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...
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...
Documentary Trailer
Ian Midgley’s trailer is out on his documentary, You Are God. Check it out – it’s moving.
Andrew Bateman: Factor e Farm Documenter
Andrew Bateman will be joining us Monday, April 16 – as the Factor e Farm Documenter. This will help us provide more regular reporting on Open Source Ecology work happening worldwide and at Factor e Farm. . . Andrew’s work plan is shown...
Extreme Manufacturing
We are proud to announce the beta release of an the Extreme Manufacturing platform for Open Source Ecology. We are now testing the platform. Extreme Manufacturing (XM) is an open source hardware development methodology based on the principles of Extreme...
Spring 2012
Update, March 19. . We’re beginning Scrum for hardware development – back to our workshop this week. We are developing a novel, open source, rapid development method – to be known as Extreme Manufacturing. As people are repopulating...
Press Release: OSE-Wikispeed Collaboration
Enabling Emerging Markets to Manufacture Their Own Ultra-efficient Transportation, WIKISPEED and Open Source Ecology Announce Partnership in Open-Hardware Movement Seattle, WA, and Maysville, MO, USA (March 7, 2012) The open-hardware movement got a tremendous...
Building a Village Starts with Learning from Team WikiSpeed
OSE was featured on National Public Radio today. Listen to the story. Yesterday, we were also featured on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. This has resulted in 11 new True Fans subscriptions today, which is the most for any single day so far, for...
Project Progress and Scaling
. Global Village Construction Set development is scaling. There are currently 9 projects under active development and 3 full time developers besides me – Aaron Makaruk, Brianna Kufa, and Yoonseo Kang, two of which are currently off-site. The active...
