pcplantdb

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

Richard Archer wrote:
> Seeing the limited grant money spent on hardware rather than
> development would almost make me cry.
>
> I'm only a bystander here, but I'd have thought developing this
> system in the most widely available development environment would
> make most sense.
>
> And it is apparent that since your chosen host doesn't run ZOPE
> that ZOPE is not widely available and therefore not the most
> appropriate system to develop this project in.
>
> PHP/MySQL or PHP/PostgreSQL are almost ubiquitous.
>
> All these "edgy" platforms like ZOPE and even python to a certain
> extent are great for geeks to experiment with but they're hardly
> suitable for developing a mainstream package.
>
>  ...R.

I was going to offer a minimum of $2200 in quarterly payments over two years 
to supplement
programmers wages if we decided to use grant money to buy a Zope platform.

Instead I will donate that same amount and possibly more toward programming 
costs
(if necessary, paid directly to Chad through the PI) if Chad will agree to 
use ibiblio hosting
and software other than Zope. I'll bet we could use my donation to generate 
matching funding
from other sources. Would the permaculture Credit Union bestow a small grant 
to us? After all this project
is something that will benefit them too, in the long run.

I hope we can go this route. If we can put this product online I expect to 
see considerable interest in the permaculture community
and a steady and increasing flow of contributions of data and photos to the 
database.

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