permaculture

[Sean Maley <semaley@yahoo.com>]

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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