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  • From: Stephanie Gerson <sgerson@stanfordalumni.org>
  • To: pcplantdb <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] comments on 0.2.0
  • Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 23:13:37 -0700

Sure. Paula Westmoreland (who'll be contributing information on zones 3, 4,
and 5) already received a SARE grant - and we were considering doing a joint
application. If you are interested, Lawrence - please go for it!
*s

------ Original Message ------
Received: 07:52 PM PDT, 07/28/2005
From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
To: pcplantdb <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] comments on 0.2.0

Stephanie Gerson wrote:

> QUICK RESPONSE TO LAWRENCE IN CAPS:
>
> Relationships matching could, in reality, become the heart of PIW or
> at least one of its most popular and most
> often used features.
> BECOME THE HEART? IT *IS* THE HEART ;)

It started out as a permaculture plants database and is still mostly
that. So what I am talking about is extending it to include
relationships matching, and matching not just plants, animals, insects,
other lifeforms but data representing important cultural requirements as
well, meaning matching environmental factors to those required to
sustain the ecological niche of a lifeform or lifeforms as in a guild or
body of lifeforms matched in a relationship that require similar
environmental conditions for survival.

> I wonder what Stephanie thinks of extending PIW functionality and data
> gathering into this area since she was interested in SARE funding for
> PIW use by market farmers
> at one time.
> YES, I WAS INTERESTED IN THIS POSSIBILITY. AND STILL AM. BUT AFTER
> DISCUSSING WITH FOLKS AND DOING A BIT OF RESEARCH, I DECIDED IT'S SOMETHING
TO
> PURSUE IN THE FUTURE ONCE WE HAVE SOMETHING SOLID.

Valuable data can be gathered from ag people who will become avid future
users of PIW while fulfilling the terms of some sustainable agriculture
grant as PIW is in an early development stage. I think this is well
worth doing. Maybe someone else could be found to get a SARE grant or
funding from a similar source to add farmer-specific resources to PIW.


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