Permaculture Database

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

jedd wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Rich Morris wrote:
>
> > I don't really see the need for another wiki, the current one would be
> > fine to include the material you mention.
>
>
>  In the context of this list, and the subject of a permaculture DB
>  proper, I'm still unsure of the intent (including lifespan and plan
>  for migration of data to any subsequent genuine permaculture
>  database system) of the extant wiki.

I am curious about this too, mostly because the domain is owned by Scott and 
Permaculture Institute
(permaculture.info), where the wiki and all collected data resides. Where 
does PCI want it to go?
How long will it be hosted at ibiblio?

I questioned the practicality of my doing large amounts of work helping build 
that wiki
and using it as a repository for permaculture resources I have gleaned over 
the years.
In thebeginning it was suggested that we "abandon our personal projects and 
instead contribute to/do those projects in
the pc plant db". The idea that it is not my best option to farm using 
borrowed or rented land has impressed me of late.

I am grateful to Rich and Scott for permaculture.info and will continue to contribute to it. I think Scott wants it to 
be a resource on permaculture guilds and plant relationships.

Several of us have already begun work on a new wiki at ibiblio at 
http://www.ibiblio.org/permaculture.
This will be an integrated system utilizing MediaWiki (wiki), Wordpress 
(blog) and BBPress (forum).
The front end to this system will either be a webpage or Wordpress; not decided yet. BBPress offers some sort of 
integration capability so we will see whether that will provide an acceptable front end.

The name of this system is PermacultureWiki. It will be a general resource on 
permaculture and related topics.
Assuming permaculture to be an umbrella discipline then such things as agriculture, farming and gardening will be 
subtopics, all related to permaculture.

This system is of, by and for the greater global permaculture community and, of course, members of significant 
subscribers to permaculture forums and others related to permaculture such as the pfaf list, soil & health, em ag,
biodynamics, market garening and my new forum sustag@lists.ibiblio.org, sustainable agriculture. It will be permanently 
located at ibiblio in order to take advantage of the excellent and robust services that ibiblio offers for free 
including the ability of sysops to have direct access to the filesystem through an ibiblio personal shell account.

I would like to build a development group who would have sysop privileges as 
well as write access to the webspace
/public/html/permaculture on ibiblio in order to implement system upgrades, make modifications, install extensions 
(MediaWiki "plugins") and perform general wiki maintenance.

Who would like participate in this development group?

Lawrence