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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