Our goal is help build the Open Source Economy, where we all work together to share skills and technology, promote economic development for everyone, and regenerate the Earth’s natural ecosystems.
The team of four, who all worked at Open Source Ecology, seeks funding on indiegogo for “A transparent, worker-owned, R&D and manufacturing business that freely shares all the information about its designs, techniques, tools, and materials!”
Open Tech Forever – R&D Factory for Open Source Industrial Hardware
Less than two weeks left if you want to chip in. The funding drive ends on 13 May at midnight.
We have a 40 acre permaculture site 15 minutes from downtown Denver. This campaign will fund the construction of an Open Source Factory to kickstart our open hardware cooperative:
- Open Hardware R&D – we are collaborating with people around the world to design, prototype, field-test, and share open source technology.
- Open Hardware Documentation – we actively teach others how to acquire new skills and build/use open hardware. We create state-of-the-art digital learning resources with pictures, videos, text, animations, interactive multimedia, and more – that anyone can use, edit, improve, remix.
- Open Agriculture – we are adopting a mixture of permaculture, aquaponics, and organic farming practices.
- Open Business Models – we are adopting and incubating new, transparent business models that entrepreneurs can use anywhere in the world.
- Public Workshops – we will provide hands-on learning programs for the public to help grow new businesses and support the development of sustainable communities.
- Commercial Products – we sell open source products as an open, transparent, replicable business.