permaculture

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

Brian LeMay wrote:

> I may be crazy, but wouldn't regional Pc-like plant databases and
> knowledgebases be better. I would like to see Pc databses for every

Yes. The Knowledgebase would be organized by geographic & climatic region, 
biome and bioregion.

Plant info (all data fields for) would be crosslinked to all other 
appropriate regions.

> climactic region, (well, while we are dreaming, for every bioregion.) They
> could be hosted by universities or non-profit ISPs. They could be used to

It _could be_ but it will be up to us to create and maintain this 
knowledgebase - it could be
mirrored, co-hosted or distributed to other organizations and crosslinked 
internally between
all participants runing the Knowledgebase in a Wiki; wikilinking and 
hyperlinking (http/ftp) is used to accomplish this.

> foster local networking of PC enthusiasts in the community. They could

Getting as many groups to form a network to build the knowkledgebase is the 
preferred model but we will have to start the ball rolling
with ours which:
-- will be running on ibiblio
-- I will get it running and will maintain it
-- others can be co-administrators to help manage and share the workload
-- ultimately it will be public property always administered by volunteer administrators, always hosted by ibiblio (grant $$ could be given 

   to ibiblio to ensure its survival into the future)

> provide info on local sources of plant material and plant knowledge. I

We organize into regional/local/bioregional groups to build our section of 
the knowledgebase - of course, being wiki,
approved users can also contribute regardless of where they come from

> envision them turning PC into the norm and not the exception. Yes, I'm
> dreaming.

This dream can become reality.

> Brian
>
> Information is the critical potential resource. It becomes a resource only
> when obtained and acted upon. - B. Mollison

Well said.

Text, graphics: videos, photos, drawings and blueprints, audio, wp documents, 
spreadsheet files that are uploaded and added to the
knowledgebase could, with our collective or individual (if required) permissions, be freely used by PFAF & the Permaculture Plant Database 
for whatever purpose they choose.


Meikal mentioned the need for a CMS in our knowledgebase; TikiWiki offers one that may meet our needs. We _are_ talking about free, 
offtheshelf, opensource software, ready to go to work that can be instally and managed by folks with average if not amateur software skills.

LL
--
L.F.London
lfl@intrex.net
http://market-farming.com
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech