this is a real experiment, and product selection is based on us living with the given technologies. First, it is the development of real, economically significat hardware, product, and engineering. Second, this entire set is being compiled into one setting, and land is being populated with the respective productive agents. The aim is to define a new form of social organization where it is possible to create advanced culture, thriving in abundance and largely autonomous, on the scale of a village, not nation or state.

Sample Scenario

Imagine a village with buildings of dirt (CEB) with year-round greenhouses (sawmill, CEB, bioplastics from local trees), with all facility energy produced by a solar turbine, where people drive hybrid cars with car bodies (bioplastics) made from local weeds, with critical motors and metal structures (aluminum) extracted from on-site clay, which are fueled by alcohol produced on-site, on a wireless network linked to the greater world. That's just a sampling of the technology base. Food, energy, housing sufficiency. There are no poor among us - because we are all evolving human beings and farmer scientists.

Development Process

The open development process involves global contributions of content to a rigorously defined process for developing, deploying, and improving the Global Village Construction Set. The rigor lies in a template that guides the development through all the necessary theoretical and practical aspects of deploying a given product. The same template, or process, is adapted to deliver all the products of the Construction Set. The template starts with product definition and ends with economically significant models of production.

Development Template

An Index for the OS Tech Template is shown here, including explanation of each heading.

1. Product definition
   2. Relevance to a village economy
   3. Related enterprise

Deliverables Phases Technological features of each phase Versioning up to Product Release Pattern Language Product ecology Range of applications Local resources OS Tech Pattern Language Structural diagram of the technology Funcional or Process Diagram Workflow for productive activities Product Development Strategy Keys to Success Status and Progress Timeline Design calculations Rates Yields Structure Power Ergonomics Economics Budget Market segmentation Industry standards Marketing Competition Economic analysis Startup Revenue Breakeven Fabrication or production technique Tooling requirements Infrastructure requirements for flexible fabrication Personnel Growth Replication People Infrastructure Scaleability Production level increase Lifecycle analysis - from Crust to Dust Metrics of success Localization Time liberated Energy requirements Ecological lifecycle Monetary value generated Ergonomics Energy inputs of device fabrication Energy inputs of device operation Time requirements, fabrication Time requirements, operation Sourcing Collaboration and Input Strategy Working questions Information tasks to be done Peer review process Seeking qualified reviewers Engaging qualified reviewers Resource development- contact core development team if you have: Ideas Tools Other resources Open Source Markup Contributing technical drawings or 3D models Performing calculations Adding supporting data or websites Flex fab Contact core team if you can volunteer fabrication capacity Products Contact development team for preorders of items that have reached the product release status Revenue serves as funding for continuing development