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[Stephanie Gerson <sgerson@stanfordalumni.org>]

hello everyone,

First of all, congratulations to Chad for release 0.2.0!  I look forward 
to enjoying some “breaking pleasure” (Bear, I’d like to do this 
together).  A few items of note:

-For the most part, folks (myself included) don’t seem to be checking out 
each other’s documents/developments - i.e. John’s testing doc, Bear and 
my user scenario doc.  Is this problematic?  Perhaps, in the face of 
successful collaboration.  So I suggest that we each (at least Chad, 
Johns, Bear, Rich, myself) take the necessary time (probably less than 1 
hour total) to familiarize ourselves with what others are up to.  This 
includes:

1. playing with Chad’s latest release (www.permaculture.info) 
2. reading John’s testing doc (http://www.permaculture.info/wiki/
index.php?n=QAAndTest.WritingBugs) 
3. checking out the issue tracker, writing up bugs if necessary (https://
www.arashi.com/roundup/piw/index) 
4. reading Bear and my user experience doc, and editing if necessary 
(http://www.permaculture.info/wiki/index.php?n=Main.RichClient) 

Are the links above correct?  Please complete these tasks sometime within 
the next 2 weeks.

-Related, I’d also like to post a message to the PIW list with a similar 
list of tasks – letting list members how they can help out in specific 
ways.  I assume I should ask them to perform tasks 1, 2, and 3 – but not 
4 yet (until we tighten it up).  Do we all agree?  And is there anything 
else I can ask PIW list members to help with?
  
-I’m curious where we’re at in the grander scheme of PIW.  Are we ready 
for new data (i.e. from Paula Westmoreland)?  Or is Chad still 
implementing data only from PFAF?  So far, how does PIW differ from other 
existing databases?  I would Love a response.

-Regarding funding, I am not so interested in advertising for nurseries.  
I would rather have PIW not contain any ads – but I guess if they’re 
embedded in comments, they’d be less intrusive.  What do others think 
about this?  The Pay Pal idea is a good one – but I believe it costs 
quite a bit of money and work to set up a Pay Pal account.  I’ve asked 
Scott, so I’ll report back.  And I will also be submitting more grant 
applications.

Fantastic work, everyone.  And yes, Chad – please do something more fun 
if you feel you need it!

tchau
*Stephanie


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Stephanie Gerson
sgerson@stanfordalumni.org
(c) 415.871.5683


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