Marcin Jakubowski

{{Short description|Founder of Open Source Ecology}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Marcin Jakubowski

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| caption = Marcin Jakubowski in 2011

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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1972}}

| birth_place = Poznań, Poland

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| nationality = Polish American

| education = Princeton University, BA in Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Ph.D. in Physics

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| employer = Open Source Ecology

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| website = opensourceecology.org

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Marcin Jakubowski (born 1972) founded Open Source Ecology (OSE) in 2003.[http://opensourceecology.org/about.php "About"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717072826/http://opensourceecology.org/about.php |date=2011-07-17 }}, Accessed: 7-19-2011. Jakubowski is an advocate of open source hardware as a foundation for the open source economy {{En dash}} particularly distributed manufacturing, open source agriculture,{{Cite web

| url = https://opensource.com/life/16/2/interview-marcin-jakubowski-open-source-ecology

| title = Hacking the farm with low-cost, open source tool designs

| website = Opensource.com

| access-date = 2016-02-26

}}{{Cite web

| url = https://www.huffingtonpost.com/leighton-james-young/open-source-agriculture_b_9089772.html

| title = Open Source Agriculture

| website = The Huffington Post

| date = 3 February 2016

| access-date = 2016-02-26

}} and open source product development.

OSE made it to the world stage in 2011 when Jakubowski gave a TED Talk.[http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/marcin_jakubowski.html "Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111023152846/http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/marcin_jakubowski.html |date=2011-10-23 }}, April 2011. Accessed: 7-19-2011. on the Global Village Construction Set. Shortly after, the GVCS won Make magazine's "Green Project Contest". The Internet blogs Gizmodo and Grist produced detailed features on OSE. Jakubowski has since become a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow (2012) and TED Senior Fellow (2012).{{Cite web|url=https://blog.ted.com/meet-the-ted2012-fellows/.|title = Meet the TED2012 Fellows! | TED Blog| date=25 October 2011 }}