OSE Mid-Missouri has been officially recognized

[dikj...@gmail.com]

OSE Mid-Missouri has been recognized as a student group at the
University of Missouri, Columbia today, and will be able to organize
as an academic arm of Open Source Ecology and bring funding, grants,
offsite collaboration, and research opportunities to the University
and Factor E Farm, as well as begin OSE Extension projects here in
Columbia, Missouri.

We hope to help to organize and rapidly develop OSE and pursue
projects and broaden the network of collaborators and provide more
ways to bring people into the fold of OSE's open sustainability
projects.

<b>Of our intended immediate goals:</b>

- To help to reorganize the OSE nexus of websites and to help to bring
the message of OSE and the intent and breadth of its projects even
further to the global community.

- To coordinate volunteerships, researchships, capstone projects,
internships and further collaboration with UM and other institutions
with the projects at Factor E and with projects here in mid missouri.

-To establish grants with the DOE, NSF, and other grantmaking
institutions such as the MacArthur Foundation, etc. on the terms of
OSE principles and to further realize the OSE vision.

- To educate the public about appropriate technology, open design,
agroecology and emergent systems

So hopefully we will be able to realise these and other goals with our
student group. The idea is facilitation of capacity, of extending the
reach of OSE projects beyond Factor E Farm and assisting in developing
a robust community of OSE collaborators.

Following will be the realization of OSE Willamette Valley/Oregon and
possibly other OSE land facilities.

-Richard Schulte
Undergraduate Anthropology, University of Missouri
Treasurer, Students for Progressive Action
Collaborator, Open Source Ecology, Mid Missouri

[Marcin Jakubowski]

Excellent. Please post these good news on our blog.

Your name there is Richard Schulte.

http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/wp-login.php

Marcin

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