[p2p-research] OSE update

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi Marcin,

really sorry for my delayed response, I've seen a blog post in the meantime,
which is a progress report mentioning "William",

however, I noted that people lacking context may not really understand it
all,

but in any case, feel free to update our blog readers directly on your
progress, if you have any access uses, please contact james in cc,

Michel

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Marcin Jakubowski <
joseph.dolittle at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Michel,
>
> Can you reblog the following or have me blog it at P2P?
>
> -----
>
> We've been making good progress on the Economy in a Box<http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2012>- the infrastructure tools for post-scarcity, resilient communities. Our
> work focuses on the integration of flexible fabrication with resilient
> communities. *Subsilience* is the result: the combination of resilience
> with modern day subsistence - a high quality of life free of compromise,
> which is feasible with modern technology.
>
> Over the last 3 months, we have managed to scale our progress twofold.
> We’ve seen full product release of the open source CEB press, *The
> Liberator* <http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=1977>, and we’ve had
> significant progress on the open source tractor, LifeTrac Prototype II<http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2104>.
> We also deployed the first prototype of the heavy duty, open source drill
> press <http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2037>, which we’re now using as
> part of our fabrication infrastructure. We just reported on Prototype I of
> the 150 ton hole puncher <http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2117> .  These
> are two additions to the open source, self-replicating Fab Lab, or RepLab<http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=1254>.
> We also got the first *working* prototype of Hexahatch<http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2064>,
> the automated chicken incubator, in operation. We also deployed Prototype I
> of a honey extractor <http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2091>. Plus, Sean<http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=1636>is on-site for the summer gathering documentary material, and his LifeTrac
> II update <http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2104> is choice. People are
> beginning to talk about us in mainstream books.<http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2081>
>
> Please view this blog post <http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2136>if you
> haven't seen it already - for more details on the above. You will notice
> that we have put up a crowd funding basket there - so please *chip in *if
> you can. Please repost this on your blogs and pass this on to others. These
> are exciting times at Factor e Farm.
>
> We have 2.5 people here now, so we're far from a division-of-labor
> resilient community of individuals specializing as generalists. We are
> certainly are looking for more people for Dedicated Project Visits<http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=966>and remote
> collaboration <http://openfarmtech.org/index.php/Remote_Collaboration>.
> You can see how additional people can contribute to rapid progress, so
> finding more people is  a priority.
>
> Here is a thought for July - a note regarding becoming a responsible
> producer (one of our essential principles). People frequently turn off at
> notions of becoming real and relevant producers or fabricators - or digital
> craftspeople of the 21st century. However, if we study the essence of
> resilient communities, if we examine geopolitical issues, and if we study political
> ponerology <http://openfarmtech.org/index.php/Political_Ponerology> - we
> cannot help but conclude that we are responsible for getting as close as
> possible to real production and meaning, and as far away as possible from
> the speculation-bureaucracy-debt-nonproduction-anomie matrix.
>
> Marcin
>
>
> --
> --------------------------------------------------
> Marcin Jakubowski, Ph.D.
> Open Source Ecology
> http://openfarmtech.org/weblog
> http://www.replab.org
> opensourceecology at gmail dot com
> Skype: marcin_ose
> --------------------------------------------------
>
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>
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>
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