Oekonux 4

Oekonux 4 OSE Presentation

In this presentation, I will tell:

• Introduce that we are building a replicable Global Village
  • You say, wait a minute, reinvent civilization? Yes - because advanced, information-rich productivity can reduce the scale of human operation down to
• Who we are? Farm, os product developer, fab lab developer
• What have we done theoretically? GVCS
• What have we done practically? Tractor and CEB
• Part of a bigger package:
  • Fab
  • Tractor
  • OS Agroecology - we know permaculture, but now we have a key to its replicability
    • Gene stock
    • Equipment
• Why is it important?
  • Innovative biz model for econ transformation via at cost production - CSM
  • New option - Buy out at the Bottom, skip on life of wage slavery
• Challenges - very low acceptance, of True Fans concept, very few people really want to be free
  • Either can't comprehend/believe it because they don't have skill to comprehend/believe, or they want to be slaves?
• Huge liberatory and transformative potential.
• What are we doing currently? CEB press
• What are predicted practical implications?
  • Closed energy cycle - Food, energy, fabrication, show diagram
  • Closing of industrial divide, show diagram
  • Solar Power System Ecology - sun/biofuel to liquid fuel/electricity
• Self-Replicability Potential
  • Clear with open source agroecology, if you have nursery and gene bank
  • Self-replicating machinery with Furnace, machining, and HydraRaptor
• Learnings that there is very little actual support, that it is slow
  • There are many people super excited, but they don't have the skill, are in debt, suffer from the 90% tax on their life, or all of the above
• On the other hand, we have 9 people lined up by May, others are constantly knocking at our door, to the point that we have a $50 dollar first-time visitor fee

Slide1

• Slide Oekonux4 1 - Building the World's First, Replicable, Open Source, Off-Grid Global Village

Slide2

• Slide Oekonux4 2 - Main Idea - Post-Scarcity Economics by GVCS - opensourcing the Power of production from survival to advanced technologies in communities that can thrive on a small scale (not isolationist, but integrationist, reconsructivist)

• • End of Resource Conflicts by local sustainable production
  • Abundance - a rigorous condition of skill and wisdom
  • Promise: unprecedented quality of life and emergent small-scale republics

Slide3

Slide Oekonux 4 3

• So, you want to build a village?
  • If you could, why not?
  • Here are the tools
  • Here are the skills to use them
  • If you're tired of the status quo, why not check out and check in to some meaning

• 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

Slide4

• Slide Oekonux4 4 - You might want to start with a full economy. Agriculture, housing, energy, transportation, fuel, technology.
  • It's all in there.

• 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

Slide5

• 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

Slide6

• Slide Oekonux4 6 - explain fabrication aspects. Key - self-replicable program

Slide7

• Slide Oekonux4 7 - OSE Specifications - replicability, and need.

Slide8

• Slide Oekonux4 8 - What we have done
  • Tractor proto
  • CEB proto, bricks, building
  • Orchard-goat-chicken-garden-facility
  • Designs - lathe, torch table, microtrac, sawmill

Slide9

• Slide Oekonux4 9 - OSE Product Cycle - scalable

Slide10

• Slide Oekonux4 10 - needs: OS Design Rationale process, Fans, Dream Team 30

Slide11

• Slide Oekonux4 11 - Challenges
  • The 90% dilemma
  • Old mental models - industrial society brainwash
  • Reinventing civilization is not easy

Slide12

• 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

Slide13

• Slide Oekonux4 13 - Present Structure and Economic Model
  • NGO
  • Crowd financing
  • Production on May 1 - towards bootstrapping

Slide14

• Slide Oekonux4 14 - CSM biz model
  • We do due diligence
  • Crowds support hardware and infrastructure building
  • At-cost production

Slide15

• 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?

Slide16

• 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

Slide17

• 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

Slide18

• 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

Slide19

• 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

Slide20

• Slide Oekonux4 20 - 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

Slide21

• Slide Oekonux4 20 - Completion of first OSE Product Cycle - CEB may 1, 2009

Slide22

• 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

Slide23

• Slide Oekonux4 22 - Present Work - big CEB/pulverizer/microtrac/incubator

Slide24

• 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

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• 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