Collaboration Platforms

Introduction

Please list all known collaboration platforms relevant to physical product development here. After we compile a list, we will analyze it and determine a strategy for using these platforms towards creating the Global Village Construction Set in conjunction with this wiki, the factorefarm.org Drupal site, factorefarm.org/weblog blog, and the Factor e Farm physical facility and collaboratory.

List

• http://www.gaiau.org/
• http://open-innovation-projects.org/project-list/
• Science for Humanity - As you will see from the website there is a tab called 'Seekers'. If you click on one of the sub sections under this tab you will be able to start a discussion in the relevant area. - http://www.scienceforhumanity.net/challenge-process.html
• http://osengineering.org/sitemap.html
• Network for Open Scientific Innovation - http://freedomofscience.org/
• Thinkcycle.org - now defunct?
• http://globalswadeshi.net
• Global Villages google group
• Minciu Sodas' http://www.worknets.org/

Strategy towards applying existing platforms to the Global Village Construction Set

• Gaia University:Develop credible degree pathways in collaboration with Gaia's pre-existing network of experts and advisers. Contemporaneously, Factor E and its True Fans will develop a peer group of experts and advisers to facilitate the advancement of the Global Village Construction Set. The students attracted to this program will be accredited through Gaia University, in collaboration with Open Source Ecology and the many component projects of the Global Village Construction Set, for the future establishment of a Midwest-based Gaia University/Open Source Ecology union. This will lead to a productive set of symbiotic relationships.