pcplantdb

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

Stephanie Gerson wrote:

> howdy everybody,
>
> This email from Lawrence is a great segway into what I've been working on 
> today.  I've been writing up the user scenario descriptions (yes, the 
> ones I've been telling you about for months), and thinking about how PIW 
> is going to distinguish itself from all these other plant databases.  
> Although I've finished with the initial write-up, I'm sending it to Bear 
> for edits before I send it to the group (just to make sure it makes 
> sense).  In the meantime, please consider how PIW will differ from other 
> databases...
>  
Here's a fairly typical user scenario:

Anyone with 1/8 - 10000 acres of  property wishing to establist a long 
term land use plan within the context of

1) residential use with landscape and/or food/herb/fruit/fiber/grain 
cropping
2) farm with extensive permaculture systems
3) homesteader  with  sophisticated  permaculture systems integrated 
with food/herb/fruit/fiber/grain cropping
4) market farm/market gardens/residence/homestead  with  sophisticated  
permaculture systems integrated with food/herb/fruit/fiber/grain cropping

Farmers with operations of all sizes desperately need to take seriously 
the challenge to develop sophisticated permaculture systems that are 
fully integrated with all
their diversified production operations and will offer economic security 
and eco-sustainability for the farm and eco-permanence of the land.  I 
like the term
Eco Land Tech (I did not invent this) - apply all available technology 
to help ensure ecological robustness and sustainability on land lived 
on, worked or maintained.

> Also, Richard mentioned that he was "A bit concerned that we haven't 
> really sorted out meta-schema questions."  Are these questions related to 
> the functional spec, and what do we need to do to answer them?
>  
I think those are issues that affect software coding.