pcplantdb

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

Chad Knepp wrote:
> Lawrence F. London, Jr. writes:
>  > Chad Knepp wrote:
>  > 
>  > >  > 7) money to pfaf (posible in exchange for photos to help
>  > >  >        cover cost of slide scanner we bought recently of £200).
>  > > 
>  > > As above, I think this is a stage 2+ idea... and if HG really garners
>  > > the support of the PC community we are going to be swimming in photos.
>  > 
>  > So the permaculture community is going to flood PFAF with photos which
>  > will later be bought back with HG funding and released under copyleft?
>
> No, I see the permaculture community walking around with digital
> cameras flooding HG with photos that will make the proprietary PFAF
> image set obsolete.

Anything you/we/the greater permaculture community does with regard to the db
project Stephanic got funding for will ultimately help PFAF. If we can avoid 
having to pay them for use of their photos
that's money than can be used to pay you and Rich for ever more sophisticated 
and refined programming enhancements for
the PCPlantDB. BTW I assume the project at hand, one that will occupy funding 
efforts and labours of all sorts will be formally
called a Permaculture Plant Database and will include guild information (and 
did Stephanie's grant specify that the database would be
a guild one or a plant one or both?).

As for building a collection of photos, we should encourage them to start 
taking them and uploading them somewhere.
I can get PM Wiki up and running quicker than TikiWiki probably and it had 
secure uploads for verified users.

It can be done now with the pc wiki but the process is somewhat convoluted.

As for photos, here's a sample of the early beginnings of the sort of work I will be doing. I used to be a landscape designer and contractor 
and am now am a natural market farmer and permaculture practitioner/experimenter.
http://market-farming.com/ - I took all the photos in the middle column of 
this webpage; persimmon, ground ivy and duckweed, top to bottom
Here's more, crude beginnings, of places around my mini-farm (large files, 
slow to load):
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/pcwiki/index.php/RedDirtFarming

LL
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L.F.London
lfl@intrex.net
http://market-farming.com
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech