Oekonux 4

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Oekonux 4 OSE Presentation

In this presentation, I will tell:

  1. Introduce that we are building a replicable Global Village
  2. GVCS
  3. So, You want to build a village?
  4. You'll need to start with an economy. Food.
  5. Building.
  6. Energy.
  7. Fab
  8. Is it an economy? Yes, all tools are productive
    1. Show productivity - ag, fab
  9. How do we know? We've done a bunch of experiments already. Ag, fab - tractor + CEB
  10. Closed Energy cycle - from Mathew
  11. In fact, this constitutes an economy/money system
  12. Wait a minute? It would take too long to make this happen.
    1. We will offer immersion training,
  13. Cost analysis:
    1. LifeTrac infrastructure- $25k and about 6 months labor, vs $250k plus $25k yearly costs of depreciation
    2. Food infrastructure- $3k stock, plus $50k in ousourced labor ($50/hour at 40 hr weeks for 28 weeks with heavy equipment)
    3. One man year for eternal freedom? Case for BOAB
  14. Impossible? How about 1-year immersion training?
  15. Transformative economics - CSP, at cost production
  16. Transformative economics - Closing the industrial divide
  17. Transformative economics - local fuel
  18. Transformative economics - NGO, private contract, your own economy, your own money, transparency by documenting production
  19. Challenges - 90% slavery per individual; slavery is voluntary
  20. Transitional movement - check out, and invest in a real future
  21. Where are we now? CEB press, towards product release - to close off accountability cycle?
  22. Collaboration - much more challenging
  23. Crowd funding - quite successful; workshop is paid for
  24. Conclusions - There is a small and robust set, that is replicable if it's open source.
  25. Subscribe, or tell us what we're missing.


  • 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

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  • Slide Oekonux4 1' - We propose the Global Village Construction Set and Lifestyle Engineering


Slide 2

  • Slide Oekonux4 2 - Infrastructure Set Sufficient for Creating Advanced Civilization
    • 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

Slide 3

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

Slide 4

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

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  • Slide Oekonux4 9 - We are Engaged Actively in Building the Construction Set
    • Tractor proto
    • CEB proto, bricks, building
    • Orchard-goat-chicken-garden-facility
    • Designs - lathe, torch table, microtrac, sawmill

OSE Product Cycle - scalable

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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
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