Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

pcplantdb - Re: [pcplantdb] User experience, assumptions

pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: pcplantdb

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: "John Schinnerer" <john@eco-living.net>
  • To: "Permaculture Plant DB project" <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] User experience, assumptions
  • Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:16:17 -1000 (HST)

Aloha,

>> I simply want to avoid shifting our focuse to *catering to* specialist
>> groups in specialized ways.
>
> What exactly, are you referring to here, John? What specialist groups?
> and why not?

I am here to help create a PC-based, PC-centric plant info database with
broad and deep applicability.
I am not here to help create a specialist/specialized DB for commercial
nursery operators or horticulturalists or
temperate-annual-veggie-market-farmers or whatever.
There is IMO no necessary conflict here. To repeat,

>> If PC is a meta-design system, as we claim,
>> then a PC-centric database will implicitly support all these sorts of
>> more
>> specialized folks while simultaneously educating them in various
>> meta-domains (such as PC design, whether they know it or not).

John S.

John Schinnerer - MA, Whole Systems Design
------------------------------------------
- Eco-Living -
Whole Systems Design Services
People - Place - Learning - Integration
john@eco-living.net
http://eco-living.net






Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page