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Hi Chris,    Thanks for the positive comment. The object on the right side of the first image is the top of a foundain pen included for size indication. This is a usual practice while photographing small objects for technicial/scientific purposes. Thought it may be helpful for some one!
Hi Chris,    Thanks for the positive comment. The object on the right side of the first image is the top of a foundain pen included for size indication. This is a usual practice while photographing small objects for technicial/scientific purposes. Thought it may be helpful for some one!
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==Joshua==
Thanks Chris -- I added a bit to the industrial symbiosis definition - and you definitely hit on the right main source - problem is it is published already -- we need to get the publishing part of appropedia up and running.
--[[User:J.M.Pearce|Joshua]] 07:22, 25 April 2007 (PDT)

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Rainwater Harvesting and Blogging

Please feel free to move your personal blog here. I think that appropedia should serve as a blog space and social networking site (more on that later) for those working towards change.

I hope you don't mind but I googled you. And found your work on Vadgam rainwater catchement. I have had some success using wikipedia:Ferrocement rainwater harvesting with little noticeable taste. Here are some links you may find useful... I should probably add some of these to appropedia and wikipedia accordingly. It looks like the ferrocement page at wikipedia could use some help.

http://www.irha-h2o.org/documents.html
The documents seem to be missing right now... but should be up soon I hope.
http://www.waternet.ihe.nl/aboutWN/pdf/Handia&al.pdf
In this urban Zambia project they picked ferrocement as the most cost effective.
http://www.itdg.org/docs/technical_information_service/rainwater_harvesting.pdf
Nice 24 page rainwater harvesting document from Practical Action. Inculdes ferrocement tanks.
http://homepage.mac.com/vsvyas/science.html
The Ajit Foundation, Scientific Resource Centre, Jaipur
SimTanka: software tool for rainwater harvesting performance modeling. This software has meet some common international development problems, read more about it at the link.
Jal-Chitra: software tool to create an interactive water map of a village.

In addition, the great and short documentary A Quiet Revolution has a piece about a village in India digging rainwater harvesting swails for ground water recharging. I believe there is a viewable movie at that site, but if not I can put it on a server for you. I am emailing the producers to ask for what they think about hosting the video on google video or the such.

I think I have some homemade movies on ferrocement as well. Please let me know if you are interested.

I posted those videos and a rough powerpoint with some photos to the password protected http://www.appropedia.org/tempshare1/. These files are very unedited and unprofessional, but they are hopefully somewhat educational. This project was only the second time this person ever built a ferrocement tank, but the first time was very successful. I emailed you the password. Please ask before sharing these files as I need to get written permission from the author (I have verbal permission). In addition, I will be asking the author to make an appropedia page on this process and to fix up the videos, which I will then put on Google Video. --Lonny 18:49, 4 July 2006 (PDT)

From the appropedia html sister site

(mentioned here just for fun)

http://www.pequals.com/at/cre8rainwater/
Whimsical page about at home rainwater harvesting with ferrocement (this system is not for drinking).
The system is small and uncovered and the pictures are oversized. But still fun.
http://www.pequals.com/at/riodell_rainwater/
Plastic tank rainwater harvesting for a Community Resource Center in an effort to water a community garden that would help span the cultural gap between the Latino and Anglo members of their community.

Hmm... Sorry if none of that is usefull, I just got a little excited about the project. --Lonny 22:54, 30 June 2006 (PDT)

I want your thesis paper, plus blog thoughts

Hi Chris! Just came across Water_management_and_culture_in_Indonesian_cities, and I'd love to read it! Seems like a book-sized topic... I almost encouraged you to write a book, but 2 things stopped me. First, I'm sure you'd have to give up Appropedia, and second, the content probably belongs in Appropedia. :-)

The blog thought is related to Lonny's comment earlier that suggests blogging in Appropedia. My opinion is that blogging on a wiki is a strain. Good blogging sites have several advantages: each blog post can have it's own semi-permanent link (which you could do on a wiki, but there would be a fair amount of overhead to accomplish it), and blog sites help you be visible in blog searches, which is half (or more) of the point of blogging! At least for me. So I'm still interested in joining forces in blogland. I think we could very easily experiment if you create an account at blogger.com. Let me know. --Curtbeckmann 15:11, 17 September 2006 (PDT)

I want to check through my thesis before posting, in case there's formatting issues etc... And I need to take a wikibreak for a few days, as I have much to do. I'll check back in a few days and see what's been happening, especially re some of the questions at the Village pump.
I agree re blogging - will attend to this soon.
Missed your chat message a few minutes ago - I was in a different browser window and didn't see. --Singkong2005 talk 20:57, 17 September 2006 (PDT)
Sounds like a good decision. Blogging will not be encouraged on Appropedia, but encouraged and linked to off site in blogland. --Lonny 10:50, 18 September 2006 (PDT)
Yep, still interested in co-blogging! I'll go poke around about how to invite you onto the team. Hope that personal friend situation works out...kind of missing you. By the way, your picture at http://www.nabuur.com/userinfo.php?uid=6488 seems perfectly good for the short term. --Curtbeckmann 14:13, 7 October 2006 (PDT)

Nudge, nudge

Hi, Chris. I nagged Lonny so only fair I nag you too. Please prioritize some attention on the vision / mission effort :-) Thanks, --CurtB 12:41, 9 November 2006 (PST)

Yes, keep meaning to, but getting distracted. A bit of promo would be much more strategic... --Singkong2005 · talk 15:43, 9 November 2006 (PST)

Reminder: strategic

  • Vision / Mission
  • Worldchanging
I'm trying to focus on my CV/jobs stuff at the moment... but in the process of looking, and networking, I keep finding stuff to put on Appropedia. That explains my recent activity. Will try to get to the WorldChanging stuff soon. Have been thinking about it though (e.g. plan of attack, leaving some really good stuff out e.g. re porting, so that there's enough to justify a second article at a later stage.)
Of course we can always comment there, too, if we have something on Appropedia relevant to a WorldChanging article - and it can be motivation to create the article. --Singkong2005 · talk 16:46, 15 November 2006 (PST)
No problems. I'm a believer in the squeaky wheels theory. I notice you're active, which means you must have a bit of time, and just want to nudge/nag to be sure you're thinking of the strategic stuff as well (mostly because you mentioned an interest... if you hadn't I wouldn't bother you about it). As for the next submission to WC, I figure we can't even imagine the great newsworthy things that will come in the next 3 months. I believe a big "hockey stick" is just beginning. One thing I'd really like is see more porting helpers... I'm beginning to find more content and can well imagine a strategy where those of us with an eye for good material spend time finding it (and getting permission to republish), and, in parallel, people with good editing skills spend the time porting it. But if I was really thinking that strategically, I'd have tweaked the main page to try to capture more porting helpers! --CurtB 17:28, 15 November 2006 (PST)
Any news on a Worldchanging submission? Were we both waiting for each other? You mentioned recently that you're going to be busy on other stuff... Would you like me to take the lead on this submission? --CurtB 14:05, 4 December 2006 (PST)
Will try and make some time for it tonight, about 8-9 hours from now. --Singkong2005 · talk 19:07, 4 December 2006 (PST)
Dealing with a bit of an urgent matter, should be managed soon, will try to get to this by Friday. I want to allow for an hour or two to focus on this WorldChanging promo thing before sending it. --Singkong2005 · talk 05:24, 6 December 2006 (PST)
Ahem. Avoidance-detection circuit has lit up. Not sure this is a 2 hour problem, but if it is, the only way to get there is to give it priority. Sorry to be a nag, happy to simply take it off your list if you prefer. --CurtB 07:38, 9 December 2006 (PST)
Working on it tonight... I spent 15 minutes on it last night, and it looked pretty close, then I had a computer crash and lost it :(. Re avoidance, fair call. I decided earlier today to not look at anything else on Appropedia till I've attended to this. --Singkong2005 · talk 02:16, 10 December 2006 (PST)
This Worldchanging submission is looking pretty close. Awesome work. BTW I use sessionmanager and Firefox, that way when my computer crashes my windows, tabs and unsaved text data are usually recovered. Thank you for your superb activity here, --Lonny 22:34, 10 December 2006 (PST)
Thanks, Chris. Of course, your responsiveness only encourages my pest behavior :-) BTW, Lonny found that a (somewhat late) comment on Worldchanging resulted in 8 short term hits. I'm very pumped about what an actual article could do! Let me know if there's anything (final check, whatever) that you want from me. I'm also fine if you're happy and want to simply shoot it off! --CurtB 06:56, 11 December 2006 (PST)
Actually, I just read it through again, and it looks great! The editors at Worldchanging are going to put their fingerprints on it anyway, so unless there is some big wart that you can see, I would say it's ready for submission! --CurtB 07:02, 11 December 2006 (PST)
Yep, it's not bad... I'm still not quite satisfied. See the Submission guidelines, esp:
3) Pithy Writing... we aim for short recommendations, no more than three paragraphs (some things take longer to explain, and sometimes you'll want to review several related items in one recommendation, but the denser and pithier the writing, the better)...
4) Excerpts... a great excerpt illustrates the nature of the resource you're recommending and also provides an interesting thought or crucial bit of information for the casual reader who won't follow the link. Cherry-pick, in other words: pull the best quotes from the resource as excerpts in your recommendation.
I've made it pithier, but adding some very brief examples of content would be good. Unfortunately I'm going to have trouble spending much time on a computer in the next 2 or 3 days, so if you guys want to make a final judgement and send it in, I'm cool with that. --Singkong2005 · talk 06:04, 12 December 2006 (PST)

Your Question about Coordination pages

Hi Chris,

Regarding your question about coordination pages, such as J Point Donations. I think that we should make a Template:Infobox_Coordination similar to the Template:Infobox_Project that we are developing for project pages. This Coordination Infobox could contain the orgainzaiton name (but this may put extra work on, and neccesitate more wikiknowledge of, the page creator), or the template could just say, "Hey this is a coordination page....". I am also looking at ways (using hooks or bots) to automatically put this type of static infobox on any page with a specific category, such as Category:Coordination. Another idea is to have Coordination pages located at Your organization name/Collaboration name in order to make it clear what the collaboration is part of, and to leave room in the root level article namespace. --Lonny 11:38, 8 December 2006 (PST)

I did see your comments from Dec 8

Hi Chris. I did see your comments from 12/8 at the "porting/Titles of documents" section. But I (obviously :-) didn't reply. I have been acting in accordance (I believe) and didn't have much else to say, but I should have acknowledged your input. I've also been too busy protecting original pages (wanted to finish that), and haven't created the editable pages yet. (I did take a moment to port a couple more pages...we were at 199 for a couple days and it was bugging me...then we were at 200 and that was almost worse...made it look "approximate".) I plan to make editable pages for the "how to" type docs... I'm still sort of pondering the ported project page question.

Cool.
By the "ported project page question" are you referring to Appropedia:Porting pages, or the title question, or something else? Let me know if there's a specific question you want input on. --Singkong2005 · talk 15:05, 13 December 2006 (PST)

I've also been spending some energy around the Topic categorization happiness. I like my new table approach. Perhaps you've commented on that (I haven't checked as I write this). I feel fairly strongly that things like "Adobe" should not be categorized directly as topics, but should be under earthen construction under alternative construction.

Strongly agree. I hadn't noticed this work (haven't been watching so closely the last week or so) - I'd had some similar thoughts, and Lonny & I had discussed related issues in the past, but not reached a clear resolution, I think (or I didn't quite understand Lonny's vision). I didn't want to change things if I was the only one who thought that way. --Singkong2005 · talk 15:05, 13 December 2006 (PST)
Just checked Category:Fundamental & Category:Topics - still looks inconsistent. Last time I looked, I was unclear about how we wanted to deal with this, so I didn't fix up too much. My strong feeling is that categoriess like Appropriate technology & Electricity belong in Topic, whereas cats like How to, Resources, Issues, Organization and Program belong in Fundamental. Not sure about Countries - probably in Topic. How does that sound?
I still favor plural forms for categories (e.g. Category:Topics) - but we haven't reached consensus on this yet. It's worth deciding this before doing lots of edits to cat tags. --Singkong2005 · talk 15:58, 13 December 2006 (PST)

Putting it another way, since this topic stuff is meant to aid in navigation, if a subject is listed at the topic level, it should not need to appear again lower in the structure. Regarding topics that "sit on the fence" between two (sometimes 3?) topic subcategories, I believe that those topics should be categorized in all relevant subtopics.

Agreed, again. --Singkong2005 · talk 15:05, 13 December 2006 (PST)

On a different note, the site is really rocking. Users and hits and pages are all growing nicely. Lots of infrastructure looks pretty good. (The topic stuff has been bugging me for a long time, hence my recent focus.) Hopefully WC submission causes some big boost. --CurtB 06:41, 13 December 2006 (PST)

Yep - I'm excited about it. Your work and enthusiasm has been a big part of this growth - kudos. --Singkong2005 · talk 15:05, 13 December 2006 (PST)
Thank you and serious kudos are due to you as well. Lonny deserves it, perhaps more because a lot of his work doesn't show up on "recent changes". I'm thinking of some promotional stuff (which we both do, of course) but also all the analytics. But, hey, founders aren't supposed to need encouragement, right? In addition to the earlybirds, I'm very impressed with several new users really kicking butt.
One cool thing is how the natural interests tend to overlap somewhat, but not too much, which leads to pretty good coverage. For example, you invest way more in templates, which I benefit from though I'm more passive there. O would say I fuss more about strategic (wonder what's gonna happen with Mission/Vision?), which probably has some benefits, but you can't spend your whole life there :-) Hope the WC thing comes through. I kinda wish I'd added something like a cover letter, saying stuff that we didn't want published, but which nevertheless justified the new article. I'm thinking "look, those other wikis have pretty much died...; look at the stats and you can see that Appropedia is doing the hockey stick thing and the concept can really leap with a bit of awareness" I've been pondering sending a followup with that basic content. What the hey, there are real humans reading this stuff and making decisions... --CurtB 16:44, 14 December 2006 (PST)

Living space, culture

Hi Chris, You moved "cities" and "alternative building" under "living space". I'm struggling with that because several things under "alternative building" are not living space (ovens, greenhouses, etc), and I think cities aligns a little better with "culture and development". Before getting into a reversion war (not like that's really gonna happen with us) I thought we'd have a chat. What do you say?

Hi Curt. Well spotted. How's "Built environment"? Still not quite right for ovens etc, but closer. Other thoughts, or do we put them both in the Topic cat? --Singkong2005 · talk 06:00, 15 December 2006 (PST)

While I'm at it, I'm tempted to move "culture and development" plus "culture and community" under "culture". There are some subcategories that seem to overlap, e.g. Male contraceptives seems to go either way. (It's close to the "gender and development" article or category.)

Hmmm... I don't know what to make of Category:Culture and community , as it currently has no content - I'd be inclined to wait for the content to make decisions relating to that cat. Anyway, I'm happy if you play around with categorization. --Singkong2005 · talk 06:00, 15 December 2006 (PST)

All this stuff is a judgement call, of course. The "right" answer for me is whatever is likely to make for easier navigation. I don't know if you've written much software, but there is this concept of "balanced trees". I'd love it if categories broke out nicely into 10 to 15 subcategories and/or 10 to 15 articles. Just a few layers gets lots of content :-) But this must be traded off against some kind of "natural" (i.e. intuitive) structure as well.

I think we should wrestle with this topic categorization a little aggressively now (similar to the singular/plural argument) since it will be harder later. It'll be case by case, I expect, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong.

By the way, I noticed a category called "issues", which currently holds two articles that also appear under another category (forget at the mo'). There are also "Appropriate technology" and (empty) "Sustainable development" categories, which could easily be tucked under "issues", IMHO.

Good idea. --Singkong2005 · talk 06:00, 15 December 2006 (PST)

I think "issues" is very interesting. I kind of think of it as a "public policy" but that suggest government, and "policy" by itself sounds like Appropedia policy, so I come back to "issues". I think topic has evolved into "subject", whereas "issues" may capture what Lonny was initially thinking of with Topics, i.e. discourse. What other words could be used for an "issues" category (which may deserve listing on the nav page)? Maybe "debate", "rhetoric", "opinion", "controversy", "argument", "analysis". Some combo could work well, like "Issues and analysis", or maybe "Issue discussions", or "Discussions and analysis" or "editorials" or "Op-Ed"... Damn! Anyway, there is a category that is not yet well developed.

Yeah. Issues seems okay to me though, so I'm happy to leave it till as that, and change it if and when there's a light bulb moment of inspiration. --Singkong2005 · talk 06:00, 15 December 2006 (PST)
I forgot to mention why I didn't like "issues" by itself. Perhaps the nuances in Australia are different than here, but "Issues" as a single word has so many meanings (like problems, possibly construed as "bugs", as well as Issues of a periodical, etc). One of the meanings is exactly the one we want, but for me, without context, that correct meaning doesn't leap out. And that's why I was tacking on another word. As long as the new word doesn't make things worse, it seems like it can add clarity. If none of the above work, then perhaps "Issues forum"... Well, no rush. There aren't many articles yet. (Note, I will comment on the WP template talk page in a mo'.)--CurtB 07:56, 15 December 2006 (PST)
As Giles said of Buffy, "I believe she is having what you Americans refer to as issues." :) I'm cool with a change - I like Lonny's idea (via email) of putting theses and well thought out opinions into one category, but I don't have bright ideas on a category name. --Singkong2005 · talk 19:15, 18 December 2006 (PST)

I'd like to read your thesis

Would that be possible?

responded to Nardoo at User_talk:Nardoo, and exchanged emails. Welcome to another EWB Australia member.

Environmental Justice

Actually, The category had already existed in the list in the Category Topic, and I (not fully consciously) went to create a page there. Later, I realized that maybe one wasn't needed, so I'd already started an email to Lonny about it, to say that, and to ask if Categories necessarily needed pages to explain them? Are they okay empty? If not it can be deleted.. -@

If we want to keep the category, we should create the page, even if it only contains a higher category or categories. Otherwise, when someone views the category, they'll get an edit box; also it won't fit into the category structure.
I'm not sure exactly what categories are best for the article, but I'm happy to let it evolve.
Cool blog. You could put the link in your signature, in preferences. Click preferences, select raw signature, and enter your new sig, e.g.
[[User:Ajay|Ajay]] [http://AToTheT.orG/ @] - which gives Ajay @
[[User:Ajay|Ajay]] <small>[http://AToTheT.orG/ blog]</small> - which gives Ajay blog
Or something like that. That'll show when you sign with four tildes, ~~~~. --Singkong2005 · talk 00:44, 2 January 2007 (PST)
Thanks for the prompt replies and good thoughts! I'm kind of new to wiki'ing, as you can tell.. :) As for the categories, I stole them (and the stubs, which of course don't exist and you definitely noticed) from the wikipedia EJ entry. I changed the headings to Climate Change part of the Exploring section, but we'll go with this for now. (The 'searching on google' was just the first fruits of my search, figured it would make a good starting stub..)
Don't worry about being new to wikiing... you're making great contributions, and it's great to have you in our community! --Singkong2005 · talk 01:54, 2 January 2007 (PST)

Solar thermal...

Hi Chris. I guess it was me who changed categories, but I only vaguely remember this. I actually agree with your naming preference; I think I was doing it in following the naming listed in the topics page (or something). I was just trying to push for consistency. And it must have been early in the process when I was still optimistic that by following the topic page, I would achieve consistency.

At this point, my plan is to make another major pass through categorization, particularly topic categorization. I'll follow Lonny's preferences. Not much consensus has developed, as far as I can tell (*sigh*), but can't just let it sit, and I know Lonny prefers what he described. I really would like to see another area label (or 2 or 3). Also am somewhat unsettled as to what content belongs on the category page itself. (This last issue is potentially enough to make me wait... but I doubt it.) --CurtB 07:05, 8 January 2007 (PST)

My understanding was that:
  • Lonny was pretty much okay with plurals for countable nouns, but was waiting for a summary of the naming policy before giving his full support.
  • I was supposed to look at your proposed naming policy (User talk:Curtbeckmann/Category naming) but haven't yet. I have a partial excuse, in that I had the page as one of my Opera startup windows, to be looked at, but then had a major computer failure (HDD survived, thankfully) which distracted me... and I'm easily distracted.
I'm also wondering whether it's possible for MediaWiki to be tweaked to allow category pages to be moved, together with their history. That would be a huge improvement, especially in these early unsettled days of categorization. I suspect Lonny has already asked this question, but I'll ask him again (and Gabe) via email.
Will try and comment on User talk:Curtbeckmann/Category naming soon - feel free to prod. --Singkong2005 · talk 20:32, 8 January 2007 (PST)
I'm curious what your main interest is in preserving history? Potentially, we can "move" the categories using cut/paste, but keep the old categories, potentially in a category called "Old categories" (with a notice template), plus put (in non-displayed comments) a pointer from the new category to the old category. What this would do is provide a "behind the scenes" linkage to the original history. I think that very few folks are interested in the early history, so this approach might work. A thin spot occurs when someone wants to re-use a category, but that's even workable, because the history is still there, it's just confusing. So our notice template could include the original date, or some durn thing.
Of course, this is a hell of a lot of work that wouldn't be necessary if we could move categories! But I mention this because, knowing how swamped Gabe and Lonny are, I suspect I'm going to get busy moving categories before we even get an answer. If there's a way I can do it that gives you what you are looking for, then I'll do it that way. --CurtB 21:51, 8 January 2007 (PST)

Blogs?

Hey Chris, your user page shows the "new blog" as being the Chriswaterguy@blogspot... Also shows the Resolution blog (which I should probably drop you from just so as not to confuse visitors). Didn't notice LiveJournal there. May want an update on your page. CurtB 13:04, 15 February 2007 (PST)

Thanks! -Chriswaterguy · talk 14:31, 15 February 2007 (PST)

Testing pipes

Does it notice this edit? --Chriswaterguy · talk 22:42, 21 February 2007 (PST)

Okay, now you've got me curious. What's this about? --CurtB 06:42, 22 February 2007 (PST)
Trying out Yahoo Pipes... will email shortly. --Chriswaterguy · talk 19:05, 22 February 2007 (PST)

WaterWiki

Yes, with respect to WaterWiki we should find ways to cooperate. The great crisis regarding water is to a great extent tied to inappropriate (or non-existent) water management. Fred Bauder 06:17, 9 March 2007 (PST)

Greenlivingpedia interwiki

Chris, it was good to have a chat earlier this week. I have added Appropedia to the Interwiki table on Greenlivingpedia and put in some direct Interwikis, and added Appropedia as a sidebar link too. Keep up the good work --Peter Campbell 05:59, 15 March 2007 (PDT)

I have searched Appropedia for housing-related content and can't find much apart from the Oregon cottage article. There are no categories relating to sustainable housing yet.
There's Category:Alternative building - but I think that so far we only have techniques and examples suitable for certain developing world situations, and for radical downshifters (aka sandal wearing hippies). Your focus is very welcome, but We'll have to think about how it all fits in - perhaps Alternative building should be a subcat of Category:Sustainable buildings (while still remaining as a subcat of Category:Construction and materials)? (I was going to say Category:Sustainable housing, but we need a cat that will capture other types of building as well.)
Btw I'd like to see a lot more on very low cost options suitable for Western countries (as well as the Majority World) e.g. Prefabricated buildings, but we've got little info so far. The Open Architecture Network no doubt has or will have material like that, before long. --Chriswaterguy · talk 16:00, 16 March 2007 (PDT)
Also, I couldn't find a links page or directory. I was wondering where it would be best to add a link to Greenlivingpedia - or perhaps just the Greenlivingpedia:List of sustainable houses article. What do you think the best way to proceed is? Peter Campbell 04:10, 16 March 2007 (PDT)
We should add it to the WikiNode... perhaps it should be renamed, or links should redirect there.
I'll ask User:Curtbeckmann & User:Lonny to join this conversation. --Chriswaterguy · talk 16:00, 16 March 2007 (PDT)
What pops into my head is a need for clarification between the content at Appropedia, GreenLivingpedia, and Open Architecture Network (aka OAN, which I am personally committed to partnering with, and anyway I would not recommend competing with). I'm pretty sure that OAN will include alternative building techniques and designs. But probably not lifestyles. And it appears that they are not going to include a wiki, but there's a fair chance that their partner wiki of choice could be Appropedia, if we play our cards right. With all that, it seems a delicate act to separate out the content. Now, I agree that Appropedia does not currently have a lot of that kind of content, but we have some content, and I believe we want that category to grow. (And would love to integrate GLp, of course, in part to help us get the yet-to-be-achieved critical mass for explosive growth!) I would really think that a top quality portal for GreenLiving could help focus on that....No? Ah, well, I can hope...--CurtB 21:52, 16 March 2007 (PDT)
OAN seems more for professional architects & designers, submitting completed designs; it includes ratings and social networking. It's less suitable for collaboration than is a wiki.
Greenlivingpedia and Appropedia I think would do best by merging, once we deal with very valid concerns expressed by Peter during a phone conversation., particularly that our front page looks more like a site for alternative technology buffs, rather than something to appeal to ordinary people who want to do something positive. IMO the solution to this has a few aspects, including:
  1. Make a category for Category:Sustainable building
  2. Make a category portal for Category:Sustainable building. This could be based on Greenlivingpedia's current home page, with an additional reference to alternative building. This portal could be a "landing page" for linking our sustainability material (from other sites, and/or the main page, and/or the target of redirects such as sustainable housing). It could also be the landing page for a redirect from Greenlivingpedia, if a merger does happen at some stage.
  3. Modify our main page - though this depends on having content to highlight.
  4. If and when Peter is satisfied (along with any other fellow Greenlivingpedians with a stake in it) we can look at a merger.
  5. Continue to think about alternative names.
Btw, the name page is quite out of date, so we should perhaps start it up again, throwing ideas around involving openness, collaboration, world changing, practical solutions... --Chriswaterguy · talk 22:15, 16 March 2007 (PDT)
I added some ":" :-), and I'm curious about "This portal could be a landing page for..."
Thanks - I was being absentminded again... --Chriswaterguy · talk 06:27, 17 March 2007 (PDT)
But generally, I agree completely. Yes, of course OAN does not provide a wiki; I tried to make that point. I see the name as much less of a barrier. I think we could also keep the name and also use new names with redirects to Excellent Portals, as suggested above. So, improve the mainpage (perhaps with an increased focus on sustainability with or without AT), add good portals, use other good names with redirects. And more. Peter is in a good bargaining position :-) And anyway he probably has good perspective and ideas. --CurtB 22:25, 16 March 2007 (PDT)

Note from George

Hi Chris, This is Georgedappilly. Saw the talk page opened for me. Thank you very much. No problem in changing the name GEM Technology to G E M Method or G E M Method for mosquito control. Please tell me how to do that & where all? I had entered similar text in User:Georgedappilly talk page also.

Sustainable-IT @ Wikia

Hi Chris, I'm amenable to a merge of http://sustainableit.wikia.com/ with Appropedia, probably after I've taken some time to gauge interest from my various contacts, etc. I'm impressed by Appropedia, but desire a more commercial and technical angle for attracting contributors to Sustainable-IT, including the potential for protected papers, specs and other material. BTW, I'm located in Sydney. Dhart 20:45, 27 March 2007 (PDT)

Very cool! A more commercial and technical angle would certainly be welcome on Appropedia - we have had some input at Sun Frost energy efficient shower and probably elsewhere as well, but more would be great.
Peter Campbell has made comments about appealing to less hippie/geeky people, which I think are spot on and am taking seriously re the logo, main page and multiple landing pages. Other suggestions along that line are most welcome. --Chriswaterguy · talk 21:00, 27 March 2007 (PDT)

Relationship with solaroven wiki?

I'm glad hexayurt found a home in your place.

I'm sure you've seen http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page right?

When shall we see a conference of howtowikis? We want them translated or co-created into/with many languages too! contact me?

George

Hi Chris, Saw Georgedappilly talk page & mails. Great! The space at the beginning of line was accidental initially but I felt HE made it. Thats why it came at the right place! Initially it was single line. Now I think let it be there. So broke it & added blank at beginning.

About the bullets, I wanted to do it but hesitated for fear of page size. Very very glad that you have done that.

Tried upload many times & failed. file is in JPEG format only. May be some problem with some options not being selected properly. Will go thru help once again & then try.

Will give the links to my friends after uploading the pictures. I thought that would be better. http://www.appropedia.org/User_talk:Georgedappilly

From Baron

Thanks for the Tip.

I'm not sure which route to take I'm just writing what I think should be written. Baron 20:44, 2 April 2007 (PDT)

Appopedia

Hi Chris, thanks for your comments, I look forward to helping contribute to appropedia. --82.9.21.14 00:57, 18 April 2007 (PDT)

I'm not sure who you are, but you're welcome, and looking forward to working together! --Chriswaterguy · talk 06:44, 20 April 2007 (PDT)

George

Hi Chris, Thanks for the positive comment. The object on the right side of the first image is the top of a foundain pen included for size indication. This is a usual practice while photographing small objects for technicial/scientific purposes. Thought it may be helpful for some one! 20 April 07 1410 Hrs IST

Joshua

Thanks Chris -- I added a bit to the industrial symbiosis definition - and you definitely hit on the right main source - problem is it is published already -- we need to get the publishing part of appropedia up and running. --Joshua 07:22, 25 April 2007 (PDT)

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