permaculture

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

Niels Corfield wrote:


> Michael Kuehnert wrote:

> > Niels Corfield wrote:

> > > 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).
> > >   
> >
> > A few initial thoughts:
> > * With PC's focus on design and diversity, projects should have
> > a broad range of options to customize the look of their
> > presentation
> > * You mentioned a central repository for project reports. This
> > would be comfortable, fast and easy, but projects should
> > also be able to host the material on their individual servers,
> > as a central server or even a grid of central servers might
> > just one day fall prey to Hierarchy's trappings. It is one
> > thing to have copies of reports in central positions which
> > would be able to backup the data to a secure location, but a
> > distributed structure would be more robust by design. Perhaps
> > those two organizational structures can be brought to overlap,
> > providing distributed security and ease of use at the same
> > time.

This is a good starting point. All of the above.

> The intention at the PAB right now is go completely electronic.
> Since we have filing cabinets full of data ATM.
> All of which are unavailable to those that do not reside in Leeds, UK.
> And the office is quite small, we want more people using the space/services.
> Any thoughts?

Get started now with a Wiki, MediaWiki if possible or at least TinkWiki or 
PMWiki.
Then you will have a repository for varied resources and can work toward 
implementing a true relational database
using a dataset gleaned from the resources in your wiki. I was planning on 
doing this myself with PM Wiki,
but not the DB.

LL