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Please check our 'Facebook Page Rbe10k, and also our causes.com pledge page Run an experimental resource based economy model community in 2015. If you wish to volunteer, please read the section below Participation, and also, if you'd like to register your interest to be one of the 10,000 volunteers to live in the experimental community for the first two years please also sign the causes.com Volunteers for the RBE10K Project experimental community.

RBE10K (R-B-E-10-1000 or /ˈɑrˈbiːˈiː/ /ˈtɛnˈθaʊzənd/) is a minimalist (simple living) or eco-communalist experiment project seeking to implement the a basic Resource-Based Economic Model (RBEM) system. The experiment is being planned and prepared through this Wiki and other tools since 1st January 2013, and will run for two years, 2015-2016, involving 10,000 volunteers in a yet to-be-determined location, with a main objective of trialling a real world RBEM, i.e. a social arrangement engineered to satisfy premises of sustainability, equality, liberty, health, and access to the necessities of life without using money, trade, or authority or privilege systems.

This wiki is a work in progress, and it is currently in very early stages of development, with little information and almost no planning started. In order to grow and develop, this project requires the participation of interested volunteers to either plan, contribute with information, or intend to be one of the pioneers who will make part of the first experimental RBEM settlement.

Current participants of RBE10K project planning believe that a real-world RBEM system experience, even a minimalist or eco-communialist one, will help expand awareness and cause a surge in interest on this lifestyle. Once in execution in 2015, the project includes plans to regularly upload information and videos of day to day life in the community to the project's website, and several social networking services like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, assisting this way with other transition projects like The Venus Project, and collaborating with awareness-raising movements like The Zeitgeist Movement and The Free World Charter.

Objectives of the RBE10K Project

The RBE10K Project has two main objectives:

1. proving that the RBEM system is viable, i.e. it can support a population with a lifestyle preferable by many
2. providing a voluntary and realistic transition towards a RBEM for anyone interested

Programa y marco temporal del proyecto

El Proyecto EBR10K tiene un programa que es aproximadamente el siguiente (Ver el vínculo principal más arriba para mayores detalles):

1. Desarrollar la comunidad
2. Planear el establecimiento
3. Buscar e involucrar voluntarios para poblar la ciudad experimental
4. Recolectar fondos en una cuenta fiduciaria
5. Comprar todos los materiales y servicios necesarios
6. Transportar materiales y voluntarios al predio
7. Puesta en marcha de la infraestructura de la ciudad
8. Probar y experimentar con el estilo de vida
9. Planear la próxima ciudad e invitar a nuevas personas a poblarla
10. Finalizar el experimento
11. Crear la segunda ciudad

Participación

Este wiki is la plataforma principal para la ingeniería de los sistemas y metodologías que soportarán la comunidad, y todos son bienvenidos a participar en alguna de varias maneras. El Proyecto está abierto a la participación de quienes tengan un interés en particular, más allá de tener o no la intención de poblar la ciudad experimental. Participar en el proyecto comienza al registrarse en este Wiki, tanto a través de formulario usual de registración u usando una cuenta de Facebook clicando en el vínculo de la parte superior derecha de la página. Luego de registrarse en el Wiki, la registración como contribuidor del Proyecto EBR10K culmina creando la página personal del usuario, clicando en el nombre de usuario que una vez registrado también aparece en la parte superior derecha de la página, y seguir las indicaciones de incluidas como comentarios en la plantilla de nuevo usuario. Una vez hecho todo esto, los usuarios pueden identificar sus intereses en la página de equipos en los que deseen participar.

La participación en el proyecto está enfocada en el trabajo en equipo. Se procura incentivar a que los equipos sean lo suficientemente pequeños como para tener la posibilidad de darse a conocer bien entre todos los miembros. Tambien se alienta que los equipos trabajen juntos en requerimientos específicos para el proyecto, el cual pueden elegir libremente. Se espera también que los equipos interactúen entre si, apoyándose los unos a los otros en áreas en las que tengan experiencia. Cualquier contribuidor puede, en cualquier momento, participar en tantos equipos como le sea confortable.

Necesidades del Proyecto

El Proyecto EBR10K tiene una candidad de Necesidades or Solicitudes para las que requiere varios equipos. Se procura incentivar a los contribuidores a chequear esta página de tanto en tanto con alguna frequencia, y tratar de atender a esas solicitides y necesidades.

Planeamiento para el primer asentamiento

El sistema MEBR puede ser definido como ingeniería social, es decir, el sistema tiene un componente principal de diseño en lugar de emerger completamente como resultado de la cultura. El éxito de este proyecto requiere de la cuidadosa planificación de un gran número de elementos, incluyendo:

• Diseño y desarrollo de sistemas informáticos para la producción y distribución de recursos
• Selección del sistema de producción de energía sostenible más apropiado
• Planificación para sistemas de recolección y purificación de agua
• Definir y establecer la producción de alimentos nutritivos que se puedan proveer abundantemente y con poco esfuerzo o recursos

Diferencias con otros proyectos

El Proyecto EBR10K tiene un propósito y una estrategia únicas. A pesar de que muchos otros proyectos se han creado con la intención de llegar a objetivos similares, sus estrategias han sido siempre significativamente diferentes. Incluso los objetivos que se han propuesto, analizándolos detenidamente, también demuestran ser significativamente diferentes. Este proyecto difiere del Proyecto Venus principalmente en su estrategia de implementación, eligiendo implementar inmediatamente y con los recursos disponibles en lugar de esperar a que las condiciones ideales estén dadas para involucrar a gobiernos (o gentes) del mundo en la transición. Y también difiere significativamente del Movimiento Zeitgeist en cuanto a la intención de promover una MEBR desde dentro de una (aunque fuera una minimalista y eco-comunalista), en lugar de hacerlo desde dentro del sistema monetario de mercado. Han existido y actualmente existen muchas comunidades con ideales de sustentabilidad como pueblos de transición, comunidades hippies, y proyectos como el Experimento Peckham, sin embargo ninguna de estas adopta o ha pretendido adoptadar la ingeniería social, la automatización, sistemas no-monetarios, y el voluntarismo.

Features of a RBE10K settlement

The most important feature of a RBE10K settlement is sustainability, as understood from an RBEM point of view, i.e. living in accordance to the carrying capacity of the Earth, in a peaceful, egalitarian, voluntarist, and evidence-based decision-making community. The settlement is expected to consist of 10,000 people to ensure sufficient variety of skills to be fully self-sustainable, and to ensure the social experiment is relevant. The location for the settlement is not yet defined, however it will have to be a place where there is permissiveness by the local governments to perform as intended. The project intends to be not-for-profit and fully self-funded, however the viability of the project may require extra funding, or even the implementation of the project under a company structure. The experiment will go for two years, and it is expected it will renew for subsequent two meanwhile volunteers are still interested in its continuity. The experiment will also attempt at producing a sister experiment at the end of each term, meanwhile there is sustained interest.

Daily life in the settlement will be all but boring. There will be a significative focus in the development of health, fitness, knowledge and skills of each volunteer. The community will aim at producing rich, diverse and high-quality artistic works to be contributed free of charge through online services, including music, films, literature, visual arts. etc. The community will also aim at furthering science, and producing technology such as software, open-source hardware, and educational materials. Other activities will include refining notions of RBEM, developing this wiki for the benefit of subsequent settlements, online media for communicating developments in the community, and daily tasks for the sustenance of the community such as producing food, equipment, doing general maintenance of public spaces, and providing public services such as training, coordination, cleaning, cooking, etc.

Current project platforms

The project is being primarily managed through this Wiki knowledgebase, and it is being supported by the following technologies:

• Wiki knowledgebase (rbem.org/wiki/rbe10k) - Please register and create your personal page! (further details in RBE10K Project Contributors)
• Facebook page (Rbe10k) - Please like our Facebook page! (further details in Facebook page) - Do rely on this Facebook page for news, articles, and information about the project in the captions of pictures and memes
• Contributors assistance and support Facebook user (Arby-e Ten-Kei) (also by email rbe10000@facebook.com) - (further details on Facebook support for RBE10K Project participants) - Do rely on this Facebook user for any questions you might have!
• RBE10K Project twitter account (rbe10k) - Follow us on Twitter! (more information in Twitter account) - Keep up to date with news about the project with our tweets
• Causes appeal for our project - Please sign the cause and share with your friends! (further details in Causes appeal) - Causes appeals spread like wildfire, and it is a great way to get the word out there about our project!
• Google Plus account (Arby-e Ten-Kei) - Add us to your circles and join us for Hangouts during our meetings! (further details in Google Plus account) - Use primarily this account for your online participation in project planning meetings
• Skype account "Arby-e Ten-Kei" - (further details in Skype account) - Use this service as an alternative to Google Hangouts for project planning meetings if you have trouble with Google Hangouts in your computer
• Newsletter (via MailChimp) in the works ([[further details in Newsletter) - Will provide information to those who are interested to know more about the project on occasion, but are not necessarily active supporters or use Facebook or Twitter
• Website being planned (further details in RBE10K Project Website) - The website will provide a simple front-end for introducing the project to newcomers, include news, videos and more, supporting the information already present on the Facebook page
• Bettermeans Open, Democratic Project Management (www.bettermeans.com) account being planned (further details in Bettermeans platform) - This will help manage projects where this Wiki would be an insufficient or clumsy solution

Sources of inspiration for this transition approach

The RBE10K Project derives inspiration from a number of projects and movements. The most relevant is of course the work of Jacque Fresco and The Venus Project, and the clarity of Peter Joseph for developing those works and making them accessible and popular. The project is also inspired in the works of Nature through biology and ecology, notions of dynamic equilibrium and systems theory. The project would not be possible without the support of the Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) community and the hacker ethics, and projects like the Linux and most especially the Wikipedia. Also from commercial companies which provide invaluable zero-cost services such as Google and Facebook. The project also derives inspiration in the creativity of game developers, who allows us to immerse in imagined worlds with other real people (MMOG) such as Runescape. And finally all the many emergent solutions to today's problems like pollution, ecological degradation, poverty, war, injustice, sexism, poor health, mistreatment of animals, etc, which even though individually they're patchwork and miss dealing with the root causes for the problems, they help by raising awareness and stimulating individuals to take action and personal responsibility.

Criticismo

Concerns

Advocates and activists of The Venus Project generally emphasise the need for having a concerted, global effort for implementation of a RBE, as opposed to a multitude of transition styles (one of which would be The RBE10K Project) occurring at many locations worldwide. They also typically claim that The RBE10K Project is not a full Resource-Based Economy (as Jacque Fresco proposes) and that only The Venus Project can transition to a RBE.

Notably, even Jacque Fresco himself proposed a path of action that is very similar to The RBE10K Project's^[1].

Advocates and activists with The Zeitgeist Movement typically emphasise the importance of not progressing into transitions just yet, and that the best strategy at this time is help raising awareness within our communities in an effort to reach critical mass, leaving action for when the time is ripe.

Some of the criticism received includes the following notions:

• An RBE settlement must not be an experiment
• The need to transition globally to RBE much quicker than 40 years
• The inclusion of money for purchasing the initial materials pollutes the concept of an RBE
• RBE must be a global initiative, and not a mix of various styles of transition (TVP view)
• RBE cannot be implemented low-tech
• If the project doesn't succeed, it may cause a negative perception of RBE in the general population
• Being essential for a RBE city to have all the basic comforts people are currently accustomed to

Abordando preocupaciones

The RBE10K Project intends to address all concerns raised, dealing with conflicts by documenting reasons for each claim and dispute, researching and quantifying the validity for each reason, and arriving at the best possible outcome to maximise the degree of consensus.

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