Crash course on OSE
Crash Course
This is a Crash Course on Open Source Ecology. In the next 15 minutes, you will be brought up to date on all the work of OSE from the last 4 years. Email crashcoursemoderator at gmail dot com for support.
Overview for New People
To see what we do, see the GVCS in 2 Minutes video. We are a network of farmers, engineers, and supporters that for the last two years has been creating the Global Village Construction Set, an open source, low-cost, high performance technological platform that allows for the easy, DIY fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a sustainable civilization with modern comforts. The GVCS lowers the barriers to entry into farming, building, and manufacturing and can be seen as a life-size lego-like set of modular tools that can create entire economies, whether in rural Missouri, where the project was founded, in urban redevelopment, or in the heart of Africa. See Key Features of the GVCS, and if you want to see the full set of values, see Core Values of OSE.
We have an ambitious program for product release of the 49 remaining technologies within 2 years and a $2.4M budget - which we abbreviate as our 50/2/2 program. The period for this is 2011-2012.
For Developers
If you would like to help bring this project to completion, we invite proactive collaboration on many fronts. First, see Proposal 2012 for a list of the 50 technologies that we are developing, and
Keywords
Required Reading for Developers
- OSE Specifications
- Proposal 2012
- GVCS Development Template
- Product Template
- Development Team
- Wiki Policy
Other
Conferences, Media Development,
FAQs
To Do Items
- Edit Proposal 2012 - needs GVCS Icons to