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  • From: Lee Flier <lflier@mindspring.com>
  • To: pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] synthesis[20][9.8.04]
  • Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 20:33:18 -0400

Chad Knepp wrote:

Unless you have considerable background as a
computer programmer, I think there are two ways you can help.

Actually I do have 20 years experience in database design and applications/user interface programming... and of late I've been doing quite a bit of PHP and MySQL stuff. Have not messed with Python, but I could.

It would be cool to learn what everyone's skill set is here... yeah yeah I know, I'll read the archives. :)

If you
know python, three. First is in analysis and design. Not sure when
you tuned in, but there has been an ongoing thread about how a locale
should be defined. It's pretty helpful to have a broad discussion
about these kinds of things because my strong point isn't really
permaculture knowledge. I think I can implement anything that I
understand the need for, but first I have to know what is needed.

Right. Well having both the permaculture thing and the programming thing going on I can probably be quite helpful in the design/analysis area, although there are quite a few heavyweights here I see in the permie arena like John and Scott (I attended a PDC taught by Scott and Bill Mollison, and it totally rocked!)

But (to get back to the "how many people do we really need and how public should this list be?" train of thought), maybe we could simply solicit ideas from potential users about what they'd like to see from the project, on the existing public permie lists? And then leave the ultimate design process, decision making, and of course actual programming up to a very small group on this list? It seems like that would be more sensible than opening this list up to everybody and their aunt Bertha. Unless anybody's aunt Bertha can write a few thousand lines of code per hour... :)

But maybe once we've scoped out the design (and collected wish lists/input from wherever) we can evaluate better what needs to be done, who here can do it and whether we need to recruit anybody else. And if so, what their skills need to be. And if anybody here is redundant and just mucking things up, including me... LOL.

Ha! You have passed the geek acronym test with a clever and most
appropriate use of RTF*! Welcome to the list.

Thanks! Nice to meet those of you I haven't met, and nice to see those of you I have!
Lee




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