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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
  • To: PCPLANTDB <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] synthesis[22][9.27.04]
  • Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:06:27 -0700

Stephanie Gerson wrote:

‡ PIW and PCPLANTDB Lists
About the PIW list, Lawrence asked, “Do you want the archives public or
private; subscriptions open without approval or anyone can subscribe (without
me being given notification and the opportunity to review their application
and give my approval for access to the list - I can remove spammers and
malicious users this way - rather than after the fact)?”
Let’s make the PIW pretty much open to anyone without spammic (my new word)
nor malicious intentions. That would be wonderful if you helped weed them out
by reviewing their applications.

OK.

About the pcplantdb list (or the piw list?), Lawrence wrote, “I thought it
was already decided not to limit subscriptions. I have it set up for anyone

That was my type, should read: "was already decided to limit subscriptions"

interested to apply and send me email which I will post here for group
approval of their access to the forum. Otherwise anyone can send me
email with email ID's anyone they want in this list and I will subscribe them.
Much better to know before subscribing them - letting them on for a
"probationary" period then possibly unsubbing them is not good for PR.”
This is absolutely fine with me.

OK.

‡ SHARED WEB WORKSPACE Lawrence wrote, “It looks like pcplantdb and piw lists, permaculture.info's
Plone CMS and the pcplantdb wiki in the pcwiki. Group access to a (public)
website where we all edit the html and upload documents could be had also (on
ibiblio, where everyone has ibiblio accounts and write access to the
filespace) - this might be even easier for Stephanie than using wiki or a
cms.”
The easier the better. What do others say?

I'm curious too.

‡ INFORMATIONAL ARCHITECTURE
Although Chad assured us that code will be pretty modular, I’d still like to
initiate this discussion (don’t worry Scott, this isn’t about overloading
Chad – more about fleshing out the delicious ingredients of hg). I’ll
write up something preliminary, including ideas and questions, and send it out
at some point soon (like Chad, I’d rather be ambiguous than set rigorous
deadlines).
Somewhat related to the informational architecture, Lawrence wrote, “I
thought input from anonymous users would not be allowed or were they to be
allowed within a peer-review system wherein spam would be rejected?”
This is something we’ve briefly alluded to, but haven’t thoroughly
discussed. People have suggested peer-review systems similar to e-Bay

It was well-discussed by Rich, Chad and John 1&2. Look in the archives.

(someone recently told me that at this point, your e-Bay rating is more
important than your credit rating) and Amazon – how exactly do they work and
would we want to mimic them? What do people think?

See the pcplantdb archives for a proposed system.

‡ MISCELLANEOUS
-Ecological Engineering – Apologies that I still haven’t initiated this
thread…but I will! I know Lawrence was excited about it, and thanks for the
extra poking around you did. I actually subscribe to JIE (Journal of
Industrial Ecology), so shhhhh - if you’re quiet, I can send you the article
I was referring to (“Industrial Ecology and Ecological Engineering,” by
David Tilley) along with any other relevant ones.

This article is unique and should be well worth reading (I haven't yet but
plan to).
It costs $8 to download.

-Chad wrote, “There is 'having something to show' and there is 'having
something kick-butt to show'.” Completely understand the difference. Todo
bien. Just want a proof-of-concept (a.k.a. something to show that doesn’t
necessarily kick butt) to show by October 15th – will this be possible. If
not, no need to stress about it.

-Latest tasks updated below. Check 'em if you please.

Alrighty, that’s all for now.

hg LOve
*Stephanie

p.s. holy guacamole Scott, you don’t know what an hg is?
p.p.s. $B"x (B
p.p.p.s. just kidding…ok ok I will make the transition from MS Word soon
(will someone hold my hand)

Get a text editor: UltraEdit (Uedit), NoteTab Pro and Textpad.

∑ Lawrence
1. Create new and improved wiki, or other form of shared work webspace

Some of this relates to the "shared web workspace" mentioned above.

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