Factor e Farm Participation Standards

by Marcin Jakubowski, OSE Founder

Introduction

This page defines the standards or expectations for on-site participants at the Factor e Farm experimental facility. This applies to all on-site participants, and especially to Dedicated Project Visitors interested in long-term participation in the experiment.

These standards focus on the present period from August, 2011, to 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. We are currently in a phase of rapid growth, which was a result of my TED Talk. 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. Design and Prototyping - This is our core physical deliverable. This includes physical prototyping, where machine design is a prerequisite to prototyping. This value should be clear by definition - of our explicit goal.
2. Documentation- This is our core deliverable, more important than our core physical deliverable. Documentation allows for the replication of the GVCS tools and techniques. Documentation is distinct from CAD
3. Dogfooding Products - This is the use of GVCS technologies on site at Factor e Farm to test their relevance to the shared promise.
4. Farming - Farming is a part of dogfooding, but is listed as a separate category because of the relevance of healthy food to the health of people. Farming includes all the elements of [[Open Source Agroecologyh
5. Construction of the Built Environment

It should be noted that the direct participants above are also most qualified to promote the project, with functions such as fundraising, standards development, team-building, and others. Direct participants should be most suited for these roles because they have acccess to first-hand knowledge of the practical aspects and constraints of pursuing the shared promise of Factor e Farm.