Open Source Store
Intro
One of the big outstanding questions of open source product development is how to insert financial feedback loops into the process, so that we can realize mass creation of right livelihood via open source enterprise.
It can be theorized that an open process has the highest potential for incentivizing contributors - because everybody gets to use the value created in the process. The limit here is consciousness: whether contributors are familiar with the construct of IP being a human fiction, not a law of nature - as Yochai Benkler talks about in The Wealth of Networks.
Scarcity thinking is the villain here - in that a person thinks that if they have something of value and anyone else can use it (for example - by sharing proven, open source enterprise designs) - that will decrease the value of that good for everyone. That is true for Rival Goods, and the question here boils down to whether collaborative development of an Open Source Store produces a rival good.
The goal is to incentivize collaborative development of products where everyone benefits from a non-proprietary consortium.
- Open source product design
- Open source production engineering
- Open source supply chain
- Open source distritubed quality control
- Production training for collaborators
- Incentive structure to collaborate for economic benefit
- Complete autonomy - you control your own store front, we all develop collaboratively
- OSE Brand - we all subscribe to the OSE Social Contract - an aspirational level of principles. People in the collaboratory can get OSE-branded website, which is part of the enterprise
- Incentive structure - you commit to learning and earning.
- Learning is required for industrial productivity on a small scale
Goal
- Goal is to create the open source economy by funding OSE's open source product development for an open source technology kernel for civilization
- All resources are committed to R&D and installation of prototype facilities
- OSS participants allocate revenue to an experimental facility, willingly
- Specific implementation is a Village Campus, built around the OSS operation. We acquire land for the resource provision aspect of the operation.
- We strive to make land the ultimate supply chain - a proposition worth many Nobel-level peace prizes.