User:Jowesho

WHO are you? Name/Nationality/Ethnicity - Wes Short, North American, of mixed European descent

Location - Shasta Lake, California, USA

Contact Information – Jowesho at gmail com, "Jowesho" on Skype/AIM/Yahoo!/Twitter etc..

Resume/CV – My current work is as a self-employed Commercial Artist and Web Developer, offering graphics solutions in multiple medias; digital, print, and signage, as well as social marketing campaigns. For the last year I have been a packaging Warehouse Manager for a wholesale distributor. For the two years prior to that (2008-2010), I was an independant design contractor in the sign industry. From 2002-2007 I was active duty military in the US Air Force, my job was Crash Rescue, Fire and Emergency services, where I fulfilled a number of roles and duties from fireman to operations officer. Previous to that I had a bevy of unskilled labor jobs, lived and worked in Chicago for 2 years in my early twenties, and back in Missouri where I was raised, got my education, and began work as a young man. Hobbies and Pastimes- disc golf, roller hockey, ping- pong, arm-chair space exploration, civilian scientist projects, documentaries, rocks (geology), planetary biology and the evolution of life in this (largely hostile) universe.

WHY are you motivated to support/develop this work? Because it may be our only rational hope for a sustainable future as a species- and I mean that.

Do you endorse open source culture? The keystones of open source culture are the inherent, systematic longevity of ideas, and their adaptability to future change due to organizm-like modualar collaboration. It is as to ideas as millions of dividing cells working together in harmony are to organic life,

Why are you interested in this work? To see it's full potential played out.

Are you interested in teaching about the GVCS? Yes, I founded Jefferson Open Source in order to do so.

Are you interested in economic relocalization possibilities arising from the GVCS? Yes, economic stability and autonomy are some of the main goals of the GVCS. Do you want to use the GVCS technologies yourself? Do you want to build them yourself? Yes, I want to build a workshop showcasing and demonstrating to the local community how to use and build GVCS machines.

Are you interested in starting up enterprise using the GVCS technologies? Yes. As a non-proft enterprise, also invested in develpoing other enterprises.

Are you interested in having the GVCS technologies fabricated by your local custom fabricator? Yes, I would love to give them the work and be building the parts in this area.

''Are you interested in applying the GVCS to third world development? To redevelopment of crisis areas? To development of derelict areas in the developed world?'' There are many applications of the tool set in this field of humanitarism.

Are you interested in starting up Industry 2.0 flexible fabrication enterprises for your local community, by drawing from a global repository of freely down-loadable designs and fabricating using open source fabrication equipment? Yes

Are you interested in the potential of the GVCS for developing local food systems? Yes. Food systems as we know them within the US are archaic, under-designed, and horrifically inefficient (we loose 30% of all food annually to inefficiencies)

Are you interested in doing academic studies/papers, publishing books, or doing other analysis of our efforts? Constantly.

Are you interested in financial investment opportunities arising from our work? My ultimate goal is to figure out how to do this full time, for myself and others. That takes funding, for now and until the established system is obsolete.

Are you interested in the distributive economic aspects of our work, and if so, how do you see this playing out? Yes. Any concept of scarcity of information or opportunity in this world is a man-mad construct, imaginary and unreal. We all build off of eachother's work, humans are a hive creature.

Are you interested in building renewable energy production facilities based on open hardware (solar concentrator electric, wind, biomass power). Yes, and also in feeding said energy production back to the grid.

Are you interested in building resilient communities based on access to the GVCS?''

Are you interested in creating a bug-out hut using GVCS technologies? Maybe someday we won't need to worry about those. How do you think that the GVCS can help alleviate the instabilities of global monetary systems? By restalishing a commodity based ecconomy, on real production and exchange of goods and services.