Last Frost Date
Two days ago marked the last frost date. I took a video walkthough – on the plant life and landscape of Factor e Farm. This is to record the natural history and evolution of our place – not only for seasonal, but yearly, changes. Fruit trees...
Upcoming Presentations: Illinois and Austria
You can see our past presentation from the Oekonux Conference here. Edward Miller, one of our True Fans, has organized a university lecture for us at Monmouth College in Illinois on April 22, 2009. If you’re in the surrounding area, please consider...
RepRap. The End of Walmart.
If you can proint 3D objects at home, that may be the end of Walmart. Yes – RepRap – the DIY open source 3D printer – is a major political statement. You can actually use RepRap to recycle – by reusing plastics as feedstocks for...
The Next Phase of Civilization
To give you more flavor of the memorable Oekonux 4 conference of last weekend in Manchester, UK – here is a presentation given by Charles Collis that I reposted at the OSE wiki. Charles presented and supported several contrarian views – namely...
OSE Presentation at the 4th Oekonux Conference
Here is my talk from the 4th Oekonux Conference. You can download the slides and see a transcript here. Start with an introduction by Franz Nahrada, leader of the Globally Integrated Village Environment: Click To Play Move on to the video on our CEB Story...
Extraordinary fourth Oekonux conference marks milestone for P2P movement
That’s the title of Michel Bauwens’ post on the P2P Foundation blog regarding the recent conference, where I discussed our program for building the world’s first, replicable, open source, off-grid, Global Village. Read the rest of Michel’s...
Oekonux Conference in Manchester, UK
I’m leaving for the Oekonux Conference today. You can see my abstract under the 2nd day program at 2:30 PM. Here is a copy of my presentation, minus the transcript. If you want to meet up, just let me know.
CEB Prototype 2 Design Forum and Issues
Finally, the factorefarm.org Drupal site is starting to look coherent. Alex spawned it, Jeremy owned it. We are starting discussion on the second CEB prototype there. Log in, join the forum, and we’ll have the second prototype done in a jiffy. Once...
Open Source Development Pipeline Continues to Flow
How does one reinvent corporate R&D by using open source methods? We missed a couple of details in yesterday’s hairy diagram and explanation. Now it should all be clear: Now a couple of words on the above.
