Archive for July, 2011
Sunday, July 31st, 2011
Recruiting Fabrication Manager
I have pointed out two posts ago that we are recruiting a Fabrication Manager for Factor e Farm. This is our highest current priority. That will allow me to delegate the on-site production management duties as I move on to higher-level tasks. The context is finishing this big, hairy, audacious goal – going through 3 …
8 Comments » - Posted in Open Source Ecology by Marcin
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
Dream Team Sixteen
The immediate goal of the Factor e Farm experiment is to produce the GVCS 50 – a set of 50 industrial machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts. To this end – we are currently building a team. In the last blog post, I discussed the immediate team …
5 Comments » - Posted in Open Source Ecology by Marcin
Sunday, July 24th, 2011
Factor e Farm Team Requirements
In the last post, I discussed the general plan of Factor e Farm for the roll-out of the 50 Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) technologies – by January, 2013. Mark Norton took the initiative to summarize this lengthy post – please read his refactored version. In this post, I will discuss the immediate team …
5 Comments » - Posted in Open Source Ecology by Marcin
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
Towards 50 GVCS Tools by 2013
This year, especially after my TED talk on the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS), we have been expanding rapidly. At this exciting juncture in the evolution of the OSE experiment, I would like to take time to regroup and reorganize. I would like to explain where we are and where we are going for the next 18 …
8 Comments » - Posted in Open Source Ecology by Marcin
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
User Interface Designers for Better True Fans Campaign
We are planning to improve the True Fans campaign through implementing the 5 motivators of giving as shared by Taylor Conroy in his TED talk:
Group mentality – as a True Fan you can share with everybody why you support OSE in your Recognition page as video and text. You will be able to see …
4 Comments » - Posted in 1000 True Fans - 1000 Global Villages,Crowd funding,Crowd Funding by Nikolay
Friday, July 1st, 2011
OSE Projects
People who are new to any established open source project are often bewildered and confused by the complexity of it all. Questions come up naturally:
Where do I start?
What needs doing?
How can I contribute?
How do I contact people?
There are many ways you can contribute to an OSE project, but the best place to start is …
