Oekonux 4

Oekonux 4 OSE Presentation

• Slide Oekonux4 1 - Building the World's First, Replicable, Open Source, Off-Grid Global Village
• Slide Oekonux4 2 - Main Idea - Everyone can Seize Economic Power via Production
  • End of the Welfare State - people become producers, or at least closer to the means of production
  • End of Resource Conflicts - you don't need to steal when you are self sufficient on NEEDS by local production
  • End of Scarcity - by opening up your mind and skilling yourself can we transcend to abundance - a rigorous condition of skill and wisdom
  • Promise: unprecedented quality of life and emergent small-scale republics as present system breaks at the seams
• Slide Oekonux4 3 - Who and what are we?
  • Farm, gene bank
    • Pix of orchard, propagation nursery, chicks, goats, cordwood,
  • Fab Lab, flexible fabrication
  • Experiential learning center
  • Open Source Product Development Center - organizers and revolutionaries
  • Number of movements in one: localization, free state, open source economy, bioregionalism, voluntary simplicity, technological progressivism, indigenous wisdom, gene bank, community supported manufacturing, experiential learning
  • First replicable, open source, global village in the making
• Slide Oekonux4 4 - how do we operate?
  • Develop and optimize a small but SUFFICIENT set of technologies for unprecedented QOL, with right livelihood, ecological integrity.
  • We are engaging a scalable, open source product development pipeline, that can be mainstreamable

• Slide Oekonux4 5 - What is this set - explain it as an ecology of icons - FEH plus fab
  • Up for debate whether this set is sufficient
  • Items not included are pretty much available
• Slide Oekonux4 6 - explain fabrication aspects. Key - self-replicable program
• Slide Oekonux4 7 - OSE Specifications - replicability, and need.
• Slide Oekonux4 8 - What we have done
  • Tractor proto
  • CEB proto, bricks, building
  • Orchard-goat-chicken-garden-facility
  • Designs - lathe, torch table, microtrac, sawmill
• Slide Oekonux4 9 - OSE Product Cycle - scalable
• Slide Oekonux4 10 - needs: OS Design Rationale process, Fans, Dream Team 30
• Slide Oekonux4 11 - Challenges
  • Attention span, unlike with Wikipedia, you actually have to do something
  • Old mental models - industrial society brainwash
  • Reinventing civilization is not easy
• Slide Oekonux4 12 - Production model under Development is noncommercial neosubsistence (subsistence with high quality of life) -
  • AKA, P2P economy - new trade networks operate outside of The Matrix
  • Use local resources, create new structures, ending up small-scale autonomous republics
• Slide Oekonux4 13 - Present Structure and Economic Model
  • NGO
  • Crowd financing
  • Production on May 1 - towards bootstrapping
• Slide Oekonux4 14 - CSM biz model
  • We do due diligence
  • Crowds support hardware and infrastructure building
  • At-cost production
• Slide Oekonux4 15 - Scalable development model
  • Like Wikipedia, but far beyond
  • Social technology is much more difficult because of large attention span requirement on part of participants
  • ->Can this requirement be eliminated?
• Slide Oekonux4 16 - GVCS is About Social Technology, not Hardware tech
  • Simplify dev by core team by detailing OSDR down to bitesize chunks by global community
  • OSDR is generated
  • Review/bid/fund/deploy&document
  • Testing, production replication by on-site team
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You need to provide needs (an economy) - food, energy, housing, plus technology - then you build culture, social organization (peer governance, means of exchange), out with kleptocracy, funny money system

• Slide 3 - Past work - land base, food/housing - tractor + CEB infastructure
  • CEB pallets, CEB pressing, tiller, backhoe, balespike, tooth bar,
• Slide 4 - Present - saw mill/pulverizer/torch table/lathe/microtrac/incubator
• Slide 5 - Main Present near-term goal - 3 month - close the food/energy/housing loop based on local ecology - 3000 brick per day CEB/3000 bf/d sawmill - tractor running on local pyrolysis oil with a steam engine
  • Details: Lathe and torch table open sourced
  • RepRap variant for fabbing grafting tools, etc
• Slide 6 - Food/energy/housing Product Ecology
• Slide 7 - That's all boring. What's the real story?
  • Veritable open engineering method to be developed
  • Challenge - beyond any known collab paradigm, physical plant necessary
  • Main challenge - peoples' conceptions
• Slide 8 - What have we shown?
  • 10x reduction in price
  • Fungability via crowd source after technical due diligence is performed
• Slide 9 - Present approach to open engineering
  • Limits of volunteers
  • Facility inadequacy in a bootstrap effort
    • Voluntary lifestyle of reinventing everything in infrastructure - as part of the experimetn
  • Latest news - working with bidding process and professionals at pay; due diligence for crowd funding - is this replicable/scalable to a full development platform

• Slide 10 - Do the due diligence - crowd fund it
• Slide 11 - Background infrastructure
  • Low-cost of living
  • Publicity network - social network, Guardian, Wired, BoingBoing
  • Exponential growth on blog, YouTube
  • Ecological technology development - Marcin
  • 3D and tech due diligence - Jeremy
• Slide 12 - Full package: 3D design - CAM software - CAE - OSE Database
• Slide 13 - Econ Model
  • Welfare: True Fans, Crowdsource
  • Production: May 1
• Slide - Big Hit - May 1 - production - first complete product cycle
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