open-permaculture.com a Web Based Permaculture Design Manual

I've created a website to serve as an open-source permaculture design manual that anyone can contribute to.

https://open-permaculture.com/

The website is structured like a textbook and has a few features.

Chapters: Based on Bill Mollison's design manual.
Recipes: Step-by-step guides on building appropriate technologies.
Search bar: Seach chapters, sections & recipes.


Crowdsourced:

The information is completely crowdsourced so chapters & sections need to be filled out by contributors. This is done via GitHub using its "markdown" text formatting similar to BB code here on the forums. Text is then automatically formatted for the web and published to the live site on approval by moderators.

To learn how to contribute click here.

I really want to help. I am great at proofreading, etc.!

Wow--just coming up with the definition of Permaculture on the intro page will be a project, but an exciting one! I can't wait to see how this project develops.

Permaculture is a set of interrelated ideas, principles, ethics, and techniques that are used to design and create natural systems which produce well-being, food, and tools for all of its inhabitants, human and otherwise.

With Permaculture, the designer's goal is well-being for all parts of the system, and the process for achieving the goal consists in building up the prospective system by first identifying, and then discerningly arranging beneficial elements in the system. When these beneficial elements interact and produce their characteristic "yields," these things are used within the system to continually increase its resilience and regenerative ability.

Here's my first stab at it...

Rachel Lindsay wrote:
I really want to help. I am great at proofreading, etc.!

Wow--just coming up with the definition of Permaculture on the intro page will be a project, but an exciting one! I can't wait to see how this project develops.

Here's my first stab at it...

I'd say that is a pretty good baseline everyone should agree on.

To submit changes create a GitHub account and log in then go to the page here:

https://github.com/Open-Permaculture/open-permaculture.github.io/blob/main/chapters/introduction/introduction.md


There you will see a little pencil icon that once clicked will let you edit & preview the page.

After that you will see at the bottom of the page there is a submit button. Clicking that will yell at me to approve/deny the changes. If approved they will get posted online.


Definitely be sure to proofread, there isn't a spell checker for GitHub, I paste the text into an email or text editor so I can correct all the red underlines before posting to the repository.

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I'm thinking maybe if anyone wants to contribute but doesn't want to go through the effort of creating an account elsewhere then they could just post here and I'll occasionally check here and copy the text as long as it follows the guidelines. Just be sure to let me know what chapter/section the text is for.

Do note though that public forum posts are considered public domain, once that information is published on GitHub it will be under the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license. If contributors don't submit the information themselves then attribution will point to me. So by contributing to this forum you waive attribution in a sense.

I do encourage folks to contribute via GitHub though since that platform is literally designed for collaborating on text documents and will ultimately be easier to manage and ensures everyone gets credited.