Hey Everyone, You will find below an email that I sent to all of the Distributed Manufacturing folk for whom I have emails. They are highlighted in blue in our spreadsheet.<http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AiJ9wl9qbZEzdGRYY2YzRlhHemVMT3ZFd1otSHp0anc&hl=en>
If anyone wants to help me out by working on expanding this list and collecting more contact data, that would be greatly appreciated. * The BIG PICTURE: Why are we mapping the Distributed Manufacturing Ecosystem* We are building a model that aims to finance groups of projects (an ecosystem<http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ASJ9wl9qbZEzZGM0Z2Jnc2pfMTQ4MG5zNjNmY2Rw&hl=en>). We are doing this by both providing funding as well as other forms of support (see below). In doing this we believe that we can increase the probability that the projects that we work with will be successful because of he support that they get from us (OK and FF) as well as the fact that they are working closely with other projects that they have a strong relationship with (are a part of an ecosystem). *I am currently working on talking to as many projects in the Distributed Manufacturing space as possible to establish that initial ecosystem.* * The key connection to make is that proving that this model works will make it possible to build a bridge between traditional social venture funding sources (millions of dollars and growing) and early stage projects that deliver social value (our space!). Hopefully you all see the vital importance of this and will support the project!* *EMAIL COPY* Further to the following, I am wondering if it would be possible to arrange a time to speak. As you may know, OpenKollab, <http://mudball.net/openkollab/> the Forward Foundation <http://forwardfound.org/> and the P2P Foundation,<http://p2pfoundation.net/The_Foundation_for_P2P_Alternatives>are in the process of developing a strategy to develop early stage social ventures. The strategy takes an ecosystem<http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ASJ9wl9qbZEzZGM0Z2Jnc2pfMTQ4MG5zNjNmY2Rw&hl=en>approach to capacity building in that we are searching for groups of projects that are related to each other in certain ways. Last week, myself and Sam Rose from Forward Foundation <http://forwardfound.org/>talked with Michael Koch from OpenPario<http://openpario.net/>and Erik DeBruijn from RepRap project as part of our effort to build a Ecosystem Pooled Fund Initiative<http://www.slideshare.net/sureshf/openkollab-pooled-fund> . Further to this discussion, myself and Sam worked together to create a model for evaluating sustainability, and scalability of open license distributed manufacturing projects, based on the discussions Koch and DeBruijn last week. In building capacity within a particular ecosystem, we will focus on: 1. Developing a funding model via the OpenKollab Pooled Fund (http://www.slideshare.net/sureshf/openkollab-pooled-fund)<http://www.slideshare.net/sureshf/openkollab-pooled-fund> 2. Developing Ecosystem Literacies: specific intelligence and strategies that can help projects in a particular ecosystem to meet the scalability criteria identified below. In service both to developing this model as well as identifying specific projects that we can work with, we are currently focusing our attention on the Distributed Manufacturing space. The very first phase of the project is to commence dialogue with distributed manufacturing projects and to develop a map of the space. Our initial mapping efforts will be summarized in this spreadsheet<http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AiJ9wl9qbZEzdGRYY2YzRlhHemVMT3ZFd1otSHp0anc&hl=en> . This process will be conducted openly and we encourage anyone interested to collaborate with us on this endeavour. In order to commence this process, we are interested in talking to leaders of various projects in the Distributed Manufacturing space to identify the following: *Structural Variables* 1. Project Mission Statement 2. Project Goals and associated tasks: what do you want to accomplish in the next 12 months? 3. Project Needs: what are your resource requirements? 4. Business Model: can your project be self sustaining in the next 12 months 5. Relationships: what projects do you have a relationship with? What projects could you have a relationship with where, collectively, you can develop a collective value proposition. *Scalability Variables* 1. Is your output part of value chain? It is easy to use output of project as a building block towards building other things. 2. is your design modular? - designed for interoperability 3. is your product replicable? - released under an open license, shareable online via a clone-able repository. 4. Project consistently applies a local standard. (designed for interoperability) 5. Sharing parts and suppliers 6. Project is sufficiently visible in the network. Would it be possible to arrange a time for a quick Skype chat? My Skype ID is sureshf. If so, please let me know your availability. WE ARE REACHING OUT TO THE FOLLOWING PROJECTS 100K Garages 3D Filter Altlab Arduino Brico Labs BugLabs CandyFab CloudFab Collective Innovation Framework Contraptor CubeSpawn Design Repository eMachineshop Exploded View f...@home FabLabs Forward Foundation heeks cad/cnc Homemade 3D Printer Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia Lumen Labs Maker Faire Africa MakerBeam multimachine project Oomlout open materials open source ecology Open Source Machine Open3DP Open3DPrinter openartisthq linux openpario p2p foundation Ponoko Ponoko Protoforge RepRap RepRap Research Foundation RepTab Shapeways.com Skdb Tangible Bit Thingiverse -- Suresh Fernando WEBSITE: http://radical-inclusion.com WEBSITE: http://wiki.openkollab.com BLOG: http://sureshfernando.wordpress.com TWITTER: http://twitter.com/sureshf FACEBOOK: facebook.com/suresh.fernando 604-889-8167--
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