Appropedia:Porting: Difference between revisions

Porting material to Appropedia has the benefit that more people can have access to it, and the material can also be combined with other information in this ^W, and continually improved.

This page is for:

• content owners who are looking for some help in getting their content ported to Appropedia.
• those who wish to help in porting material here.

Helpers

The sources below, #Requests for porting help need porting. Before starting, please see Help:How to port pages for further instructions. Note we haven't written many instructions yet, so feel free to contact a porting helper. Also it would be wise to check what porting is already in progress before you start... again, ask a helper.

Owners: How to list your content

Please click on the edit tab above and type in some information about the content you have into the "Requests" section below, plus a link to the content. Please understand that by listing your content below you are agreeing to posting that content under the terms of the GNU-FDL.

If your content is not available to the general public on the web, please provide contact information, such as a link to your Appropedia user page, if you have one (which is a good idea, but not required).

Prefer to contact a helper?

See the list of volunteers willing to help port your content

Requests for porting help

Demotech

Many amazing, low cost, local materials based, how tos

Invitation from Reinder van Tijen of Demotech

If you port a page from Demotech, please include the following near the top of the page:

{{Demotechpage}}

To see what Appropedia pages have been ported from Demotech (using the Demotechpage template above) see the articles in Demotech.

CD3WD

1 gigabyte offline library of Appropriate Technolog for the third world

Invitation from Alex Weir Harare founder of CD3WD

If you port information from CD3WD, please include the following near the top of the page:

{{CD3WDpage}}

Experiments in Sustainable Urban Living

A remarkable site documenting numerous real world applications of sustainable technology in an urban environment by the Erssons. Ole Ersson has given permission for us to port any and all content from their site.

If you port a page from the Ersson's site, please include the following near the top of the page:

{{Erssonpage}}

Practical Action Technical Briefs

Practical Action offers over 150 briefs, in PDF form, on "how to" do various things from generating power to food preparation.

Appropedia has received permission to republish all the content that Practical Action has copyrights for. Most of the technical briefs fall into that category, though some photographs are from other sources that would require separate permission that has not yet been received.

(Note: when secondary source permissions have been received, please make specific notes here.)

Since there are so many documents to port, please see this page where we will be tracking the pages ported.

Priorities

Start with quick, easy pages, i.e. HTML:

• Most of CD3WD
• Demotech
• Mana Mushrooms

Suggestions for content to request

Let's focus on documents in HTML and Word format first, as they're much quicker. Hopefully someone works out quicker ways of porting PDFs. --Chriswaterguy · talk 06:12, 24 April 2007 (PDT)

• IDS
• Eldis OnDisc - note that they refer to "months spent in pursuit of copyright permission" so we'd have to check whether the material is copyright and used with permission (meaning we can't copy it) or released under ^W.
• Ken from Nabuur - can give suggestions on other DVD or CD based resources to request.
• Humanure Handbook, I'll look into it--Vacuum1313 13:04, 30 November 2006 (PST)

HTML content to request

• Toolkit on Hygiene, Sanitation & Water, by the World Bank.
• Village Earth content - what has been granted? What about The Appropriate Technology Sourcebook? --Chriswaterguy · talk 23:59, 22 April 2007 (PDT)