Archive for December, 2011
Thursday, December 8th, 2011
LifeTrac Design Challenge: Live at GrabCAD
The LifeTrac Design Challenge is now live at GrabCAD:
Pass this on to any engineer friends. This is our first attempt to solve a technical issue by means of a crowd engineering platform. I am hoping that this platform will be a significant contributor to the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) development effort. We will …
5 Comments » - Posted in Crowd Engineering by Marcin
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
$100k from The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
We have just received a $100k award letter from The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. This means significant acceleration of prototype deployment of the Global Village Construction Set – making open blueprints accessible to everybody. Terra Foundation is our fiscal sponsor for the nonprofit sector. You can see more info on the proposal on the wiki.
With …
7 Comments » - Posted in Awards and Competitions,Scaling Development by Marcin
Monday, December 5th, 2011
OSE Christmas Gift to the World: Civilization Starter Kit DVD v0.01
Dear True Fans, Supporters, and Backers – here is an update on December 5, 2011.
6 Comments » - Posted in Dear True Fans and Supporters,Open Source Ecology by Marcin
Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
LifeTrac Design Challenge
The LifeTrac open source Tractor is our weak link in the OSE Christmas Gift to the World for 2011. As we prepare to publish the Civilization Starter Kit DVD v0.01, we will include a Beta release of Prototype IV of LifeTrac, and Full Product Release of The Liberator open source CEB press, Soil Pulverizer, …
