OSE Campus

The OSE Campus is a Learning Organization - a college-like campus for developing and practicing the Open Source Ecology Paradigm.

The OSE Campus is intended to be Distributive Enterprise training facility (Open Source University) 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, with financial assistance available from Kiva microloans.
• Immersion education program - 1 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 production mentors.
• 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.