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The OSE Campus is a real living community. It is a [[Learning Organization]] - a college-like campus for developing and practicing the [[Open Source Ecology Paradigm]]. Specifically, it is a campus with a participation contract based on efficient, ecological production and based on transformation of surrounding communities by providing open source, best practice to the surrounding communities.
The OSE Campus is a real community of effective producers of the Global Village Construction Set Tools. The OSE Campus is based on efficient, ecological production and is based on transformation of surrounding communities by providing open source products to their local economy.


The OSE Campus is intended to be a[[Distributive Enterprise]] training facility that combines a lifestyle of lifelong leaning and work. It includes entrepreneurship training, education, production, product dog-fooding, and open source start-up incubation in one.
The OSE Campus is intended to be a[[Distributive Enterprise]] training facility that combines a lifestyle of lifelong leaning and work. It includes entrepreneurship training, education, production, product dog-fooding, and open source start-up incubation in one.


The unique funding model includes:
*Strong emphasis on unleashing human abilities, life-long learning, and breaking the habit of being yourself.
*OSE Microfactory and related productive operations - robust production is the backbone of economic prosperity and sustainability, operated in the for-profit sector
*Students pay tuition, or do work-study. with financial assistance potentially available from Kiva microloans.
*Immersion education program - 2 year program - with first year beginner's course, 2nd year advanced course.
*Students have an option to repay their tuition via apprenticeships where they generate value from production runs under the guidance of a master fabricator.
*Faculty and staff participate for 10 hours per week in productive activity to bootstrap fund their own salaries at $50k/household/year.
*Local production allows for zero overhead costs for the built environment, utilities, and other critical infrastructure
*A farm manager produces all the necessary food with assistance from apprentices or volunteers
*Intensive week-long, augmented reality short courses provide another revenue stream for the community - where state-of-art production techniques are converted into Real Startups
*Publication sales add funding to nonprofit branch
*50% of profits from OSE Microfactory and other productive enterprises goes back into open source product research and development, development and growth of the community, and capitalization assistance to OSE Campus replications.
*No employees, only entrepreneurs, partners, and volunteers.
*Deep culture of responsibility as a means to addressing pressing world issues.
*Full autonomy is present in community as complete import substitution occurs for all essential items, but is optional for luxuries. That is - food, energy, and fuel are produced on site.


[[Category:Strategic Development]]
[[Category:Strategic Development]]

Revision as of 13:25, 3 September 2012

The OSE Campus is a real community of effective producers of the Global Village Construction Set Tools. The OSE Campus is based on efficient, ecological production and is based on transformation of surrounding communities by providing open source products to their local economy.

The OSE Campus is intended to be aDistributive Enterprise training facility that combines a lifestyle of lifelong leaning and work. It includes entrepreneurship training, education, production, product dog-fooding, and open source start-up incubation in one.

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