by matt walker » Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:12 am
Well, I'm sitting here with a pen and paper, trying to sort out a better way to organize stuff here. I haven't really come up with anything great, and I'm feeling a bit stuck, so I'll post a couple ideas I have so far. I'd love to hear opinions or even massive restructure ideas, whatever. I want this place to be somewhere you guys want to share your stuff, 'cause I'm learning a lot from each and every one of you.
So, here's my ideas:
Permsteading
----Educational Resources
----Stocking Up
Member's 'Steads
----Members' 'steads forums
Garden, Pasture, Forest
----Permsteading Plantpedia
The Hangout
So, it's not a complete concept yet, but let me explain.
"Permsteading" forum is "general discussion," (maybe rename "general" ??) so relative current events and news, concepts, discussion about techniques, etc. Two sub forums, Educational resources and I would move Stocking Up there as well. Not much action in SU, but I do plan on journaling my summer canning season, so I'd like to keep it somewhere.
Member's Steads is where my main idea happens. I'd like to create a sub forum, like "Educational Resources", for each of us. I might be biting off a huge chunk and it might be terrible, but it's just something I thought of tonight and thought I'd throw out there. So, George would PM me and say, "hey, make me a Collin's Stead forum" and I'd make him one, so we'd have:
Member's 'Steads
----Member's Steads Subforums
------Collins Stead
--------kid's food forest
--------Walnut plantation
--------etc.
------Matt Walker's Ranch
--------Rocket Mass Heater for my Home
--------My garden 2012
--------My concrete countertops
....and so on. If we get a bunch of members in the future, this will probably be a terrible idea, but for now, it might work? I dunno, just a thought. I took out "heating and Cooling" because we can move those posts to the members subforums, but I think we'd still have plenty of sort of general on topic discussions to keep threads going in the main areas of the board. Also, if you don't want a whole subforum, that would be fine too, just post in the main area of Member's Steads just like it is now. I'm mostly trying to come up with a way to organize my scattered ideas about my place, I guess.
Anyway, that's kind of a radical idea, I'm certainly not planning on implementing it unless we sort it out first. The only other change would be the plant list subforum under "Garden, Pasture, Forest". Just a place to make a thread, for example, called "Sea Buckthorn" and talk about our experience in our zone, and if and how we use it. I expect it would go slow, but I'm experimenting with lots of plants right now and it might be nice. Or not, could be a dead zone if I'm the only one interested in it.
So, those are my thoughts. I'm open to criticism, suggestions, total rewrites, whatever.