Hi All, Been kinda quiet around here. I am happy to report that our efforts to develop a commercial hexayurt product have yielded an important award, for "Best Security Idea of 2008", from a panel of judges including US government, Accenture, defense industry leaders and VCs. Link: http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=218
Congratulations to Vinay and everyone that has contributed to the hexayurt vision and technology base! Our venture was founded by burners, and we are intent on taking the playa to the planet at two levels. At the physical, we are evolving and advancing Hexayurts, Playatech, AEZ methods and other open source/ proprietary inventions into a complete furnished "Home" that harvests resources for survival and leaves no trace for disaster victims, refugees, and the world's 4 billion ultra-poor. We are finding great interest in a scalable commercial solution enabling sustainable global development as well as emergency relief. At the metaphysical, we are looking at how to bring every possible aspect of our playa "Home" to the desperate so they can live in successful community, by seeking ways to apply all 10 Burning Man principles that define our own community in very different scenarios. We think "radically self-sufficient homes that leave no trace" is just the tip of the iceberg here, and we welcome radically creative inputs in this out-of-the-box endeavor. Bman works, most of the world doesn't; what can we apply from our experiment in temporary community? At the physical level, we're looking for really good engineers with backgrounds in 1) mechanical design & 3D CAD (eg Solidworks), or 2) micro-power/water systems, or 3) advanced materials and material processing. If you are qualified and zealous about saving people and the environment through "Conscious Capitalism" please get in touch offline. Until we close our initial funding round, compensation is peanuts, stock options, and knowing that with enough critical mass, we can have a major impact on everyone's future - the award we won reflects a deep understanding in government, industry, and financial minds that what we think of as "security technologies" are in fact band-aids for symptoms, and the real problem to solve is 4 billion desperate people who will do desperate things to us and/or the environment to have a better life, until they are provided a better path. Vinay and others envisioned hexayurts and distributed infrastructure as a better path, and we intend to turn that footpath into a 4 lane highway. As our start-up progresses, we intend to support the open-source community in various ways, and feel there is great value in a symbiotic relationship. I'll send another mail with an example of that in a bit. Keep up the amazing work everyone. Arthur (aka Sunshine) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
