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  • From: venaurafarm <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] IPC 11...virtual..streemed live ?
  • Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:28:50 -0400

On 10/8/2012 10:31 AM, Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
wrote:
Ali first built the website for the community 2005-2007 with the International
Support Committee(at IPC7 2005 in Croatia he was asked to to build
the website) he spent $20,000 on website (building and
postings)another $15,000 (working to make it transfer from Brasil to
Africa with Archive)was spent for IPC8 Africa .

With all due respect for all parties involved please tell me why on Earth, Mars, Venus or Alpha Centauri it takes $35,000 to build and maintain a website with robust features that is also portable?

You should need only donated webspace for all required filesystems and
server side applications and a few volunteers to configure and maintain them, promotion, education on site usage and support for users. This could be done on a really small budget.

$35000 could be used to purchase copies of Bill Mollison's Permaculture Designers Manual to donate to people all over the world in need of this magnificent work and who can not afford to purchase it.

Remember the permaculture teacher and field worker, a subscriber to this list (hope he is still here), in a village in some African country who was hoping for donations such as this.

Websites and their associated apps are simple things to construct and maintain and they don't need frilly technicolor lace-trimmed page templates to get the message across. Quite the contrary, I learned well, many years ago, from the herbalist Henriette Kress of Finland,
who started out on ibiblio with lists and websites, the beauty and lasting value of plain pure ascii-coded website html. Hers was a work of art in graphic design and simplicity, functionality and accessability. A KISS from Kress, as it were.

I would suggest spending some time selecting web hosting, web developers and how they plan to create your website and what apps they select to use. All that can be done in house and done very affordably.

LL





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