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Factor EFarm Franz Nahrada, June 12, 2009, GlobalVillages
Marcin Jakubowski has posted a short video towards the end of the following blog post that shows me discussing strategic support opportunities for Open Source Ecology. http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=744 ("May 22nd: A Friday and finally a little day of rest. But we worked a lot on strategy. Here’s a planning session:") please have a look! So here I am - talking about OSE strategy without ever having been there and having laid my hands on the ground there. Thank you Marcin for that much trust and cooperation. I really think we enter a period of densification and intensive cross-linking between various projects. I would like to consider FactorEFarm the flagship project for the Global Village community even though I am not blind to some shortcomings. I talked to many people and they find and constantly bring up some points that are easy to critisize. But I want to make clear: I also see these points and they all can be dealt with and are IMHO of minor importance.
We cannot really figure out what is the treshold where this demonstration effort becomes unmanageable; I think that it is important to start with certain aspects of autarky, with the idea of partial autarky and self-reliance, but not with the idea of total self-sufficiency. This demonstration of aspectual autarky is important in itself and gives a strong message: we can build our own tractor. we can produce our own buidling materials. we can even build most of our own houses. So be aware you producers of technology: if you comply with users needs and strategies, you have a chance to team up with us. If not, you will face a fierce competition, one that might destroy your markets field by field. We are already showing you that we can build a life of our own; we are gladly inviting you to trade with us or even cooperate with us if you comply with our needs and have something useful to offer; but we are not any more taking garbage, because we have access to competence and tools to do it ourselves. Marcin might not even agree with me on this big picture, but for me this picture is reason enough to rally support for him. Only with this vigorous liberation effort and its symbolic power will we be able to turn the tables and create the base for a non-destructive, well thought-of, efficient, modular and sustainable technology and regional economy. So what Marcin and his people are doing is about you and me alike. So please make it part of your daily reflections how you can support OSE - today. Not only and maybe not even primarily with money; but with spreading the word, with participating in their design and documentation efforts, with finding new ways of chanelling energy there (see some ideas in the video), and foremost with the help for multiplication of OSE sites around the world. Thank you.
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