Viral Scaling Strategy

OSE aims to scale the OSE Campus or similar land-based facilities virally.

We are introducing a tight constraint on OSE development - viral scalability of modern autonomous communities via replication of OSE enterprises such as the OSE Campus. To attain such scalability - replication funding must come from bootstrapping generation of value, not from grants or foundations. Grants and foundations may accelerate progress on technique development, but by their elite nature - are extraneous to direct replication funding. Moreover, the participants in the Factor e Farm experiment must generate value directly, as opposed to indirect means of taking resources from project funds. As a social enterprise - an ethical project with growing social capital - resource generation may come from production, services, donations, or foundation. Internally, a combination of autonomy (low-cost overhead by local production of infrastructure necessities (food, energy, etc.)) or Neosubsistence may be combined with production for external markets. Production means selling critical infrastructure-building tools of the GVCS. Factor e Farm is a nonprofit social enterprise with a Unique Value Proposition. We are interested in societal transformation by demonstrating that 30 people on 30 acres can create a complete modern economy down to semiconductor and metal production from indigenous feedstocks.