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Accessing Self-Sufficiency Information on Appropedia - We Need Your Thoughts!
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson Nov. 15, 2009.
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Hi Preston,
Who is your audience? The way you describe it sounds like "anyone who is interested in self-sufficiency".
If I am trying to become more self-sufficient as a suburban dweller in a (post?) industrialised country, then what I am looking f…
Hi Andrius,
I don't follow why you say "CC-BY-SA... conflicts with the Public Domain even more than regular copyright." Creative Commons licenses can't add any restrictions to copyright, but rather share some of the rights owned by the copyright ho…
Chris, Thank you for your reply.
I'm interested to think how we might work together.
Minciu Sodas and Worknets are in the Public Domain, except where content notes otherwise. I'm sad that Appropedia and many other sites are not. CC-BY-SA is one of…
Recently I was looking at Appropedia for an answer to the question, How can I generate in rural Nigeria enough electricity to power a small computer center. I was disappointed (see Electricity) that I couldn't find any practical information and did…
Thanks Sepp for the detailed response. Your contribution will help us improve availability of self-sufficiency information.
preston
Describe how will you look for self-sufficiency information?
I would look for that information in the context of what I am searching. For instance, I have an idea that it would be good to have electric and water self-sufficiency (although both elec…
Thank you Andrius for your feedback. I will add this to our list of considerations.
Regarding the development opportunities, I'll forward that to Chris.
Thanks,
Preston
Hi Preston,
Recently I was looking at Appropedia for an answer to the question, How can I generate in rural Nigeria enough electricity to power a small computer center. I was disappointed (see Electricity) that I couldn't find any practical informa…
Appropedia wants to provide better access to existing self-sufficiency information while promoting easier participation and interaction by users. We would like to get your feedback about structuring access to self-sufficiency information.
Currently…
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- What's the coolest thing you've ever seen?
- Annular eclipse and birth of our son
- What's the coolest thing you've ever dreamed?
- I've dreamed about delivering high quality educational content to all kinds of people in adverse circumstances, equipping them to find ways out of disastrous circumstances.
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- Technical Writer and Editor. Technical Communications Instructor for UCSD Ext. Children's ministry leader, lifetime student, Christian, and a farmer's son. Love education. Husband, father, and a son.
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- I am currently working with a team of individuals that have created a lighter than air platform that can carry user defined payloads for 24 hours at an altitude up to 500 feet. They are also developing an applications for smart phones to facilitate cross-domain communications with open source protocols. Our goal, to provide low-cost, affordable tools to organizations that need to fill gaps in infrastructure during incident response and recovery.
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- Chula Vista, California in the United States.
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