I‘ve tried to visualize the landscape of the production process, based on open source hardware, appropriate technology and small scale economy. Instead of having an isolated process hardly communicating there is a multitude of participants interacting in different ways.

The composition of the actors are not fix and put together in a flexible way depending on the situation: a person or business can be user or customer or developer or producer. Borders between the elements in the process are seamless.

Most important: Design (knowledge of how to manufactor a product) has to be open and free available for everybody. How it works in detail is still subject of some more thoughts. Also
how to make a living in such a process/environment.

By the way: Does anyone know an OS-software to draw diagrams as shown?