Niels- "Really the ideal situation as I see it is that /all/
permaculture designs are published online."
Testify, brother. That would be perfect, and get lots of new ideas in
circulation. I really like your thoughts for a central database...best
of luck with the PAB project. I think the current bottleneck is the
distributed nature of permaculture....since there's not an effective
central clearinghouse of 'official' pc information, it'd have to be a
voluntary effort on the part of instructors to require the documents to
be public....perhaps posted at PAB???
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Harry- "On ownership, something along the lines of the Creative Commons
of Copyleft might be pursued."
This is a great system to cover the intellectual property rights of
creative works, while at the same time recognizing the reality of
digital media and its ease of distribution.
Rich
www.mossbackfarm.com/journal
This has been one of my pet issues.
I started my research by trying to locate completed designs but with no
joy at all.
Really the ideal situation as I see it is that /all/ permaculture
designs are published online.
I think the best/simplest mechanism for this from now on would be to
have all designs from diplomas and PDC being submitted online.
On a central database.
There maybe some issues with ownership but i think if its done through a
course people then there is less comeback on this one.
This is one of the goals for the next phase of the Permaculture Assoc
Britain (PAB) website.
Which we hope to have at least integrated into the consultation phase
this year.
However I am having difficulty finding a online codebase/technology that
can handle the new media rich/user driven web presence for the PAB.
There will need to be substantial integration of tagging, image
management etc which to me, a non-coder, seems only available in a
proprietary form.
For example: Flickr for images, delicious for bookmarking.
At least there is Scuttle.org to replace delicious but I don't know how
easy it will be to integrate its functions for database retrieval,
rather than just URLs.
Anyone got any good ideas on this front? Would be nice to hear.
We are looking to fund-raise for this, so if a coder is to hired then
that is a possibility.
Right now though we need to see what our options are, particularly with
regards to technologies.
Cheers,
Niels
Message: 4
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 03:12:38 +0800
From: Harry Wykman <harrybw@iinet.net.au>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Suggestion for Design Sources/Soluition
Re: Farm design online
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
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Some questions have been being asked on the permaculture oceana list
recently regarding open source (permaculture / garden) design software.
It would be very exciting if something along those lines were
progressed. The synergy between P/c and open source / free software
seems very productive. On ownership, something along the lines of the
Creative Commons of Copyleft might be pursued. People could license
their designs from a suite of licenses that allowed sharing under
certain conditions. These kind of agreements have their ancestry in the
GNU public license which was developed for free never-for-profit software.