Permaculture Database

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

Paul d'Aoust wrote:

> 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.

Sponsors :-) [Red Hat, IBM, Sun, many others], grants, donations and support from the Univ. of NC plus a joint venture 
with other entities at the NC Microelectronics Center (MCNC). I used to use VT100 in my telecom software, dialup modem 
(2400, 9600) to connect to MCNC and do an anonymous public login (provided for academic staff) to a telnet gateway to 
login to ibiblio, known as Launchpad originally, read Usenet news and browse ftp sites. That was a loooong time ago. I 
ran a dialup single line BBS in the FidoNet network 1:151/501: EARTH*Net BBS.

> 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?)

To get money from this source it will be necesary to ultimately fulfull the 
terms of the Threshhold Grant,
to create an interactive Permaculture Guild Database. Whether the software 
Chad produced will
be completed and used or whether some other software or web app will be used 
is up to those who
choose to work on the project and derive payment for their time from that 
grant.
Talk to Scott Pittman about money left in the grant and using it to finish 
the project.

LL
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