True Fans True Fans [Edit] We are able to work on the GVCS full-time thanks to the generosity of your donations. Kevin Kelly's influential essay 1000 True Fans suggested a funding structure in which 1000 supporters each donate a small amount to sustain a project they really believe in. We are looking for 1000 True Fans to each pledge $10 per month as part of the 1000 Squared Campaign. We use 100% of the True Fans funding for prototyping materials. (See the original blog post about the 1000 True Fans Campaign) And then fast forward to OSE's first ever Annual Report published at the beginning of 2013 to see the progress until the end of 2012. On this page, you can read why people like you have joined the campaign. We have also had requests for larger donation options. Contributions or gifts to Open Source Ecology are deductible as charitable contributions for Federal income tax purposes. If you do not have time but would like to offer financial support – the True Fans program is for you. Links:
Wonder How To » Show & Tell for Creators & Doers World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms - WWOOF Naked Money: when alchemy doesn't work anymore If we look at longer periods of time, we see money often changes. Not only does the picture on the money change, so does the way we think about it. That is why here at OuiShare, we think a lot about money. After all, the world was not born with money. The Carrot and the Watermelon We can rediscover the origins of money with a simple thought experiment. So we have a reason to use measurements, and since the carrot is more plentiful, we will probably say that a certain number of carrots is “worth” a watermelon. Money goes wrong? How can this go wrong? Here, we have sheep, cows, and other objects that people generally find useful and can move. Perhaps unsurprisingly, shiny objects dug up from the ground have been the basis for most of the widely circulating currencies. The World of Symbols Here, we necessarily enter the world of symbols intrinsically tied to political consciousness. This problem has been aggravated by the transition to paper and, later, digital currency. Gold and iron zieak
Strategic Plan 2 Ambitious Abstract: This is a plan for creating the Open Source Economy (see Definition). The program begins with developing the open source Global Village Construction Set. The GVCS is defined as a minimum set of technologies necessary to create advanced civilization from locally-availabe 'dirt and twigs' with 12 people and 1 year of time starting with a container-load of GVCS tools. In the process of developing the GVCS, we will be developing a scalable, open source product development platform - the Distributive Enterprise Platform. We intend to grow the organization to 3000 facilities worldwide by 2028 by training Distributive Entrepreneurs who then take integrated production capacity back to their communities. The goal is to create economies capable of being powered by local resources. The mission of Open Source Ecology is to create the Open Source Economy - an economy that optimizes not only production, but distribution - while promoting environmental regeneration and social justice. Edit.
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Eco Truly Park -Volunteer Program The MintChip: The Canadian Government’s Answer to Bitcoin Picking up on the emergence of innovative payment solutions appearing in the US like Square and projects like Bitcoin, The Royal Canadian Mint decided to get in on the game as well with its own digital currency project: the MintChip, seeking to offer the key benefits of electronic currency backed by the Canadian dollar. “Until now,” the website reads, “there has been no electronic solution that cost-effectively addresses the very-low-value transaction markets, protects privacy, is available to everyone and emulates the characteristics of cash.” And MintChip seeks to address this. The product “works online and offline, at the physical Point-of-Sale, on mobile devices, and enables easy person-to-person payments.” There is no requirement for external authorization or intermediaries, payments are irreversible, and it has the cost-effectiveness, privacy and accessibility that current digital payment solutions do not. So how does such a system work?