
My living situations during this period included a 5 year spell in an intentional community – living, working and organizing in such close quarters with a gaggle of other people had its own challenges and membership of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) was one route through which we sought to expand our awareness and also get some support around transforming a stale consensus decision making system. The Diploma, initiated in 1993, is a long running strategic means of building capacity and coherence in an emerging, self-organizing network (the permaculture network across the world) that is seeking to find new, post-hierarchical forms of organizing for effectiveness. At that time permaculture was very fringe so nobody knew how it would turn out – it all proceeded through improvisation and bootstrapping, a culture of invention (lawlessness?) and creativity which really suited me.Īlong with others in the Permaculture Association of Britain I developed an action learning pathway to a Diploma of Applied Permaculture Design that is now a mainstay of permaculture community building in several countries in Europe. This realization strongly shaped my life from then on so when I was ‘found’ by permaculture in 1986 I knew that this was an invitation to go on an action learning adventure of epic proportions. I did make it to college as a mature student in between industry and shoemaking (taking a Diploma in Management Studies and M Degree in Organization Design) and that was when I found out about how distant and irrelevant formal education can sometimes be from the world of projects and work. I am one of the two founders of Gaia U and came to do Gaia U after an eclectic career as a permaculture designer, a shoemaker before that, a sometimes jazz musician and, once upon a time, even earlier than that, I had a proper job working in production management in manufacturing industry.
OLD PINGPLOTTER GAIA.UNIVERSITY WINDOWS
Note: PingPlotter and it's Windows Service (if applicable) should be closed before beginning pruning process.

When launching it, a few things do need to be specified: the location of the "sessions.ppdata" file on the machine, and what action the data maintainer should take.
OLD PINGPLOTTER GAIA.UNIVERSITY ZIP FILE
zip file is a "PPDataMaintainer.exe" file - which needs to be launched via a command prompt.

We're still plotting a way to build a data pruning option directly into PingPlotter - but in the meantime, we've built a command line data pruning utility (which can be found in the "attachments" section at the bottom of this article). Is there a way to prune data from legacy PingPlotter 5 data stores?
