Archives for Feb,2012

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Building a Village Starts with Learning from Team WikiSpeed

OSE was featured on National Public Radio today. Listen to the story. Yesterday, we were also featured on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. This has resulted in 11 new True Fans subscriptions today, which is the most for any single day so far, for...

Community Needs Survey

My name is Aaron Makaruk, and I am working full time as an on-contingency Resource Developer for Open Source Ecology. We are busy raising money, building technology across the country, and laying the foundation for the open source economy. As our organizational...

Spring Recruiting

Help us go the next step in organizational development. My name is Tom Bamford, and I just joined the OSE core team to help with recruiting. We are now developing a recruiting strategy. At this stage, an effective use of current momentum will require...

CNC Circuit Mill Prototype 1 Complete

The OSE CNC Circuit Mill Prototype I is now complete. While there are many CNC circuit mill designs available on the internet, ours aims to maximize modularity, scalability, and simplicity, and ease of fabrication – while adhering to OSE Specifications....

Project Progress and Scaling

. Global Village Construction Set development  is scaling. There are currently 9 projects under active development and 3 full time developers besides me – Aaron Makaruk, Brianna Kufa, and Yoonseo Kang, two of which are currently off-site. The active...

Ironworker Update- Ready to build!

Last week I said I’d have the complete OSE proposal and Sketchup done for the ironworker by Friday. I didn’t get it done by then, but I am prepared to start building next week. I finished the majority of the OSE Proposal, see it here. I’ll be posting...

Backhoe Design Challenge: Live at GrabCAD

The backhoe design challenge is now live at GrabCAD.  This is a unique challenge because it is the first in which we are offering a cash prize to the winner: $750 goes to the winner, plus an additional $250 if less than 3 design changes need to be made....