Factor e Farm Participation Standards

Introduction

This page defines the standards or expectations for on-site participants at the Factor e Farm experimental facility for the period between August, 2011, and year-end 2012. This period marks the phase of rapid development, testing, and deployment of the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS), with Factor e Farm as the primary stakeholder for this effort. The explicit goal is completion of the development phase of the GVCS by year-end 2012, with an approximate $4-5M budget. The list below defines a prioritized list of contributions expected from participants, in descending order of importance. The purpose of this page is to define a basis for clear performance assessment of on-site participants at Factor e Farm. This assessment is expected to be carried out not only by the project founder, but by each member of the Factor e Farm community. Making and receiving assessments of commitments and promises is a part of the open source culture of Factor e Farm, and the intent is team building towards delivering on a shared promise. The shared promise is the creation of the world's first, viable, Post-Scarcity Community (a community that achieves low work-hour requirement for achieving a modern standard of living, while not participating in any geopolitical compromises whatsoever - as a route to freedom, meaning, and pursuit of happiness) that provides a competitive lifestyle option parallel to mainstream culture.

Contribution List

The most valued contributions in the descending order of importance are:

1. Prototyping
2. Prototyping
3. Documenting
4. Dogfooding Products