Fan Creates Anthem for Open Source Ecology
It is always immensely encouraging to know that we have supporters world over who are looking for ways to get involved in our mission. Lonnie Ray Atkinson is one such supporter, who personally made and gifted us a song (with accompanying music video by...
The Story of HabLab
We have built our 3,000 square foot living unit – HabLab – in 2012 using bricks from our open source Compressed Earth Brick (CEB) press. Here is a summary of the process that began in 2011 with the Global Village Construction Set Kickstarter...
The First Open Source Hardware Documentation Jam – New York City
The power of open source hardware lies in the ability to build upon others’ work and good documentation is the key to making this happen. We believe that documentation best practices can increase contributions to open source hardware projects significantly....
Help Us Win $25,000! Rev Up Change
In 2012, Open Source Ecology board member Colby Thomson spoke at The Feast conference in New York. They recently selected us for the finals round of their competition to win $25,000 and a chance to speak at their 2013 event. The winner is determined by...
Assembly Videos – Power Cube and Brick Press
Those of you who’ve been following OSE over the years know how seriously we take documentation – it’s in keeping with our open-source principles and we believe it moves our work forward, while also being key to independent replication....
One-day Strategy Charette
Emily Aiken, whom I met at the SupporTED Collaboratorium, has been working with me as a mentor on OSE media strategy, and recently organized a strategy charette in LA to move OSE’s offer forward. The participants in the session included: (in the...
Recruiting Operations Manager + Executive Team
Open Source Ecology is recruiting an executive team as part of its restructuring of 2013. The first position that we are looking to fill is an Operations Manager. Adrian Hong is advising us in this process. The Operations Manager is a full time position,...
OSE Revamping in Critical 2013
This year is critical for OSE as we grow and stabilize as an organization. We are currently reorganizing in order to deliver on the promises of OSE’s Plan for 2013 as outlined in this 5 minute video: OSE Project Outline 2012-2013. from Open Source...
Machine Deployment and Pilot Projects
Factor e Farm has been the main development site for the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS), after we settled here in 2006 and built our first machine in 2008. (As an aside, we coined the term GVCS in 2008 for a presentation at the University of Missouri,...
Towards the Open Source Civilization
We wrote Towards the Open Source Civilization for the latest issue of the MIT Innovations journal – an issue on Making in America. We have introduced the concept of Distributive Enterprise for the first time in an academic publication. Read the...
