Alex MOU

Understanding between Marcin Jakubowski and Alex Socolof

Marcin

1. 50/50 partnership to be started on several tools of the Global Village Construction (GVCS)
2. Agreement is to form a new entity (Entity from hereon) that works in collaboration with Open Source Ecology (OSE)
3. Agreement intent is for adding rocket fuel to OSE development, such that several of the key tools of the GVCS can be brought to market on an accelerated schedule.
4. Core goal is distributing production far and wide as a distributive economic entity
5. Intent is to be consistent with principles of open source ecology (the movement) - which is an open-source centric approach to solving pressing world issues
6. All designs, bills of materials, instructionals, manufacturing blueprints, production engineering, economic analysis, and training are likewise published free of charge and open source. This is to be consistent with an absolutely distributive approach. This means that our revenue model is based on innovation, training, kit production.
7. Entity revenue model is based on continuing innovation, Extreme Manufacturing for DIY production, first- and second-to-market value generation
8. Innovation model applies to both designs and training - ie - constant improvement means that Entity has a competitive advantage
9. Entity strives for first-to-market advantage via product ecologies (product systems where one product synergizes with other products)
10. Entity stives for second-to-market advantage via opensourcing of existing point designs
11. Entity creates product ecologies based on point designs
12. Entity follows
13. I am not interested in mass production, as I do not believe that mass production can compete with open source production based on our results of the Extreme Manufacturing (XM) model of DIY production that we have developed over the years.
14. Typical economic model for mass production is charging 2-10x over the cost of materials for significant products. The XM model involves a typical 2x cost in the market, and 1x cost for pure DIY production - or 5-10x cheaper than industry standards. For example - our CEB press is $5k in materials, and we can do an XM workshop where a customer takes it home for $10k, and the nearest competitor costs $52k. The XM model revolves around flipping the labor cost, where instead clients and other participants pay for the build experience.
15. Entity is to design products for as much common-off-the-shelf (COTS) materials as possible
16. All blueprints generated are open source, intended for
17. Nonexclusive licensing of Entity's brand is ok. This does not prevent free use of designs by any other entrepreneurs, free of charge and without any incumberances.
18. Marcin spends 25% time on developing collaborative Extreme Design and Extreme Manufacturing practices- which enables DIY production. 75% of the time is spent on product development
19. Ongoing publishing is a marketing asset - not a source of risk
20. We agree to work openly and transparantly, our value coming from the ethics of distributive enterprise - as opposed to controlling others in what they can do with our designs and products