Marcin Jakubowski

*Latest conference - see Humanity Plus Presentation slides, presented at the 2009 Humanity+ Summit, Irvine, California, December 5, 2009.

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Name: Marcin Jakubowski

Contact Information: - marcin_ose, joseph dot dolittle at gmail dot com, http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Overview, http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/

Contributions relevant to project: Ph.D. in physics, agricultural experience, workshp experience, organizational experience; presently leading the Factor e Farm laboratory for testing the ideas in practice; public speaking

Accomplishments: ongoing experiments at Factor e Farm; see press release

Present engagements and activities: - Full time open product development and sustainable living experiments

Networks: P2P Foundation, Global Villages, number of innovators in technology and p2p areas

Level of Commitment to the Good Work: This is my full time endeavor, making the road by walking.

Livelihood goals: - I'd like to live a prosperous life, where prosperity is measured by the amount of time I can spend on promoting human evolution.

Your interests in open product/infrastructure development: I am particularly interested in a replicable model of human organization that can serve as the basis of a much more prosperous and durable civilization. We believe that the way to this is an open source economy, where economic power is distributed to everybody.

Which of the projects are you interested in? All. Interested in an entire infrastructure for a Global Village.

Are you interested in living in a startup, land-based Global Village as being discussed here? Indeed. We are doing that right now.

How did you find out about us? We founded these experiments.

Are there any other things you'd like to say?

PRESS RELEASE

We have come up with a breakthrough model of production based on open source, peer-to-peer methods. We are putting the model into practice right now.

Using this method, we have produced a prototype for the world’s first, open source, high-performance (3-5 blocks/minute) compressed earth block press ( http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=91). P2P foundation claims that this may be the most important social experiment in the world - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/marcin-jakubowskis-open-farm-the-most-important-social-experiment-in-the-world/2008/01/22. Steve Bosserman, organizational consultant – explains the economics of this method here- http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/steve_bosserman/2008/02/09/giving_it_away_making_money.htm

Our work has recently grabbed the attention of BoingBoing and Wired Magazine blogs: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/25/open-source-compress.html and http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2008/02/the-liberator-a.html

Following inspired discussions with a number of p2p collaborators, we are calling this method Production Commons development. It is essentially an organized effort for open engineering and product R&D for the public interest, and it is applicable to any product within the current industrial system. The basic business model is:

1. People volunteer time and resources to develop products 2. Production facilities are built with voluntary contributions 3. A product is made available at the cost of production – materials and labor

We are simply eliminating the development, intellectual property, capitalization, overhead, competitive waste, and other costs- to create a novel way to produce physical goods. This is identical to the open source software model in terms of sharing development costs, except we added physical production into the mix.

With this said, we want to ask you how we can work together. Is there a way that you can use what we are presently doing to help with your work? Is there a way that you can help us apply the model to other products (see Overview link below)? Are you interested in Zero Hour, a new project dedicated to take open source/replicable endeavors into immediate action:

http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Category:Zero_Hour

This is part of our P2P business network: http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Business