OSE Deep Value Proposition

Imagine being surrounded by 30 of the most exciting people on earth.

By exciting, I mean people whose core value is nonviolence - meaning - not participating in environmental and social injustices associated with business-as-usual living.

The implementation of this is a Replicable Community which converts local feedstocks into the lifestuff of modern civilization. What if you could participate in the development of such a community, with a grounded economic model including bootstrap-fundability as shown in Community Capitalization - which turns this into a virally-replicable enterprise? If you are pursuing higher purpose, this is the place for you.

I have a dream. Factor e Farm is this experiment, on 30 acres, and I am committed to demonstrating the above is feasible even on a 30 acre scale. Years ago Michel Bauens of the Peer to Peer Foundation has questioned whether this could be The Most Important Social Experiment in the World.

=Deployment Plan=

With a build-up to 30 Full Time Developers by year-end 2013, we expect the FeF community to achieve complete autonomy by year-end 2015. We are recruiting actively right now. This means the core GVCS 50 deployed down to the ability to bootstrap-replicate a complete economy on a 40 acre scale within a time period of 1 year for replication at a cost of $10k in materials + land. See Community Capitalization and Replication Strategy.

We are looking for 30 select individuals to be a part of this social experiment. We are aiming not only to achieve the above, but also to make it virally replicable. To that end, we are building a Self-Funding enterprise.

=Approach Strategy=

"All revolutions start in the countryside." - ungrounded claim by MJ, but apt.

See Personal Notes on Viral Scaling.

=Land Stewardship Contract=

The essence of our work is transformation of the world from Global Geopolitical Compromise, and such transformation begins with land stewardship. Our deployment plan involves a collaborating investment from one community member who provides a land parcel on the 40 acre scale. There are strings attached: the donor sets this land up in trust, with a Board of Directors chosen from trusted OSE members - set aside as a site of permanent future heritage. The donor loses equitable interest in the land, while gaining full autonomy in collaboration with the community membership.

=Dream State=

If you want to change the world in a profound way, I want you to come to Factor e Farm for 3 years from now to year-end 2013 as the team-building phase for recruiting 30 people. Then I want you to stay for 2 more years as we co-author the world's first post-scarcity village experiment that builds and uses the 50 GVCS tools.


 * I want you to require from me no more than $500/month, and be bringing in $10k/month in R&D funding

=Dream State Rationale=
 * Violence-free life is ethically elite, and is priceless to me - and I suspect that there are others who feel the same way.
 * My cost of living is $300 per month, whtich is easy to do when utilities and housing are covered.
 * I have large R&D budgets.
 * There are 5 billion people worldwide that live under $3k/year at that level of income
 * Where is the excitement? Invitations to conferences and speaking engagements and quality time of working constantly on pressing world issues drive me.