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  • From: Sean Maley <semaley@yahoo.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Callout for Coder or Technology for Permaculture Assoc Britain Web Development
  • Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:38:52 -0700 (PDT)

See http://www.open.coop for some local techies working in your area.

--- Niels Corfield <mudguard@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Further to the posting on the list regarding online permaculture designs,
> I want to take this opportunity to put a request on to the list
> regarding web technologies.
> The Permaculture Association Britain is looking to expand/enhance its
> web-presence by offering a more sophisticated suite of technologies to
> the International Permaculture community.
> The site, permaculture.org.uk, is already the top listing in a
> Google.co.uk search and gets plenty of hits.
>
> However I am keen to see the technologies offered by the site being
> expanded considerably.
>
> With three key goals:
>
> 1. Increasing member contribution. Moving to a largely member-driven
> content. Providing fully-featured personal/project web-presence
> hosting services.
> 2. Embedded delicious-style Tagged database retrieval technology
> throughout the site. Possible opensource technologies include:
> Scuttle.org
> 3. Image hosting. Obviously we would like to have something as slick
> as Flickr integrated into the site but at the very least I want to
> see at least the basic functionality with technologies for
> uploading directly from members PC/Macs. Possible technologies:
> Gallery 2, Coppermine (as used by Geoff Lawton).
>
>
> If anyone has an opinion on any of these technologies or would like to
> input in the design or consultation phase they are most welcome.
> We are planning to have at least one session on consultation at this
> years Convergence http://www.permaculture.org.uk/mm.asp?mmfile=conv2006
>
> What is the real overall key outcome is to have a fully-featured free,
> or donation-based, portal for serious permies, designers et al, to have
> a good-looking web-presence and to foster the kind of online community
> that yahoogroups, delicious and Flickr already do.
> All based around /our/ own code/, /by that i mean the whole
> international community.
>
> I hope that these goals will overlap with some of yours own
> personal/work/activist agendas and that it can become a reality.
>
> Those that wish to get involved, email me, or office@permaculture.org.uk.
>
> All the Best,
> Niels Corfield
>
> PS For those interested I have set up a Flickr permaculture group:
> http://www.flickr.com/groups/18846265@N00/
>
>
>
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