User talk:Danielravennest/SFP/Intro

After reading this introduction, what is the difference between this project and the Open Source Ecology: Global Village Construction Set? Even if there is fundamental differences, I think there is some small or maybe big overlap, which could make both projects complement each other, perhaps? I dunno, just reading your idea reminded me a lot of that other one. 189.63.9.235 (discuss) 19:25, 1 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Philosophically we have similar goals, in fact I contributed to OSE for a while. From an engineering standpoint, the particular list of 50 machines in the GVCS appear to have been chosen by Marcin Jakubowski (OSE's founder) without any analysis.  I call this a "shotgun" approach - let's build a lot of machines and hope they work together.  If there is such an analysis, I could not find it in the OSE literature.  The unanswered questions include what quality of life are you aiming to support, what size should the machines be for what number of users, in what order do you build them, and do you begin with starter versions and upgrade or enlarge.  Despite the name "Ecology" in the organization name, the set of 50 machines are not treated as one - an interacting system where inputs and outputs from each is linked to the others.  As a systems engineer myself, the SFP is trying to address some of these holes.  I give OSE full credit for actually building hardware, and we may use and adapt some of their designs.  Since the SFP is also open source, they can borrow our data and designs in return.  We are not in competition, it's more like researchers in the same field, but in different locations and following different methods to reach our goals.