## [t3_11u9g3i](https://www.reddit.com/r/selfreliance/comments/11u9g3i/looking_for_an_old_opensource_project_on/)
Hi!

I'm hoping you can help me out on finding and old project (opensource or creative commons) I recall from at least 10-15 years ago, but failed to archive it.

It was a shared, community driven (open source or licensed using creative commons templates, that is my strongest lead) effort to create a set of know-how for building a sustainable community or home from scratch. Workshop tools, farming/gardening tools, electricity, water pump systems, simple vehicles...

 I think it was alive around 2007-2012, at least a decade old now. It was an ongoing effort with some content ready, some during creation.

It involved, among other things, multiple tools you could build yourself. Like, a plow you can make using a frame you made in previous step. Then it used the tools you created to make more complex tools. I think it was guiding through things like creating a workbench for metal work. Then it gave options to create a plow, then it helped creating a small tractor that could be used with that plow, then it provided other attachments for the tractor and so on.

All options were designed in a way you can use most parts of each design in other designs. Focus was for you to be able to learn how to produce a part and use same bracket, frame, tractor in other more elaborate designs.

Some content was just "in planning", being only brief table of contents mention, but many were already created and tested. There was a community around it that wrote the whole thing, designed the machines, made them and tested on their own workshops and homes.

I am certain this was a project with focus on open source (as in software programming, sharing code of the books/how-to and so on) and or it was very focused on creative commons licensing.


If that thing survived, it would be a gem here, but so far I failed to find it.

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