Invention, Intellectual Property and Income
The idea of this assignment is to take my project and decide where it belongs to, and describes the all scenarios of how is going to work my project, which kind of direction I want to use for it and how I can manage the vision of an open source project. Also something important it's the next step of my project, in my case related to the idea to start with a personal research in my country (Costa Rica) and look for the possibility to make not just a product, most important for me to make an experience that I can talk about it and when I feel that my totally vision is done start with profit part... make a business.
The idea of my Fab Academy Project is to start with a personal research related with 3 main topics: local food production, DIY Vision and electronics+coding. As an architect one of my interests is to bring into the “space idea” the possibility to be more productive and at the same time be more “self sufficient”. I want to be part of a the growing society that's wants to think in a future with the vision to produce more and consume less or at least with a less impact to our environment. As an “architect” I prefer not to be an architect anymore and feel free to learn whatever I want and to do something proactive and positive for my local environment, no matters if is the the architecture, the design, the academia, the biology or any kind of field... I believe more in a group with different “professionals” working together to innovate, produce and promote something for our society, than being one of the millions of same professionals doing the same.
My first baby step in this new field is that I will make an exhibition in the Barcelona Green Fab Lab located in Valldaura and during the Fab10, this possibility is a very important platform to show my project, make contacts and the most exiting part, share my experience.
For the intellectual property of my “project” well, actually I cannot say that Is just my project, maybe I can say that is a personal position and proposal taking into considerations several references and people advises. So because of this, my project needs to be available for the community.
From now my project will take the next license: Open Source Hardware and Software licensed under MIT license.
License Terms:
Copyright (C) [2014] [copyright holders]
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
As I mentioned before, this “final project” is just the beginning of something bigger. First, the BIG BIG main goal of all this process is to open a Fab Lab in Costa Rica, actually right now we have one but is like a ghost in the FabLab network, and the weird thing is that is one of the first FabLab around the world, so now my responsibility is to open a new one or even better, reactivate the one that we already have.
So now Local farm will be my “business card” or let's say my “personal card” to introduce what we can do when "low cost technology" or "low tech technology" is applied to our contexts.
I learned that Fab Academy is not easy if you really want to understand each process, is hard if you don't have a background in electronics and programming, but at the same time I learned that the best way to understand as much as possible is following the logic behind every assignment, is more important to understand from your mistakes than to be happy because everything is going good in your process.
Fab Academy is not about final projects its about amazing process.