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[Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>]

Stephanie Gerson wrote:

> This may be naive, moot, all of the above, none of the above...but I'll 
> say it anyway.
>
> So, remember how I suggested that when dealing with group dynamics and 
> our creative process, we ought to look to ecological systems for 
> inspiration and mimick them (a la Biomimicry, which Permaculture is one 
> form of)?  Fer instance, our decision to go with TouchGraph instead of 
> ThinkMap, back when were were discussing GBI's, is one manifestation of 
> that - in that we chose to use what's already available.  (And actually, 
> I refer to this adherence to Permaculture/ecological principles in grant 
> proposals.)
>
> Anyways.  At one point in Rich's discussion, he wrote "We now have a 
> whole new problem xml-object mappings or xml-relationalDB mappings. I.E. 
> how we get from our internal representation on the server to the xml (or 
> html)."
Problem is probably too big a word. Programming task might be more 
appropriate.

> Granted, I have no clue what he's talking about, but.  I would like to at 
> this point remind you of a branch of Industrial Ecology which deals 
> precisely with information systems - and how to mimick ecology in the 
> development and organization of them.
>
> And this is actually something I discussed with Jim as well - how our 
> database can contribute to this emerging field.  Methinks I'll gather 
> some references and send them out, I'd Love to hear what you think.
Love to see some links.

> But you're catching my drift...  When you run into some tech-related 
> impasse in the construction of hg, ask yourself - how would an ecological 
> system respond?  Or, how do ecological systems deal with this problem's 
> ecological counterpart?  I know I'm oversimplifying, because I'm not 
> familiar with any of that techinessss ;) but just wanted to plant that 
> seed.

I supose this is applying permaculture to website design!

        Rich
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