After a lot of planning and hard work our little village of bungalows is now complete and operational, we have been testing them out to find hidden weaknesses that we hadn’t thought of, and sure enough, a few wholes needed to be filled, and with that, we also refurbished the first unit we built to come up to the same specks at the rest of them.
We are getting more and more attention for our work here, and almost every day someone comes in to look at our structures and the way they where built, but also how we have used cans and bottles in our over all design, hopefully this idea of recycling buildings will get a foothold here in cambodia, and i wouldn’t be surprised if there are three more sets of buildings much like ours next season.
As we tell any one who wants to listen, this is an open source project, any one who wants more in depth details are welcome to visit us for everything from ideas to blueprints, We recognize sharing, teaching and collaboration as the key to success for ourselves as well as everyone (Information wants to be free, one of our values).
The last month has also seen a raise in the other part of done right, the creative business part. My friend from Momo Jord has visited me, and we have set up the production of two different pants, and two different shirts, that will be done and shipped to sweden in a couple of weeks. Cakes inc. Has also joined us for a month or so, making his first investment, a dirt bike that is now being rented out to our patrons. We will all meet up with Oud, our contact in Bangkok to continue our plans and productions. in a couple of days, two customers (or friends now, really) from Gothenburg, have decided to come back and set up their own business here, the knowledge we have gathered here for the last couple of years should be quite useful to them, and help them shortening their setup time by more than half.
Hopefully, next years posts here will be more business related than building related, at least until we set up the next “Done Right” unit, maybe in another country? who knows, it sure would be sweet to see another one go up in Whistler, Canada.
And so, this is it for now, our little umbrella corporation grows and the pedals of our work start to show as the sun shines on us..
-Sam
