How to Build a Kit
Overview
One of OSE's goals is to create The Open Source Everything Store (OSES). OSES is an online store powered by distributed production and quality control - whereby production is democratized and de-specialized. OSE believes that products are needed for sustainable and regenerative living - but the current systems of production and distribution promotes consumerism instead of self-determination. The OSES is a public domain effort to distribute the production of manufactured goods in order to reframe industrial productivity to self-determination of people in harmony with natural life support systems. We believe that an open source effort where people collaborate on production and distribution can free civilization from consumerism if the efficiency and quality of consumer goods produced in a distributed way can match and exceed the current standard offered by the global economy. We believe that the route to doing that is enabling more people to be productive, in their spare time - by leveraging open source design and automation in the productive process. The idea is that if it is sufficiently easy to produce qaulity products in a distributed way - by using advanced open source production machines - then a shift towards distributed production can happen in practice.
Links
- Example of a kit in progress - Kits - Superfridge Conversion