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[Killian O'Brien <admin@pri-de.org>]

Darren,

The plenaries, and perhaps other sessions, went very well with Bioneers. 
Certainly we have all been using Skype for various events - we had Geoff 
Lawton into our inaugural PDC for a few minutes and Scott Kellogg for a 90 
minute session - and there's no reason we can't get this done. The bandwidth 
would be massive, relatively, but tiny compared to some other global events 
that have gone on via live streaming. They key to limiting bandwidth would be 
local organizing into large halls, perhaps somewhat obviously. 

If the organizers in Jordan are willing to set things up there, likely not a 
simple or easy task, the rest of us should be able to manage one city-wide 
space where each of us are. If the Jordan conference is being hosted by PRI, 
I would be concerned about their follow through. Perhaps if we can get a 
major communications company on board, as suggested earlier?

BTW, has anyone used ustream? http://www.ustream.tv/ 

Cheers,

Killian O'Brien
PRI-De
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Darren Doherty
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2010 4:47 PM
To: Permaculture List
Subject: [permaculture] Permaculture in Jordan & Afghanistan

G'day,

Following the comments made the other day around the state of Permaculture
in Jordan I found
this<http://permaculture.org.au/2010/05/30/discovering-permaculture-in-jordan/>listed
at the Permaculture Research Institute's website.

As for the side play on the APC10 hosting business: perhaps it would be a
good approach to conciliate an outcome where the Bioneers-esque approach is
put forward, as I believe it is a reasonable one. I speak selfishly on this
as I am yet to have gone to a IPC due, due to a busy work schedule and at
this stage that is not likely to change in the foreseeable. Tapping into the
plenaries and other stuff on-line would be a good potential revenue raiser
and would expand the reach of the IPC to many of those who can't make it due
to financial, social or environmental concerns and realities.

Here in Australia the inaugural 'National Permaculture
Day<http://www.permacultureday.info/>'
was held recently on May Day, with activities centering on Sydney (where the
event started) but expanded across the country. This is a different format
again to the IPC but one that exists and could well occur such that there is
a 'action-based' component to the IPC, rather than just talk. I guess one
needs to be involved on the inside of things like IPC in order to influence
its direction and right now that is not a place I can go....As with many of
us we are continually stretched across so much in our work for the
ever-expanding 'Department of Permaculture'.

Also, prompted by Scott Pittman's (et. al.) great work in training some of
the National Guard, I wanted to bring attention to my good mate Paul 'Ringo'
Kean's recent work in
Afghanistan<http://picasaweb.google.com/ringoplantfreak>that may be of
interest to folks, including to Scott's student's themselves.
Ringo has done a great job wherever he has gone and did some fantastic work
with me on the Mars Inc./Forest Science Institute of Viet Nam 'Sustainable
Cacao Agroforestry System' project in Nghia Trung (Binh Phuoc Province) way
back (!!) in 2005/6. He is an expert garden agriculturalist & earthmover
(started at 13 with his dad's company): somewhat of a rare commodity in the
world of Permaculture.

All the best,

Darren

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