[libreplanet-discuss] OpenAg: Open Agriculture Initiative

[willi uebelherr]

Open Agriculture Initiative
https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/open-agriculture-openag/overview/

Wiki Open Agriculture Initiative
http://wiki.openag.media.mit.edu/

GitHub Open Agriculture Initiative
https://github.com/OpenAgInitiative

Dear friends,

this is a initiative from people from MIT/Boston. It is new for me and i 
received this information on the FSF (Free Software Foundation) Europe 
mail list.

It seems it is a combination of client computers, servers and 
datacenters. But how they work i don't know in this time. Also it is not 
clear for me, is that a good way.

many greetings, willi


QueridAs amigAs,

esta es una iniciativa de gente del MIT/Boston. Es nuevo para mí y he 
recibido esta información en la lista de correo FSF (Free Software 
Foundation) Europa.

Parece que es una combinación de equipos cliente, servidores y centros 
de datos. Pero cómo funcionan no sé en este tiempo. También no está 
claro para mí, es que una buena manera.

con muchas saludos, willi


-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht --------
Betreff: Open Agriculture / Free (as in Freedom) Food
Datum:   Wed, 10 May 2017 17:54:14 +0200
Von:     Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro>
An:      FSFE Discussion <discussion@fsfeurope.org>

If you are not comfortable putting non-free software in your computer,
have you ever thought about the non-free nature of the food you put in
your body?

A group at MIT's Media Lab have started the Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
initiative and there was a TED talk (video[1]) about it in Geneva that
makes it really clear what they are doing and why.

The documentary Food, Inc[2] also helps understand what is at stake.

Has anybody else looked at this or any similar projects already?

A group has been formed[3] in Zurich to try and build one or more of the
food computers collaboratively.  A venue is to be announced shortly.  I
already raised this on the Zurich mailing list, but would anybody else
want to come to Zurich to participate, be part of this remotely or
replicate the idea in their own location?

One challenge for us in Zurich is to try and find an efficient way of
ordering all the parts, the list[4] includes over 100 items from about
various suppliers.  Making up orders would be rather tedious, so
grouping the orders together could help lower the hurdle for people to
get started.

One significant opportunity with this initiative is the outreach to
other groups with environment, sustainability, urban agriculture and
culinary interests.  OpenAg provides a way to developed a shared
philosophy about what free really means and how free software is part of
the solution to social problems like food security.

Regards, Daniel

1. 
https://www.ted.com/talks/caleb_harper_this_computer_will_grow_your_food_in_the_future
2. http://www.takepart.com/foodinc/
3. https://www.meetup.com/openag-zh/events/239207170/
4. https://github.com/OpenAgInitiative/openag_pfc2/tree/master/BOM