Calling All Disruptive, Boundary-Smashing, Distributive Enterprise Heavyweights
We are recruiting a Co-Founder to join the team at Factor e Farm. This blog post describes this offer. (we are also looking for project Advisors and Mentors, see last paragraph of this post) Open Source Ecology is a movement for creating the open source...
Civilization Starter Kit DVD v0.01
Dear True Fans and Supporters – We are proud to release version 0.01 of the Civilization Starter Kit DVD – our OSE Christmas Gift to the World for 2011. While we could go on for weeks with improvements – our Publish Early and Often...
Best of TED 2011: Global Village Construction Set is #6
The Global Village Construction Set TED talk has been selected as the Best of TED 2011 top 6 in the Huffington Post. Read Isaiah Saxon’s followup blog post. You can also comment there (407 comments as of this writing). There is also a #18ideas you...
Ironworker Shear Assembly Challenge: Live at GrabCAD
The Ironworker shear assembly challenge is now live at GrabCAD. See my prior post here, and note that we are funded to get this done. We are escalating the pace, and exploring the use of open source crowd engineering in the process. This is our second...
Professional Fabrication Drawings for the CEB Press
We need epic help on producing professional fabrication drawings for the OSE Christmas Gift to the World – full documentation of the first 4 tools of the Global Village Construction Set – the tools of construction. See full need description...
CEB Press: Generation 3 Electronics
Recently, the CEB Press electronics improved to the third major iteration, replacing Generation 2 electronics from September of this year. Generation 3 electronics consist of a revised solenoid driver board that eliminates the need for the Arduino breakout...
Practical Post Scarcity – Video
This is a well-made explanation of artificial material scarcity and how it can be addressed by open source economic development: Practical Post-Scarcity from Open Source Ecology on Vimeo. Practical Post Scarcity from Open Source Ecology on Vimeo. This...
Civilization Starter Kit Progress
Progress on the Civilization Starter Kit has been steady, including fuel to fund it. This is from September this year: and we have generated $173k in December from Kickstarter, crowds, and foundations. There is no evidence of funding deceleration. If...
Civilization Starter Kit DVD – Table of Contents
Dear collaborators – I am proud to announce the table of contents (ToC) of the Civilization Starter Kit DVD v0.01 – the 2011 Christmas Gift to the World from Open Source Ecology. This is the Civilization Starter Kit DVD that I mentioned first...
