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

[Samuel Rose]

Let me confer with colleagues and see if there is something we can do! Thanks!

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>> Tel:+1(517) 639-1552
>> Cel: +1-(517)-974-6451
>> skype: samuelrose
>> email: samuel.rose at gmail.com
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>>
>> "The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human
>> ambition." - Carl Sagan
>>
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>
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Sam Rose
Social Synergy
Tel:+1(517) 639-1552
Cel: +1-(517)-974-6451
skype: samuelrose
email: samuel.rose at gmail.com
http://socialsynergyweb.com
http://forwardfound.org
http://socialsynergyweb.org/culturing
http://flowsbook.panarchy.com/
http://socialmediaclassroom.com
http://localfoodsystems.org
http://notanemployee.net
http://communitywiki.org

"The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human
ambition." - Carl Sagan