OSE Village

Introduction

We want to start an Open Source Ecology (OSE) community in Germany and we are looking for a Dedicated Team to make this happen.

The people involved in the project will be sharing openly and for free economically significant information. We start with the technology needed for the creation of a small scale civilization with modern comforts – the Global Village Construction Set and other relevant tools. From tractors, wind turbines to cars. Every technology will be developed with values like modularity, simplicity, lifetime design, low-cost, closed loop manufacturing, Do-It-Yourself, flexible fabrication and high performance. We want to open source the whole lifecycle of each technology – from its parts sourcing, fabrication, use, maintain and repair to its reuse and recycle. We will open source also our ecological food production, housing, workshop constructions and business models – our complete economy. All this economically signicant information will be saved digitally on the Internet as text, manufacturing files, pictures and videos so that we distribute it not only to our current generation, but to all other future generations on Earth – who can use it and build upon it! We are looking for the pioneers to join us in this endeavor!

Status

searching for dedicated people and a dedicated place.

People

People engaged in the creation of the OSE Community:

• Alex Shure—technical advice, prototyping
• Andreas Gmeiner—permaculture, fabrication
• Hermann—electrical engineering, industrial design
• Nikolay Georgiev—communication and organization, basic fabrication skills
• Thomas von der Elbe—p2p-democracy, organisation, education, documentation

Place

Requirements

We are searching for a place that:

• is near a big town (>100.000 people, Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart/Karlsruhe, Darmstadt/Frankfurt, Hanover, Hamburg, ...) with a technical university.
• has existing infrastructure for living and access to land.
• the people there:
  • understand the OSE importance and want to engage practically in developing OSE
  • are living or want to live sustainably

Places to be evaluated

• http://kesselberg.info/ - Google Map, not checked. (connection: Dante)
• CSA in Wendland / Altmark - together with Dorfprojekt. (connection: Urs)
• Wendland (connection: Marc)
  • http://www.werkhof-kukate.de/ - Around 40 people can live and work here
  • terra preta agriculture - http://www.cicero.de/kapital/%C3%B6kologischer-anbau-bernstorff-wendepunktzukunft-methoden-indios/46580?seite=2
  • http://www.akademie-ee.de/ - academy for renewable energies
  • http://www.emma-ev.de/ - agency for renewable energies
  • region of bio-energy - http://www.bioenergie-region-we.de/bioenergiedorf.html
  • one of the biggest and most experienced companies for power-engines and systems based on bio-gas in the region - http://www.dreyer-bosse.de/
  • Grüne Werkstatt - http://www.mediafire.com/?ncn83fn369sd7q1
  • http://www.altmark.eu/
• http://www.wukania.net/ - workshop available, possibility to develop machines. Nikolay talked on the phone with Paul.
• Nordbayern - http://oseeurope.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=126
• Weickersdorf - we have 4 and a half acres and a huge barn for building and assembly of existing ideas or proto types. We would like to offer the use of our land barn plus accomodation to the team for 2 to 3 years in return for something to power the house and barn and finally get off the grid. Contacts (Kamala) are in the Google Group.
• http://kombinatg.org/ - Stefan Raabe. Google Map in Gatschow.

• http://www.bioenergiedorf.de/con/cms/front_content.php?idcat=253 not contacted yet.

Roadmap

Next steps are

• Define better requirements
  • Responsible: Nikolay
  • Date: Monday, 25. Juni
• Search for a place
  • Responsible: Nikolay
  • Date: from 1. July to 30. September (3 months)

Contact

If you want to get involved in the OSE Community please contact Nikolay.