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Hello Doc Searls and the FLOSS Weekly team,

Let's talk FLOSH! Free Libre Open Source Hardware. I hope your listeners will find the idea as fascinating as I do.

I'm working with Open Source Hardware to extend our outreach and attract a new crop of developers, designers, and collaborators. Our ultimate goal is to produce an open source library of all of the machinery necessary to start an entire civilization from scratch. We're marching steadily towards that goal by developing open source designs that can be implemented by farmers, tinkerers, makers, and entrepreneurs right now. We've already built our own 3D printers, tractors, brick makers, and even a small house, built for comfort, efficiency, and sustainability, as well as many other tools.

Below is a link to our homepage, along with a separate link to our founder and executive, Marcin Jakubowski, explaining how our project came to be. I've also linked our wiki, as well as a few other videos so you can get an idea of who we are and how we think about FLOS- technology.

Link to homepage

link to Marcin's Ted Talk

Link to video of steam camp

Link to a more philosophically focused video

We'd love to do a little collaboration with you. If you think your listeners would like to hear about how 3D printing and global communication technology are bringing the Free Libre Open Source philosophy to the world of hardware and industrial capability, and what implications that might have for future abundance, consider having our founder, Marcin, as a guest on your show.

Please let me know if you have any questions at all.

-- Gratefully, Joe Fabian Open Source Ecology