[FC-discuss] Free Culture Timeline

Elizabeth Stark emstark at gmail.com
Tue Dec 11 06:58:27 JST 2007


I was also involved in that workshop, and would love to collaborate on
an '07 extension of the timeline, after finals, of course. :)

On Dec 10, 2007 12:45 PM, Kevin Driscoll <driscollkevin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Awesome news, Asheesh! I actually have this on my "post-exams" to-do list.
>
> Until we get that rolling, I want to encourage everyone to add to the
> image directly via Flickr notes / comments here:
>
> http://flickr.com/photos/believekevin/402878297/
>
> Kevin
>
>
>
> On Dec 10, 2007 12:35 PM, Asheesh Laroia <freeculture at asheesh.org> wrote:
> > Nine months ago, Kevin published a "visual brainstorm" from a Beyond
> > Broadcast 2007 event, a Free Culture timeline on a chalkboard:
> > http://flickr.com/photos/believekevin/402878297/
> >
> > It looks pretty cool, and he then wrote, "i want a wiki-editable timeline
> > so that we can easily see how crazy things are getting. 2007 is going to
> > be out the chimney!"
> >
> > The FreeCulture.org wiki is now enabled with Super Magic Cow Semantic
> > Powers (AKA Semantic MediaWiki), which makes it super easy to make
> > timelines using the SIMILE Timeline app.  Check out e.g.
> > http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Upcoming_events generated dynamically from wiki
> > pages.
> >
> > So Kevin and others, hopefully this hint can get you going on reviving
> > this awesome project using the FreeCulture.org wiki.  If you get stuck on
> > technicals, don't hesitate to ask me for help!
> >
> > -- Asheesh.
> >
> > --
> > I cannot conceive that anybody will require multiplications at the rate
> > of 40,000 or even 4,000 per hour ...
> >                 -- F. H. Wales (1936)
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