A Suprising Blue Wave

There has been a lot of discussion on the list about next generation permaculture design resources, partly driven by the discussion around Evan’s culture jamming the Tagari PDC online.

Some of my thoughts;

Design & Project Approach

Scaling permaculture projects from apartments, homes & gardens, streets & suburbs, towns, villages, farms, states, countries, now with Klimaforum09, the entire planet.

Wisdom, Knowledge, Information & Data

The Internet

The internet, and especially the World Wide Web, has changed information, publishing and knowledge. The internet advertising market is now bigger than TV, bigger than most other media advertising markets combined. Google is an advertising corporation with a search business.

Licensing Schemes

There are many publishing licensing schemes beyond the IP regime of simple Copyright. Creative Commons licences (with extensions possible i.e. CC+) , General Public Licenses and a host of other open-source and free licensing schemes.

Open-Content, Open-Source and Open-Business Models in the Open Society

Social Software and the Purpose Driven Web

Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, YouTube

Project and Task Management

OpenCore, TRAC, 

Online Video

YouTube, Blip, TubeMogul, LiveStream, UStream, red5, plumi

Semantic Web, Wiki’s and Online Databases

Sourcewatch, Wikipedia, Chaordic, TimBL & W3C Semantic Web, Wikipedia, Freebase, MediaWiki, SMW+

Computer-Aided Design

AutoCAD, landscape

Eclipse

Data Models

XML, Semantic Web etc

Mapping and Geographic Information Systems

Google Maps, Google Earth,  LASS, OpenGeo etc

Civic Action Tools

Sourcemap, MIT’s Civic Media Center, OpenCongress, TheyWorkForYou (MySociety)

Hyperlocal

Web Content Management

Blogging tools Wordpress, Moveable Type. Web application frameworks such as Plone, Drupal, DotNetNuke, Joomla. Environments like Django, Ruby on Rails.

The Corporate Internet

How much of the internet is commercial vs public ? how did this happen ? what is the history of the internet ?

The Google Complex - McBig Brother

Google’s privacy and anti-trust implications. Do No Evil. Symbiosis with Wikipedia. Advertising effect. Search formula. An open and public search system ?

Design Tools and Media

A Design Tool Ecology

how do all of these tools work together?

Interfaces

Face-to-Face

Web-Browser

Mobile

Software

Filed December 1st, 2009 under Uncategorized

5. Permaculture Design Tools - there have been a number of requests on
the email lists  *especially from the US for a computer based design
tool for permaculture farmers, designers, educators etc... I see this
as a software application like an existing computer-based farm design
tool, that is open sourced, and perhaps is linked and/or creates a web
database - perhaps like a wikipedia system - that contains data on
tools, species, landforms, market data, polucultures etc...

http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/permaculture/2008-December/032490.html

Filed May 29th, 2009 under Uncategorized

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