We have a community for this project as well: !open_source_ecology@slrpnk.net
There is also the Atelier Paysan in France that designed a lot of agricultural equipment published under creative Commons license.
I’ve been watching this project for like 10 years now probably. Keep returning there for blueprints of something relevant, but it’s either too immature or something that does not fit my setup. I think they are too unified and their scope is unrealistically broad for the group, while contributing remotely is not realistic. Their house would not work in my climate, their tractor is worse than random assembly from junk you can randomly find. Their aluminium electroliser is soft sci fi.
But it is certainly cool project.
I just think we need more specialised open hw projects and keep exchanging links to them.
@marcin_ose
This is an admirable project, and I one I support. However, it’s important to note that ‘’‘the issue with open source in an enterprise environment, is that there is no one to blame when things, inevitably, break or are misconfigured. The blame falls on only you, not a vendor.’‘’
Literally the reason my former VP of IT gave me that the CEO gave him.
Remove open source from any company stack and they’ll go back to using abacus.
Using a proprietary solution that has FOSS components isn’t the same as a FOSS solution. Commercial enterprise support is usually in the form of a vendor support contract (or a proprietary solution that uses FOSS components), which gives the corpo someone to blame.
Also, wasn’t the abacus, technically, open source? So, they couldn’t use that, either.
You’re CEO and VP of IT are idiots.
Of course you can have open source in an enterprise environment and have someone to blame. You hire a company to install the open source software and maintain it.
**former. But yes. One of the reasons I left.
As was pointed out earlier, commercial enterprise support for FOSS is usually in the form of a vendor support contract, which gives the corpo someone to blame.
Commercial support exists for opensource too so its just a misunderstanding of it.
Commercial enterprise support is usually in the form of a vendor support contract, which gives the corpo someone to blame.
That is a value as well. But also support from people already actively contributing to the project can be very helpful as well
Very true. And I am not pretending it’s not. I was mostly venting my experience (and frustration) regarding enterprise environments.
Because clearly blaming corporations for the ongoing climate apocalypse is going super well! They really care! And they are super sorry!
I… don’t understand what you’re on about. How does the climate crisis have anything to do with my observation about FOSS enterprise support?
The corpos aren’t looking to be blamed. They’re looking for someone to blame.
