Open Collaboration Archives | Open Source Ecology

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! Over the holidays, I got a chance to meet Juliet Schor (author of Plenitude) in New York City. Juliet teaches at Boston College, and she co-founded the Center for the New American Dream. She wrote about Factor e Farm in her recent book,...

Open Source Product Development Pipeline

We have proposed the scalable, Open Source Product Development Pipeline methodology over a year ago. It’s merely a formalization of an actual process, which was not high. What are the challenges to a scalable, open product development methodology...

Jul 31Marcin Collaboration Platform , Open Collaboration , Open Engineering , Open Source Product Development Pipeline 11 Comments

Doctor of Philosophy Programs

OSE is teaming up with Gaia University to offer Ph.D. programs related to post-scarcity, resilient communities. As you may have read in a previous post, Gaia University is beginning its Ph.D. program offerings this year. The OSE-Gaia program is geared...

Feb 17Marcin Education , Global Village Construction Set , Open Collaboration , Open Engineering , Open Everything , Ph.D. Programs , Proposals , Viral Village 3 Comments

Gaia University

One perk of life at Factor e Farm is that you run into some really interesting people. Liora and Andrew Langford, co-founders of Gaia University and also True Fans, visited yesterday. We covered lots of ground on collaboration between OSE and Gaia U....

Feb 08Marcin Collaboration Platform , Collaborators , Documentation , Education , Open Collaboration , Organizational Development 3 Comments

Open+Pario Project Collaboration Platform

We are now officially using Open+Pario as our project management and design repository for Open Source Ecology. The most active project at present is the CEB press, and we are beginning project management of the Open Source Induction Furnace. Anybody...

Feb 01Marcin Collaboration Platform , Documentation , Education , Global Swadeshi , Global Village Construction Set , Information Architecture , Infrastructure , Open Collaboration , Open Engineering , Open Everything , Open Source Ecology , Open Source Economic Development , Open Source Product Development Pipeline , People , Post-scarcity , Viral Village 2 Comments

Dedicated Project Visits Continued

William Cleaver will be joining us at Factor e Farm on May 1 for a Dedicated Project Visit. He’s coming from across the big pond – from the United Kingdom – and we are planning for a 3 month stay. William is not a novice to creative...

Jan 31Marcin Biotecture , CAD , Compressed Earth Block Press , Dedicated Project Visits , Factor e Farm , Factor e Team , Global Village Construction Set , Greenhouse , Infrastructure , LifeTrac , MicroTrac , Natural Building , Open Collaboration , Open Everything , Open Source Sawmill , People , Permafacture , Post-scarcity , Power Cube , Solar Village 2010 , Steam Engine Construction Set , Viral Village , Winter Gardening , Workshops 14 Comments

CEB House Tour – Missouri

It turns out that there’s a CEB contractor by Lathrop, Missouri – which is within 30 miles from us. Meet Floyd Hagerman, who has built a couple of very interesting CEB houses. The first one shown here is a hybrid – or a combination...

Jan 30Marcin Compressed Earth Block Press , Construction , Documentation , Education , Infrastructure , Open Collaboration , Permafacture 8 Comments

Open Source Manual CEB Press and Open Source Prefab Strawbale House

Hats off to our collaborators from Poland for open-sourcing a manual, dual-block CEB press. It is in the pre-alpha v0.1 release stage. Open Source MANUAL CEB PRESS beta I from Cohabitat Platform on Vimeo. You can download the existing CAD files here....

Jan 28Marcin Bale Spike , CAD , Collaborators , Compressed Earth Block Press , Documentation , Education , Free Business Models , Infrastructure , Open Collaboration , Open Engineering , Open Source Economic Development , Post-scarcity 9 Comments

CEB Machine Production: Rocket Fuel for Post-Scarcity Economic Development?

We have our first sale of The Liberator CEB press. Maureen, one of our True Fans, will get her hands on an automated version of The Liberator – The Liberator Beta v2.0. We are expecting 8-12 bricks per minute for this machine. We’ve also discussed...

Nov 28Marcin Compressed Earth Block Press , Free Business Models , Open Collaboration , Open Source Ecology , Product Release 11 Comments

Dear True Fans

I would like to share today’s letter to our True Fans with the greater world. It provides the latest insights on the Factor e Farm experiment. Dear True Fans and Supporters, First of all, thank you all for your unwavering support. You have all demonstrated...