AJ Manoulian

AJ Manoulian

Team Culturing Information

last updated: 22. April, 2011

WHO are you?

• Name/Nationality/Ethnicity - AJ Manoulian, Irish/Armenian/American

• Location – Detroit, Michigan, United States

• Contact Information –

• Introductory Video -

• Resume/CV –

• Hobbies and Pastimes - Writing code, designing hardware, making pizza, internal and external combustion engines, DIY, open-source.

WHY are you motivated to support/develop this work?

• Do you endorse open source culture?

• Why are you interested in this work?

• Are you interested in teaching about the GVCS?

• Are you interested in economic relocalization possibilities arising from the GVCS?'

• Do you want to use the GVCS technologies yourself? Do you want to build them yourself?

• Are you interested in starting up enterprise using the GVCS technologies?

• Are you interested in having the GVCS technologies fabricated by your local custom fabricator?

• Are you interested in applying the GVCS to third world development? To redevelopment of crisis areas? To development of derelict areas in the developed world?

• Are you interested in starting up Industry 2.0 flexible fabrication enterprises for your local community, by drawing from a global repository of freely down-loadable designs and fabricating using open source fabrication equipment?

• Are you interested in the potential of the GVCS for developing local food systems?

• Are you interested in doing academic studies/papers, publishing books, or doing other analysis of our efforts?

• Are you interested in financial investment opportunities arising from our work?

• Are you interested in the distributive economic aspects of our work, and if so, how do you see this playing out?

• Are you interested in building renewable energy production facilities based on open hardware (solar concentrator electric, wind, biomass power).

• Are you interested in building resilient communities based on access to the GVCS?

• Are you interested in creating a bug-out hut using GVCS technologies?

• How do you think that the GVCS can help alleviate the instabilities of global monetary systems?

• How do you think that the GVCS can address issues related to resource conflicts?

• How do you think that the GVCS can address issues of overpopulation?

• How do you think that the GVCS can address issues of resource depletion and environmental degradation?

• Other comments

WHAT

• What have you already contributed to the OSE project? (technical contributions, blogging about us, financial support, organizing events, translations, interviews, video editing, publications, publicity work, behind-the-scenes work, CAD work, wiki contributions, computer support, etc)

HOW can you help?

• How are you interested in contributing to the work of GVCS development?

• Can you volunteer to work with us, and if so, how many hours per week?

• Are you interested in working with us for pay? If so, what services can you offer, and what is your hourly or per-project rate?

• Are you interested in purchasing equipment from us to help bootstrap development?

• Are you interested in bidding for consulting/design/prototyping work?

• Are you a True Fan? If not, why not?

• Would you like to see yourself working with us on a full-time basis?

• Are you interested in using the technologies that we are developing directly?

• Are you interested in being part of the world's first, open source, resilient community? The GVCS is the preparatory step for the OSE Village Experiment – a 2 year, immersion experiment (2013-2014) for testing whether a real, thriving, modern-day prototype community of 200 people can be built on 200 acres using local resources and open access to information? We are looking for approximately 200 people to fill a diverse array of roles, according to the Social Contract that is being developed. This may be the boldest social experiment on earth - a pioneering community whose goal is to extend the index of possibilities regarding harmonious existence of humans, ecology, and technology – as a beacon of light to benefit of all people on Earth.