permaculture

[venaurafarm <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>]

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