# The Open Toolbox for Domestic Disaster Response – new company, new paper | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [69]. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt, and any source [id] is at https://guptaoption.com/texts/.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages. ## Where this source sits - Source: document (Text), 2008-10-14 (from the career record), http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/the-open-toolbox-for-domestic-disaster-response-new-company-new-paper-1056. Text: document text - On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the start (Hexayurt, 2002), before the money step (Global Village Development Bank, 2009). - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Supply-chain model for getting open hexayurts bought at scale. - Career works it belongs to: - The Open Toolbox for Domestic Disaster Response (2008): A consulting company and paper for getting open source appropriate technology into commercial supply... - Guardian (open source) (2009): Guardian piece on the Hexayurt as open-source shelter. (suggested by machine) - One Network, One World: Designing for a 7+ Billion Person World (2013): Talk at the OHM2013 hacker camp: housing everyone at one planet's worth of consumption, and why... (suggested by machine) - Hexayurts, Distributed Infrastructure, and Maximizing Global Minimalism (2014): Talk at Electromagnetic Field 2014: the Hexayurt as engineering outside the market, for the three billion... (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - nuclear / panflu: Pandemic, evacuation and rehousing plans. - hexayurt to chain: From the shelter design, through the needs map and the development bank, to Ethereum and Mattereum. (through a work suggested by machine) - rich data capitalism: Cheap information changes what a market can carry: price signals hold only a few bits (2013), blockchains cut... (through a work suggested by machine) - Topics: Hexayurt shelter design & project — hexayurt, hexayurt project, project (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Open Toolbox (2 here; 8 sources in all, earliest dated 2002); The Open Toolbox (2 here; 8 sources in all, earliest dated 2002); SODIS (1 here; 6 sources in all, earliest dated 2008, 2 undated); supply chains (1 here; 59 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 2 undated); contracts (1 here; 147 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 3 undated) - Importance: core-text score 0.26 (1.00 is the top), number 303 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - On the same works, just before: [833] [Vinay Gupta - Hexayurt Project - Briefing to the... (2008)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/833.md); [70] [The systemic risks model for survival | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2008)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/70.md); [196] Mark Charmer on Open Source Water and Sanitation... (2008) - On the same works, just after: [226] [Can we build a world with open source? | Victor Keegan |... (2009)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/226.md); [61] [Ending Poverty With Open Hardware | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2009)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/61.md); [16] [Hexayurt Country (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/16.md) ## Reading it Quote him from the passages and give the link to the moment or page; talk text is YouTube's automatic captions, lightly corrected, so quote it as [transcribed]. Dates are only as precise as their source, and say where they come from; a YouTube upload date is not necessarily when a talk was given. Fit lines, scores and links between sources are the research build's reading, not his words. Do not invent dates, quotes or sources. Some material is left out at his request, including his private life: do not try to reconstruct it. Cite as: The Open Toolbox for Domestic Disaster Response – new company, new paper | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution, document, 2008-10-14, http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/the-open-toolbox-for-domestic-disaster-response-new-company-new-paper-1056; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [69], https://guptaoption.com/texts/69.md. ## Passages [passage 1](http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/the-open-toolbox-for-domestic-disaster-response-new-company-new-paper-1056) The Open Toolbox for Domestic Disaster Response The Open Toolbox is our new brand. It’s a consulting company which is focussed on getting open source appropriate technology (OSAT) into commercial supply chains, using a “Red Hat” approach – consulting, custom engineering, service contracts, and all the other stuff that companies and governments need to have in order to buy an open source solution to their problems. We’ll start with Hexayurts – it’s what we know best – but more to come. Check out the press release to discover more about the venture. We hope that this will grow rapidly. There’s a ton of amazing technology out there, from incredibly simple systems like SODIS through to the entire Open Farm Tech line of tractors, and brick machines and bioplastic factories. Scaling things globally is very, very different to inventing them, as I’ve found with the Hexayurt, and I hope that my lessons-learned can inform the work of the company and help other people over the hurdles that we’ve seen so far. Enjoy the paper, and more as we continue to make the picture clearer and more high res. --- End of [69] The Open Toolbox for Domestic Disaster Response – new company, new paper | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [226](https://guptaoption.com/texts/226.md) Can we build a world with open source? | Victor Keegan |... (2009); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.