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Notes on Wiki Infrastructure for Open Engineering

Mel's Comment:

Marcin and I just spoke about this on the phone - Marcin, reminderping to coordinate a discussion w/ Chris (cc'd) & Vinay on the wiki-merge issue.

The way I see it, Appropedia can become a Sourceforge for open engineering. (Sure, it could use a better infrastructure for projects, but... we can work on that.)* It's a place where individual open engineering projects related to appropriate technology can have project websites, host files, etc. Development work, instructions on how to build a hexayurt, etc. would all be here.

OSE can then go and say things like "Look at all these different pieces of the puzzle that exist - full-fledged technologies being developed independently on places like Appropedia. Here's how you could combine them all into a working village - for housing, you could build hexayurts like this <link to hexayurt-building instruction pages on Appropedia> which would mean X, Y, and Z for the economics/dynamics/environmental impact of the village."

But that's just my $0.02, and I'll leave the discussion to Marcin, Vinay, and Chris.

-Mel

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Marcin's comments:

• We need: a Platform for Open Engineering
• Marcin's personal attempt: openfarmtech.org - under Development Template.
  • However, this has a particular spec for its open engineering - it it open engineering + OSE Specifications (see Main Page)
• Once a better infrastructure for projects exists at Appropedia, then we could consider using it for some technical developments.
• Summary: unless someone can show me a better development platform, the Development Template is good enough for now. It embodies OSE Spec.

Critical additional comment:

• OSE adds value in that (1) attempts open engineering, (2) does so according to a very unique goal - replicable villages with particular attributes as described on the Main Page
• It is the addition of value according to a unique goal that adds value to the open engineering itself. It is what drives the specifications for open engineering.
• I don't think one would come up with an option for creating OSE's replicable village if one just took a number of technologies and put them together. The OSE Specification (look on Main Page) is a glue for the type of engineering that goes on. Without that glue, you'd never arrive at the type of engineering proposed.

Comments?

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