Oekonux 4

Oekonux 4 OSE Presentation

• Slide Oekonux4 1 - Building the World's First, Replicable, Open Source, Off-Grid Global Village
• Slide Oekonux4 2 - Main Idea - Everyone can Seize Economic Power via Production
  • End of the Welfare State - people become producers, or at least closer to the means of production
  • End of Resource Conflicts - you don't need to steal when you are self sufficient on NEEDS by local production
  • End of Scarcity - by opening up your mind and skilling yourself can we transcend to abundance - a rigorous condition of skill and wisdom
  • Promise: unprecedented quality of life and emergent small-scale republics as present system breaks at the seams
• Slide Oekonux4 3 - Who and what are we?
  • Farm, gene bank
    • Pix of orchard, propagation nursery, chicks, goats, cordwood,
  • Fab Lab, flexible fabrication
  • Experiential learning center
  • Open Source Product Development Center - organizers and revolutionaries
  • Number of movements in one: localization, free state, open source economy, bioregionalism, voluntary simplicity, technological progressivism, indigenous wisdom, gene bank, community supported manufacturing, experiential learning
  • First replicable, open source, global village in the making
• Slide Oekonux4 4 - What are we doing?
  • Develop and optimize a small but SUFFICIENT set of technologies for unprecedented QOL, with right livelihood, ecological integrity.
  • We are engaging a scalable, open source product development pipeline, that can be mainstreamable

• Slide Oekonux4 5 - What is this set - explain it as an ecology of icons - FEH plus fab
  • Up for debate whether this set is sufficient
  • Items not included are pretty much available
• Slide Oekonux4 6 - explain fabrication aspects. Key - self-replicable program
• Slide Oekonux4 7 - OSE Specifications - replicability, and need.
• Slide Oekonux4 8 - What we have done
  • Tractor proto
  • CEB proto, bricks, building
  • Orchard-goat-chicken-garden-facility
  • Designs - lathe, torch table, microtrac, sawmill
• Slide Oekonux4 9 - OSE Product Cycle - scalable
• Slide Oekonux4 10 - needs: OS Design Rationale process, Fans, Dream Team 30
• Slide Oekonux4 11 - Challenges
  • Attention span, unlike with Wikipedia, you actually have to do something
  • Old mental models - industrial society brainwash
  • Reinventing civilization is not easy
• Slide Oekonux4 12 - Production model under Development is noncommercial neosubsistence (subsistence with high quality of life) -
  • AKA, P2P economy - new trade networks operate outside of The Matrix
  • Use local resources, create new structures, ending up small-scale autonomous republics
• Slide Oekonux4 13 - Present Structure and Economic Model
  • NGO
  • Crowd financing
  • Production on May 1 - towards bootstrapping
• Slide Oekonux4 14 - CSM biz model
  • We do due diligence
  • Crowds support hardware and infrastructure building
  • At-cost production
• Slide Oekonux4 15 - Scalable development model
  • Like Wikipedia, but far beyond
  • Social technology is much more difficult because of large attention span requirement on part of participants
  • ->Can this requirement be eliminated?
• Slide Oekonux4 16 - Challenges
  • 100% open, no special interest investments
  • Sell vision and technique, backed by due diligence OSDR full treatment
  • Bootstrapping requirement
  • Attention span for attracting 1000 True Fans
  • Limits of novices and students
• Slide Oekonux4 17 - GVCS is About Social Technology, not Hardware tech
  • Simplify dev by core team by detailing OSDR down to bitesize chunks for chewing by global community
  • OSDR is generated
  • Review/bid -> fund -> deploy&document
  • Testing, production replication by on-site team
• Slide Oekonux4 18 - OSDR is Defined for a Particular Implementation
  • Careful, point-by-point description to novice with high school education
  • Break it down to 0-attention span format
• Slide Oekonux4 19 - OSDR Standards - high quality details and review
  • Diagram of all design points
  • Red Pages for dev support - development and results
  • Full explanation of points
  • Diagram can be connected to 3D design
  • 3D design annotated with BOM
  • BOM spreadsheet
  • Fab procedure
  • Review process based on Resource Map
  • Status visible readily by viewing wiki page
• Slide Oekonux4 19 - OSDR Process
  • Product Selection Metric for determining choice
  • OSE Spec for product quality control
  • Distillations for 2 year overview
  • True Fans/crowd funding support
  • Review/bid process for involving experts
  • Funding via open proposal writing, via OSDR content
  • Red Pages
  • Fab and Document at Factor e Farm
  • Blog for main communications
• Slide Oekonux4 20 - Completion of first OSE Product Cycle - CEB may 1, 2009
• Slide Oekonux4 21 - Strategy
  • Low overhead - but dangerous in terms of retention
  • Publicity network - social networks, Guardian, Wired, BoingBoing features
  • Get Fans!!! Every open source leader featured on P2P Foundations should be contacted
  • Do OSDR development via worldwide collab
• Slide Oekonux4 22 - Present Work - big CEB/pulverizer/microtrac/incubator
• Slide Oekonux4 23 - Near-term goal - 3 month - close the food/energy/housing loop based on local ecology - 3000 brick per day CEB/3000 bf/d sawmill - tractor running on local pyrolysis oil with a steam engine
• Slide Oekonux4 24 - Summary
  • Buiilding the world's first, replicable, open source, global village is not easy
  • CEB will be first complete product cycle
  • OSDR is our main organizational development point for global collaboration
  • Dream Team 30 is development point for local implementation
  • True Fans campaign needs development