Initial Outreach
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Please make the contacts at Purdue. Please email me at marcin at opensourceecology dot org. Can you facilitate?
See https://docs.google.com/a/opensourceecology.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArpE5Y9PpJCXdE83VUtEMnJPb0pQOUs0UUV3ZUtJWGc#gid=0 for notes.
Please pick a free date in the spreadsheet.
Do you think that Fridays are feasible, or it's too tough to get an audience on Friday? Please let me know, and just pick a date. If the January works - let's just go for that. I know that's early in the semester and it's cold.
I would like to do an ambitious schedule where I visit 3 schools in 2 days. We are really accelerating, and I'd like to be 3 days on site and 2 days traveling on tour in a regular week.
Can you secure an honorarium + travel? I am donating all cash to OSE to support our work and expand our facility. Please see my current general plan in my recent re-application video script to Shuttleworth Foundation.
Thanks,
Marcin
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Hi _____.
I got your contact from _______. Please see an overview of my work in the Global Village Construction Set TED Talk - http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski.html
Hi _______,
How are things going with ____________?
I am planning an ambitious college tour for 2014, where I will visit about 50 top universities between January and May. The goal is to recruit - primarily people for Dedicated Project Visits on site - but also a wide array of collaborators and potentially staff. My goal is to have 18 people on site full time at all times starting this coming summer, so we complete the entire Global Village Construction Set (http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski.html) by end of 2015.
I would like to request your help in getting us a speaking gig at ______________ (their university) or nearby universities and venues. Do you know any student clubs, Centers, or other possibilities that could host me? I am looking for an honorarium that pays my costs, and I will be using any funds gained to support Open Source Ecology, which by the way has just received its nonprofit status from the IRS.
Thanks for your help, Marcin
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Hi,
I am the Founder and Executive Director Open Source Ecology (see our TED Talk- http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski.html) a non-profit dedicated to open source design and manufacturing principles and sustainable engineering methods to develop the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) -- 50 high-performance, modular, do-it-yourself, low-cost industrial machines needed to provide modern comforts in a community. For the next 2 years, we will be going into an accelerated development program to finish the 50 GVCS tools by the end of 2015. We intend to achieve this via a combination of remote collaboration (such as Design Sprints), college collaborations, and our on-site team (currently we have space for 12 Dedicated Project Visitors). In 2014, I will embark on a series of speaking engagements to promote the open source message and spark interest in students and faculty members who want to help us complete the design and prototyping of the GVCS. Specifically, I will be in your area on (insert dates) and hope that you may be able to put us in contact with people who are interested in setting up such an event at your institution.
I look forward to hearing from you and would love the opportunity to talk further.
