Inga the English Trainer
Inga and I have fused since she arrived to translate at one of the events on the trip through Austria. Meet Inga. She’ll be joining us at Factor e Farm, and this is growing to be a bigger story than expected. Click To Play Right now, we are begining...
Marcin Jakubowski at the University of Klagenfurt
Last weekend we took Marcin Jakubowski (http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Marcin_Jakubowski) from the Subversive Fair in Linz (http://subversivmesse.net/) to Carinthia. On Tuesday evening we had the event “Open Source Ecology & mobilityâ€...
Opportunity abounds at Factor e
From my initial survey I would estimate an ideal population of this site to be about 20-30 people. Rules of thumb for estimation go at 5 people per intensively cultivated acre, in practice the number is higher but that’s good for a rough estimate....
Subversive Fair Presenters
Here is a video of some of the other presenters at the Subversive Fair. There were too many interesting people to record, here is about 10 of them: Click To Play Here is more information on the presenters above. You can see further information on all...
Subversiv Messe Day 2
This is Austria Day 2. The highlight of today, in addition to more interesting people visiting our booth, was contact with one fellow presenter working on a physical production-based distribution of Linux. This means the guy, Florian Stoffelmeyr, of openartisthq.org,...
Subversiv Messe Day 1
Day one of Subversiv Messe in Linz, Austria. Linz is selected this year as the cultural capital of Europe. The European Union has funded the “subversive fair” (subversiv messe) to showcase diverse ideas that “subvert” and innovate...
RepRap in Progress
You may have seen our previous post on RepRap a few weeks ago. See the RepRap development source. Briefly, RepRap is a form of Universal Constructor. A Universal Constructor is a machine that can copy itself. The idea was originally von Neumann’s....