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  • From: Alia Tsang <alia@dietrick.org>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Attn: Paul Wheaton Re: How to Feed 9 Billion People
  • Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 13:20:10 -0800

There's always IRC....

On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 11:05 AM, paul wheaton <paul@richsoil.com> wrote:

> Well, you know how to get my attention!
>
> > If forums are used how nice it would be to have a chat
> > option
>
> Well, maybe. I guess the thing that is really slowing me down is that
> I'm not keen on chat.
>
> > Could you hack the source code for your online web forum app
>
> :)
>
> Dude, the forum software we use is a copy of JForum. Heavily modified
> by the staff at my larger web site CodeRanch.com. I suspect that
> there are a dozen people on this list that have used JavaRanch or
> CodeRanch at some point. Probably to help them get through a college
> programming class.
>
> These wonderful people are making new changes to JForum every week.
> And a handful have heard me talk about permaculture so much that they
> are glad to make changes that help permies.com but doesn't do much (or
> anything) for coderanch. Our image uploade stuff, for example, was
> overhauled for permies.
>
> > With old BBS's you would have a door app doing chat but this mod would
> > probably have to be fully integrated into the app source code.
>
> Now you are guiding me down memory lane.
>
> It was with BBSs that I first discovered that I did not like chat. :)
> In 1995, my terminal software (BananaCom) was the most popular for
> DOS/windows computers for accessing BBSs.
>
> I found one of the old boxes a coupla months back and posted pics:
>
> http://www.coderanch.com/t/589650
>
> > It would be nice to see this mod be made available in the Fukuoka
> > Farming forum at Permies. the FF list is lagging, i.e. not really
> > serving a global audience despite the importance of its subject. It
> > would be good to boost your Fukuoka forum and stimulate activity.
> > It is a super important topic not only to permaculturists but many
> > others, i.e. Chadwick, Bonfils, Hazelip, Jeavons, Coleman advocates.
>
> Hmmmmm ... I suspect that we can come up with stuff to build up the
> traffic in the forum.
>
> Start a thread on "building fukuoka traffic" in the tinkering forum at
> permies.com. Let's see if we can get some brainstorming there.
>
> Apparently, Fukuoka's birthday is February 2, 1913. So this upcoming
> Feb 2 would be his 100th birthday. I think we should explore a
> massive celebration!
>
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