Permaculture Database

[jedd <jedd@progsoc.org>]

On Monday 22 February 2010 19:39:23 Paul d'Aoust wrote:
> Personally, I wanted to get into this game because I liked PFAF, but

 Yup - I guess a very big part of what I want to do is track
 what I plant, when I plant it, conditions it experiences (of my
 own making, as well as climate / weather) .. and so on.

 The species / variety stuff is fairly straightforward.  It's the
 interconnects that throw me.

 I suspect most of us diverge on the stuff beyond this realm,
 though, and that's what I meant about the 'substantively
 different' requirements.


> Oh, so you do open-source stuff, eh? That's kinda cool; do you do it
> professionally (e.g., with Mandriva or some other company), or is it a

 Hobby, definitely.  I'm from Straya, staying in the UK for a while,
 so an excellent opportunity to be immersed amongst so much
 inspiring / daunting / invigorating geekdom.  :)


> Yes, but they might not be entirely incompatible. As you probably know
> from working with KDE, we create fictional users with specific goals,
> and run them through our dream system in usage scenarios. It might turn
> out that we need to accommodate a few end-games to make it useful.

 Oh, yes, I should have dwelled on this a bit more.  I was trying to
 be succinct - and failing, as usual - in case Matt got scared away,
 but happily he's nice and verbose, like us. 

 I think there's going to be lots and lots of overlap - and I'm sure,
 once we actually work out what we're (each) trying to do, we'll
 probably find a huge common pool of interest and, hopefully,
 code.  But first we have to, you know, work out the broad stuff,
 then the details, and then get into the paper-scissors-rock bit
 of picking a common language .. framework .. style guide .. 
 colour scheme .. ;)

 I like your idea of laying out the model we're contemplating.  I'll
 put a link in my next message to where I've got some of this
 stuff - though sadly not all of it - and just as sadly it's not
 terribly well laid out or accessible.

 Do you have anything web-visible of your thoughts, at the
 moment, of this kind of thing?

 J.