Open Source Ecology Germany

The stories of the LifeTrac and the CEB Press. Enjoy! The LifeTrac Story from Open Source Ecology on Vimeo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3AUONpfz1A Mistakes, Association, OSEG Board It is long-time since our last report. We made few mistakes. Our major mistake and obstacle is that we are still very few people working on the active tasks. Our goals are too important and impossible to be carried out by just 4-5 people, most of whom are working only […]

Our responsibilities are growing and people with experience in PHP, CSS, WordPress, Wikimedia and phpBB can help us tremendously with the Wiki, theme design and other software tasks. For more information, please contact Nikolay. Thank You!

The OpenEcoLan Munich is the first free Workshop of Open Source Ecology Germany (OSEG). OpenEcoLabs are like FabLabs, community operated workshops in which Research & Development of Open Source Hardware and Machines is possible. In this way we adapt and live the Open Source Culture in the real world. Through the different OSEG projects, developed […]

We have the first company to support financially our work! velaia GmbH is giving an unconditional basic income of 1000€ per month to Nikolay Georgiev to continue his work on moving OSE Germany forward. You can find more details here. What we are witnessing is not just a company sponsoring people working on a cause, […]

We are working on the completely open and modular research platform for wind energy: TiVA Turbine. -> Tiny Vertical Axis Wind Turbine and need support for the development of the microcontroller (Software and Hardware) of the wind turbine. Scope: Platform AVR (Arduino) or MSP430 Value Line or another low-priced alternative (chipKIT?) Language C / Assembler, […]

We had our first open team meeting in C-Base in Berlin on 25. and 26. May. The most valuable was that met each other physically and we shared about ourselves. Aron is a professional IT software developer inspired by open hardware. Nikolay has dedicated his life to OSE. Alex is a professional hardware developer. Hermann […]

Web Infrastructure Thomas translated some Wiki pages in German You can create your open profile in English and German NEED: we need IT help with JavaScript, WordPress plugins and Wiki code OSE Presentation and OSE Video Nikolay worked last week and continues this week NEED: for the OSE Video we need people to produce animations […]

On 7. May, Monday, at 20:30 we will have a Skype meeting on ideas about financing the OSE Germany activities. Currently three people will participate. You are free to participate, please see the current agenda and add yourself with your topics and ideas: http://sync.in/D4XcvIHr57. Skype contact for the meeting: nikolay.h.georgiev Result from the meeting: Daniel […]

What we did last week? presented OSE in FabLab Aachen. Good discussion afterwards. Main critique point for OSE Germany was TÜV certification – we have to find solutions as open community. René Bohne explains the Fabscan 3D Scanner. See photos. attended talk on planned obsolescence by Wolfram Schwenzer in FabLab Köln. Shared contacts. See photos. […]

What we did last week? planned trip to Aachen, Bonn and Köln Gerd Wessling from Transition Towns Germany offered that we present OSE at the next Transition Towns conference. Kamala near Dresden offered land, living places and a workshop for OSE purposes. Albrecht von Sydow offered that we organize a half-day workshop in Wendland where […]

Next week (16.-22. April) I will go to the north west part of Germany in Aachen, Bonn, Köln and possibly others to meet with different people and organizations who are doing any of the following: want or are developing sustainable technologies for the people in the sectors: agriculture, house building, renewable energy, transport, manufacturing engineers […]

What we did last week? accidentally met a maker in the train, who loved the OSE vision and wants to help OSE was well received in Wendland, a second meeting is in planning met with Frithjof Bergmann about developing unused land in South Africa the Wind Turbine project is developing, we need 500 Euros for […]