[p2p-research] [OK] Forward Foundation Distributed Manufacturing Networked Economic Development

[Paola Di Maio]

Sam, and all

I am chairing collective intelligence track for an IEEE DEST 2010
(please do not judge this too poorly cause they have a bad website, thats
life)

it would be great to have a paper if you could write something up (quickly,
deadline is Feb 1st or soon thereafter)

http://dest2010.debii.curtin.edu.au/

Please do let me know if you plan to submit something
thanks

PDM


On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings OK community,
>
> As part of our collaboration in
> http://wiki.openkollab.com/wagn/OK_Pooled_Fund The Forward Foundation
> is setting aside time and resources to pursue networked economic
> development with a limited number of projects that are profiled in the
> Distributed Manufacturing Ecosystem mentioned in an email by Suresh
> Fernando.
>
> We are currently working with open pario (http://openpario.com)
> Cubespawn (http://cubespawn.com) and have discussed this with Smari
> from Tangible Bit http://tangiblebit.com/
>
> Based on initial ecosystem mapping, we are exploring the potentials
> for multiple revenue and self-sustenance models with the projects
> named above, then co-creating proposals with these projects for
> funding, or helping them launch and build these new activities. Our
> model is to make some form of partnership agreement with these
> projects that returns our investment back to us. Forward foundation
> creates these agreements per project.
>
>
> We also have parallel efforts in food production/sustainable
> agriculture, cultural production, energy production, and software
> systems.
>
> The main value that we'll bring to the table for distributed
> manufacturing will include:
>
> 1. Development of F/LOSS infrastructure for making, sharing and using
> the technologies that you are developing
>
> 2. Useful strategies for digitizing your project, sharing, attracting
> and sustaining contributors and collaborators based on the needs of
> others
>
> 3. Research and development of multiple *sustainable* and *ethical*
> revenue models, and a strategy for connecting these usefully to F/LOSS
> hardware without derailing/destroying the nature of the commons of the
> project itself
>
> We are working towards creating new relationships based on goals,
> needs and resources (the Open Kollab Model) between projects that are
> mapped in the Distributed Manufacturing Ecosystem, so we want to feed
> this work *back into* the
> http://wiki.openkollab.com/wagn/OK_Pooled_Fund in order to strengthen
> the portfolio being built by this community.
>
> Over the next 4 months, we have resources to work with one more
> distributed manufacturing project in this manner. If you are
> interested please reply here, or to me personally. Thanks, and look
> forward to hearing from you.
>
> --
> --
> Sam Rose
> Forward Foundation
> Social Synergy
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>
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> ambition." - Carl Sagan
>
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Paola Di Maio
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