permaculture

[Paul d'Aoust <paul@heliosville.com>]

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A couple years ago a group of us were trying to hash out what a
permaculture database would look like -- what scope would it have? Could
we gather information about plants, or would animals and microscopic
critters be useful there too? How about tools and soil types? What about
regional information, with contributors being able to describe their
site, location, soil type, and keeping a log of their successes and
failures? Eventually we got all too full of scope and the list dried up
-- most of us probably wanted to be doing gardening instead :-) There
was one attempt to create a database using MediaWiki, and it was a good
idea, but I don't think there was enough collective momentum behind it.

Anyway, about a month ago there was a brief blip of activity, and it
demonstrated that there are a few of us who are still really interested
in creating a permaculture info database. You might want to read through
past mailing list archives and see the ideas that people came up with,
and see if you had some ideas that could inspire us all to start talking
again!

What is your area of expertise -- what languages do you know, do you
have any favourite development frameworks and libraries, and have you
had experience doing database design and normalisation?

Paul d'Aoust
Penticton, BC, Canada

On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 16:13 -0700, christophe mckeon gonzalez de leon
wrote:
> hi everybody,
> 
> just introducing myself. i'm still very new to
> permaculture. i'm currently reading/watching
> everything i can get my hands on about it, holistic
> management, as well as botany and ecology.
> i'm very excited about permaculture and i'll be doing
> my PDC near santa barbara in june with darren doherty.
> 
> i'm contemplating making a website for the
> use of the permaculture community. for the
> moment i am still very much educating myself
> and trying to figure out how my skills as a
> programmer and graphic designer can best
> be used on this project. i have many ideas
> and have written a fairly long-winded exposition
> of those, but i think it best if i ask you guys first
> before i put my ideas forward:
> 
> if you could have a permaculture website
> that could do *anything* you wanted, what
> would those features that you find most
> important/useful be?
> 
> keeping in mind not just the currently initiated, but also
> those wanting to find out more, as well as functionality
> that will be useful in the long term, as the world situation
> continues to unfold.
> 
> regards,
> christophe
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