pcplantdb

[Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org>]

In many ways John reflects my own thoughts better than I have in the
past although I have said similar things in
<https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/pcplantdb/2003-March/000069.html>.

John Schinnerer writes:
 > <snip>
 > I'd rather see whatever money could be generated for something like
 > this circulate within the Permaculture community and fund an
 > open-source community-developed database/resource, including
 > functional support for those with limited technological means.
 > <snip>

Yes and just what sort of funding exists to support this kind of
project?  I believe that a fairly small amount of money could take
development of PCPDB/PCDB to a point of allowing collaborative
information gathering and I think this would slingshot the quality and
quantity of the PFAF dataset to a whole new level.  I think I am the
person with the skill and motivation to do it; all I need is cold hard
cash.  If I were funded for 300 hours @ $15/hr (I'm worth $50/hr) in
2-4 months I could do some amazing things, with the permaculture
community as the most direct beneficiary.

GBIs: No reason not to have multiple interfaces to the same dataset.
I'm personally more interested in developing other sorts of interfaces
at this time.

-- 
Chad Knepp
perl -e 'print pack"H*","7079674067616c617465612e6f72670a"'