Archive for February, 2009
Friday, February 13th, 2009
Torch Table Day 2
We’ve returned to the torch table after a long hiatus since the December 9 blog post
on the topic. CEB press digital fabrication is the goal. My goal is to spend noon to six PM every day until the thing is built. Here are some 3D pictures, which you can also see on the wiki …
1 Comment » - Posted in Open Engineering,Permafacture,Torch Table by Marcin
Friday, February 13th, 2009
Breakthrough, Where Are You?
People, we’re going through some major organizational development at Factor e Farm. We’re struggling with an approach and method for delivering the open source village. The Factor e Live Distillations are complete – though I will publish another summary and call to action in the near future – once we settle on a core …
No Comments » - Posted in 1000 True Fans - 1000 Global Villages,Organizational Development,People by Marcin
Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Need for an OSE Social Networking Site
Our goal is to build the world’s first replicable self sufficient post-industrial global village.
In support of that goal, we need people that can integrate research and design and build the necessary technology while collaborating with other people on-site or on-line. We assume that most scientific research has already been done and that we only …
12 Comments » - Posted in Open Collaboration,Organizational Development,People by Jeremy
Friday, February 6th, 2009
Factor e Live Distillations – Part 10 – Community Supported Production
This episode covers the basic economic model of Factor e Farm. It is Community Supported Production (CSP) with two parts: Manufacturing (CSM) and Agriculture (CSA). It is permaculture and permafacture in one. We’re a replicable, vertically integrated, open source, community-supported flexible fabrication model – for short. View on. Transcript is found below the video.
And …
2 Comments » - Posted in 1000 True Fans - 1000 Global Villages,Community Supported Manufacturing,Factor e Live Distillations by Marcin
Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Factor e Live Distillations – Part 9 – Open Collaborative Development
It’s been over a year since we started the openfarmtech.org wiki, with Vinay’s assistance. This wiki turned out to be a messy hairball in terms of organization. It’s time to clean it up, and move forward on the collaborative social infrastructure for developing the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). We’ve got Nathan from effortlesseconomy.com …
1 Comment » - Posted in 1000 True Fans - 1000 Global Villages,Factor e Live Distillations,Open Collaboration by Marcin
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Factor e Live Distillations – Part 8 – Solar Power Generator
It has been almost a month since we started the Factor e Live Distillations series and the 1000 True Fans – 1000 Global Villages campaign. We have gathered 24 True Fans so far. We have 2 more episodes to go – on the open source product development collaboration process, and on the economic model …
