pcplantdb

[Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>]

Stephanie Gerson wrote:
> -Related, I have some great news.  Remember how I told you that my father
> works with Laszlo Systems (no one seemed to care).  Anyways, I asked if
> they’d be willing to make a simple prototype of PIW for us and he agreed. 
> But it’s gotta be simple – because I am pressed for time and so are they. 
> I was going to work with them at the end of August, but if there’s anything
> I should know/see – let me know now.  (Bear, you are more than welcome to
> come along.)  For example, if the above conversation on inputs/outputs, and
> relationship-modeling in general, could be put in a spec or something, that
> would be very useful.  Would this kind of information go in the wiki spec? 
> And is anyone using it (besides Rich)?

Cool, dare I ask about: licence, money?

Yep I do remember it
        http://www.laszlosystems.com/lps/laszlo-in-ten-minutes/
was the nicest start point.

> -PIW list – there have been a few messages from PIWers wanting to help, but
> not quite understanding how.  Can we please make our responses to them
> intelligible?  Before I ever did any software development/QA, “dev site”
> would have meant nothing to me.  Let’s try to make this as easy as possible
> for them, ok?  

Indeed, keep geek speak to pcplantdb, real language to PIW. Yet us know 
when we say anthing non understandable.
> -Financial matters – I am more than willing to forfeit the money I am
> ‘owed’ and use the remaining for other folks’ salaries and anything else
> we might need.  I also recognize that the money will dwindle slowly, and if we
> would like to meet (perhaps at Chad’s place in 2007…faraway, but I Love
> that idea), we should decide before that point.  In my budget, I _did_ include
> an item for Travel Expenses = $2,400:
>
> “Project-participant meeting & Dissemination/Presentation/Conference
> visits—for all project participants to simultaneously convene in person and
> present/gather information at Permaculture conference”
>
> So technically, this would be justified.  Simply a matter of wanting to spend
> remaining funds in this manner, and choosing a venue that would be
> fruitful/appropriate.  What do you all think?  Also, whatever happened to the
> Pay Payl thing?  Sorry to sound grouchy, but everyone says how easy it is but
> no one sets it up.  Would anyone be willing?  

OK there now a paypal account. Currently I'm admin for this but can 
easily change it. If anyone wants access let me know. Its set up with 
the Permaculture Institutes address but no bank account.
Scott can use some other email for you other than 
pci@permaculture-inst.org say scott@permaculture-inst.org or
piw@permaculture-inst.org for some reason I can't use the pci email address.

> -Also, does PFAF link to PIW anywhere on their website?  It would be nice to
> be linked from http://www.pfaf.org/links/linksOldBib.php or elsewhere. 
> Rich??

It did. And will do, probably on home page and on database pages. I'll 
get to it.

> -Lawrence, did you ever figure out why some of us are losing emails?

I think its my ISP.

> I'm wondering about the future of PFAF too - did Rich ever respond?
*curious Stephanie

I'm wondering about the future of PFAF! Half of me wants to resign 
tomorrow. More news mid september after a trustee meeting.

And the big news: I've now got the latest DB update from Ken, and hes 
happy for it to go into PIW. This should be a lot cleaner as most of the 
duplicated info is now removed.

I'll need to chat with chad about best way to get data to him.

Rich