STEAM Camp Invitation Letter to Instructors

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Dear ____,

Marcin here, founder of Open Source Ecology (OSE). We do collaborative design for a transparent and inclusive economy of abundance. Please see my TED talk on the Global Village Construction Set (https://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski?language=en) for a brief on our work.

I'd like to ask if you'd be interested in serving as an instructor our 9 day Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camp. We can offer between $5-8k for your time if there is a good fit. We teach collaborative design of technology that matters. We are building on our last event (https://www.opensourceecology.org/open-source-microfactory-stem-camp/) - for a tighter event like this - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/STEAM_Camp_Curriculum . We focus on involving people in building the world around them - to shift the economic playing field from proprietary to collaborative. We believe in the promise of distributed manufacturing - with open source microfactories and open source design. We recognize that technology can help - but the real shift involves growing as humans.

The instructor role includes the necessary preparation, and joining a collaborative effort to improve the next STEAM Camp event. Your YouTube channel indicates to me that you have a relevant, diversified skill set to teach and learn. OSE would do most of the organizational work and back end, including shipping kits used during the STEAM Camp. You would be responsible for the teaching time - and helping to secure a venue, in addition to preparing your piece of quality curriculum. All curriculum becomes open source, for anyone to build on it and with it. The Camp takes 9 consecutive days from 9AM to 6 PM each day.

Essentially, we cover design and CAD, 3D printing, CNC machine design, microcontrollers, mechanical and electronic design, automation. We focus on a fully open source, modular, scalable, construction set approach. Part of our offer to you is rapid learning from other instructors - where we all collaborate on content and effective teaching - to make a one-of-a-kind program. This is where I need your help. We teach both technical skills and entrepreneurship. We plan on running 6 STEAM Camps at the same time. We collaborate prior to and during the event - including all event participants - in a process of developing real, open source products designed for distributed manufacturing. All instructors are expected to contribute curriculum and design refinements, and to integrate their modules so they fit within the construction set. We are committed to teaching technical literacy and meaningful productive skills, so that open source microfactories can be realized as the next evolution of industrial production. As such, we require individuals who are committed to public development via open source - specifically - via open source hardware products.

We envision microfactories in all communities - with the potential to produce 80% of the products that we currently find on Amazon. We envision lifetime design, and a shift from consumerism to ecological responsibility. From Open Source Ecology's perspective - open source, modular design leads to closed-loop material cycles and lifetime design - as anyone can fix or improve the products. The STEAM Camps aim to provide such enabling skills. We will also host public-interest incentive challenges for open source product design, for which the STEAM Camp can provide training.

In the STEAM Camp, the first 4 days are skills boot camp, and the last 5 days are project days where all teams collaborate on a real product design. See the proposed schedule. The idea is that we continue developments in successive STEAM Camp, improving the product by building on past experience, until we arrive at commercially viable products with proper quality control. We aim to leverage the true power of open collaboration.

So if you are a super-cooperator, are willing to collaborate in the open source (CC-BY-SA 4.0 is our current license), and are interested in sideline income for this - let's talk. We'd like to post our first event in about 3 months, and are now actively recruiting instructors. We have some curriculum, but we want to improve it with your input. If this is something you might want to be a part of - I'm available to discuss further on a conference call. I am available after 11 AM CST USA time on most days - just pick a time to give me a minimum 24 hour heads up.

Thanks, Marcin

Chris Workshop

16k France

Tomu

Also from OSHWA directory - TRANSMISSION. Power Playground [1]. OpenCEM. Astroschelle. info@film-retter.de . OS TRNG. Nitrokey. MOTEDIS XYZ - OSHWA cert revoked.

Apertus

Dear Apertus Team,

I'm the founder of Open Source Ecology - please see my TED Talk on the Global Village Construction Set (https://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski) for a background of what we do.

I'd like to ask if you'd be interested in collaborating with us and/or serving as an instructor in our 9 day Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camp in your local area. We can offer between $5-8k for running the STEAM Camp if there is a good fit. We all collaborate on developing the curriculum. We teach collaborative design of technology that matters. Our proposed curriculum is this - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/STEAM_Camp_Curriculum.

Please let me know if you or anyone on your team are interested in this so we can set up a call to discuss further. I'd like to hear some feedback on this - we're working on a scalable way to fund open source product development.

Thanks, Marcin

Response

Rex, Sebastian, and Team:

1. The GVCS is intended to produce all the tools necessary to start from rocks, sunlight, plants, soil, and water to modern civilization. As such, the camera is a derivative of sand, bioplastic, metal, etc. First all the productive tools by 2028. 2. Requirement is development time before and 9 days of your time during. Preparation - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/STEAM_Camp_Candidates#Preparation 3. We ran our first STEAM Camp as in https://www.opensourceecology.org/open-source-microfactory-stem-camp/. That's it for the STEAM camp side, outside of all our typical extreme builds which are of a different nature. Based on positive feedback and learning, we're getting ready to scale it. The main insight is: create the world's best curriculum with DIT of many supercooperators, not the typical heroic DIY open source efforts where it's always a small hardcore team of nuts.

Essentially, this will be hard work at first but with the first solid execution, it all gets easier. Producing the first event will be the hardest.

Summary of model: 50/50 revenue share. Here's what the revenue model looks like - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/STEAM_Camp_Business_Plan#Finances

Pick a time to talk - I'm available after 11 AM CST USA Time and am working on this full time for now.

Science Online

136k

Dear Science Online,

I'm the founder of Open Source Ecology - please see my TED Talk on the Global Village Construction Set (https://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski) for a background of what we do.

I'd like to ask if you'd be interested in collaborating with us and serving as an instructor our 9 day Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camp in your local area. We all collaborate on developing the curriculum. We can offer between $5-8k for running the STEAM Camp if there is a good fit. We teach collaborative design of technology that matters. Our proposed curriculum is this - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/STEAM_Camp_Curriculum .

Please let me know if you are interested in this so we can set up a call to discuss further. If this is not compelling to you, I'd be interested in hearing your feedback.

Thanks, Marcin

Tech Planet

76k - YT

Hi Tech Planet,

I'm the founder of Open Source Ecology - please see my TED Talk on the Global Village Construction Set for a background of what we do.

I saw your YouTube channel and I'd like to ask if you'd be interested in collaborating with us and serving as an instructor our 9 day Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camp in your local area. We all collaborate on developing the curriculum. We can offer between $5-8k for running the STEAM Camp if there is a good fit. We teach collaborative design of technology that matters. Our proposed curriculum is this - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/STEAM_Camp_Curriculum.

Please let me know if you are interested in this so we can set up a call to discuss further. If this is not compelling to you, I'd be interested in hearing your feedback.

Thanks, Marcin

John Park

Hi John,

Got your contact from Mark Frauenfelder. I'm the founder of Open Source Ecology - please see my TED Talk on the Global Village Construction Set for a background of what we do.

I'd like to ask if you'd be interested in collaborating with us and serving as an instructor our 9 day Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camp in your local area. We all collaborate on developing the curriculum. We can offer between $5-8k for running the STEAM Camp if there is a good fit. We teach collaborative design of technology that matters. Our proposed curriculum is this - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/STEAM_Camp_Curriculum .

Please let me know if you are interested in this so we can set up a call to discuss further. If this is not compelling to you, I'd be interested in hearing your feedback.

Marcin

Fernando Daguanno

Hi Fernando,

Nice work. Do you have a revenue model around your work?

If you'd like to meet - I can do Saturday at 5 PM CST USA time. Would that work for you?

Please review the first 4 days of Curriculum in detail and let me know what you think you could help develop.

https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/STEAM_Camp_Curriculum

The idea is: we all collaborate to develop the best curriculum in the world. It is high quality, distilled content - something that novices can do - but at the same time teaching fundamental design/build skills + modularity/scalability that allows for the development of real products. Our goal is an Open Source Everything Store larger than Amazon. What's the catch? It's all open source. So it requires supercooperators. It's also intended to be a revenue model - so it requires trancendence of scarcity mindset in terms of developing open economics - from which we all benefit. What prevents defection? Nothing really, ideally we collaborate on continuing development. It is self-selection for supercooperators. I envision OSE creating an open source franchise that can absorb new developers, pay them, and create a powerful new economic force. We all get to go to Oslo as a team for the Nobel Peace Prize or equivalent.

Thanks, Marcin

Communications

Hi Marcin, it's great to be in touch with you. As I told you, I've been following your work for some years and it completely influenced the development of my project Alquimétricos.

We are a community focused in design, production and sharing knowledge on open source STEAM didactic toys. We want to make building blocks systems as cheap and inclusive as possible. I'm from Argentina and I'm based in Brazil, but I keep traveling quite a lot sharing this project among FabLabs, universities, schools, culture/permaculture/counterculture centers.

I'd love to be part of the camp. I'd like to understand better how I can contribute, which are the conditions and everything. My schedule is actually quite flexible and I’m willing to make it fit. I have some questions regarding roles and needs. Let me know if we can meet online some day soon.

This are our project links. Attached you’ll find our presentation.

www.alquimetricos.com

alquibots.cc

instagram.com/alquimetricos

https://wikifactory.com/+alquimetricos/alquim%C3%A9tricos-connectors

facebook.com/alquimetricos

twitter.com/alquimetricos

github.com/alquimetricos

Electronic Grenade

23k Dear Electronic Grenade,

Marcin here, founder of Open Source Ecology (OSE). Please see my TED talk on the Global Village Construction Set (https://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski?language=en) for a brief on our work.

I saw your work on the Pi Tablet and 3D printer. I'd like to ask if you'd be interested in collaborating with us and serving as an instructor our 9 day Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camp in your local area. OSE would do most of the organizational work. We can offer between $5-8k for your time if there is a good fit. We teach collaborative design of technology that matters. Our proposed curriculum is this - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/STEAM_Camp_Curriculum .

Your role would involve collaborating on the curriculum, learning curriculum from other instructors, and leading a group with all the curriculum and project builds over the 9 days. We'd be running several of these at the same time - where we all share designs and work collaboratively through the internet even during the build. This is all about collaboration - learning and building an amazing product. Ideally things work out and you would continue with OSE, or you can break off on your own. All what we produce is completely open source and public interest - for building the world that we want to see, and empowering a collaborative product development process. The goal is to produce high quality, marketable products - full open source and collaborative. This would be a first in the world.

If this is something you may be interested in, let's discuss further. We'd like to post our first event in about 3 months, and are now actively recruiting instructors. I am available after 11 AM CST USA time on most days - just pick a time to give me a minimum 24 hour heads up.

Thanks, Marcin

Bunnie Huang

Hi Bunnie,

Marcin here, founder of Open Source Ecology (OSE). We do collaborative design for a transparent and inclusive economy of abundance. Please see my TED talk on the Global Village Construction Set (https://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski) for a brief on our work.

I'd like to ask if you'd be interested in serving as an instructor our 9 day Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camp. We can offer between $5-8k for your time if there is a good fit. We teach collaborative design of technology that matters. We are building on our last event (https://www.opensourceecology.org/open-source-microfactory-stem-camp/) - for a tighter event - - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/STEAM_Camp_Curriculum . We focus on involving people in building the world around them - to shift the economic playing field from proprietary to collaborative. We believe in the promise of distributed manufacturing - with open source microfactories and open source design. We recognize that technology can help - but the real shift involves growing as humans.

We are working on a way to fund continuing and scalable open source product development, and we think that the STEAM Camps may be a way. We envision microfactories in all communities - with the potential to produce 80% of the products that we currently find on Amazon. We envision lifetime design, and a shift from consumerism to ecological responsibility. From Open Source Ecology's perspective - open source, modular design leads to closed-loop material cycles and lifetime design - as anyone can fix or improve the products. The STEAM Camps aim to provide enabling design/build skills. We will also host public-interest incentive challenges for open source product design, for which the STEAM Camp provides training.

In the STEAM Camp, the first 4 days are skills boot camp, and the last 5 days are project days where all teams collaborate on a real product design. The idea is that we continue developments in successive STEAM Camp, improving the product by building on past experience, until we arrive at commercially viable products with proper quality control - fully open source. We are interested in building long-term relationships - to leverage the true power of open collaboration.

We'd like to post our first event in about 3 months, and are now actively recruiting instructors. If this is something you might want to be a part of - I'm available to discuss further on a conference call. I am available after 11 AM CST USA time on most days - just pick a time to give me a minimum 24 hour heads up. I'd like to hear your feedback on this.

Thanks,

Marcin

Response

ooo, resend on 9/2/19

Mark Frauenfelder

Hi Mark,

Marcin here, founder of Open Source Ecology (OSE). We met at Make! or such years ago. We do collaborative design for a transparent and inclusive economy of abundance. Please see my TED talk on the Global Village Construction Set (https://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski) for a brief on our work.

I'd like to ask if you'd be interested in serving as an instructor our 9 day Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camp, which would be held in your area. We can offer between $5-8k for your time if there is a good fit. We teach collaborative design of technology that matters. We are building on our last event (https://www.opensourceecology.org/open-source-microfactory-stem-camp/) - for a tighter event - - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/STEAM_Camp_Curriculum . We focus on involving people in building the world around them - to shift the economic playing field from proprietary to collaborative. We believe in the promise of distributed manufacturing - with open source microfactories and open source design. We recognize that technology can help - but the real shift involves growing as humans.

The instructor role includes the necessary preparation, and joining a collaborative effort to prepare for the STEAM Camp event - which itself is 9 consecutive days from 9AM to 6 PM each day. All curriculum becomes open source, for anyone to build on it and with it. We also learn from each other.

Essentially, we cover design and CAD, 3D printing, CNC machine design, microcontrollers, mechanical and electronic design, automation. We focus on a fully open source, modular, scalable, construction set approach. We teach both technical skills and entrepreneurship. We plan on running 6 STEAM Camps at the same time. We require individuals who are committed to making technology transparent - specifically - by publishing as open source hardware.

We envision microfactories in all communities - with the potential to produce 80% of the products that we currently find on Amazon. We envision lifetime design, and a shift from consumerism to ecological responsibility. From Open Source Ecology's perspective - open source, modular design leads to closed-loop material cycles and lifetime design - as anyone can fix or improve the products. The STEAM Camps aim to provide enabling design/build skills. We will also host public-interest incentive challenges for open source product design, for which the STEAM Camp provides training.

In the STEAM Camp, the first 4 days are skills boot camp, and the last 5 days are project days where all teams collaborate on a real product design. The idea is that we continue developments in successive STEAM Camp, improving the product by building on past experience, until we arrive at commercially viable products with proper quality control - fully open source. We are interested in building long-term relationships - to leverage the true power of open collaboration.

We'd like to post our first event in about 3 months, and are now actively recruiting instructors. If this is something you might want to be a part of - I'm available to discuss further on a conference call. I am available after 11 AM CST USA time on most days - just pick a time to give me a minimum 24 hour heads up. I'd like to hear your feedback on this - this is our latest effort in funding ongoing open source product development.

Thanks,

Marcin

Response

Hi Marcin!

Great to hear from you. This sounds like a terrific opportunity, but I am working full time at Institute for the Future and would not be able to take off 9 days to participate. Good luck with the project, though! Best regards,

Mark

Julian Ilett

https://www.youtube.com/user/julius256/featured

I'm the founder of Open Source Ecology (OSE). We do collaborative design for a transparent and inclusive economy of abundance. Please see my TED talk on the Global Village Construction Set (https://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski) for a brief on our work.

I'd like to ask if you'd be interested in serving as an instructor our 9 day Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camp, which would be held in your area. We can offer between $5-8k for your time if there is a good fit. We teach collaborative design of technology that matters. We are building on our last event (https://www.opensourceecology.org/open-source-microfactory-stem-camp/) - for a tighter event - - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/STEAM_Camp_Curriculum . We focus on involving people in building the world around them - to shift the economic playing field from proprietary to collaborative. We believe in the promise of distributed manufacturing - with open source microfactories and open source design. We recognize that technology can help - but the real shift involves growing as humans.

The instructor role includes the necessary preparation, and joining a collaborative effort to prepare for the STEAM Camp event - which itself is 9 consecutive days from 9AM to 6 PM each day. All curriculum becomes open source, for anyone to build on it and with it. We also learn from each other.

Essentially, we cover design and CAD, 3D printing, CNC machine design, microcontrollers, mechanical and electronic design, automation. We focus on a fully open source, modular, scalable, construction set approach. We teach both technical skills and entrepreneurship. We plan on running 6 STEAM Camps at the same time. We require individuals who are committed to making technology transparent - specifically - by publishing as open source hardware.

We envision microfactories in all communities - with the potential to produce 80% of the products that we currently find on Amazon. We envision lifetime design, and a shift from consumerism to ecological responsibility. From Open Source Ecology's perspective - open source, modular design leads to closed-loop material cycles and lifetime design - as anyone can fix or improve the products. The STEAM Camps aim to provide enabling design/build skills. We will also host public-interest incentive challenges for open source product design, for which the STEAM Camp provides training.

In the STEAM Camp, the first 4 days are skills boot camp, and the last 5 days are project days where all teams collaborate on a real product design. The idea is that we continue developments in successive STEAM Camp, improving the product by building on past experience, until we arrive at commercially viable products with proper quality control - fully open source. We are interested in building long-term relationships - to leverage the true power of open collaboration.

We'd like to post our first event in about 3 months, and are now actively recruiting instructors. If this is something you might want to be a part of - I'm available to discuss further on a conference call. I am available after 11 AM CST USA time on most days - just pick a time to give me a minimum 24 hour heads up. I'd like to hear your feedback on this - this is our latest effort in funding ongoing open source product development.

Thanks,

Marcin

Grady Hillhouse, Practical Engineering

Hi Grady,

I saw Practical Engineering on YouTube.

I'm the founder of Open Source Ecology (OSE). We do collaborative design for a transparent and inclusive economy of abundance. Please see my TED talk on the Global Village Construction Set (https://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski) for a brief on our work.

I'd like to ask if you'd be interested in serving as an instructor our 9 day Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camp, which would be held in your area. We can offer between $5-8k for your time if there is a good fit. We teach collaborative design of technology that matters. We are building on our last event (https://www.opensourceecology.org/open-source-microfactory-stem-camp/) - for a tighter event - - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/STEAM_Camp_Curriculum . We focus on involving people in building the world around them - to shift the economic playing field from proprietary to collaborative. We believe in the promise of distributed manufacturing - with open source microfactories and open source design. We recognize that technology can help - but the real shift involves growing as humans.

The instructor role includes the necessary preparation, and joining a collaborative effort to prepare for the STEAM Camp event - which itself is 9 consecutive days from 9AM to 6 PM each day. All curriculum becomes open source, for anyone to build on it and with it. We also learn from each other.

Essentially, we cover design and CAD, 3D printing, CNC machine design, microcontrollers, mechanical and electronic design, automation. We focus on a fully open source, modular, scalable, construction set approach. We teach both technical skills and entrepreneurship. We plan on running 6 STEAM Camps at the same time. We require individuals who are committed to making technology transparent - specifically - by publishing as open source hardware.

We envision microfactories in all communities - with the potential to produce 80% of the products that we currently find on Amazon. We envision lifetime design, and a shift from consumerism to ecological responsibility. From Open Source Ecology's perspective - open source, modular design leads to closed-loop material cycles and lifetime design - as anyone can fix or improve the products. The STEAM Camps aim to provide enabling design/build skills. We will also host public-interest incentive challenges for open source product design, for which the STEAM Camp provides training.

In the STEAM Camp, the first 4 days are skills boot camp, and the last 5 days are project days where all teams collaborate on a real product design. The idea is that we continue developments in successive STEAM Camp, improving the product by building on past experience, until we arrive at commercially viable products with proper quality control - fully open source. We are interested in building long-term relationships - to leverage the true power of open collaboration.

We'd like to post our first event in about 3 months, and are now actively recruiting instructors. If this is something you might want to be a part of - I'm available to discuss further on a conference call. I am available after 11 AM CST USA time on most days - just pick a time to give me a minimum 24 hour heads up. I'd like to hear your feedback on this - this is our latest effort in funding ongoing open source product development.

Thanks,

Marcin

Response

Marcin,

Glad you like the channel! It sounds like a very cool project, but I'm maxed out with my full time job and the YouTube channel. Thanks for the offer!

Grady

Axel Borg - AmazingDIYProjects

• first DIY manned multirotor

Dear Axel,

Congrats on the manned multirotor. I got your plans for the 500W axial flux motor. I'm the founder of Open Source Ecology (OSE). We do collaborative design for a transparent and inclusive economy of abundance. Please see my TED talk on the Global Village Construction Set (https://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski) for a brief on our work.

I'd like to ask if you'd be interested in serving as an instructor our 9 day Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camp, which would be held in your area. We can offer between $5-8k for your time if there is a good fit. We teach collaborative design of technology that matters. We are building on our last event (https://www.opensourceecology.org/open-source-microfactory-stem-camp/) - for a tighter event - - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/STEAM_Camp_Curriculum . We focus on involving people in building the world around them - to shift the economic playing field from proprietary to collaborative. We believe in the promise of distributed manufacturing - with open source microfactories and open source design. We recognize that technology can help - but the real shift involves growing as humans.

The instructor role includes the necessary preparation, and joining a collaborative effort to prepare for the STEAM Camp event - which itself is 9 consecutive days from 9AM to 6 PM each day. All curriculum becomes open source, for anyone to build on it and with it.

Essentially, we cover design and CAD, 3D printing, CNC machine design, microcontrollers, mechanical and electronic design, automation. We focus on a fully open source, modular, scalable, construction set approach. We teach both technical skills and entrepreneurship. We plan on running 6 STEAM Camps at the same time. We require individuals who are committed to making technology transparent - specifically - by publishing as open source hardware.

We envision microfactories in all communities - with the potential to produce 80% of the products that we currently find on Amazon. We envision lifetime design, and a shift from consumerism to ecological responsibility. From Open Source Ecology's perspective - open source, modular design leads to closed-loop material cycles and lifetime design - as anyone can fix or improve the products. The STEAM Camps aim to provide enabling design/build skills. We will also host public-interest incentive challenges for open source product design, for which the STEAM Camp provides training.

In the STEAM Camp, the first 4 days are skills boot camp, and the last 5 days are project days where all teams collaborate on a real product design. The idea is that we continue developments in successive STEAM Camp, improving the product by building on past experience, until we arrive at commercially viable products with proper quality control - fully open source. We are interested in building long-term relationships - to leverage the true power of open collaboration.

We'd like to post our first event in about 3 months, and are now actively recruiting instructors. If this is something you might want to be a part of - I'm available to discuss further on a conference call. I am available after 11 AM CST USA time on most days - just pick a time to give me a minimum 24 hour heads up. I'd like to hear your feedback on this - this is our latest effort in funding ongoing open source product development.

Thanks,

Marcin

Thomas Senkel

• First manned multirotor.

Dear Thomas,

Congrats on the first manned multirotor. Marcin here, founder of Open Source Ecology (OSE). We do collaborative design for a transparent and inclusive economy of abundance. Please see my TED talk on the Global Village Construction Set (https://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski) for a brief on our work.

I'd like to ask if you'd be interested in serving as an instructor our 9 day Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camp, which would be held in your area. We can offer between $5-8k for your time if there is a good fit. We teach collaborative design of technology that matters. We are building on our last event (https://www.opensourceecology.org/open-source-microfactory-stem-camp/) - for a tighter event - - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/STEAM_Camp_Curriculum . We focus on involving people in building the world around them - to shift the economic playing field from proprietary to collaborative. We believe in the promise of distributed manufacturing - with open source microfactories and open source design. We recognize that technology can help - but the real shift involves growing as humans.

The instructor role includes the necessary preparation, and joining a collaborative effort to prepare for the STEAM Camp event - which itself is 9 consecutive days from 9AM to 6 PM each day. All curriculum becomes open source, for anyone to build on it and with it.

Essentially, we cover design and CAD, 3D printing, CNC machine design, microcontrollers, mechanical and electronic design, automation. We focus on a fully open source, modular, scalable, construction set approach. We teach both technical skills and entrepreneurship. We plan on running 6 STEAM Camps at the same time. We require individuals who are committed to making technology transparent - specifically - by publishing as open source hardware.

We envision microfactories in all communities - with the potential to produce 80% of the products that we currently find on Amazon. We envision lifetime design, and a shift from consumerism to ecological responsibility. From Open Source Ecology's perspective - open source, modular design leads to closed-loop material cycles and lifetime design - as anyone can fix or improve the products. The STEAM Camps aim to provide enabling design/build skills. We will also host public-interest incentive challenges for open source product design, for which the STEAM Camp provides training.

In the STEAM Camp, the first 4 days are skills boot camp, and the last 5 days are project days where all teams collaborate on a real product design. The idea is that we continue developments in successive STEAM Camp, improving the product by building on past experience, until we arrive at commercially viable products with proper quality control - fully open source. We are interested in building long-term relationships - to leverage the true power of open collaboration.

We'd like to post our first event in about 3 months, and are now actively recruiting instructors. If this is something you might want to be a part of - I'm available to discuss further on a conference call. I am available after 11 AM CST USA time on most days - just pick a time to give me a minimum 24 hour heads up. I'd like to hear your feedback on this - this is our latest effort in funding ongoing open source product development.

Thanks,

Marcin

Great Scott

Hi Great Scott,

Marcin here, founder of Open Source Ecology (OSE). I saw your work on YouTube. We do collaborative design for a transparent and inclusive economy of abundance. Please see my TED talk on the Global Village Construction Set (https://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski) for a brief on our work.

I'd like to ask if you'd be interested in serving as an instructor our 9 day Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camp, which would be held in your area. We can offer between $5-8k for your time if there is a good fit. We teach collaborative design of technology that matters. We are building on our last event (https://www.opensourceecology.org/open-source-microfactory-stem-camp/) - for a tighter event - - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/STEAM_Camp_Curriculum . We focus on involving people in building the world around them - to shift the economic playing field from proprietary to collaborative. We believe in the promise of distributed manufacturing - with open source microfactories and open source design. We recognize that technology can help - but the real shift involves growing as humans.

The instructor role includes the necessary preparation, and joining a collaborative effort to prepare for the STEAM Camp event - which itself is 9 consecutive days from 9AM to 6 PM each day. All curriculum becomes open source, for anyone to build on it and with it.

Essentially, we cover design and CAD, 3D printing, CNC machine design, microcontrollers, mechanical and electronic design, automation. We focus on a fully open source, modular, scalable, construction set approach. We teach both technical skills and entrepreneurship. We plan on running 6 STEAM Camps at the same time. We require individuals who are committed to making technology transparent - specifically - by publishing as open source hardware.

We envision microfactories in all communities - with the potential to produce 80% of the products that we currently find on Amazon. We envision lifetime design, and a shift from consumerism to ecological responsibility. From Open Source Ecology's perspective - open source, modular design leads to closed-loop material cycles and lifetime design - as anyone can fix or improve the products. The STEAM Camps aim to provide enabling design/build skills. We will also host public-interest incentive challenges for open source product design, for which the STEAM Camp provides training.

In the STEAM Camp, the first 4 days are skills boot camp, and the last 5 days are project days where all teams collaborate on a real product design. The idea is that we continue developments in successive STEAM Camp, improving the product by building on past experience, until we arrive at commercially viable products with proper quality control - fully open source. We are interested in building long-term relationships - to leverage the true power of open collaboration.

We'd like to post our first event in about 3 months, and are now actively recruiting instructors. If this is something you might want to be a part of - I'm available to discuss further on a conference call. I am available after 11 AM CST USA time on most days - just pick a time to give me a minimum 24 hour heads up. I'd like to hear your feedback on this - this is our latest effort in funding ongoing open source product development.

Thanks,

Marcin

David Hartkop

Hi David,

If you haven't seen my TED Talk on the Global Village Construction Set - please see it - https://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski for a brief on our work.

I'd like to ask if you'd be interested in serving as an instructor our 9 day Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camp, which would be held in your area. We can offer between $5-8k for your time if there is a good fit. We teach collaborative design of technology that matters - and communicated in another way - distributed production like the RepRap promise. We are building on our last event (https://www.opensourceecology.org/open-source-microfactory-stem-camp/) - for a tighter event - - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/STEAM_Camp_Curriculum . We focus on involving people in building the world around them - to shift the economic playing field from proprietary to collaborative. We believe in the promise of distributed manufacturing - with open source microfactories and open source design. We recognize that technology can help - but the real shift involves growing as humans.

The instructor role includes the necessary preparation, and joining a collaborative effort to prepare for the STEAM Camp event - which itself is 9 consecutive days from 9AM to 6 PM each day. All curriculum becomes open source, for anyone to build on it and with it.

Essentially, we cover design and CAD, 3D printing, CNC machine design, microcontrollers, mechanical and electronic design, automation. We focus on a fully open source, modular, scalable, construction set approach. We teach both technical skills and entrepreneurship. We plan on running 6 STEAM Camps at the same time. We require individuals who are committed to making technology transparent - specifically - by publishing as open source hardware.

We envision microfactories in all communities - with the potential to produce 80% of the products that we currently find on Amazon. We envision lifetime design, and a shift from consumerism to ecological responsibility. From Open Source Ecology's perspective - open source, modular design leads to closed-loop material cycles and lifetime design - as anyone can fix or improve the products. The STEAM Camps aim to provide enabling design/build skills. We will also host public-interest incentive challenges for open source product design, for which the STEAM Camp provides training.

In the STEAM Camp, the first 4 days are skills boot camp, and the last 5 days are project days where all teams collaborate on a real product design. The idea is that we continue developments in successive STEAM Camp, improving the product by building on past experience, until we arrive at commercially viable products with proper quality control - fully open source. We are interested in building long-term relationships - to leverage the true power of open collaboration.

We'd like to post our first event in about 3 months, and are now actively recruiting instructors. If this is something you might want to be a part of - I'm available to discuss further on a conference call. I am available after 11 AM CST USA time on most days - just pick a time to give me a minimum 24 hour heads up. I'd like to hear your feedback on this - this is our latest effort in funding ongoing open source product development.

Thanks, Marcin

Adrian Bowyer

Hi Adrian,

Marcin here, founder of Open Source Ecology (OSE). We do collaborative design for a transparent and inclusive economy of abundance. Please see my TED talk on the Global Village Construction Set (https://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski) for a brief on our work.

I'd like to ask if you'd be interested in serving as an instructor our 9 day Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camp, which would be held in your area. We can offer between $5-8k for your time if there is a good fit. We teach collaborative design of technology that matters - and communicated in another way - distributed production like RepRap. We are building on our last event (https://www.opensourceecology.org/open-source-microfactory-stem-camp/) - for a tighter event - - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/STEAM_Camp_Curriculum . We focus on involving people in building the world around them - to shift the economic playing field from proprietary to collaborative. We believe in the promise of distributed manufacturing - with open source microfactories and open source design. We recognize that technology can help - but the real shift involves growing as humans.

The instructor role includes the necessary preparation, and joining a collaborative effort to prepare for the STEAM Camp event - which itself is 9 consecutive days from 9AM to 6 PM each day. All curriculum becomes open source, for anyone to build on it and with it.

Essentially, we cover design and CAD, 3D printing, CNC machine design, microcontrollers, mechanical and electronic design, automation. We focus on a fully open source, modular, scalable, construction set approach. We teach both technical skills and entrepreneurship. We plan on running 6 STEAM Camps at the same time. We require individuals who are committed to making technology transparent - specifically - by publishing as open source hardware.

We envision microfactories in all communities - with the potential to produce 80% of the products that we currently find on Amazon. We envision lifetime design, and a shift from consumerism to ecological responsibility. From Open Source Ecology's perspective - open source, modular design leads to closed-loop material cycles and lifetime design - as anyone can fix or improve the products. The STEAM Camps aim to provide enabling design/build skills. We will also host public-interest incentive challenges for open source product design, for which the STEAM Camp provides training.

In the STEAM Camp, the first 4 days are skills boot camp, and the last 5 days are project days where all teams collaborate on a real product design. The idea is that we continue developments in successive STEAM Camp, improving the product by building on past experience, until we arrive at commercially viable products with proper quality control - fully open source. We are interested in building long-term relationships - to leverage the true power of open collaboration.

We'd like to post our first event in about 3 months, and are now actively recruiting instructors. If this is something you might want to be a part of - I'm available to discuss further on a conference call. I am available after 11 AM CST USA time on most days - just pick a time to give me a minimum 24 hour heads up. I'd like to hear your feedback on this - this is our latest effort in funding ongoing open source product development.

Response

Dear Marcin,

Thanks for considering me, but I'm afraid that I can't take part. Good luck with the event.

Best wishes

Adrian

Dan Gelbart

Hi Dan,

Marcin here, founder of Open Source Ecology (OSE). I saw your air bearing lathe and courses on YouTube. We do collaborative design for a transparent and inclusive economy of abundance. Please see my TED talk on the Global Village Construction Set (https://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski) for a brief on our work.

I'd like to ask if you'd be interested in serving as an instructor our 9 day Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camp, which would be held in your area. We can offer between $5-8k for your time if there is a good fit. I understand you are involved in Rapidia, but this work is mission based if you are interested in public-interest technology. We teach collaborative design of technology that matters. We are building on our last event (https://www.opensourceecology.org/open-source-microfactory-stem-camp/) - for a tighter event - - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/STEAM_Camp_Curriculum . We focus on involving people in building the world around them - to shift the economic playing field from proprietary to collaborative. We believe in the promise of distributed manufacturing - with open source microfactories and open source design. We recognize that technology can help - but the real shift involves growing as humans.

The instructor role includes the necessary preparation, and joining a collaborative effort to prepare for the STEAM Camp event - which itself is 9 consecutive days from 9AM to 6 PM each day. All curriculum becomes open source, for anyone to build on it and with it.

Essentially, we cover design and CAD, 3D printing, CNC machine design, microcontrollers, mechanical and electronic design, automation. We focus on a fully open source, modular, scalable, construction set approach. We teach both technical skills and entrepreneurship. We plan on running 6 STEAM Camps at the same time. We require individuals who are committed to making technology transparent - specifically - by publishing as open source hardware.

We envision microfactories in all communities - with the potential to produce 80% of the products that we currently find on Amazon. We envision lifetime design, and a shift from consumerism to ecological responsibility. From Open Source Ecology's perspective - open source, modular design leads to closed-loop material cycles and lifetime design - as anyone can fix or improve the products. The STEAM Camps aim to provide enabling design/build skills. We will also host public-interest incentive challenges for open source product design, for which the STEAM Camp provides training.

In the STEAM Camp, the first 4 days are skills boot camp, and the last 5 days are project days where all teams collaborate on a real product design. The idea is that we continue developments in successive STEAM Camp, improving the product by building on past experience, until we arrive at commercially viable products with proper quality control - fully open source. We are interested in building long-term relationships - to leverage the true power of open collaboration.

We'd like to post our first event in about 3 months, and are now actively recruiting instructors. If this is something you might want to be a part of - I'm available to discuss further on a conference call. I am available after 11 AM CST USA time on most days - just pick a time to give me a minimum 24 hour heads up. I'd like to hear your feedback on this - this is our latest effort in funding ongoing open source product development.

Thanks,

Marcin

Response

Hi Marcin, Thank you for your offer, but I'm too busy with Rapidia. If I may comment on your course contents: I don't see the point of teaching how to make brushless motors, 3D printer etc. I see more point in teaching basic metal working and electrical skills, plus teaching how to utilize parts from discarded appliances. Almost every discarded washer has at least one brushless motor, and these are free. In each city there are huge piles of such appliances on their way to becoming landfill. For the next decade or two it is more important to teach the young generation how to get almost anything for free and how to build a workshop that folds into a cube of 1m x 1m x 1m. This is imortant as those folks will live in apartments, not houses. I grew up in a 400 sq. ft. apartment and no money so I had a chance to develop those skills. Cheers,

Mitch Altman

Hi Mitch,

Marcin here, founder of Open Source Ecology (OSE). We do collaborative design for a transparent and inclusive economy of abundance. Please see my TED talk on the Global Village Construction Set (https://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski) for a brief on our work.

I'd like to ask if you'd be interested in serving as an instructor our 9 day Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camp, which would be held in your area. We can offer between $5-8k for your time if there is a good fit. We teach collaborative design of technology that matters. We are building on our last event (https://www.opensourceecology.org/open-source-microfactory-stem-camp/) - for a tighter event - - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/STEAM_Camp_Curriculum . We focus on involving people in building the world around them - to shift the economic playing field from proprietary to collaborative. We believe in the promise of distributed manufacturing - with open source microfactories and open source design. We recognize that technology can help - but the real shift involves growing as humans.

The instructor role includes the necessary preparation, and joining a collaborative effort to prepare the STEAM Camp event - which itself is 9 consecutive days from 9AM to 6 PM each day. The unique part is that we also work on real, open source product development as an outcome of the Camp. OSE would do most of the organizational work and back end, including shipping kits used during the STEAM Camp. You would be responsible for the teaching time - and helping to secure a venue, in addition to preparing your piece of quality curriculum. All curriculum becomes open source, for anyone to build on it and with it.

Essentially, we cover design and CAD, 3D printing, CNC machine design, microcontrollers, mechanical and electronic design, automation. We focus on a fully open source, modular, scalable, construction set approach. Part of our offer to you is rapid learning from other instructors - where we all collaborate on content and effective teaching - to make a state-of-art program. We teach both technical skills and entrepreneurship. We plan on running 6 STEAM Camps at the same time. We require individuals who are committed to making technology transparent - specifically - by publishing as open source hardware.

We envision microfactories in all communities - with the potential to produce 80% of the products that we currently find on Amazon. We envision lifetime design, and a shift from consumerism to ecological responsibility. From Open Source Ecology's perspective - open source, modular design leads to closed-loop material cycles and lifetime design - as anyone can fix or improve the products. The STEAM Camps aim to provide enabling design/build skills. We will also host public-interest incentive challenges for open source product design, for which the STEAM Camp provides training.

In the STEAM Camp, the first 4 days are skills boot camp, and the last 5 days are project days where all teams collaborate on a real product design. See the proposed schedule. The idea is that we continue developments in successive STEAM Camp, improving the product by building on past experience, until we arrive at commercially viable products with proper quality control - fully open source. We are interested in building long-term relationships - to leverage the true power of open collaboration.

We'd like to post our first event in about 3 months, and are now actively recruiting instructors. If this is something you might want to be a part of - I'm available to discuss further on a conference call. I am available after 11 AM CST USA time on most days - just pick a time to give me a minimum 24 hour heads up. I'd like to hear your feedback on this - this is our latest effort in funding ongoing open source product development.

Thanks,

Marcin

Lee Felsenstein

Hi Lee,

Marcin here, founder of Open Source Ecology (OSE). I read Hackers, and am contacting you as a star of open source ethics. We do collaborative design for a transparent and inclusive economy of abundance. Please see my TED talk on the Global Village Construction Set (https://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski?language=en) for a brief on our work.

I'd like to ask if you'd be interested in serving as an instructor our 9 day Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camp, which would be held in your area. We can offer between $5-8k for your time if there is a good fit. This work is mission based. We teach collaborative design of technology that matters. We are building on our last event (https://www.opensourceecology.org/open-source-microfactory-stem-camp/) - for a tighter event - - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/STEAM_Camp_Curriculum . We focus on involving people in building the world around them - to shift the economic playing field from proprietary to collaborative. We believe in the promise of distributed manufacturing - with open source microfactories and open source design. We recognize that technology can help - but the real shift involves growing as humans.

The instructor role includes the necessary preparation, and joining a collaborative effort to improve the STEAM Camp event - which itself is 9 consecutive days from 9AM to 6 PM each day. The unique part is that we also work on real, open source product development as an outcome of the Camp. OSE would do most of the organizational work and back end, including shipping kits used during the STEAM Camp. You would be responsible for the teaching time - and helping to secure a venue, in addition to preparing your piece of quality curriculum. All curriculum becomes open source, for anyone to build on it and with it.

Essentially, we cover design and CAD, 3D printing, CNC machine design, microcontrollers, mechanical and electronic design, automation. We focus on a fully open source, modular, scalable, construction set approach. Part of our offer to you is rapid learning from other instructors - where we all collaborate on content and effective teaching - to make a state-of-art program. This is where I need your help - I've been in open source for a decade, and understand some of the challenges, and the level of effort required to produce results. We teach both technical skills and entrepreneurship. We plan on running 6 STEAM Camps at the same time. We require individuals who are committed to making technology transparent - specifically - by publishing as open source hardware.

We envision microfactories in all communities - with the potential to produce 80% of the products that we currently find on Amazon. We envision lifetime design, and a shift from consumerism to ecological responsibility. From Open Source Ecology's perspective - open source, modular design leads to closed-loop material cycles and lifetime design - as anyone can fix or improve the products. The STEAM Camps aim to provide enabling design/build skills. We will also host public-interest incentive challenges for open source product design, for which the STEAM Camp provides training.

In the STEAM Camp, the first 4 days are skills boot camp, and the last 5 days are project days where all teams collaborate on a real product design. See the proposed schedule. The idea is that we continue developments in successive STEAM Camp, improving the product by building on past experience, until we arrive at commercially viable products with proper quality control - fully open source. We are interested in building long-term relationships - to leverage the true power of open collaboration.

So if you are a super-cooperator, are willing to collaborate in the open source (CC-BY-SA 4.0 is our current license), and are interested in sideline income for this - let's talk. We'd like to post our first event in about 3 months, and are now actively recruiting instructors. We have some curriculum, but we want to improve it with your input. If this is something you might want to be a part of - I'm available to discuss further on a conference call. I am available after 11 AM CST USA time on most days - just pick a time to give me a minimum 24 hour heads up. I'd like to hear your feedback on this - this is our latest effort in funding ongoing open source product development.

Thanks,

Marcin

Links

• STEAM Camp Invitation