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Mon 19 Nov 2012

True Fans Microfunding Development

Posted by Jacob

Greetings,

My name is Jacob Dalton, and I’m about to hit the road for Missouri. Along with Brad Lewis and Aaron Makaruk, I’ve been developing a True Fans microfunding web application. This week I’m going to Factor e Farm for a Dedicated Project Visit with the goal of releasing the True Fans application before Christmas.

We’re not the first to try and build such an application—previous work on the wiki has informed ours. We’ve listened to those that went before us, we’ve made some adjustments, and now it’s time share that work with the community for feedback and input.

So what is this application? What does it do? Take a look:

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Categories: 1000 True Fans - 1000 Global Villages, Community, Dear True Fans and Supporters, Dedicated Project Visits, Open Source Ecology

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Mon 5 Dec 2011

OSE Christmas Gift to the World: Civilization Starter Kit DVD v0.01

Posted by Marcin

Dear True Fans, Supporters, and Backers – here is an update on December 5, 2011.

Categories: Dear True Fans and Supporters, Open Source Ecology

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Mon 17 Oct 2011

Dear True Fans: House Foundation Pour

Posted by Marcin

The house foundation is now poured, and we hope to lay brick today.

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Mon 10 Oct 2011

Dear True Fans: October 9 Update

Posted by Marcin

Dear True Fans and Supporters, here is an update on construction.

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Sun 2 Oct 2011

Dear True Fans: Construction and Scaling

Posted by Marcin

Dear True Fans and supporters – the news are rather fantastic for this week.

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Sun 25 Sep 2011

Dear True Fans: Beginning Construction

Posted by Marcin


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Dear True Fans and Supporters – here’s an update from September 25, 2011 at Factor e Farm. Construction is beginning. (more…)

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Sun 18 Sep 2011

Dear True Fans: Production Scaling

Posted by Marcin

Dear True Fans and supporters, first, thank you so much for the $20.1k total collected – of the $20k called for – on the emergency construction funding. Monday, I’m ordering the insertable tooth blades for the dimensional sawmill; Tuesday – the rebar is arriving so we will be welding rebar for foundations. Wednesday – we’ll be pressing compressed earth block samples. Thursday – bulldozing and excavation of the site is happening.

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Sun 11 Sep 2011

Dear True Fans: Construction Shall Move Forward

Posted by Marcin


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Dear True Fans, thanks for your support. The Recovery Plan for continuing construction has yielded $15k in 3 days of crowd funding, and we are 75% of our goal. Chip in if you haven’t:

(Others have made direct donations) There are 4 days left in the Chip In, which will be taken down on Sep. 15. Yes, construction will go on.

See the updated video on our construction and 10 living units:


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Sun 4 Sep 2011

Dear True Fans and Supporters

Posted by Marcin

Dear True Fans and Supporters, we have fallen into a general video and documentation blackhole over the last 4 months. People are asking for news. We haven’t been idle:

Dear True Fans and Supporters from Open Source Ecology on Vimeo.

You can read the transcript here. I am promising a weekly update as we are going on the final countdown towards the Rollout Plan for the Global Village Construction Set.





 

To reach the documentation blackhole escape velocity, I further report: (more…)

Categories: Accomplishments, Dear True Fans and Supporters

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