Comments on: The intersection between the immaterial and material economies: how can it work? https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-intersection-between-the-immaterial-and-material-economies-how-can-it-work/2008/01/17 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:24:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 By: Factor E Farm Weblog » Blog Archive » OSE Product Cycle https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-intersection-between-the-immaterial-and-material-economies-how-can-it-work/2008/01/17/comment-page-1#comment-174534 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:14:21 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-intersection-between-the-immaterial-and-material-economies-how-can-it-work/2008/01/17#comment-174534 […] Today, Michel Bauwens of P2P Foundation commented that he’s struggling with the meaning of the intesection between open source information and physical production. So am I. I responded: […]

]]> By: Marcin https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-intersection-between-the-immaterial-and-material-economies-how-can-it-work/2008/01/17/comment-page-1#comment-174529 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:47:01 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-intersection-between-the-immaterial-and-material-economies-how-can-it-work/2008/01/17#comment-174529 The answer to the p2p link of immaterial and material economy is integration. This is what we’re testing at our lab, http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/. The key summary is: 1. Develop open source design for products voluntarily. 2. Develop fabrication facilities, voluntarily. 3. Optimize everything, voluntarily. 4. Provide goods for market from an open source, optimized, replicable production facility.

How to do this voluntarily? Funding is needed. That’s where a funding mechanism is needed, and that, to me, is the cutting edge of open source economic development. With this funding mechanism, we fund production facilities, optimize, and everyone benefits: low cost, high quality products, that cannot be matched by standard businesses because the open source variant is lean, mean, and optimal. This is what we’re working on, see notes on the process at:

http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Main_Page#Deployment

and application to our compressed earth block press at:

http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=CEB_Press

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