OSE Deep Value Proposition
Imagine being surrounded by 30 of the most exciting people on earth.
By exciting, I mean people whose core value is nonviolence - meaning - not participating in environmental and social injustices associated with business-as-usual living.
The implementation of this is a Replicable Community which converts local feedstocks into the lifestuff of modern civilization. What if you could participate in the development of such a community, with a grounded economic model including bootstrap-fundability as shown in Community Capitalization - which turns this into a virally-replicable enterprise? If you are pursuing higher purpose, this is the place for you.
I have a dream. Factor e Farm is this experiment, on 30 acres, and I am committed to demonstrating the above is feasible even on a 30 acre scale. Years ago Michel Bauens of the Peer to Peer Foundation has questioned whether this could be The Most Important Social Experiment in the World.
Deployment Plan
With a build-up to 30 Full Time Developers by year-end 2013, we expect the FeF community to achieve complete autonomy by year-end 2015. This means the core GVCS 50 deployed down to the ability to bootstrap another complete economy on a 40 acre scale within a time period of 1 year for replication at a cost of $10k in materials + land. See Community Capitalization and Replication Strategy.
We are looking for 30 select individuals to be a part of this social experiment. We are aiming not only to achieve the above, but also to make it virally replicable. To that end, we are building a Self-Funding enterprise.
Approach Strategy
"All revolutions start in the countryside." - ungrounded claim by MJ, but apt.
Land Stewardship Contract
The essence of our work is transformation of the world from Global Geopolitical Compromise, and such transformation begins with land stewardship. Our deployment plan involves a collaborating investment from one community member who provides a land parcel on the 40 acre scale. There are strings attached: the donor sets this land up in trust, with a Board of Directors chosen from trusted OSE members - set aside as a site of permanent future heritage. The donor loses equitable interest in the land, while gaining full autonomy in collaboration with the community membership.