Archive for November, 2011
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
Dear True Fans and Supporters: Emergence
Dear True Fans Backers, and Supporters,
I finally have a chance to emerge from full construction duty – 17,000 bricks pressed and countdown in our last week of brick pressing with cold weather producing diminishing returns. With Floyd recruited as our new construction manager, the building program is now in good hands, and I can …
1 Comment » - Posted in Accomplishments,Construction 2011,Open Source Ecology by Marcin
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
Historic Significance
October of 2011 marks the first ever replication of a complete Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) machine by an independent third party – the manual version of The Liberator CEB Press. This is a time of historical significance for the GVCS. Congratulations to James Slade of Texas.
See more pictures and a video of James’ …
3 Comments » - Posted in Accomplishments by Marcin
Friday, November 4th, 2011
Construction Update – November 2, 2011
4 Comments » - Posted in Construction,Construction 2011,Natural Building by Marcin
Friday, November 4th, 2011
Kickstarter Update: The Context
Dear Supporters, thanks for your explosive support on our Global Village Construction Set Kickstarter Campaign, we have reached our goal of $40k, with 15 days left. There is also no sign of slowing down, so pass this on to your friends:
Update on final result:
I have been asked several times now regarding the greater context …
6 Comments » - Posted in Accomplishments,Crowd funding,Kickstarter,Production by Marcin
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
Distributive Enterprise
I am applying for the Shuttleworth Foundation fellowship. If successful, this brings in $360k of resources to the project by March, 2012. Listen to this personal intro for the Fellowship, discussing the concept of Distributive Enterprise:
