February 2015 OSEmail
Dear Community,
Welcome to the next installment of OSEmail. The big picture of OSE for the last 4 years is: we have been focusing on technical developments that can lead to creating Open Source Blueprints for Civilization. We have shown 6 critical proofs of concept (see notes under Permaculuture Voices Slide 15, and pictures/comments in slides 17-54) - that make the notions of civilization startup realistic. Having gained much experience, while discovering how little we know - we are ready to regroup for the next phase. This is a focus on a strong community with evolved collaboration techniques. Our next milestone is achieving compression of design time 100-fold from 5 years to 2 weeks by using extreme swarming techniques based on solid development teams. Critics say that only a small team can work efficiently, but we have inklings of evidence that extreme coordination of larger groups is feasible.
Community Development Jonathan Kocurek has risen to the role of OSE's Commmunity Manager. We are developing cohesive Working Teams to facilitate involvement and continuity. We are working on continutity, effective role allocation and improved orientation materials. We are developing clear team governance - where Diana Leafe Christian has also joined the team as OSE's Project Consultant to help us with Dynamic Governance and other team-building issues.
Distributive Enterprise. This year, we would like to take the CEB Press, Aquaponics Greenhouse, and 3D Printer to full economic replicability. This means - designing and streamlining production - and publishing exhaustive documentation - so that, for example - someone can work with a local fabricator to build and sell the CEB Press - We call our model Distributive Enterprise. We do this to spread economic power to the world. Our next step on economic replicability - which we favor because it combines education and production - is Extreme Manufacturing Workshops. We ran several developing training so others can run
Aquaponics - As a result of the Permaculture Voices Conference, where I gave a Keynote - we rounded up a working team on the Aquaponic Greenhouse. Because this team has so much expertise, we believe we can design a 2000 square foot facility that can yield $100k per year via a CSA model.
Schedule for 2015