- Open Source Ecology (project)
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Open Source Ecology Abbreviation OSE Headquarters Factor e Farm, 745 SW Willow Road, Cameron, Missouri, United States of America.[1][2] Leader Marcin Jakubowski Budget $4,000 monthly Website Opensourceecology.org Open Source Ecology (OSE) is a network of farmers, engineers and other supporters. The main goal of OSE is the eventual manufacturing of the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). As described by Open Source Ecology "the Global Village Construction Set is an open technological platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small civilization with modern comforts."[3] Groups in Oberlin, Ohio, Pennsylvania , New York and California are developing blueprints, and building prototypes in order to pass them on to Missouri.[4] The devices themselves are on the Factor e Farm in rural Missouri, built and tested.
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History
The nuclear fusion physicist, Marcin Jakubowski, founded Open Source Ecology in 2003.[5] In the final year of his doctoral thesis at the University of Wisconsin, he had the feeling that science was too closed off from the world's problems, and he wanted to go a different way. After graduation, he devoted himself entirely to OSE.
OSE was publicly revealed in 2011 during a Ted Talk that Jakubowski presented on the subject.[6]Shortly after, the GVCS won Make magazine's Green Project Contest. The Internet blogs Gizmodo and Grist produced detailed features on OSE.
Factor e Farm
Factor e Farm is the main headquarters of Open Source Ecology and where the machines are prototyped and tested. The farm itself also serves as a prototype. The residents grow their own food, collect rainwater, and produce all their electricity by solar panels.[7]
OSE Europe
Open Source Ecology is developing in Europe. The goals of OSE Europe are to help with the GVCS fundraising and development, start OSE Communities and distributive enterprises and encourage the development of open source hardware and abundance based economies in Europe.
GVCS replication
During October, 2011 the first successful duplication of a Global Village Construction Set product by a third party group was completed. Jason Smith along with James Slade and his organization Creation Flame developed a functioning open source CEB press.[8] A group in Baltimore, Maryland, and a group in Dallas, Texas have also begun production of GVCS machines.[9]
See Also
- Global Village Construction Set
- List of open source hardware projects
References
- ^ Factor e farm information Accessed: 7/28/2011.
- ^ Google Maps Factor e Farm location
- ^ "Open Source Ecology", Accessed: 7-23-2011.
- ^ "The Atlantic", "The Atlantic", Mar 23, 2011. Accessed: 7-19-2011.
- ^ "About", Accessed: 7-19-2011.
- ^ "Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization", April 2011. Accessed: 7-19-2011.
- ^ Factor e Farm Information Accessed 7-31-2011.
- ^ Creation Flame progress Accessed: 11/22/2011
- ^ Other GVCS Replications Accessed: 11/22/2011
External Links
Categories:- Environmental organizations based in the United States
- Open hardware organizations and companies
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