Open Source Permaculture - Revision history

Rasmus at 20:40, 29 August 2016

2016-08-29T20:40:09Z

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	[[File:Permaculture01.jpg\|640px\|thumb\|right\|Permaculture garden, de Vergoncey (France): [http://www.alosnys.com/].]]		[[File:Permaculture01.jpg\|640px\|thumb\|right\|Permaculture garden, de Vergoncey (France): [http://www.alosnys.com/].]]

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	* [[Appropedia:Permaculture]]		* [[Appropedia:Permaculture]]
	* [[Appropedia:Permaculture wiki]]		* [[Appropedia:Permaculture wiki]]

			[[Category: Permaculture]]
			[[Category: Food and Agriculture]]

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			[[File:Permaculture01.jpg\|640px\|thumb\|right\|Permaculture garden, de Vergoncey (France): [http://www.alosnys.com/].]]

	=Links=		=Links=
	*Open Source Permaculture Tutorial - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgZWhVw1pIM]]		*Open Source Permaculture Tutorial - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgZWhVw1pIM]]

Botho: /* Contacts and other initiatives */

2015-11-11T12:10:16Z

Contacts and other initiatives

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	=Contacts and other initiatives=		=Contacts and other initiatives=

			* [http://permaculturecommons.org/#content PermacultureCommons.org] Collection of free and open permaculture materials and spreading the word about open permaculture.
	* http://permacultureinstitute.pbwiki.com/Andy		* http://permacultureinstitute.pbwiki.com/Andy
	* http://permaculturewiki.com		* http://permaculturewiki.com

Botho: /* Comments? */

2015-11-11T12:05:58Z

Comments?

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	Thanks!		Thanks!



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			[[User:botho]]: Yes, yes! Im excited about this. We started [http://permaculturecommons.org/#content PermacultureCommons.org] just a few weeks ago. Right now it's mainly a collection of free and open permaculture material. But we are working on content as well, and are also starting a simple permaculture-focused landscape design/planning software. Be sure to contact us with ideas, collaborations or if you want to help out.

			By the way: There is [http://osseeds.org/ OSSeeds.org] now.
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	I think that it might be fruitful to explore what characteristics 'open source seeds' might have. Patrick Wiebe has some interesting thoughts on this: http://bifurcatedcarrots.eu/2012/04/speaker-finalist-tedxwageningen/		I think that it might be fruitful to explore what characteristics 'open source seeds' might have. Patrick Wiebe has some interesting thoughts on this: http://bifurcatedcarrots.eu/2012/04/speaker-finalist-tedxwageningen/
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	[[User:James Clark]]: This is a good start. To really get this firing on all cylinders, so to speak, I think the following needs to happen:		[[User:James Clark]]: This is a good start. To really get this firing on all cylinders, so to speak, I think the following needs to happen:
	1.We need an agricultural seed ancestry registry (Project Freeseed?; Freeseed.org and/or OSSeed.org are available!); something that gives the features of the parent seeds so that creative hybridization can take place, and it needs to be protected by CC-BY-SA, and made where nothing that comes from it is ever proprietary. This is how we beat Big Ag.		1.We need an agricultural seed ancestry registry (Project Freeseed?; Freeseed.org and/or OSSeed.org are available!); something that gives the features of the parent seeds so that creative hybridization can take place, and it needs to be protected by CC-BY-SA, and made where nothing that comes from it is ever proprietary. This is how we beat Big Ag.
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	5. We need more natural scientists involved in this, and it is pursuit of this end that I am going to go volunteer on WWOOFer farms to see if I can socially network all the Mechanical and Electrical Engineer-types we have with some more ecologists, so that we may cross-train and both parties will come out better for it.I will also be blogging about it, and will be contributing more to the ecology and applied-ecology info on this wiki than I have in the past.		5. We need more natural scientists involved in this, and it is pursuit of this end that I am going to go volunteer on WWOOFer farms to see if I can socially network all the Mechanical and Electrical Engineer-types we have with some more ecologists, so that we may cross-train and both parties will come out better for it.I will also be blogging about it, and will be contributing more to the ecology and applied-ecology info on this wiki than I have in the past.
	6. I will be specifically engaging my ignorance in this area from here on out, and plan on buying land for a permaculture "preserve" in Zone 4 area of Alaska in the next 18 months so that will follow the OSE model, and welcome any involvement in doing this right, as I want this to yield graduate-school quality scientific research, and will need help to reach this end.		6. I will be specifically engaging my ignorance in this area from here on out, and plan on buying land for a permaculture "preserve" in Zone 4 area of Alaska in the next 18 months so that will follow the OSE model, and welcome any involvement in doing this right, as I want this to yield graduate-school quality scientific research, and will need help to reach this end.
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	= See also =		= See also =

Marcin at 06:53, 11 April 2015

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			=Links=
			*Open Source Permaculture Tutorial - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgZWhVw1pIM]]

	=What is Open Source Permaculture?=		=What is Open Source Permaculture?=

Peter Mortensen: /* How Permaculture relates to Open Source? */ Some copy editing.

2013-01-20T16:41:13Z

How Permaculture relates to Open Source?: Some copy editing.

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	"Open source is a philosophy, or pragmatic methodology, that promotes free redistribution and access to an end product's design and implementation details. A main principle and practice of open-source software development is peer production by bartering and collaboration, with the end-product, source-material, "blueprints", and documentation available at no cost to the public. Sites such as Wikipedia and Wiktionary have embraced the open-content GFDL and Creative Commons content licenses. These licenses were designed to adhere to principles similar to various open-source software development licenses. Many of these licenses ensure that content remains free for re-use, that source documents are made readily available to interested parties, and that changes to content are accepted easily back into the system." (from Wikipedia)		"Open source is a philosophy, or pragmatic methodology, that promotes free redistribution and access to an end product's design and implementation details. A main principle and practice of open-source software development is peer production by bartering and collaboration, with the end-product, source-material, "blueprints", and documentation available at no cost to the public. Sites such as Wikipedia and Wiktionary have embraced the open-content GFDL and Creative Commons content licenses. These licenses were designed to adhere to principles similar to various open-source software development licenses. Many of these licenses ensure that content remains free for re-use, that source documents are made readily available to interested parties, and that changes to content are accepted easily back into the system." (from Wikipedia)

	===How Permaculture ~~relates~~ to Open Source?===		===How does Permaculture relate to Open Source?===
	Learning and using permaculture require specific knowledge a on permaculture analysis and design methods as well as more generic, from a variety of fields agronomy, ecology, construction, energy, etc. But ~~main~~ permaculture specific knowledge is still shared is through copyrighted books or DVDs, expensive Permaculture Design Courses (PDC), all around the world, and International Permaculture Conference, held annually.		Learning and using permaculture require specific knowledge a on permaculture analysis and design methods as well as more generic, from a variety of fields agronomy, ecology, construction, energy, etc. But mainly, permaculture specific knowledge is still shared through copyrighted books or DVDs, expensive Permaculture Design Courses (PDC), all around the world, and International Permaculture Conference, held annually.

	Even though, free open content is also widely available but in small quantities in myriad of small open permaculture initiatives, from permaculture pages on wikis (including Appropedia and Open Source Ecology) to blogs, websites, maps, and short videos or long documentaries (see permaculture-media-blog for a collection of both free and unfree resources). But all available open-content is unfortunately far from complete, and too much scattered, ~~e.g.~~ web free resources require too long research hours, and cannot compete with ten top permaculture books or experience and exchange from five PDC.		Even though, free open content is also widely available but in small quantities in myriad of small open permaculture initiatives, from permaculture pages on wikis (including Appropedia and Open Source Ecology) to blogs, websites, maps, and short videos or long documentaries (see permaculture-media-blog for a collection of both free and unfree resources). But all available open-content is unfortunately far from complete, and too much scattered, for example, web free resources require too long research hours, and cannot compete with ten top permaculture books or experience and exchange from five PDC.

	Despite this, the idea of sharing is at the very heart of Permaculture and Open Source, thus knowledge about permaculture should be free and open-source. An Open Source Permaculture center would help these individual initiatives to merge into one large collective open-source corpus of knowledge and resources.		Despite of this, the idea of sharing is at the very heart of Permaculture and Open Source, thus knowledge about permaculture should be free and open-source. An Open Source Permaculture center would help these individual initiatives to merge into one large collective open-source corpus of knowledge and resources.
	Awareness is already rising for the concept of Open Source Permaculture. For example, a "open source permaculture" project campaign for an open-source book on urban permaculture successfully ended and Appropedia will be partner of that project to make a wiki out of it. Making this corpus of knowledge available and free to use and improve not only benefits permaculture experts and novices, but will avoid trial-and-error-reinventing-the-wheel on the practical level, and foster permaculture development and adoption all over the world.		Awareness is already rising for the concept of Open Source Permaculture. For example, a "open source permaculture" project campaign for an open-source book on urban permaculture successfully ended and Appropedia will be partner of that project to make a wiki out of it. Making this corpus of knowledge available and free to use and improve not only benefits permaculture experts and novices, but it will avoid trial-and-error-reinventing-the-wheel on the practical level, and foster permaculture development and adoption all over the world.

	==What topics can be treated as Open Source Permaculture knowledge?==		==What topics can be treated as Open Source Permaculture knowledge?==

Peter Mortensen: No space before question mark.

2013-01-20T16:38:27Z

No space before question mark.

Donovan: /* What we think we need */

2012-12-01T04:33:23Z

What we think we need

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	# Ready access to CONCEPTS: anything from permacultural ethics to design criteria. This is easy to find right now, but could be integrated in our "fab info" design.		# Ready access to CONCEPTS: anything from permacultural ethics to design criteria. This is easy to find right now, but could be integrated in our "fab info" design.
	# Ready access to DESIGNS: keyhole raised beds, poultry tractors, etc. These would be text descriptions, videos and the whole thing. If it's in other languages, a link to translation tools would be a nice add-on.		# Ready access to DESIGNS: [[Keyhole garden\|keyhole raised beds]], poultry tractors, etc. These would be text descriptions, videos and the whole thing. If it's in other languages, a link to translation tools would be a nice add-on.
	# Ready access to INFORMATION: what are the features of plants? which particular and explicit varieties are well-adapted to particular regions. This requires local and bioregional information.		# Ready access to INFORMATION: what are the features of plants? which particular and explicit varieties are well-adapted to particular regions. This requires local and bioregional information.
	# A way to do SUBSTITUTIONS: Say a particular design uses a specific plant, which is not available to us. What other plants could we use? This could be extended if we look for FEATURES: imagine "google tree shade tropical edible-by-goats".		# A way to do SUBSTITUTIONS: Say a particular design uses a specific plant, which is not available to us. What other plants could we use? This could be extended if we look for FEATURES: imagine "google tree shade tropical edible-by-goats".
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	This is because CONCEPTS and DESIGNS are readily available in literature. SUBSTITUTIONS are covered by INFORMATION. We could do all the topics - but I'd focus on the essential information.		This is because CONCEPTS and DESIGNS are readily available in literature. SUBSTITUTIONS are covered by INFORMATION. We could do all the topics - but I'd focus on the essential information.


	==How to move forward==		==How to move forward==

Sam UK: added concept of 'open source seeds'

2012-06-03T21:42:20Z

added concept of 'open source seeds'

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	Thanks!		Thanks!

			I think that it might be fruitful to explore what characteristics 'open source seeds' might have. Patrick Wiebe has some interesting thoughts on this: http://bifurcatedcarrots.eu/2012/04/speaker-finalist-tedxwageningen/

	[[User:James Clark]]: This is a good start. To really get this firing on all cylinders, so to speak, I think the following needs to happen:		[[User:James Clark]]: This is a good start. To really get this firing on all cylinders, so to speak, I think the following needs to happen:

Popok: Heavily changed the beginning, with a focus on opensource permaculture knowledge, rather than on opensource plant knowledge

2012-05-20T14:30:33Z

Heavily changed the beginning, with a focus on opensource permaculture knowledge, rather than on opensource plant knowledge

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	=What is Open Source Permaculture?=		=What is Open Source Permaculture?=

			This article discusses "what can be Open Source Permaculture", and updates an initial discussion with Lucas Gonzalez in the Canary Islands:

			'''What is [[Permaculture]] ?'''
			The term related to either "Permanent Agriculture" or "Permanent Culture". Permaculture is a systems thinking design model focusing on sustainable and regenerative systems. It considers ecological theory informed by the lifestyles of indigenous cultures as well as modern technological advancements. Permaculture ranges a diverse field of design methods, anything from perennial-based agricultural systems, to the homestead, to individual or community structures.

			'''What is Open-Source philosophy and licence ?'''
			"Open source is a philosophy, or pragmatic methodology, that promotes free redistribution and access to an end product's design and implementation details. A main principle and practice of open-source software development is peer production by bartering and collaboration, with the end-product, source-material, "blueprints", and documentation available at no cost to the public. Sites such as Wikipedia and Wiktionary have embraced the open-content GFDL and Creative Commons content licenses. These licenses were designed to adhere to principles similar to various open-source software development licenses. Many of these licenses ensure that content remains free for re-use, that source documents are made readily available to interested parties, and that changes to content are accepted easily back into the system." (from Wikipedia)

			===How Permaculture relates to Open Source ?===
			Learning and using permaculture require specific knowledge a on permaculture analysis and design methods as well as more generic, from a variety of fields agronomy, ecology, construction, energy, etc. But main permaculture specific knowledge is still shared is through copyrighted books or DVDs, expensive Permaculture Design Courses (PDC), all around the world, and International Permaculture Conference, held annually.

			Even though, free open content is also widely available but in small quantities in myriad of small open permaculture initiatives, from permaculture pages on wikis (including Appropedia and Open Source Ecology) to blogs, websites, maps, and short videos or long documentaries (see permaculture-media-blog for a collection of both free and unfree resources). But all available open-content is unfortunately far from complete, and too much scattered, e.g. web free resources require too long research hours, and cannot compete with ten top permaculture books or experience and exchange from five PDC.

			Despite this, the idea of sharing is at the very heart of Permaculture and Open Source, thus knowledge about permaculture should be free and open-source. An Open Source Permaculture center would help these individual initiatives to merge into one large collective open-source corpus of knowledge and resources.
			Awareness is already rising for the concept of Open Source Permaculture. For example, a "open source permaculture" project campaign for an open-source book on urban permaculture successfully ended and Appropedia will be partner of that project to make a wiki out of it. Making this corpus of knowledge available and free to use and improve not only benefits permaculture experts and novices, but will avoid trial-and-error-reinventing-the-wheel on the practical level, and foster permaculture development and adoption all over the world.

			==What topics can be treated as Open Source Permaculture knowledge ?==
			Permaculture require five specific areas : principles, methods, designs and community.

			Knowledge of principles helps grasp the central concepts, and include many ideas ranging from holistic living to applied ecology. Knowledge of methods of analysis and design, often overlooked, helps to analyze a situation and produce appropriate new designs, and for instance, use succession analysis, application of a pattern or other methods heavily based on applied ecology.

			Permaculture designs are the result of these methods, e.g. raised beds in contour, herb spiral or forest garden, with much in common with traditional organic farming and construction methods. Easy to understand and reproduce, hence permaculture designs tend to be the most visible part of permaculture. Knowledge of the community of active people and existing sites is also very important, and most permaculturists are very "open-source" minded and are always ready to share their experience, exchange, help visit or organize activities. Documentation on existing sites and people should also comprise economic and social aspect, or how to economically run such a project and make people participate.

			Permaculture require also generic knowledge that can be found in other areas or disciplines, such as plants, construction, energy generation, machinery or software. For instance, information on plant choice, with data on explicit varieties, locations to get them, where they work (site-specific information, performance data, propagation techniques, etc). Another example is machinery and software, an open source equipment for monitoring, processing; energy production; field equipment, and other supporting equipment for complete startup and maintenance.

			==How to use Open Source Permaculture knowledge?==
			Open Source Permaculture knowledge should help in all steps: introduce permaculture to new comers, and help them to understand it in their current context; learn methods to analyze an their artificial or natural site, produce new specific and appropriate designs, and avoid finding themselves clueless in terms of producing an integrated operation when they get to the land; learn classic permaculture designs and apply them in their land or backyard; find generic knowledge about plants and climates, construction or energy generation.

			==What are the myriad of Open Source Permaculture initiatives ?==


			=Original Discussion=

	This is from a discussion with Lucas Gonzalez in the Canary Islands:		This is from a discussion with Lucas Gonzalez in the Canary Islands:
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	4. '''Economic analyses of productive operations'''. Both on the subsistence and market levels - such that analyses promote replicability.		4. '''Economic analyses of productive operations'''. Both on the subsistence and market levels - such that analyses promote replicability.

	=Why this, and What's "food swadeshi" anyway?=		==Why this, and What's "food swadeshi" anyway?==

	Let's say you're interested in ''food swadeshi'': '''growing food for your own self-sustenance, for your community or for a "grow food locally" business'''. You've read several books and many webpages, and maybe you've gone to one or two courses or meetings or whatever.		Let's say you're interested in ''food swadeshi'': '''growing food for your own self-sustenance, for your community or for a "grow food locally" business'''. You've read several books and many webpages, and maybe you've gone to one or two courses or meetings or whatever.
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	You could go so much faster if you had now the information you'll have in 5 years time!		You could go so much faster if you had now the information you'll have in 5 years time!

	=Information and human networks=		==Information and human networks==

	You could of course tap onto a ''friendship network'' and that's fine if you have plenty of access to that, or even if you gain access to an already existing ''network of knowledgeable friends''.		You could of course tap onto a ''friendship network'' and that's fine if you have plenty of access to that, or even if you gain access to an already existing ''network of knowledgeable friends''.
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	Now, let's get on with this idea!		Now, let's get on with this idea!

	=What we think we need=		==What we think we need==

	This is an evolving idea, and here's what we think we need:		This is an evolving idea, and here's what we think we need:
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	=How to move forward=		==How to move forward==

	* First, look at our needs and phrase them appropriately. Feel free to jump in right now, Marcin and others! What questions do you ask on the field? Feel free to give details, with "stories that help"!		* First, look at our needs and phrase them appropriately. Feel free to jump in right now, Marcin and others! What questions do you ask on the field? Feel free to give details, with "stories that help"!
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	At all times, look at what we can personally do. Even if the only thing we can do is tell our contacts about this.		At all times, look at what we can personally do. Even if the only thing we can do is tell our contacts about this.

	=Agricultural informatics=		==Agricultural informatics==
	An identifying feature of permaculture is that it is heavy on design, information and intelligent planning. Not much water goes into making a permaculture farm work, not much fertilizer, not much stuff, but a huge amount of information. Information is the main resource.		An identifying feature of permaculture is that it is heavy on design, information and intelligent planning. Not much water goes into making a permaculture farm work, not much fertilizer, not much stuff, but a huge amount of information. Information is the main resource.

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	See my proposal for [[open source software for permaculture]]		See my proposal for [[open source software for permaculture]]

	=Comments?=		==Comments?==

	Please write here or to imagina dot canarias at gmail dot com. You may also want to join http://www.globalswadeshi.net or look into http://permacultureinstitute.pbwiki.com Finally, you may know about others who have covered lots of ground and whom we badly need to know about!		Please write here or to imagina dot canarias at gmail dot com. You may also want to join http://www.globalswadeshi.net or look into http://permacultureinstitute.pbwiki.com Finally, you may know about others who have covered lots of ground and whom we badly need to know about!

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	This article discusses "what can be Open Source Permaculture", and updates an initial discussion with Lucas Gonzalez in the Canary Islands:		This article discusses "what can be Open Source Permaculture", and updates an initial discussion with Lucas Gonzalez in the Canary Islands:

	'''What is [[Permaculture]] ?'''		'''What is [[Permaculture]]?'''
	The term related to either "Permanent Agriculture" or "Permanent Culture". Permaculture is a systems thinking design model focusing on sustainable and regenerative systems. It considers ecological theory informed by the lifestyles of indigenous cultures as well as modern technological advancements. Permaculture ranges a diverse field of design methods, anything from perennial-based agricultural systems, to the homestead, to individual or community structures.		The term related to either "Permanent Agriculture" or "Permanent Culture". Permaculture is a systems thinking design model focusing on sustainable and regenerative systems. It considers ecological theory informed by the lifestyles of indigenous cultures as well as modern technological advancements. Permaculture ranges a diverse field of design methods, anything from perennial-based agricultural systems, to the homestead, to individual or community structures.

	'''What is Open-Source philosophy and licence ?'''		'''What is Open-Source philosophy and licence?'''
	"Open source is a philosophy, or pragmatic methodology, that promotes free redistribution and access to an end product's design and implementation details. A main principle and practice of open-source software development is peer production by bartering and collaboration, with the end-product, source-material, "blueprints", and documentation available at no cost to the public. Sites such as Wikipedia and Wiktionary have embraced the open-content GFDL and Creative Commons content licenses. These licenses were designed to adhere to principles similar to various open-source software development licenses. Many of these licenses ensure that content remains free for re-use, that source documents are made readily available to interested parties, and that changes to content are accepted easily back into the system." (from Wikipedia)		"Open source is a philosophy, or pragmatic methodology, that promotes free redistribution and access to an end product's design and implementation details. A main principle and practice of open-source software development is peer production by bartering and collaboration, with the end-product, source-material, "blueprints", and documentation available at no cost to the public. Sites such as Wikipedia and Wiktionary have embraced the open-content GFDL and Creative Commons content licenses. These licenses were designed to adhere to principles similar to various open-source software development licenses. Many of these licenses ensure that content remains free for re-use, that source documents are made readily available to interested parties, and that changes to content are accepted easily back into the system." (from Wikipedia)

	===How Permaculture relates to Open Source ?===		===How Permaculture relates to Open Source?===
	Learning and using permaculture require specific knowledge a on permaculture analysis and design methods as well as more generic, from a variety of fields agronomy, ecology, construction, energy, etc. But main permaculture specific knowledge is still shared is through copyrighted books or DVDs, expensive Permaculture Design Courses (PDC), all around the world, and International Permaculture Conference, held annually.		Learning and using permaculture require specific knowledge a on permaculture analysis and design methods as well as more generic, from a variety of fields agronomy, ecology, construction, energy, etc. But main permaculture specific knowledge is still shared is through copyrighted books or DVDs, expensive Permaculture Design Courses (PDC), all around the world, and International Permaculture Conference, held annually.

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	Awareness is already rising for the concept of Open Source Permaculture. For example, a "open source permaculture" project campaign for an open-source book on urban permaculture successfully ended and Appropedia will be partner of that project to make a wiki out of it. Making this corpus of knowledge available and free to use and improve not only benefits permaculture experts and novices, but will avoid trial-and-error-reinventing-the-wheel on the practical level, and foster permaculture development and adoption all over the world.		Awareness is already rising for the concept of Open Source Permaculture. For example, a "open source permaculture" project campaign for an open-source book on urban permaculture successfully ended and Appropedia will be partner of that project to make a wiki out of it. Making this corpus of knowledge available and free to use and improve not only benefits permaculture experts and novices, but will avoid trial-and-error-reinventing-the-wheel on the practical level, and foster permaculture development and adoption all over the world.

	==What topics can be treated as Open Source Permaculture knowledge ?==		==What topics can be treated as Open Source Permaculture knowledge?==
	Permaculture require five specific areas : principles, methods, designs and community.		Permaculture require five specific areas : principles, methods, designs and community.

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	Open Source Permaculture knowledge should help in all steps: introduce permaculture to new comers, and help them to understand it in their current context; learn methods to analyze an their artificial or natural site, produce new specific and appropriate designs, and avoid finding themselves clueless in terms of producing an integrated operation when they get to the land; learn classic permaculture designs and apply them in their land or backyard; find generic knowledge about plants and climates, construction or energy generation.		Open Source Permaculture knowledge should help in all steps: introduce permaculture to new comers, and help them to understand it in their current context; learn methods to analyze an their artificial or natural site, produce new specific and appropriate designs, and avoid finding themselves clueless in terms of producing an integrated operation when they get to the land; learn classic permaculture designs and apply them in their land or backyard; find generic knowledge about plants and climates, construction or energy generation.

	==What are the myriad of Open Source Permaculture initiatives ?==		==What are the myriad of Open Source Permaculture initiatives?==