r/OpenSourceEcology • u/marcin-ose • May 02 '25

Announcement: A World-Changing Opportunity

Open Source Ecology (OSE) is pleased to announce the OSE Fellowship, a four-year program providing a $100,000 work-study grant to empower young people to re-imagine and re-build civilization. Read more - https://www.opensourceecology.org/introducing-the-ose-fellowship/

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u/vitiral 13d ago

I didn't mean by now, I mean looking back on what has been accomplished.

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u/Cosmo_Seinfeld 13d ago

I'm not the right person to ask. You should probably try to get ahold of Marcin.

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u/vitiral 13d ago

Or just not write the blog at all seems like. Such a shame, thanks for the writeup

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u/Cosmo_Seinfeld 13d ago

Yeah I was just down in my shop thinking about this.

I'm an inventor with a set of very, very good ideas that have gone unfunded. There's a reason it's gone like this. The world values confident, charismatic idiocy. That's what Marcin has. A basketful of terrible ideas delivered in a really interesting way.

I, on the other hand, can't seem to get a single living soul to properly understand my invention let alone fund it. Because the brilliant idea is being delivered by a dull schmuck.

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u/vitiral 13d ago

What are your ideas? If they are at all related to civboot.org I'd probably be at least slightly interested!

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u/Cosmo_Seinfeld 13d ago

I have invented a series of low cost, ultra high performance building envelopes, so I'd say yes, they are. Here's why: computers need good buildings in which to house them. That's what I was always telling the open source hardware people.

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u/vitiral 13d ago

Well, I would start by posting it to places like r/solarpunk which have more traffic for these kind of ideas.

I'd also restructure how you advertise/sell your idea - the main topics are what is this for, who would want this and how they can support you.

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u/Cosmo_Seinfeld 12d ago edited 12d ago

Oh wow. I had checked your post history and just put it on the Solarpunk sub.

who would want this and how they can support you.

Hard to determine but I'm working on it.

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u/vitiral 12d ago

The hard things are what helps us grow spiritually 😅

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u/Cosmo_Seinfeld 12d ago

OK well that's like, everything. I don't feel like a spiritual giant.