Archives for 2016

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Open Building Institute Approaches Launch Date

Introducing the Open Building Institute: a Q&A with Marcin Jakubowski by Cat Johnson The Open Building Institute is an open source effort to make affordable housing widely available while fostering collaborative and ecological practices. The project...

Nut Breeding Experiments

At open source ecology, we build open source industrial machines. We apply them to areas such as agriculture. On the agriculture front, we built our aquaponic greenhouse last year. We used this greenhouse to plant out 11,000 hazelnuts and chestnuts. We...

Introducing a New Distributive Enterprise: Grain-Free Eggs and Aquaponic Greens

This year, OSE is developing the concept of the Distributive Enterprise. You can read more about it here, but in a nutshell it’s a business that’s designed to be replicated by others. It open sources not just its technologies, but also its business...

Viral Replicability Criteria

We are moving forward on the first instance of a Distributive Enterprise – with the D3D Business Plan on the 3D Printer Workshop Model – a vision for innovation in the field of economics. The innovation lies in discovering a mechanism to displace...

Distributive Enterprise Experiments

We are switching gears more directly towards economic impact of the Open Source Ecology platform as we organize our first workshop of 2016. In the first workshop, you can build a 3D printer from scratch in 8 hours and take it home with you. More than...

Open Source Product Development

On Feb. 1, 2016, we continue to clarify the 20 year horizon for OSE in terms of creating the next economy, the open source economy. This is from our Roadmap wiki page: A viable Open Source Product Development (OSPD) methododology is critical to this....