Marcin Jakubowski founded Open Source Ecology (OSE) in 2003. Jakubowski is an advocate of open source hardware as a foundation for the open source economy - particularly distributed manufacturing,

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, and

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. OSE made it to the world stage in 2011 when Jakubowski gave a

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. on the

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. Shortly after, the GVCS won Make magazine's "Green Project Contest". The Internet blogs

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and Grist produced detailed features on OSE. Jakubowski has since become a

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Fellow (2012) and

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(2012).

Personal life

Jacubowski and Catarina Mota were married on 27 December 2013 at Grand Central Station in New York City. 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 University of Wisconsin, Madison,http://128.104.184.130/grads/uw?page=1&order=me.name Jacubowski founded the Open Source Ecology project. He has been working on this from 2004 until present, at the company headquarters -

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, 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.

References

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