Spring 2012
Update, March 19. . We’re beginning Scrum for hardware development – back to our workshop this week. We are developing a novel, open source, rapid development method – to be known as Extreme Manufacturing. As people are repopulating...
Press Release: OSE-Wikispeed Collaboration
Enabling Emerging Markets to Manufacture Their Own Ultra-efficient Transportation, WIKISPEED and Open Source Ecology Announce Partnership in Open-Hardware Movement Seattle, WA, and Maysville, MO, USA (March 7, 2012) The open-hardware movement got a tremendous...
Building a Village Starts with Learning from Team WikiSpeed
OSE was featured on National Public Radio today. Listen to the story. Yesterday, we were also featured on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. This has resulted in 11 new True Fans subscriptions today, which is the most for any single day so far, for...
Project Progress and Scaling
. Global Village Construction Set development is scaling. There are currently 9 projects under active development and 3 full time developers besides me – Aaron Makaruk, Brianna Kufa, and Yoonseo Kang, two of which are currently off-site. The active...
Organizational Development 2012
I would like to announce that I am now officially a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow. This is a major development for Open Source Ecology, as the Fellowship provides a total of $360k of direct funding for the project. I have blogged about my application 3...
Quick Connect Wheels Update
We have just installed the quick connect wheels on the tractor and have been testing them with success for the past week. These can be attached/released from the tractor in under 5 minutes by turning a cam lock and loosening two large bolts. The significance...
LifeTrac Quick Connect Wheel Challenge Results
We put up a crowd design challenge at GrabCAD a few weeks ago – for LifeTrac IV – Quick Connect Wheels. The basic problem was: how do you design wheel assemblies for a tractor that can be taken on and off in under 5 minutes – for interchangeability...
Calling All Disruptive, Boundary-Smashing, Distributive Enterprise Heavyweights
We are recruiting a Co-Founder to join the team at Factor e Farm. This blog post describes this offer. (we are also looking for project Advisors and Mentors, see last paragraph of this post) Open Source Ecology is a movement for creating the open source...
Civilization Starter Kit DVD v0.01
Dear True Fans and Supporters – We are proud to release version 0.01 of the Civilization Starter Kit DVD – our OSE Christmas Gift to the World for 2011. While we could go on for weeks with improvements – our Publish Early and Often...
Best of TED 2011: Global Village Construction Set is #6
The Global Village Construction Set TED talk has been selected as the Best of TED 2011 top 6 in the Huffington Post. Read Isaiah Saxon’s followup blog post. You can also comment there (407 comments as of this writing). There is also a #18ideas you...
