TED Global: Radical Openness
I just got back from TED Global. This was the best of the 3 TED conference that I attended so far – 2 of them at Long Beach. I have a chance to attend 2 more TED Conferences next year as the privilege of being a 2012 TED Senior Fellow. I like TED Global...
Recruiting Documentation Team
We are recruiting 6 documenters: Videographer, Communications Director, Documentation Director, CAD Director, Documentation Community Manager, and Director of Learning. See the Role Descriptions, and pass this announcement on through your networks. This...
Thiel Fellow
Yoonseo Kang, one of our core crew of 8 at Factor e Farm – recently received $100k to keep out of school. He won the prestigious Thiel Fellowship. This fellowship is also known as the 20 Under 20 program – which is awarded to superstars under...
Filmmaker Ian Midgley visits Factor E Farm
I recently caught a ride with James Slade from Texas while filming the conclusion to my documentary on Open Source Ecology. We tied the LifeTrac prototype 4 onto a trailer and trucked it from Creation Flame outside Austin, TX straight through the night...
June 14 Update
Here is a quick summary of the state of affairs: This does not include the flurry of recruiting that we are working on – 6 documenters for the second half of 2012, as introduced in the last post. We also just shipped the tractor – brick press...
Shuttleworth Foundation Fellows Gathering Report
I don’t think many people have heard of the Shuttleworth Foundation. Yet the Shuttleworth Foundation Fellowship is perhhaps the most prestigious social enterprise fellowship in the world, if the metric of evaluation is the funding provided. Is...
May 28 Update
We are in growing pains indeed. We have now recruited a Farm Manager, Production Director, Executive Assistant, such that our population at Factor e Farm will grow to 17 people by July. We are beginning Microtrac Prototype II by Graham and Bulldozer...
Open Source Ecology Documentary Fundraiser
We’re launching an online crowd-funding campaign today to complete our feature documentary film that delves deep into the revolutionary action of Open Source Ecology! The goal is to raise enough funds to complete the editing of the film over the...
Dear True Fans: May 7, 2012
I apologize for the lack of frequent reporting as we are going through ‘growing pains.’ We are busy recruiting for this whole ecology of positions. We had a large number of interviews (30+ recorded on our YouTube channel) and are going at...
May 1 Update
Scaling the OSE organization has left me in some of the most grueling time over the last 2 months. This is because we’re innovating on about 20 points at a time – a critical formative stage of the project and I am taking a crash course in...
