True Fans

Introduction

True Fans are supporters of the 1000 True Fans - 1000 Global Villages campaign . Here you can read why people have joined the campaign, as a motivation for you to join if you're not already signed up.

True Fans

Benjamin Kaplin I'm a mechanical engineering student, and I support the OSE because a completed Open Source Village kit would represent several orders of magnitude of improvement over existing projects to improve living conditions around the globe with technology. I grew up reading Stephenson, and one of the most powerful images in his book Diamond Age is The Seed, a nanotechnology McGuffin that one of the main characters devotes his life to that would take the control of production and self-determination out of the hands of the McCorporations and put it into the hands of revolutionaries and the impoverished. Needless to say, nanotech is still several decades away from that dream, and contributing to the True Fans campaign helps a realistic Seed program without pulling me away from my studies.

Benjamin Kaplin

Marcin Jakubowski, opensourceecology at gmail dot com, marcin_ose on Skype I started the campaign because I have observed how little of humanity's true potential has been tapped. Everyone slaves their life away to a system that is crumbling at the seams. I believe that we can all reach absolute prosperity and evolve to freedom - by becoming skilled and productive Integrated Humans, and by helping anyyone else to do the same. History has shown that this is a general formula for lasting prosperity. As long as we're wise, it should be trivial to get beyond the economics of scarcity. We need to show the world how to build the world's first, replicable, open source global village - so anyone who wants to can evolve to freedom.

Marcin Jakubowski

Jeremy Mason, jeremymaso at gmail dot com On-site at Factor e.

Jeremy Mason

Scott Akridge As I get older I'm more and more interested in helping people. A couple weeks back I enlisted the help of a friend to help in developing a CEB press when I began doing research and found www.openfarmtech.org with the open source CEB press. I continued looking for more information but kept coming back to this site for more info and learned more about the project and found I wanted to get involved. I started by becoming a member and donating $10 a month with plans to build the CEB press and build a couple structures then make the effort a cooperative. After reading more I've decided to also build a sawmill, assuming I can recruit some help. I think this is a great project and am excited to be a part of it in a small way.

Toby Martin I support OSE because... It's an intelligent and direct effort to address some of the most serious problems we face as individuals and as a society. It's one of the most interesting and creative projects I've ever heard of. I see no reason in principle that it can't improve people's lives. It's actually happening.

Toby Martin