Archive for May, 2009
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Inga the English Trainer
Inga and I have fused since she arrived to translate at one of the events on the trip through Austria. Meet Inga. She’ll be joining us at Factor e Farm, and this is growing to be a bigger story than expected.
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Right now, we are begining an open source architecture process for …
11 Comments » - Posted in Interviews,Open Collaboration,Open Source Ecology,People by Marcin
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Marcin Jakubowski at the University of Klagenfurt
Last weekend we took Marcin Jakubowski (http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Marcin_Jakubowski) from the Subversive Fair in Linz (http://subversivmesse.net/) to Carinthia. On Tuesday evening we had the event “Open Source Ecology & mobility†(http://www.earthship.at/) at the university of Klagenfurt. And on Wednesday we brought Marcin to Weiz. Here you can find an overview of his whole trip through Austria …
7 Comments » - Posted in Education,Factor e Farm,Open Collaboration,open source,Open Source Ecology,Presentations by Michaela
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Opportunity abounds at Factor e
From my initial survey I would estimate an ideal population of this site to be about 20-30 people.
Rules of thumb for estimation go at 5 people per intensively cultivated acre, in practice the number is higher but that’s good for a rough estimate. It’s always better to estimate low if you’re analyzing sustainability.
On that …
2 Comments » - Posted in Factor e Farm,Local Food Systems,Open Source Agroecology (OSA),Open Source Economic Development,Open Source Permaculture by Guest Article
Monday, May 18th, 2009
Subversive Fair Presenters
Here is a video of some of the other presenters at the Subversive Fair. There were too many interesting people to record, here is about 10 of them:
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Here is more information on the presenters above. You can see further information on all of the presenters here.
Mad Housers – Susan Lee – …
2 Comments » - Posted in Presentations by Marcin
Friday, May 15th, 2009
Subversiv Messe Day 2
This is Austria Day 2. The highlight of today, in addition to more interesting people visiting our booth, was contact with one fellow presenter working on a physical production-based distribution of Linux. This means the guy, Florian Stoffelmeyr, of openartisthq.org, is integrating the multitude of open source tools for 2D, 3D design, hardware …
3 Comments » - Posted in Organizational Development,Presentations by Marcin
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Subversiv Messe Day 1
Day one of Subversiv Messe in Linz, Austria. Linz is selected this year as the cultural capital of Europe. The European Union has funded the “subversive fair” (subversiv messe) to showcase diverse ideas that “subvert” and innovate on existing systems, cultural norms, and paradigms.
Open Source Ecology was selected to attend and discuss our …
3 Comments » - Posted in Open Source Ecology by Marcin
Friday, May 8th, 2009
RepRap in Progress
You may have seen our previous post on RepRap a few weeks ago. See the RepRap development source. Briefly, RepRap is a form of Universal Constructor. A Universal Constructor is a machine that can copy itself. The idea was originally von Neumann’s.
Here is Edward Miller, one of our True Fans, holding up the semi-completed …
