pcplantdb

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

John Schinnerer wrote:
> 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).

Custom features might be added that specialist groups could make great 
use of. I have described many of these in the past. Special funding 
might be needed to create these without which they might never get done.

No harm in speculating on bells and whistles for PIW. Many people enjoy 
such indulgences.

I agree that PC-based and PC-centric has to be the core purpose and 
function of PIW. It also needs to be flexible enough to be able to add
extra features for special functionality any time it is needed. Some 
funding might require doing this. Biomimicry. Would you say that that 
concept should be incorporated into a core feature of PIW?

PIW has to work equally well for agronomists as well as permaculture 
designers as well as for landscape architects.

LL