User:Jpeaceokc

=Team Culturing Information=

Jpeaceokc is the user name of Bob Waldrop of Oklahoma City.

He is a native, fourth-generation Oklahoman whose great-grandparents settled in southwest Oklahoma before statehood. He is the founder of the Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House, which works in Oklahoma City. He is one of the founders of the Oklahoma Food Cooperative. He works as the director of music and organist at the Catholic Church of the Epiphany of the Lord in Oklahoma City. He previously served on the Migrants and Refugees Advisory Council of Catholic Charities Oklahoma City. He is one of the founders and served on the first board of the Oklahoma Sustainability Network. Waldrop maintains several websites, including http://www.justpeace.org (Catholic social justice issues), http://www.bobwaldrop.net (rants on politics and economics), http://www.bettertimesinfo.org (gardening and cooking), http://www.energyconservationinfo.org (energy issues), and has launched http://www.okie.coop in support of the Oklahoma Worker Cooperative Network. He lives near downtown Oklahoma City, in a household of five, plus two dogs and two cats, and cultivates more than 100 different varieties of useful or edible plants on his former lawns. His 1929 era Craftsman bungalow has been extensively remodeled to be energy efficient. He holds a certificate in permaculture design from Barking Frogs Permaculture, http://www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org.



WHO are you?

 * Name - Bob Waldrop


 * Location (city, country) - Oklahoma City

Phone: 405-200-8155 Email: bwaldrop (at) cox (dot) net
 * Contact Information (email, phone, Skype) -


 * Introductory Video -

Bob Waldrop is a native, fourth-generation Oklahoman whose great-grandparents settled in southwest Oklahoma before statehood. He is the founder of the Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House, which works in Oklahoma City. He is one of the founders of the Oklahoma Food Cooperative. He works as the director of music and organist at the Catholic Church of the Epiphany of the Lord in Oklahoma City. He previously served on the Migrants and Refugees Advisory Council of Catholic Charities Oklahoma City. He is one of the founders and served on the first board of the Oklahoma Sustainability Network. He maintains several websites, including http://www.justpeace.org (Catholic social justice issues), http://www.bobwaldrop.net (rants on politics and economics), http://www.bettertimesinfo.org (gardening and cooking), http://www.energyconservationinfo.org (energy issues), and is about to launch http://www.okie.coop in support of the Oklahoma Worker Cooperative Network. He lives near downtown Oklahoma City, in a household of five, and cultivates more than 100 different varieties of useful or edible plants on his former lawns. His 1929 era Craftsman bungalow has been extensively remodeled to be energy efficient. He holds a certificate in permaculture design from Barking Frogs Permaculture.
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 * Hobbies and Pastimes - gardening, science fiction, organizing cooperatives, music (playing, composing, improvising, singing)

WHY are you motivated to support/develop this work?
Yes. The Oklahoma FOod cooperative, which I helped start, makes its software -- the Local Food Cooperative Management System -- available under the general public license system, and has thus helped 16 other local food coops get started.
 * Do you endorse open source culture?

I am interested in equipping small farmers with production tools to help them produce for local markets.
 * Why are you interested in collaborating with us?

yes
 * Are you interested in teaching about the GVCS?

yes
 * Are you interested in economic relocalization possibilities arising from the GVCS?

I am not much of a builder, but i expect to benefit from their implementation in our developing local food system here in central Oklahoma
 * Do you want to use the GVCS technologies yourself? Do you want to build them yourself?

Maybe. I am also involved with organizing a new project, the Oklahoma Worker Cooperative Network, which is an incubator system for worker owned cooperatives. it's hard to predict what machinery might be needed, but i expect there will be some needs that this project can help with.
 * Are you interested in starting up enterprise using the GVCS technologies?

could be.
 * Are you interested in having the GVCS technologies fabricated by your local custom fabricator?

yes
 * 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?

yes
 * 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?

no
 * Are you interested in doing academic studies/papers, publishing books, or doing other analysis of our efforts?

maybe
 * Are you interested in financial investment opportunities arising from our work?

yes. my particular area of expertise is in cooperative development and I see a lot of possibilities.
 * Are you interested in the distributive economic aspects of our work, and if so, how do you see this playing out?

Not me personally.
 * Are you interested in building renewable energy production facilities based on open hardware (solar concentrator electric, wind, biomass power)?

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

No, I am sticking with the city and my plan is to create a self-fulfilling prophecy where an emergency bug out is not necessary.
 * Are you interested in creating a bug-out hut using GVCS technologies?

By giving people at the grassroots empowerment via access to tools and invisible structures to help them utilitize those tools for local production systems.
 * How do you think that the GVCS can help alleviate the instabilities of global monetary systems?

By making small runs of manufactured items possible, and also by making it possible to widely distribute manufacturing technology. also, if junk can be used as feed stock, that's even better.
 * How do you think that the GVCS can address issues related to resource conflicts?

By enabling appropriate production and empowering the poor.
 * How do you think that the GVCS can address issues of overpopulation?

by enabling localization.
 * How do you think that the GVCS can address issues of resource depletion and environmental degradation?


 * Do you have any other comments that you'd like to make?

I am already committed to help with the microcombine development and am trying to figure out first steps.
 * What should happen so that you become more involved with the project?

clues on where to start, lol.
 * What are you missing in the project?


 * What are your suggestions for improvement of the project?

WHAT
I have been publicizing the project, the microcombine project in particular.
 * What have you already contributed to the OSE project? (technical contributions, blogging about us, financial support, organizing events, translations, interviews, video editing, publications, publicity work, behind-the-scenes work, CAD work, wiki contributions, computer support, etc)

Communications
 * I have done technical writing in the past (for Unisys and a computer software system for use by credit unions). I blog, operate websites and modereate online discussion groups.  I organize cooperatives, and have reasonable writing skills.  Also, my super-power is EXHORTATION.

Organizational
 * I have been a community/social justice organizer for hmmmm 35 years or so, and dabbled in politics quite a bit. I was in the conventions and meetings business for several years, and also did quite a bit of flea market selling.  I am an accomplished public speaker.  I am good at starting up projects.

Computer Support
 * I do websites, but I use a website publisher. I run a lot of online discussion groups.  I have basic Wiki skills.  I managed to create my user page, and edit the microcombine page today.

Finances
 * I have written business plans. I have done a lot of begging and fnudraising.  I was president and general of the Oklahoma Food Cooperative for five years.

Sociology
 * Yes.

Home Economics
 * Yes, I often cook for groups of 150 or so at my church. I can bake bread for 150, make cobbler for 150, chicken and dressing for 150, vegetarian spaghetti sauce for 200 (all based on recipes I am experienced with). I grow more than 100 different varieties of useful or edible plants on the former lawns of my central Oklahoma City home, which totals 1/7th of an acre and has two houses, a driveway and sidewalks on it.  I grow a lot of food on concrete in containers.  I grew up on a farm in southwest Oklahoma, raising wheat, cotton, hay, cattle and horses.  I had a small business for a short time processing bulgur wheat and selling it. I was an Oklahoma County Master Gardener for 2 years. I have a certificate in permaculture design from Barking Frogs Permaculture.

Design
 * I hold a certificate in permaculture design.

Building
 * Well, we are involved with perpetual home renovation.

Electronics and Magnetics
 * No. I can use an inverter and charge a battery.

Automation
 * no

Metallurgy
 * no

Engineering
 * no

HOW can you help?''
I am interested in helping with the microcombine project and in other general back office type helping.
 * How are you interested in contributing to the work of GVCS development?

I will study my schedule and see what I can commit to, right now I am thinking five hours/week for sure, more in the summer when my day job is less demanding.
 * Can you volunteer to work with us, and if so, how many hours per week?

For now I prefer to donate my time.
 * Are you interested in working with us for pay? If so, what services can you offer, and what is your hourly or per-project rate?

I would like to come for a visit sometime, yes, most definitely.
 * Are you interested in Dedicated Project Visit?

not personally, but I am interested in finding interested buyers.
 * Are you interested in purchasing equipment from us to help bootstrap development?

no
 * Are you interested in bidding for consulting/design/prototyping work?

yes
 * Are you a True Fan? If not, why not?

well no at this time, i enjoy my day job, which involves planning and presenting all of the music for a large Catholic parish of 1600 families, with a pipe organ originally built in 1865, and also my vocational work as head of the Oscar Romero Catholic Worker Community.
 * Would you like to see yourself working with us on a full-time basis?

I want to visit but I have too many responsibilities here in OKC to pull up stakes and commit to this for 2 years.
 * ''Are you interested in being part of the world's first, open source, resilient community? The GVCS is the preparatory step for the OSE Village Experiment - a 2 year, immersion experiment (2013-2014) for testing whether a real, thriving, modern-day prototype community of 200 people can be built on 200 acres using local resources and open access to information? We are looking for approximately 200 people to fill a diverse array of roles, according to the Social Contract that is being developed. This may be the boldest social experiment on earth - a pioneering community whose goal is to extend the index of possibilities regarding harmonious existence of humans, ecology, and technology - as a beacon of light to benefit of all people on Earth.