Re: Updating http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html

Shlomi,

I skimmed the existing timeline and my first impression was "ugh".   
There's a lot a stuff that's unrelated to Perl ("Steven Jobs and  
Steven Wozniak found Apple Computer") and overly opinionated details  
("Microsoft infec^H^H^Htroduces Windows to the world.").  But once I  
read on further I realized that this document is quite valuable as it  
has a ton of relevant information and links.  I think it's a great  
idea to update this document and I applaud your initiative.  It does  
seem like a hard task, though.

To share the work, what do you think about moving it to the wiki?  Or  
at least making the working copy be on the wiki with a "release" HTML  
version pulled off periodically (with a link back to the wiki)?

Chris


On Apr 26, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I'd like to start the long task of updating
> http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html which has been stopped at  
> 2002.
> What I'm planning to do is:
>
> 1. Make the document validate:
>
> http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A//history.perl.org/ 
> PerlTimeline.html
>
> 2. Convert to XHTML 1.1.
>
> 3. Add more links and news items (that would be the hardest part)  
> in the
> following years. Also prune some dead links.
>
> Note that I have some affiliations. I'll fork the document to a  
> temporary
> location (with a note). The copyright reads:
>
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<
> The Timeline of Perl and its Culture ©1999-2001 Elaine Ashton.  
> Permission is
> granted for use of this document in whole or in part for non- 
> commercial
> purposes. For commercial uses, please contact the author first.  
> Links to this
> document are welcome after e-mailing the author with the document  
> URL where
> the link will appear.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> I don't know if it can be modified while retaining the same licence  
> (I've CCed
> her to ask her just in case.) If the HTML is generated from  
> something else,
> it would be useful to know that now, but it doesn't seem that this  
> is the
> case for it. Perhaps Elaine would like to specify a Creative  
> Commons licence
> for it.
>
> Anyway, if you can think of any events that should be added, please  
> email me
> in private.
>
> Best Regards and thanks in advance,
>
>         Shlomi Fish
>
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