Only for clarification, HIstory is much more than a timeline and event
[1] and historians do things other than timelines [i.e. 2].
And for the original question I am historian but I'm afraid I am not
what the original post was looking for.
History is more than events, historians (some at least) like to look
at the Longue Durée [3] and from below [4].
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annales_School
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_history
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longue_durée
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_from_below
El Nov 3, 2008, a las 10:56 PM, Landon Blake escribió:
I'll wait for others to respond. If we don't already have this
information on the wiki I will create a page.
Landon
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Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Does the OSGeo have a historian?
Landon Blake wrote:
While preparing my recent proposal for the OSGeo I realized there
wasn't
a lot of information on the history of the organization. I realize
part
of this is because the OSGeo is pretty young as far as organizations
go.
However, most of the information I could find about the OSGeo was
related to the founding of the organization. Do we have any type of
timeline that presents important events in the history of the OSGeo
since that time? Do we have a historian?
I'm thinking that such a timeline could contain information about
projects and sponsors joining the OSGeo, brief summaries about OSGeo
conferences, and information about the formation of local OSGeo
projects.
Landon
Thanks for asking about this, I was interesting in such information
too.
I want to make a timeline of OSGeo and OSGeo projects for a poster
that
we can use in marketing.
Maybe we need a history page on the wiki to track such information in
one place similar to Tyler's recent summary of OSGeo contributors.
Alex
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