User:Jeb
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True Fan since August, 2009
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- http://www.linkedin.com/in/jebateman
- jebateman (at) gmail...
I don't remember if it was Twitter or Facebook where I first found this project, as I resisted using those until early in 2009. Perhaps it was a link through Appropedia which I found a bit earlier. Anyway, the OSE vision appears quite similar (and more evolved) to what I've been thinking since 1999 or so. Independent farms can support truly free people. The addition of open source hardware development including Linux driven CNC and 3D printing is new and very exciting to me as I was trained in Mechanical Engineering; yet I have so far not worked in the field of product development as I became unimpressed with big companies making junk or worse. After school, I started an internet hosting and consulting business and developed some (now outdated) open source tools for web development. I experimented various composting and gardening projects at the same time, and had some interesting taxi driving experience to throw in on the side.
OSE is a great project; possibly the next big thing, and I intend to help startup tiny manufacturing businesses to make useful tools with inspiration from the ideas here over time.
To Do List
- Need to redo this in standard QA format sometime - or probably add QA to my talk page - I joined before we had the survey.
- Review Friendly Organizations more and add link to Bridgewire - Reno Makerspace
- Pivotal projects for more tasks
- IT Maintenance - https://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/306629
- Collab Platform - https://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/301609