Beautiful framework! See yall tonight.
-corey scher
510.387-2010
Please excuse the typos from my mobile device.
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From: "Morten H. D. Fuglsang" <vallebo(a)gmail.com>
Date: 04/25/2013 10:18 AM (GMT-07:00)
To: omi(a)lists.sudoroom.org
Subject: [omi] Conversation Today [Was: Design rant & Wut should we do]
Hi all,
To follow up on these weeks conversations on this list, we are meeting today at 7pm @ sudo
room. Not everyone is able to be present today, which is fine - this is an ongoing
conversation, and I am happy to take responsibility that everyone is and feels included,
and that it is documented and fed forward.
Suggested framing for the conversation:
Quickfire, "Why are you part of OMI?"
What are the current needs of ourselves, the communities around us, and the world, in
terms of technology and in relation to basic needs (~energy/water/food/housing/exploration
& manufacturing)? What open technologies do we believe are important to develop
(and/or manufacture) to help solve these needs? What role do we want OMI as an
organization to play in this? (~why does OMI exist)
Which open technologies etc. are each of us inspired to develop and build, right now? What
are the overlaps in relation to the needs we see? Which are low hanging fruit in terms of
demand on our resources and level of impact?
~Decisions.
How do we want to work (together) in OMI?
Infrastructure, access, space
Methodology/process
Documentation
Actionplanning
Short-term timeline.
Work groups, workflow.
Documentation strategy.
Practical in relation to space (set up, paying of electricity bill, ...)
Etc.
See some of you tonight!
:) M
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Ps. Some of my thoughts on exiting things to develop
* Lots of people are going into small-scale urban agriculture, and some even want to scale
more (ie. occupy the farm)
** Rainwater/Grey water systems to feed into these while solving sewage issues would be
interesting to work with.
** There are to my knowledge no open rototillers (except for OSE's, but its a mod for
the tractor, so a bigger more complex piece). I think both could be interesting too.
* We all use gas for heating our water here in east bay (most of us anyway). Totally
unnecessary with all the sun in CA! Thermal solar panels are easy to build. Hooking up to
old/used insulated tanks, and using a little pump/making the system passive by placing
tank above, is very doable. Potentially portable too. There is significant documentation
on this online already.
* Portable windmills. Documentation online seems to be spread out, but it should be
possibly to pool together resources and create some kickass simply ones and improving
documentation.
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