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Marcin Jakubowski
Founder of Open Source Ecology From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Marcin Jakubowski (born 1972) is a Polish American physicist and entrepreneur best known as the founder of Open Source Ecology (OSE), a project dedicated to developing open source industrial machines and tools for sustainable living.[1]
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Career
Jakubowski founded Open Source Ecology in 2003 after earning his PhD in physics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison[citation needed]. The project’s goal is to create the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS), a modular collection of open source machines designed to support small-scale, self-sufficient communities through distributed manufacturing and open design principles.[2]
Jakubowski presented his work in a widely viewed TED talk titled Open-Sourced Blueprints for Civilization in 2011, which helped bring international attention to the OSE project.[3] Following the talk, OSE received media coverage from outlets such as Make magazine, Gizmodo, and Grist, and won Make magazine’s “Green Project Contest” the same year.[4]
In 2012, Jakubowski became a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow and a TED Fellow.[5]
Most of OSE’s research and prototyping activities take place at Factor e Farm, the organization’s headquarters in rural Missouri.[6]
In 2016, Jakubowski and researcher Catarina Mota co-founded the Open Building Institute (OBI), which focuses on developing open source tools and methods for affordable, sustainable housing.[7]
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Personal life
Jakubowski was born in Poznań, Poland. He married Catarina Mota in December 2013 in New York City.[8] They continue to collaborate on open source hardware and housing initiatives.
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