Marcin Jakubowski (born 1972) founded Open Source Ecology (OSE) in 2003. Jakubowski is an advocate of

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as a foundation for the open source economy particularly distributed manufacturing, open source agriculture, and open source product development. OSE made it to the world stage in 2011 when Jakubowski gave a

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. on the Global Village Construction Set. Shortly after, the GVCS won Make magazine's "Green Project Contest". The Internet blogs

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and

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produced detailed features on OSE. Jakubowski has since become a

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Fellow (2012) and TED Senior Fellow (2012).

Personal life

Marcin Jakubowski born in

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. Jakubowski and Catarina Mota were married on 27 December 2013 at Grand Central Station in

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. They are collaborating on open hardware projects, with a collaboration on the Open Building Institute started in 2016.

Professional life

After receiving a Ph.D. in physics from the

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,http://128.104.184.130/grads/uw?page=1&order=me.name Jakubowski founded the Open Source Ecology project. He has been working on this from 2004 until present, at the company headquarters Factor e Farm, in the Kansas City area. Most prototyping and development occur at this facility. This includes the work on housing with the Open Building Institute, whose goal is to make affordable, ecological housing widely accessible.

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