[permaculture] introductions & permaculture website

christopher nesbitt christopher.nesbitt at mmrfbz.org
Thu May 7 12:38:39 EDT 2009


One site that is pretty large is http://forums.permaculture.org.au/index.php

A lot of info in there.


On May 7, 2009, at 10:09 AM, paul wheaton wrote:

> I'm also a software developer turned permie.  I'm a Java guy.  I'm a
> big fan of forums and and set up some Java forums in 1998.  They now
> get about 70,000 visitors a day:  javaranch.com
>
> I set up some permie forums a few years ago, and they are doing pretty
> well at permies.com.  That gets about 2000 page views a day and about
> 30 posts a day.
>
> I think that rather than create something new, first take a look
> around at what already exists.  There are lots and lots of really cool
> things that exist and there are some really cool things in the hopper.
> Last fall I learned about how the amazing data from edible forest
> gardens is being mashed into a database!  Somewhere I read about a
> permie wiki.  And there are some great vids on youtube!   The home
> site for permaculture activist magazine has a HUGE list of resources
> (although the last time I checked, it didn't mention my stuff).
>
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Samay Israel  
> <samay.israel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Christophe,
>>
>>
>>   As a fellow programmer, I think it might be neat if there was  
>> something
>> that integrated the many regional websites around the world.  Like  
>> a web
>> ring, but with a shared global calendar  (maybe google?) and  
>> resource bank.
>> Maybe there is something like that already, but if so, I haven't  
>> come across
>> it.  It might also be neat to be able to search by region and each  
>> region
>> that contributes could have an rss feed, or something.  Many permie  
>> web
>> sites reference other ones but the data isn't shared across all of  
>> them
>> consistently.  For example, our website,
>> http://www.permaculturemarin.org/index.cfm?section=resources&page=links 
>>  has
>> lots of links but it's by NO means complete.  And although a wiki  
>> exists,
>> http://permaculture.wikia.com/wiki/ 
>> PermacultureWiki:Community_Portal it
>> could use more contributors.  That's just off the top of my head.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Samay
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 4:13 PM, christophe mckeon gonzalez de leon <
>> chromatophore at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> hi everybody,
>>>
>>> just introducing myself. i'm still very new to
>>> permaculture. i'm currently reading/watching
>>> everything i can get my hands on about it, holistic
>>> management, as well as botany and ecology.
>>> i'm very excited about permaculture and i'll be doing
>>> my PDC near santa barbara in june with darren doherty.
>>>
>>> i'm contemplating making a website for the
>>> use of the permaculture community. for the
>>> moment i am still very much educating myself
>>> and trying to figure out how my skills as a
>>> programmer and graphic designer can best
>>> be used on this project. i have many ideas
>>> and have written a fairly long-winded exposition
>>> of those, but i think it best if i ask you guys first
>>> before i put my ideas forward:
>>>
>>> if you could have a permaculture website
>>> that could do *anything* you wanted, what
>>> would those features that you find most
>>> important/useful be?
>>>
>>> keeping in mind not just the currently initiated, but also
>>> those wanting to find out more, as well as functionality
>>> that will be useful in the long term, as the world situation
>>> continues to unfold.
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> christophe
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>>
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>> Brezsny
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