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Introduction

(last updated 4.12.09)

Open Source Ecology's main facility at Factor e Farm is noteworthy in terms of the efficiency of allocating donations and its nonstandard operational principles.

We have shown consistently that we spend just about 100% of donations directly on prototyping and product release work surrounding the 41 item-Global Village Construction Set. See the October Progress Report as an example.

We have not been effective in delivering product on schedule, however. Because of the experimental, high-risk nature of our entire development plan, and the constant strategic development updates - our development path is more serpentine than straight. We are aiming at a clear goal - the 41 different technologies attaining product release status by Year End 2010.

This will not happen within a 2 year period until we reach a $10k/month funding level - sufficient for prototyping up to 4 technologies per month. Each technology costs about $2k to prototype on average - so 40 technologies at 3 prototype cycles each require a budget of $240k. This takes 2 years at teh $10k/month funding level.

Our intent is to utilize 2009 as a year for building capacity. The steps to this are:

1. Attaining a $10k/month funding level via the True Fans Campaign and product sales.
2. Demonstrating a scalable prototype deployment technique for pooling resources towards parallel prototyping. Parallel refers to several prototypes being done at once.
3. Building necessary infrastructure on-site at Factor e Farm to make both prototyping and testing possible
4. The above infrastructure includes a core on-site team for performing necessary product development due diligence

This entire process is novel, and if successful, marks a breakthrough for Open Business Model development for productive enterprise.

$10k/month Funding Level

Our main strategy is to utilize a combination of the True Fans campaign, product release of the CEB press, and resulting mainstream media publicity to capture a major increase in support, both financial and developer-wise.

Scalable Product Development Method

No one to date has yet come up with a scalable, open source product and Open Business Model development methodology. Achieving success in developing this process marks a major breakthrough in civilization's economic system evolution. Such a breakthrough would convert the present scarcity-based, paleoindustrial systems to one of post-scarcity, post-industrial, peer-to-peer production. This is major breakthrough way on its way in terms of global developments in open source economic theory and practice.

Our idea for the Open Source Product Development and Open Business Model development is as follows:

1. Organize a local core team at Factor e Farm for leading development due diligence on the 41 GVCS projects
2. Organize a large, supporting, global development pool for

Core Mission of OSE and Organizational Form

We are treading a pioneering path in terms of how Factor e Farm is supported. We are not a corporation, nonprofit organization, or charity in any standard, legal sense of the word. We have found that nonprofit, corporate, or governmental status does not fit the core mission of Open Source Ecology

Conclusion

This exposition should provide a clear explanation of our financial accountability