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....
Dear True Fans: Land Stewardship
Dear True Fans, The next major step to take for Factor e Farm is to put the land in a trust – for creating a permanent site of human heritage. The goal of creating the world’s first, replicable, post-scarcity resilient community is more...
Exciting Times: Nearing Product Release
We are starting biweekly OSE Global Conference Calls – beginning Wednesday, October, 14, at 11:00 AM GMT-6 (Central USA time zone). Why? Because we are nearing critical decision forks in this open source project. Read on. These are exciting times...
On the Nature of One Month Project Visits
The Table Project was detailed here, and you can see my commitments for the project here. Here is a choppy update of the Torch Tables progress: Torch Table Build Part 1 from Marcin Jakubowski on Vimeo. I wanted to say a little something about what this...
Subversiv Messe Day 2
This is Austria Day 2. The highlight of today, in addition to more interesting people visiting our booth, was contact with one fellow presenter working on a physical production-based distribution of Linux. This means the guy, Florian Stoffelmeyr, of openartisthq.org,...
What is Open Source Ecology?
Before reading this post, we invite everyone to write a message about what you feel Open Source Ecology means to you, and your ideas on how this can be communicated effectively to others. How do you feel about Open Source Ecology? Open Source Ecology’s...
Open Source Product Development Pipeline Refined
I posted the updated technology set in the last post, but how do we actually develop the Global Village Construction Set in a timely fashion? What is the elusive, scalable methodology for open product development? It’s obvious. It’s this;)...
Basic Bookbinding
For the record, we keep log books/journals at Factor e Farm. Anyone visiting for more than one week is required to make a notebook for records, data, pictures, numbers, etc. This is useful for keeping track of Factor e Farm history, passing on work to...
OSE Social Network Presence Established
An OSE presence has been established on many popular social networking sites, and we are now looking for someone to manage them and direct outreach and community development. They are all updated with ping.fm. We welcome everyone to direct people to whichever...
Integrated Development Strategy
We are carrying on fiery discussion on an integrated strategy towards the world’s first replicable, open source, global village. We started an OSE Development Network for True Fans and dedicated collaborators at the Global Swadeshi forum. A diagram...
