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  • From: Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org>
  • To: pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] synthesis[20][9.8.04]
  • Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:01:53 -0500

Lee Flier writes:
> 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.

Rich* are also into PHP, although there is somewhat of a platform
schism here with John* and myself are into Zope and python. The
chosen platform for the project is python on Zope. Interesting that
first name seems to be indicative of tool choice ;-)

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

I don't mean to discourage you from looking through them, but don't
feel bad if you don't get it all, this has been a really high traffic
list.

> >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.

I think the current objectives are implicitly clear to most of us
although it would be good to articulate them a little better and get a
more explicit definition of what we are doing other than
<http://www.permaculture.info/documents/phase1>. Some of this was
written by Stephanie, but is somewhere back in July I think...

> <snip>

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





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