Permaculture Database

[Paul d'Aoust <paul@heliosville.com>]

Well, that's all very good to know, and refreshing too. ibiblio seems to
have huge iron; I don't know where they get their money from.

I'm also pleasantly surprised that there is a grant out there for a
plants database. Is it slated exclusively for those three projects you
mentioned? (and should we merge into that project anyway, as you said on
the pcplantdb list?)

Paul d'Aoust

On Tue, 2007-27-03 at 21:13 -0400, Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:
> That's not the issue; ibiblio has more than enough disk space to host
> a huge database. Commercial sponsoring or any overt commercial
> activity is not part of their mission and charter.
> 
> So we do not need to raise money for hosting. We've been through the
> alternative hosting idea before in pcplantdb
> and I, for one, am satisfied that ibiblio is a perfect, and free, host
> site for a open source PC DB. In fact their sis 
> quite a generous offer. If some rich sponsor thought enough of our
> project to pay for commercial hosting in order to
> use us to promote his business this might be worth considering if he
> made an offer of significant size and guaranteed
> that it would continue for enough years to satisfy our needs, i.e. go
> it on our own and pay our own way.
> 
> Why would we need sponsoring? What would we use the money for other
> than to pay for programming effort, certainly a good 
> enough reason. There is money available in a grant from the Threshhold
> Foundation to pay for programming the pcplantdb 
> or PIW or http://www.permaculture.info. This is to be a permaculture
> guild database or permaculture plants relationship 
> database.
> 
> LL