[pcplantdb] synthesis[20][9.8.04]

Chad Knepp pyg at galatea.org
Wed Sep 8 18:09:25 EDT 2004


Richard Archer writes:
 > >-SHARED WEB WORKSPACE
 > 
 > Our shared workspace should be private. Anyone who wants to
 > contribute can be given an account and access.

Not sure I share this view or maybe I misunderstand.  I think that
editorial privileges should be restricted to the working group, but
being a public project and having the philosophical ideals around
intellectual property that I do, I would really prefer that everything
we do and say at least be readable by the public.  I would actually
prefer that the archives of this list be readable by the public but
not strongly enough than I need to do more than express my preference.

 > The public web site should at this stage be tailored to the specific
 > needs of fundraising. In the future this will change, but right now
 > there is little need for content which does not contribute toward
 > this aim.
 > 
 > The content should be along the lines of:
 > 
 > - Outline the specific current goals of this project (i.e. to
 > develop a plant information database with a complex search).
 > 
 > - Briefly outline any other areas/services we might like to expand
 > into in the future.
 > 
 > - Describe the concepts associated with PIW (i.e. what is permaculture,
 > what is a guild etc) so that potential funders can learn about those
 > terms without having to ask and look dumb.

I think this should eventually be part of the permanent dataset as
well.

 > - Describe the benefits to the community of this project.
 > 
 > - Perhaps brief biographies of group members.

Are you volunteering? ;-)  

 > >p.s.  If it takes you a long time to read, it took someone longer to write...
 > 
 > I've mentioned this before... Stephanie, why does your mail come
 > through with all these unreadable characters in it? I find that
 > it makes your posts much more difficult to read and assimilate!

I have a similar problem with them.  My guess is that Stephanie writes
her sythesis in Word (on a Mac?) and pastes them into a webmail text
box.  I'm able to work around it ok.  Stephanie, no rush, but you
should consider using a non-webmail email client such as Mozilla
Thunderbird (if your running OS X), which you will thank yourself for
over and over later as it will solve all your email travails.

-- 
Chad Knepp
perl -e 'print pack"H*","7079674067616c617465612e6f72670a"'




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