Open Source Ecology

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Open Source Ecology is Network of Farmers, Engineers, and Supporters Building the Global Village Construction Set.

The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts.

The goal of Open Source Ecology is to create an open source economy – an efficient economy which increases innovation by open collaboration.

Links

Site: https://www.opensourceecology.org/ Wiki: https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@marcinose

Key Features of the GVCS

Open Source - we freely publish our 3d designs, schematics, instructional videos, budgets, and product manuals on our open source wiki and we harness open collaboration with technical contributors.
Low-Cost - The cost of making or buying our machines are, on average, 8x cheaper than buying from an Industrial Manufacturer, including an average labor cost of $15 hour for a GVCS fabricator.
Modular - Motors, parts, assemblies, and power units can interchange, where units can grouped together to diversify the functionality that is achievable from a small set of units.
User-Serviceable - Design-for-disassembly allows the user to take apart, maintain, and fix tools readily without the need to rely on expensive repairmen.
DIY - (do-it-yourself) The user gains control of designing, producing, and modifying the GVCS tool set.
Closed Loop Manufacturing - Metal is an essential component of advanced civilization, and our platform allows for recycling metal into virgin feedstock for producing further GVCS technologies - thereby allowing for cradle-to-cradle manufacturing cycles
High Performance - Performance standards must match or exceed those of industrial counterparts for the GVCS to be viable.
Flexible Fabrication - It has been demonstrated that the flexible use of generalized machinery in appropriate-scale production is a viable alternative to centralized production.
Distributive Economics - We encourage the replication of enterprises that derive from the GVCS platform as a route to truly free enterprise - along the ideals of Jeffersonian democracy.
Industrial Efficiency - In order to provide a viable choice for a resilient lifestyle, the GVCS platform matches or exceeds productivity standards of industrial counterparts.

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I’ve been introduced to OSE. Now what do we talk about? (slrpnk.net)

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Really it’s an amazing project and the linked resources are great at explaining what Open Source Ecology is. Thank you for introducing it.

What, specifically, is this community for? What are the parameters of the conversations you want to encourage? I suppose I’m looking for some idea of community mission statement. Is that something we can have a conversation about?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I haven't been on Facebook in almost two years. Completely deactivated FB. So, it makes sense as to why I hadn't seen any new info if that is where it's being posted! Thanks for letting me know! Still compiling broken links on the OSE.WIKI

I did see Marcin posting updates to the wiki on July 3rd and July 6th. I still need to go in and see what they are about.

I'd love to get in on the eco home, I've been pouring through the designs and I absolutely love it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Even though I'm on Facebook, I use it rarely, and I wasn't even in this particular subgroup where he posted it until he shared the update with me directly 😂. So I totally get ya.