SolaRoof | Open Source

The Solaroof Wiki and solaroof.org domain is an environment for Open Source Disclosure. Such disclosure is an act of granting or gifting of the information disclosed to the Ethical Public Domain? where, the dedicator who openly disclosed and shares original and derivative works with our Open Source community retains ethical rights in the works while divesting property rights to the Common Heritage of the community of users.

We need much more discussion of what form of Open Source License we should apply to the Sola Roof technology and the further developments that will form a Collective Work? here at the Sola Roof Wiki. As an interim measure, the individual and collective works disclosed at this Wiki are covered our Creative Commons Public License (referred to as the ProvisionalCCPL) which defines the rights to use the information that is conveyed to the Sola Roof Community. Under the ProvisionalCCPL any Intellectual Property covered by patents, industrial designs and copyright (called "IP") that is present within the Sola Roof Wiki is contributed with permission from the Open Authors? for non-exclusive use of such information for

• Free, unrestricted Personal use by our Sola Roof Members and the charitable use by Non Profit Members? activities
  • In return these Members are called upon to make voluntary Pay It Forward contributions to build a Common Heritage? to fund Grass Roots Projects to the extent that the Members' financial situation makes this possible.
• Free, unlimited Commercial use of the IP will be covered by the Sola Roof EPDL? which is an Ethical Public Domain License that would provide a legal basis for a Legacy Income for the IP Contributors including the authors of patents, expired or not, and the authors of all other forms of IP that form Original Works? and Derivative Works? contributed to the Sola Roof Wiki. This is a Gift Economy financial mechanism for the voluntary and direct compensation any IP Contributor?, who is the living Open Author? and to the Author's estate until 28 years after the death of the Author.
  • Under this proposed legal code (now in development) the IP Contributors will all be eligible for direct compensation by means of a voluntary Honor Payment system that will channel payments from the commercial Social Enterprise that use the Sola Roof Wiki knowledge base for commercial profit. These commercial users are encouraged to register at the SE Net Index.
  • If not paid to the Open Author? then the Legacy Income may donated voluntarily to the Common Heritage? fund of the community or directly to Grass Roots Projects. Such donations are always the ethical decison of the Commercial user and this support of community values is transparently recorded and provides a guage of the Reputation of commercial members of the community.
  • Any specific compensation, stipulated by the IP Contributor?, which establishes additional terms for commercial use should not conflict to the general terms of non exlcusive, unlimited access that will be contained in the final Sola Roof EPDL? and the publication by an Author of an Original Work? here at the Sola Roof Wiki confirms the acceptance of the general conditions and terms that are to be established by the Sola Roof EPDL? (still under development).

IP Contributors, who disclose information, and Open Authors? who participate in authoring content, or publish original works that may include IP to the Sola Roof Wiki must all understand, and be in agreement with, the rights to the use of this IP that is thereby granted to all Sola Roof Members.

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Some individuals and businesses may “free load" the community – but a community united by full, open and honest disclosure is strong enough to bear this and our educational process will gradually lead most everyone to respect our value system. The Honor Payment and Pay It Forward financial contributions are voluntary and only intended for those who have the ability and are not to burden those who lack the means to meet this moral obligation. In such circumstances members can use and pay later - always on a voluntary basis. Our products and services will not exploit anyone - nor exclude anyone from access to our DIY knowledge base due to poverty. As long as individuals and businesses have the intention to make their respective Pay It Forward and Honor Payment contributions in the future — as and when the financial position improves — then everyone may have the freedom to move ahead and build a wealth generating and sustainable lifestyle using our knowledge base.

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Interesting. Gift economy and reputation/trust networks (to help deal with free loaders) are some of the ideas we are working on at United Diversity. We are big on Open Source and are actively developing Open Source software to implement these ideas.

United Diversity is up and running again! But any udoo people are still welcome to create subwiki here (as a Wiki Group) and to help us build our content on any of our Open Eco? subjects.

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Here are some interesting thoughts on Open Source:

Jeff,

Thanks for writing this, it is sweet. I like the clear presentation, i think it is close to capturing the essence of open source economic development. Couple of comments:

(1) "Unlike existing consumption based economic structures which place an emphasis on the level of products that are consumed open source economies design the 'profit' centers around services."

Open source economics relies on the increased quality of products, as made possible by an open source product development framework, which allows all to raise the ecological qualities of any product: i call that the normalization of best practice- innovation and leadership becomes the norm, not a source of competitive advantage. Yes, the products arising from an open source development framework become more akin to services.

(2) We should expand on the word "architecture." I like to use the word "infrastructure or framework." I am thinking hard about what that 'supporting framework' entails.

I am spending these next 2 weeks on organizing these and other thoughts for the paper i'll be presenting at the Oekonux open source conference. I would like to have you comment on it as i go along.

Sincerely,

Marcin

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Marcin Jakubowski, Ph.D. Open Source Ecology, Inc. 4013 Meyer Ave. Madison, WI 53711 (608) 236-2895 http://sourceopen.org marcin@sourceopen.org

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On Sat, 1 May 2004, Jeff Buderer wrote:

Marcin,

Good to hear from you. I hope you are doing well. Right now we are focusing on housecleaning, that is we are cleaning house and organizing relevant resources towards effectively realizing our goals and narrowing our focus while discarding all the unnecessary clutter. We would like to hear about the latest progress in your work and how we might be able to work together. Also let us explore we kind of mechanisms and timetables we would need to facilitate this process.

Mark sent the below material to me and I reworked it. tell me what you think.

Highly distributed, increasingly participatory models of production represent the core of any truly democratic society. It is only in such a system that a balance can be found between human activity and the sustainable use of natural resources. Open Source Ecology refers to the integration of the natural, societal, and industrial ecologies aims at sustainable and regenerative economics. Part of this process involves the exploration of societal structures and productive activities to determine what is truly appropriate to meeting human needs. The goal is to liberate our time so that we can our intellectual and conscious thinking capacities to engage in exactly that which each of us wants to be doing in this life, instead of simply doing what we need to do to survive.

Alternative financing strategies for progressive development projects involve the application of Open Source not as software but as a system of organizing resources in distributive network. Unlike existing consumption based economic structures which place an emphasis on the level of products that are consumed open source economies design the 'profit' centers around services. Marcin Jakubowski of Open Source Ecology says that his group is working out their own bootstrapping microfinance strategy under the Open Farm? project.

Key to this project is the integration of ICT, ecological design and open source economics so that the right conditions lead to powerful synergies between a number of components and existing technologies, none of which makes overwhelming performance or economic sense on its own. The real innovation is in the architecture, so the transition cannot be incremental:

+ICI- Technology +ICI- Strategy +ICI- Organization Read The Open Source Car by Hugo Spowers, in The Chaordic Commons, Winter, 2002, reproduced at http://sourceopen.org/OSKMS.doc

Jeff

Jeff Buderer oneVillage Foundation Sustainable Design/Project Development www.onevillagefoundation.org www.onevillage.biz Cell 417.830.1029 Yahoo IM: jefbuder http://www.ryze.com/go/Jefbuder