Community Needs Assessment Summary

February 2012

• Most needed at this point is a more rigorous procedure for technical development...
• ... it is difficult to run a complex, integrated project solely on volunteers and random contributions.
• I would like to demonstrate at Factor e Farm that we can generate a resilient economy by providing healthy local food, renewable energy, natural housing, and robust economic production...
• I would like local fabrication to be available to the children, in 10 or 15 years.
• I suggest that critical mass of adoption, forking, and so on, will be the most important piece.
• I would recommend Peter Senge's group
• I'd suggest talking to Rick Warren
• Within 10 years I plan to be living sustainably off the grid, utilizing several OSE developed technologies to build my home and produce what I need.
• Proper documentation, clear step by step build plans.
• i'm extremely interested in the gasifier and...solar concentrator, steam engine, battery and inverter.
• my goal is to build the OSE car, if it meets my daily transport needs.
• Proper documentation and build instructions are paramount.
• ...i've been researching some of them for years but have struggled to find freely available build instructions. this is what sets OSE apart.
• That we keep safety in the foreground of the designs.
• ...you will need to identify who your perfect customer is, and work towards meeting their need(s).
• ...maybe have a kit (with detailed instructions i.e. lots of pictures) and look for volunteers to travel with the kit to assist with fabrication.
• I will do what I can over the next 3 years to start a separate OSE location in Pittsburgh PA, growing from a membership-based tool-lending library. I will make it pay, rather than relying on donations.
• Learn from Jack Stack at Springfield Remanufacturing, and in the ag world, Darren Doherty, Alan Savory, Willie Smits, Sepp Holzer, and Joel Salatin. Learn from the mistakes of Gaviotas, and recruit the former engineers of Gaviotas.