[p2p-research] Fwd: Yi-Tan Tech Community Call 264 - Building an Open Manufacturing Ecosystem - 1:30pm EST, Monday January 25, 2010

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Jerry Michalski <jerry at sociate.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:01 AM
Subject: Yi-Tan Tech Community Call 264 - Building an Open Manufacturing
Ecosystem - 1:30pm EST, Monday January 25, 2010
To: Yi-Tan List <Yi-Tan at googlegroups.com>


  Greetings,

We've examined Fabbing<http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/yi-tan/does_fab_herald_the_future_of_product_design>(in
July 2005!),
DIY <http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/yi-tan/diy_everything> and DIY
craftshops<http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/yi-tan/techshop_and_diy_innovation>.
We've also watched the launches of distributed design and manufacturing
shops like Ponoko <http://www.ponoko.com/>,
eMachineShop<http://www.emachineshop.com/>and
Adafruit <http://www.adafruit.com/>.

Now a group called OpenKollab <http://www.openkollab.com/> is asssembling a
number of participants in the space with a view to bringing them together
under an innovative funding structure, the Ecosystem Pooled
Fund<http://www.slideshare.net/sureshf/openkollab-pooled-fund>,
which takes a collaborative approach to funding early stage social ventures.

Really interested? Join their mailing
list<http://groups.google.com/group/openkollab>
.

The instigator of this ecosystem under development is Suresh
Fernando<http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/yi-tan/Suresh_Fernando?wikiPageId=1662992>,
a former stockbroker and tech-company adviser who changed careers to explore
the power of open collaboration.

With Suresh, let's discuss:

   - What is OpenKollab's goal? Who is involved?
   - Why is the timing right for this funding structure? What problems does
   it solve?
   - How will OpenKollab's participants form a working network? What is an
   ecosystem?

As always, an IRC
Chat<http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/yi-tan/irc_chat?wikiPageId=163280>will
be available during the call,
here.

We tweet as <http://idealgovernment.com/>@yitan <http://twitter.com/yitan>.
Please follow us, and let's also continue using
#yitan<http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23yitan>.
This page is on a wiki,
here<http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/yi-tan/Building_an_Open_Manufacturing_Ecosystem>
.

     Date:    Monday, January 25, 2010

 Time:    10:30 PST, 1:30 EST
Dial-in Number: 1-270-400-1500
Participant Access Code: 778778

Wiki goodness at www.yi-tan.com

Please feel free to forward this note to people you think would be
interested in these calls.

Talk to you on the call!

Bestest,

Jerry





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