OSE Talent Search

STEAM Camp instructor talent search:

Visionary

Does the open source economy speak to you as the next evolution of human consciousness?

Do you want to build a kind of world that you would want your children to live in, and have the tech skills to design and build it?

Do you want to create a passionate, high performing team to make this happen?

Do you believe that open and collaborative is a prerequisite for getting there?

Do you want to solve pressing world issues, and teach others to do so with you?

Are you interested in mastering movement entrepreneurship on a path of lifelong learning ?

Are you open to rapid learning across boundaries to update your mental models continuously?

Do you believe that there is enough for everybody, and could derive from basic principles that even the math works out?

Do you believe that all the pressing world issues stand no chance in the face of unleashed, open collaboration?

Then join us in designing, teaching, and spreading the open source economy. Apply to the Open Source Microfactory Dream Team today.

Collaboration Architecture

A little more background on our work - we're trying to find out what happened to the promise of distributed production, as there are limits to its success in the 12 years since Neil Gershenfeld published his seminal work, Fab.

Would you mind sharing your insights on the missing pieces? Our thoughts are captured on the OSE wiki - would like your feedback.

Yes, we'd be interested in connections to partners. We plan to run 12 camps in 12 locations worldwide for our next event. Currently we have Seattle, Kansas City, New York, Vienna, Ghent (Belgium), and Dresden as potential venues - we host the camps wherever the Instructor is located.

The idea is that the STEAM Camps provide collaborative development training, which feeds into regular Incentive Challenges, and where we also hold conference scale Extreme Design/Builds in physical locations, somewhat like Startup Weekend but involving builds.

I would like to hear your suggestions on this. Should we talk on a conference call?

Marcin

Big Vision

I'm the founder of Open Source Ecology, and we're developing open source blueprints for civilization. I'm contacting you because of your work in distributed manufacturing - as a grad of Fab Academy.

We envision open source microfactories as the next engine of industrial production - and are inviting you to a team to get there. We know that it's a big task and we can't do it alone. We also believe that pressing world issues stand no chance in the face of unleashed, open collaboration. We cannot think solo or small when it comes to creating the next economy. The reward is simple: transition of the current economic paradigm from proprietary to collaborative. The return-on-investment is the next trillion dollar economy.

But how do we get there? We're trying to find out what happened to the promise of distributed, open source production, as there are limits to its success in the 12 years since Neil Gershenfeld published his seminal work, Fab. I'd like to know your thoughts on what the best efforts are, and what the main obstacles lie in the path of this? We have some ideas about this, see our Limits of Distributed Manufacturing page.

Our proposed solution is a crash course to teach collaborative, open source product development. Second, to run regular, well-funded Incentive Challenges for open product design. Third, to run Extreme Builds with 100+ people where we do rapid prototyping in real life. And fourth, to create an enterprise ecosystem for the open source, circular economy.

I'd like to know in what ways our program overlaps with your interests? Does the open source economy speak to you as the next evolution of human consciousness? Do you want to build a kind of world that you would want your children to live in, and have the tech skills to design and build it? Do you want to create a passionate, high performing team to make this happen? If you are interested in joining a passionate team to co-create this, I'd like to talk to you further.

Thanks,

Marcin

More

We are currently developing 9 day Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camps. These are intended to provide the basic skill set for collaborative, open source product development.

1. Who are the best current efforts to bring about the collaborative economy, as measured in economic impact?
2. Who are the best current efforts to bring about distributed manufacturing?
3. Who are the main efforts required to bring about open source, distributed manufacturing?
4. What are the best open source manufacturing tools available?
5. What are the best design repositories available for use in distributed manufacturing?
6. What are the leading distributed production facilities that produce consumer goods?

Links

• STEAM Camp - How It Works