User:Nikolayhg
Nikolay Georgiev
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Team Culturing Information
last updated: 11. October, 2011
WHO are you?
- Name/Nationality/Ethnicity - Nikolay Georgiev, Bulgaria
- Location – Karlsruhe, Germany
- Contact Information – Gmail and Skype: nikolay.h.georgiev. Blog
- Introductory Video -
- Resume/CV –
Current:
2011 - now: Open Source Ecology - Wiki (Crash Course and Team Culturing), IT, Press, OSE Microfunding Proposal, Fundraising, OSE Europe
Past:
2010 Nov: ModuNotes – Simple modular notepad for mobile and everyday use. Project goals: simplicity, modularity, ease of use, mobility, durability, ecology, openness, scalability.
2010 Aug: The Giving Birthday – creating the website and sharing the idea: Make your Birthday a Celebration of Giving
2009 - 2010 - researching sustainability topics - Plastic, Water, Food, Ecology, Consumption, Economics, Design, Open Source Software ...
2009 Dec – 2010 Jan: School Schedule Designer – Open Source Software for designing school schedules based on Eclipse RCP.
2008 Dec: NoteSpring – Open Source Note Taking software based on Eclipse RCP.
2009 - 2011 - Working as a software developer
2004 - 2009 - Bachelor of Computer Science, Darmstadt, Germany
1998 - 2003 - Mathematics Gymnasium, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
- Hobbies and Pastimes - Learning, Experimenting with thoughts and world views, Contribution, Spirituality, Being in Nature, Creating, Simplifying, Connecting and Communicating with people.
WHY are you motivated to support/develop this work?
- Do you endorse open source culture?
Absolutely. We have to open so many things - software, hardware, knowledge, connections, beliefs, feelings. Just amazing possibilities!
- Why are you interested in this work?
First, Open Source Ecology is based on Natural Principles which consequences have been shown to be positive for a lot of natural and technological systems.
- Decentralization (instead of Centralization) of Power – proven pattern in a lot of networks, like technology (internet, web site development, …) and human relationships (politics, religion/spirituality, family, …).
- Self-Sufficiency – basic needs for living are covered and produced by the local people. No need for dependence. In the future if there is dependency it will be in the form of collaboration.
- Openness – sharing documentation, product design and development process. Being able to change and adapt the products.
- Product Quality – life-time, modular and systems Design.
- Collaboration (instead of using other people for self-interest) – getting people together by purpose and values, and not by force, is much better for the producers and the consumers as well.
- Replicability – giving birth of open sourced, modern-living villages is just amazing! Having the choice of replicability saves a lot of time and work.
Second, it is crucially important that we go beyond life of survival. Survival mode is pushing everyone to take resources from other people, not considering their allowance, health and their community. When we are in survival mode we often neglect our own values and push other people in order to survive.
When we reach the state of living where all basic needs are covered, every person on this planet will have much bigger possibility to develop his own potential. Right now only a very small percentage of the human population have the time and possibilities to develop themselves – to guide their own life in the direction they want, to contribute to the society by using their abilities in their fullness. Most people in the world are fighting, struggling, working only for their own survival or that of their own families, and higher goals and desires like developing themselves and contributing to society are not possible and of low priority.
We need new models of economy and living based on openness, giving and sharing. Open Source Ecology is headed clearly in this direction, giving back freedom to where it belongs.
- Are you interested in teaching about the GVCS?
Yes. I want to learn more and share the knowledge with people who may find it useful. There is a lot of knowledge sharing and collaboration to be done. And I would just love to do that.
- Are you interested in economic relocalization possibilities arising from the GVCS?'
Yes. One of the main reasons to support this project.
- Do you want to use the GVCS technologies yourself? Do you want to build them yourself?
I would love to use them. Maybe even try to build some of them.
- Are you interested in starting up enterprise using the GVCS technologies?
Yes, in Germany.
- Are you interested in having the GVCS technologies fabricated by your local custom fabricator?
Our community will produce them.
- Are you interested in applying the GVCS to third world development? To redevelopment of crisis areas? To development of derelict areas in the developed world?
Basically yes, but I believe that a GCVS research and development center in the third world should be opened, because of the different environment there, different local resources and access to resources. The local people may come to very innovative solutions too. Modularity will play critical role for the adaptation of the technologies.
- Are you interested in starting up Industry 2.0 flexible fabrication enterprises for your local community, by drawing from a global repository of freely down-loadable designs and fabricating using open source fabrication equipment?
Yes. This is the future/now.
- Are you interested in the potential of the GVCS for developing local food systems?
Yes, we have to experiment on the feasibility of food production for 200 people by 4 people.
- Are you interested in doing academic studies/papers, publishing books, or doing other analysis of our efforts?
I am interested in understanding deeper the importance of the work and sharing it with people. This includes some kind of analysis, but not in academic direction.
- Are you interested in financial investment opportunities arising from our work?
Yes.
- Are you interested in the distributive economic aspects of our work, and if so, how do you see this playing out?
I would love to see more distribution of the creation of goods, and also high collaboration with the others in the network.
- Are you interested in building renewable energy production facilities based on open hardware (solar concentrator electric, wind, biomass power).
Yes!
- Are you interested in building resilient communities based on access to the GVCS?
Yes! The GVCS will cover a big part of the technology needed for resilient communities.
- Are you interested in creating a bug-out hut using GVCS technologies?
Not isolated from society. It will be highly interconnected and collaborative inside and outside.
- How do you think that the GVCS can help alleviate the instabilities of global monetary systems?
By localizing the production, giving the opportunity to people to live more self-sufficiently, by enabling (online) hardware collaboration and open business models. The effect on the global monetary system may not be seen directly, but GVCS and similar technologies develop in a strong way the freedom, sharing and collaborative nature of consciousness and behaviour of people and thus the sustainable movement of global resources.
- How do you think that the GVCS can address issues related to resource conflicts?
First, by developing the technologies for local resource use.
Second, by teaching people how to use their local resources.
Third, the online/offline collaboration fosters the spirit of "inclusive thinking" and solving problems together.
- How do you think that the GVCS can address issues of overpopulation?
By more efficient use of (local) resources.
- How do you think that the GVCS can address issues of resource depletion and environmental degradation?
By its simple, modular and sustainable technologies, which would minimize drastically the resource use and waste, and integrate better with the natural environment.
- What do you like in OSE Europe?
Open and self organizing network. A lot of people who want to start something in Europe!
- What should happen so that you become more involved with OSE Europe?
A dedicated physical community in Germany. http://oseeurope.org/2012/01/creating-ose-community-in-germany/
- What is missing in OSE Europe?
hundreds of dedicated people + physical communities in every country in Europe.
- What are your suggestions for improvement in OSE Europe?
Improvements will come. It all depends on you and me.
WHAT
- What have you already contributed to the OSE project? (technical contributions, blogging about us, financial support, organizing events, translations, interviews, video editing, publications, publicity work, behind-the-scenes work, CAD work, wiki contributions, computer support, etc)
Wiki (Crash Course and Team Culturing), IT, Press, OSE Microfunding Proposal, Fundraising, OSE Europe. My current work is in Nikolay Log
Communications
- I share valuable information openly - Blogging, speaking, presenting.
Organizational
- Experience in organizing OSE Europe, a conference and a Bulgarian open sustainability network.
Computer Support
- I use open source software: Linux, Wordpress, Wiki, phpBB, Drupal.
Home Economics
- Still haven't had the possibility to grow my own food. Would love to do that too.
Building
- I want to learn and practice more designing and building tools and structures.
CAD
- Beginner, seems easy and fun.
Fabrication
- Beginner welding, metal working and CNC experience through few courses, still a lot good stuff to learn
Electronics
- Played with Arduino
HOW can you help?
- How do you want to contribute?
Creating OSE Community in Germany, expanding OSE Europe and helping OSE and FeF as I can.
- Can you volunteer to work with us, and if so, how many hours per week?
All my free time!
- Are you interested in working with us for pay? If so, what services can you offer, and what is your hourly or per-project rate?
If we find finances to support our work, yes. I prefer to work for OSE than anything else.
- Are you interested in purchasing equipment from us to help bootstrap development?
No, I want to produce it in Germany and other European countries.
- Are you interested in bidding for consulting/design/prototyping work?
No.
- Are you a True Fan? If not, why not?
Yes.
- Would you like to see yourself working with us on a full-time basis?
I am almost doing it. An OSE Community in Europe would complete the picture.
- Are you interested in using the technologies that we are developing directly?
Of course!
- Are you interested in being part of the world's first, open source, resilient community? The GVCS is the preparatory step for the OSE Village Experiment – a 2 year, immersion experiment (2013-2014) for testing whether a real, thriving, modern-day prototype community of 200 people can be built on 200 acres using local resources and open access to information? We are looking for approximately 200 people to fill a diverse array of roles, according to the Social Contract that is being developed. This may be the boldest social experiment on earth - a pioneering community whose goal is to extend the index of possibilities regarding harmonious existence of humans, ecology, and technology – as a beacon of light to benefit of all people on Earth.
We will do this in Europe!
- Are you interested in being part of one of the OSE communities in Europe? If so in which country?
Yes, Germany.
- Are you interested in a Dedicated Project Visit in OSE Communities in Europe? If so in which country?
Actually full-time in Germany.
- Are you interested in building GVCS or other Open Source Hardware equipment in Europe? If so which ones?
That's the way.