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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

John Schinnerer wrote:

> Have read all budget msgs to date - comments:
>
> Not sure I understand the conference/meeting/travel part in general.
> I think it means we all go to some national/international PC conference 
> and while there, meet with one another and also participate in the 
> conference.  Correct?
>
> If we end up floating in grant money, could be a good idea.

Better to build library resources for PIW, open-ended, even to the extent of 
funding other web-based info or db efforts;
this is in line with the open permaculture project concept.

> If we end up with lean resources, I don't support spending them on that 
> - better spent building the guts of PIW.
>
> My wages description should start with "Software testing and quality 
> assurance..." instead of "user-testing..."
>
> Not sure what the "Research" item under Travel Expenses is...seems to me 
> we are expecting to get research from contributors in various places all 
> over the world via the net once we have a system for them to put their 
> data into.
>
> Would put more for books and journals, myself. 

Excellent idea.

 Who exactly would
> hold/have these given our distributed nature is an open question 
> though.  

The Permaculture Institute (obviously :-).

> Maybe depending on project roles - tech books for some of us, 
> grant-writing sourcebooks for others... ;-)

That too.
> cheers,
> John S.


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