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  • From: Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org>
  • To: pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] synthesis[20][9.8.04]
  • Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 17:09:25 -0500

Richard Archer writes:
> >-SHARED WEB WORKSPACE
>
> Our shared workspace should be private. Anyone who wants to
> contribute can be given an account and access.

Not sure I share this view or maybe I misunderstand. I think that
editorial privileges should be restricted to the working group, but
being a public project and having the philosophical ideals around
intellectual property that I do, I would really prefer that everything
we do and say at least be readable by the public. I would actually
prefer that the archives of this list be readable by the public but
not strongly enough than I need to do more than express my preference.

> The public web site should at this stage be tailored to the specific
> needs of fundraising. In the future this will change, but right now
> there is little need for content which does not contribute toward
> this aim.
>
> The content should be along the lines of:
>
> - Outline the specific current goals of this project (i.e. to
> develop a plant information database with a complex search).
>
> - Briefly outline any other areas/services we might like to expand
> into in the future.
>
> - Describe the concepts associated with PIW (i.e. what is permaculture,
> what is a guild etc) so that potential funders can learn about those
> terms without having to ask and look dumb.

I think this should eventually be part of the permanent dataset as
well.

> - Describe the benefits to the community of this project.
>
> - Perhaps brief biographies of group members.

Are you volunteering? ;-)

> >p.s. If it takes you a long time to read, it took someone longer to
> >write...
>
> I've mentioned this before... Stephanie, why does your mail come
> through with all these unreadable characters in it? I find that
> it makes your posts much more difficult to read and assimilate!

I have a similar problem with them. My guess is that Stephanie writes
her sythesis in Word (on a Mac?) and pastes them into a webmail text
box. I'm able to work around it ok. Stephanie, no rush, but you
should consider using a non-webmail email client such as Mozilla
Thunderbird (if your running OS X), which you will thank yourself for
over and over later as it will solve all your email travails.

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





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