They say this about themselves:

Open Source Ecology is a movement dedicated to the collaborative development of tools for replicable, open source, modern off-grid “resilient communities.” By using permaculture and digital fabrication together to provide for basic needs and open source methodology to allow low cost replication of the entire operation, we hope to empower anyone who desires to move beyond the struggle for survival and “evolve to freedom.”

Read about their “Global Village Construction Set” while you are at their wiki.

GVCS in 2 Minutes – High Resolution from Marcin Jakubowski on Vimeo.

Make sure you visit their blog, as well. Check out the newest video while you are there.

Bojam is an online music collaboration service connecting musicians to mix, record, and collaborate to produce original or popular music.

Bojam does so with music, open-sourcing all aspects of the music creation process, including a wiki-style platform for adding song info, lyrics, and instrument tabs.

i like the idea of this, but i’m not sure that it will attract the right crowd. i sure hope it does, though. i really want to see the wiki part of the site and the ability to auction off services, which they say the whole app is based around. i don’t really care about the whole mixer/editor thing. let’s hope that a nice community of musicians show up.