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  • From: Stephanie Gerson <sgerson@stanfordalumni.org>
  • To: <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] synthesis[20][9.8.04]
  • Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 09:25:11 -0700

Apologies, Lawrence, but I still disagree. We are all very busy with our
roles in this project, and it would be helpful if you alone were in charge of
requests to the list.

If people understand the purpose of the list and want to join, the ought to be
allowed to. What do others think?

As for the mission statements, YES they must be updated:

--"permacultureinfo
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/permacultureinfo
The purpose of this forum is to help individuals, groups and organizations
promote and develop information resources on permaculture. This includes
books, magazines, journals, bulletins and pamphlets, hardcopy and
electronic,as well as websites, mailing lists, databases, weblogs, wikis and
content management systems."

IMHO (aren't you proud of my acronym?), this is inaccurate. As I mentioned
before (do you read my posts, Lawrence?) this is *way* too broad and does not
capture the specific scope of our project. I would recommend: "This is the
public forum for the Permaculture Information Web, a project seeking to create
a Permaculture-centric database of relationships between plants. People
wishing to contribute informational content or ideas regarding the structure
of the database are encouraged to subscribe! More details about the project
may be found at www.permaculture.info." ***Can others on this list please
respond to this recommendation?***

--"openpermaculture
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/openpermaculture
The openpermaculture list is the forum for The Open Permaculture Project,
a global extranet of practitioners participating in developing a permaculture
knowledgebase."

Is this Bear's project? What is this? I'm confused.

--pc-knowledgebase
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/pc-knowledgebase
A forum for the exchange and archiving of information about permaculture,
scientific,
indigenous and anecdotal.

I assume this is your thang, Lawrence, am I correct? So the mission statement
is up to you.


--pcplantdb
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/pcplantdb
Permaculture Information Web,
http://www.permaculture.info
Database Technical Development Mailing List

This is not descriptive enough. I would say: "This is the technical and
logistics-oriented forum for the Permaculture Information Web, a project
seeking to create a Permaculture-centric database of relationships between
plants. People wanting to involve themselves with the technical and
logistical aspects of this project are encouraged to subscribe to this
few-member yet high-traffic list. People wanting to involve themselves with
the informational content and more general design aspects of the project
should consider subscribing to the pcinfo list instead [and give a link].
More details about the project may be found at www.permaculture.info."

If these statements need to be shorter, cut out the extra info (on the
permaculture.info website) - but we have to be clear about how these listservs
differ. And to be honest, I am unclear about the 2nd and 3rd that you
mentioned.

Lawrence and all - please heed my words. I DO NOT (sorry about the caps, but
I'm trying to emphasize my point) want the pcplantdb, pcinfo, or Permaculture
Information Web to become yet another mishmash of Permie resources and info.
Valuable as they may be, that is NOT what this project is about. PIW might,
of course, involve all aspects of Permaculture in the future - but for now, it
is about relationships between plants. Ok? I want Lawrence specifically to
respond to this, to make sure we are on the same page.

And Lawrence, like Scott requested, consult the group before you interact with
the public! We would like to have a consistent public voice.

peace
*Stephanie

[does the pcplantdb info above need updating?]

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