Dear True Fans: Beginning Construction
. . . Dear True Fans and Supporters – here’s an update from September 25, 2011 at Factor e Farm. Construction is beginning.
Enterprise Replication
Currently, there are 3 independent efforts to replicate production of CEB Presses, tractors, and Power Cubes. Brianna is one of them. See her log from Factor e Farm. These are the beginnings of distributive enterprise playing out, towards distributive...
OSE Europe
Prototyping and production at Factor e Farm will be a core aspect of the GVCS Rollout Plan. At the same time, nonprofit sector donations can help. Robert Anteau, an American settled in Denmark, is taking the leadership to incorporate OSE Europe Foundation,...
Open Hardware Summit Report
Here is a report from Mark Norton, who presented the OSE Steam Engine Project at the Open Hardware Summit 2011: I attended the Open Hardware Summit at the New York Hall of Science located on site of the 1964 World Fair site in Queens, New York...
Dear True Fans: Production Scaling
Dear True Fans and supporters, first, thank you so much for the $20.1k total collected – of the $20k called for – on the emergency construction funding. Monday, I’m ordering the insertable tooth blades for the dimensional sawmill; Tuesday...
Groundbreaking for Construction 2011
Dear True Fans and Supporters, the emergency construction crowd funding is a major success – $19.7k of $20k as of 2 PM, Sep. 15, 2011, a little under 7 days from emergency campaign start (the ChipIn at $5,209 as of this time reflects only a part...
Dear True Fans: Construction Shall Move Forward
. . Dear True Fans, thanks for your support. The Recovery Plan for continuing construction has yielded $15k in 3 days of crowd funding, and we are 75% of our goal. Chip in if you haven’t: (Others have made direct donations) There are 4 days left...
Recovery Plan
Recovery Plan from Open Source Ecology on Vimeo. Dear True Fans and Supporters – I vlogged about our plans in the last blog post, and the expected $60k construction grant did not arrive yet. Without this cash we will NOT deliver on our stated construction...
Dear True Fans and Supporters
Dear True Fans and Supporters, we have fallen into a general video and documentation blackhole over the last 4 months. People are asking for news. We haven’t been idle: Dear True Fans and Supporters from Open Source Ecology on Vimeo. You can read...
VIDEO: The (Open-Source) Ecologist
News 21 from Berkeley, California visited Factor e Farm a few weeks back. They are currently producing The Ration, a food and health reporting project by UC Berkeley School of Journalism. Factor e Farm is the first feature in this series. This is an impressively...
