pcplantdb

[Stephanie Gerson <sgerson@stanfordalumni.org>]

I completely agree with Scott here.

I also wish we would have waited to write up a coherent description of the
project and create a more organized infrastructure allowing people to
contribute.  That's why I wrote that draft of the post to PC lists.  

But now that what's done is done, we still ought to send out a description of
the project and the kind of information we are looking for.  I will probably
not have time to do this today before I leave, can someone else please take
care of this?  Otherwise, it will have to wait until Monday morning.

I also agree with Scott that this is about plant relationships - information
to assist with guild design.  That was what the grant proposal was for and
that's what I would like to work on....initially.  Of course, in the future,
it can grow into Lawrence's vision of OPIP or PCKnowledgebase, but for now,
let's stick to plant relationships.

Phew
*s

Scott Pittman <pci@permaculture-inst.org> wrote:

Please, please let's keep the pcplantdb list completely separate from 
the public list or we will never get anything done, we have enough 
trouble with 5 -6, no more unless they are critical to the db development. 

I envision the public list as a list where a carefully crafted 
description of what we are attempting is written as an introduction, and 
that we put out a call for data sources which can be screened and put 
into a mailing list which will allow us to solicite information when the 
db is ready to accept it.

It might be good to put out the different considerations for fields that 
we have discussed and see if we have missed anything. 

I got into the pcplantdb late so I'm not sure what was discussed before 
I arrived, so forgive my ignorance.  It seems that this db is far more 
extensive than what I thought the grant proposal outlined.  I thought we 
were talking about a plant guild  data base, and now it seems we are 
talking about permaculture "soup to nuts", which is huge.  I don't have 
anything against going for the whole thing but does it make sense to do 
it in bite size chunks, ie first plant guilds, then water , then 
patterns, then ....  I could be wrong but to start off with the whole 
magilla  seems a little overwhelming, but I'm not a programmer, so you 
tell me.

Musing,
Scott 

Stephanie Gerson wrote:

>BTW, will people who receive the subscription email know what it's about? 
>Because I have a feeling that no one on this list has been following our
posts
>except for 5-6 of us.  
>
>hmmm
>*s
>
>"Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net> wrote:
>
>
>permacultureinfo, the Permaculture Information Web Public List is up and
>running.
>I have subscribed everyone on this list. The archives are open to the public
>and searchable
>by Google so some of you may want to set your nomail option to on to unclog
>your inboxes.
>Change your user config here:
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>
>LL
>  
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