This forum is an invitation-only discussion for members of the Core Team. Core Team members are those who are actively engaged in OSE development by carrying out specific development tasks . Development includes remote collaboration, and on-the-ground projects at Factor e Farm. Remote collaboration includes distributed design and prototyping work, resource development work, and others. Core Team members are encouraged to participate in the OSE Global Conference Calls. (see http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=1179) All discussion not related to the Core Team should be posted under General OSE discussion.
We are farmer scientists - working to develop a world class research center for decentralization technologies using open source permaculture and technology to work together for providing basic needs and self replicating the entire operation at the cost of scrap metal. We seek societal transformation through interconnected self-sufficient villages and homes. This is a stepping stone to transcending survival and evolving to freedom. Factor e Farm is the land-based facility where we put this theory, Open Source Ecology, into practice. More
This is the bright iridescent future of a global sustainable village, un-tethered by the soul sucking vacuum of neoliberal globalization. Combining ecology and open source ideas, the folks at Open Source Ecology seem to have hit the nail on the head…a well articulated vision for enabling communities all over the planet to partake in global trade of information goods and services, but not be forced into the prisoner’s delima of globalized corporate capitalism. — Greg Landua, Global Village Institute at ‘The Farm’