Board of Directors
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Overview
Officers
Current members
Marcin Jakubowski, Board of Directors, President
Bio: Marcin came to the U.S. from Poland as a child. As a farmer, technologist and ambitious entrepreneur, he is working to start a new civilization from scratch in Midwestern USA. He graduated with honors from Princeton and earned his PhD in Fusion Physics from the University of Wisconsin. Frustrated with the lack of relevance to pressing world issues in his education, he founded Open Source Ecology in 2003 and began development on the Global Village Construction Set, a DIY tool-set of 50 different industrial machines that it takes to build a small civilization with modern comforts. The aim is to enable everyone, from the remote villages in developing countries to the rural farms of Missouri - to access powerful, appropriate tools for creating better lives. Marcin says his goal is to create the Open Source Economy; an efficient economy that optimizes both production and distribution, while providing environmental regeneration and social justice - an economy that promotes autonomy and meaning.
As Founder, Marcin's role at Open Source Ecology (OSE) is to lead the clarity and vision for the development of the Global Village Construction Set - as a step towards creating the open source economy - OSE's core mission. See Marcin's TED Talk.
Cameron Colby Thompson, Board of Directors, Secretary
Bio: _________
Cameron's role on the Board is to provide his expertise in _________ to_______(how this furthers OSE's mission)
See more information about Colby.
Sunny Bates, Board of Directors
Bio: Sunny operates wherever executives, thinkers, artists, creators, innovators and entrepreneurs connect and collide around the globe. Her medium is people, her expertise human network development. Author, serial entrepreneur, mentor and advisor, her client roster has included some of the world’s most prominent organizations, from GE, TED and Credit Suisse to MTV, the National Academy of Sciences, Techstars and Kickstarter, of which she is a founding board member. Sunny’s approach to unleashing potential is unique: it puts people, network building and management at the center of growth and possibility. Sunny finds the connecting threads that exist all around us and brings them together in new and imaginative ways.
Sunny's role on the Board is to share her expertise in connecting resources for impact to further OSE's mission.
See more information about Sunny.
Alicia Gibb, Board of Directors
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Dr. Pearce's role on the Board is to
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Joshua Pearce, Board of Directors
Bio: Dr. Joshua M. Pearce received his Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University. He then developed the first Sustainability program in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education and developed the Applied Sustainability graduate program at Queen's University in Canada. He currently is an Associate Professor cross-appointed in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering and in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the Michigan Technological University. He runs the Michigan Tech Open Sustainability Technology Lab, whose research concentrates on the use of open source appropriate technology to find collaborative solutions to problems in sustainability and poverty reduction. Specifically he is interested in exploring the way solar energy can be used to provide clean sustainable electricity with photovoltaic devices and how the sharing of open source hardware and software can create sustainable and equitable means of production. His research group frequently contributes to Appropedia.org and has become well-known for cost annihilation using open hardware including the first viable low-cost metal RepRap 3-D printer, the recyclebot waste plastic extruder, and a wide array of scientific equipment covered in the Open-Source Lab. ' _________
Joshua's role on the Board is to provide his expertise in open-source hardware development to help validate and latterly scale the Global Village Construction Set.
Board of Advisors
John Doe, Board of Advisors
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Bio: _________
John Doe's role on the Board is to provide her expertise in _________ to_______(how this furthers OSE's mission)
See [ Resume].
Links
See also: OSE Bylaws