Factor e Farm Convergence 2011
Invitation Letter
Friends,
I would like to chime
in by saying that we'll be holding our first major Factor e Farm
Convergence (Kansas City Area) on September 1-30 to make major
strides on the ground with respect to the Global Vilage Construction
Set (GVCS) development. This will be like Foo
Camp, except longer, and focused towards on-the-ground
prototyping, development, and documentation of the GVCS, by
invitation only. It will be an Apollo Program for the GVCS.
Contact
me if you're interested in the development - building, prototyping,
documentation, and other work. You will be expected to lead the
development of your proposed project during the Convergence. Our goal
is to prototype at least 10 of the 50
GVCS machines, including supporting hardware such as modern steam
engines, stepper motors, hydraulic motors, and electrical generators.
We expect at least a $100k budget available for this, via Kickstarter
and other crowd funding initiatives in development. So come to see
the tractors rumble, torch tables fire, and solar collectors
electrify.
This will be an unprecedented sociotechnological
phenomenon, dedicated to pushing the open source movement forward and
to developing a solid platform for Distributive
Enterprise. We are looking for everyone from CAD, design,
fabrication, prototyping, videography, natural building, energy,
transportation, technical writing, graphics and design, media,
systems egineering, and other subject matter experts - all the
infrastrcture that takes our prototypes to Full Product Release. Read
our Crash Course
and Blog to see our
present status. We are expecting about 100 people to converge, and we
expect a merry and productive time with participants from all over
the globe.
See my related TED
Talk, and print our new Brochure
to give to your friends. Tweet and spread this message. Join us if
you're interested in creating history.
Thanks for your time. I
posted this message here -
Marcin
Participants
Here's a list of people who expressed interest in attending:
- Blair Evans - Detroit Fab Lab
- Isaiah Saxon
- Meara O'Reilly
- Yoonseo Kang - Industrial Robot build [1]
