Nathan Cravens

Hello. I live at Factor e Farm in spirit. Below is my schedule and working organizational method.

contact: knuggy AT gmail DOT com

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Slogan

"Autonomy through Communication"

Kitchen

This is my kitchen. This is also a DIY and community kitchen. So you may cook these up when I'm not around or we can make a potluck out of it.

With every meal

• Distill discussion and hive off into seperate categories.

To Discuss perpetually at Open Manufacturing

• Reverse engineering to open source
• Check-in Factor e Farm, Austin Lab
• Discuss automation scenarios at the Abundance list.

Front Burner

• Ask the Open Manufacturing community for links that relate to compile into a page.
• Find people/organizations of the open hardware variety.
  • Invite into the discussion

Back Burner

• Convert Al Sheahan's book to wiki.
• Work on this slogan: To buy a fish is fantasy. To fish remains suspect. Make a fish that makes itself: now we're talking!
• Make simple OS Fab Austin wiki.
• Contact MIT Architect & Fab Lab people

Fridge

• Develop an organizational practice to develop each GVCS.
  • Open Business Model
  • Workflow Model
• Contact at least 1000 Intentional Communities by e-mail
• Document the project by editing in the frame
• Create a separate blog for video of group activities
• Generate and answer FAQ questions
• Write motivational IEET article about Factor e Farm from a "transhumanist" perspective.
• Write to motivationally communicate Factor e for intentional community
• Write to motivationally communicate Factor e for an urbanized audience

Daily Progress

02/02/09

• E-mailed IC.org to collaborate with Factor e Farm to distill and promote Global Village Construction Set
• Wrote FAQ questions
• Created Distillations wiki

Week Schedule

Week 1. January 27 - February 3

• Learned camera; began using video editing software; began to document
• Wrote questions for FAQ
• Began to formulate a focus for communicating OSE to others

Factor e Focus

• Be Open Source with Open Source Ecology, Effortless Economy, and the broader consequences of human occupation on Earth.
• Assist in the construction of viable designs and learn design construction as prototypes are developed.
• Think and apply in terms of "rapid construction," a task-by-task method that constructs useful tools for minimal toil and maximum universal benefit. This may be called "task-by-task knowledge transfer for product construction," or placed another way, "technological transfer acceleration through multimedia," or further reduced to "rapid construction." Before rapid prototyping comes rapid construction. Rapid construction is essential for a technological change that benefits.
• Research methods of documentation for simplified product replication.
• Through observation: refine and test a theory of collaboration generation based on the fundamental success of open source software: "what helps me helps you"
• Develop "what helps me helps you" so that it may reduce to the greatest extent: universal cost.
• "What helps me helps you" is an expression of the "dual benefit," an emerging shift in the meaning of self interest.
• If it does not feel right, reflect on why. If it does feel right, also reflect.

When we, the Factor e team, are gathered for reflection for fabrication

• Why are we here?
• What are the priorities of the effort, what are we generating here, what are your motivations, and what are your underlying focus-points behind the motivation?
• What would you like to see happen at Factor e farm? What are your goals?
• What intellectual and material resources are to be acquired or fabricated?
• How best can I help to rapidly end the goal so that you may generate another?
• How do the feelings resonate with the thought on the matter and vis versa?
• Weed it out; then; start planting!

During Collaborative Development

General

• What human element is needed for the day-to-day ecology function, preexisting and arranged to generate optimum homoeostasis?
• How can the ecology arrangement be revised to best meet our needs and preferences? Factoring: motion as constant.
• What would you like to remain "closed loop" or "statically in motion" so that you may attend to other occupations?
• Details of various foundational recursions are now in a state of contemplation!