Open Source Ecology Summer X, 6 Apr 2021

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From YouTube: Summer of Extreme Design-Build 2021

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Sign up for Summer X 2021 at https://www.opensourceecology.org/summer-x-2021/

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Did you ever want to design or build something, but did not know where to start? Have you ever wanted to develop something that would change the world, but you didn't even think it was possible.

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We have created a program that will transform what you think is possible and give you the hands-on skills to build it and you'll probably gain more practical experience in our three-month program than most people will get in a lifetime.

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Welcome to the world of collaborative design.

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Over the last decade we designed and built dozens of open source industrial machines and published the plans on the internet for free. We taught hundreds of student collaborators to build themselves and we also innovated on distributed enterprise models.

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We published several product releases, such as the compressed earth, brick press, the 3d printer and, most recently, the cdca home. It's an exciting time, as we just may be getting close to viral replication in our program, you will have the opportunity to learn and build upon all of our experience in a three-month crash course of design and amazing builds.

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We start with the cdca home. The seed eco home is an expandable thousand square foot house that you can you and a friend can build in one week at the lowest possible cost. We walk you through every step, using our rapid collaborative, build methods.

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We will build the next iteration of our aquaponic greenhouse, then more 3d printers, some huge ones and then tractors, more cnc machines, a compressed earth block press sawmill and much more.

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We will do a rapid, build of a 3d printer which you can take home with you. We will teach you how to design just about anything in freecad the open source software.

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Most importantly, we teach you how to collaborate and innovate as a large team. Coordinating with both local and global efforts wait a minute. How is all this and much more possible in such a short time?

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Our secret is modular, open, source design and collaborative rapid swarm builds.

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First modularity allows us to break large problems into small bite-sized chunks.

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Second, the modules we design are interchangeable and multi-purpose like legos frames, power units, rotors motors universal axes, universal controllers and electronics, hydraulics wall modules, plant towers, you name it. These can be used, reused and modified or scaled in multiple ways.

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This leads us to the construction set approach. Why design one thing at a time if we could design a whole system by designing transparent, easy to use easy to build reusable modules with which you can make a hundred different things effectively. Modular design with team swarming allows us to compress design and build times from months to days and we'll teach you exactly how to apply this powerful method.

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Our central theme is the collaborative creation of genius. Edison said: if we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

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We think that many people can amaze themselves like this by developing a collaborative mindset of rapid learning. The key is it's a personal breakthrough on the true meaning and the value of collaboration. That's open in today's world. There's plenty of half sharing, keeping the best part secret, like patents, proprietary knowledge, the core of how business works.

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Think about it even in school. Did you consider that you just get the second best, because the best is trade secret.

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Why not instead just create a system that helps everyone stand on the shoulders of giants, it takes a mind shift and it starts by believing in we not me because we're all in it together.

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Second, it requires a commitment to stop reinventing the wheel instead to open source it. That means using the tools and skills of open collaboration to make products that are open to solve pressing world issues faster than they are created to learn rapidly, because the best information is open.

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That is the promise of the digital age of true information sharing.

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Thus we're really reinventing a culture. We ask how to create this collaborative genius across the whole world in our program. We'll practice this in small steps, the day-to-day involves class time, design, time, collaboration time and most of the time the builds we focus on large-scale collaborative work, not solo projects.

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We welcome young men and women of all ages to apply. No prior experience is needed.

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So if you want to learn this powerful collaborative design and build mindset, then join us, you will have fun, you will make relationships and friendships and you'll be amazed by what you can accomplish. We also have an enterprise track on the seed eca home, so you even have an opportunity to do open source work for a living.

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We invite you thus to build yourself help others with your new skills and change the world.

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Please pass this on to your friends. Space is limited, so sign up soon.

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