[Ottawa-pm] Sneak preview of an upcoming tech meeting

[Yanick Champoux]

Hey all,

     Yesterday I met a man, and he has a dream...  He's dreaming of a 
world where information is chronologically organized.  A world where one 
could visualize those time streams, zoom them in and zoom them out. And 
cross-reference them.  A man...

     ... darn, I just realized that I probably met Hari Seldon.

     But, seriously, this man (Marc Wickham, and he should pop on the 
mailing list soonishly)  has a pretty cool and ambitious project in 
mind.  But everything is still very high-level, and he needs help to 
flesh out the details, and maybe have a poke at it.

     In all cases, he would like to present the project and its details 
to Ottawa.pm, and discuss it with us. And who I am to dissuade him? :-)

     The blurb of the presentation / project is copied below.  I'm 
thinking of arranging that meeting for (tentatively) March 14th (it's a 
Wednesday). Unless peeps think that having two meetings within two weeks 
is too fast and furious?

     He should also be at Pub Italia on the 29th, so we might chat more 
leisurely about the general topic then.

     And all that being said, here's the blurb:

<blurb>
Introducing Historiki - Brainstorming solutions to complex visualization 
and database design problems

Historiki's mission is to contribute a major and innovative Web-based 
project, in the area of chronologically-organized information and 
knowledge visualization tools, to the collaborative global movement that 
is creating a Web-based repository of knowledge, universally and freely 
accessible to all. Historiki's focus is on historical, time-based 
information. Historiki is being set up as a not-for-profit, 
volunteer-based organization, similar to the Wikimedia Foundation, and 
in the tradition of the Open Source and Creative Commons movements.

Historiki is just getting started and is at the early design phase. 
Historiki's founder, Marc Wickham, would like to introduce the 
organization, share some of the technical challenges involved, and hold 
a brainstorming session to develop potential approaches and solutions to 
these problems.
</blurb>


Joy,
`/anick

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Yanick Champoux, Senior Perl Developer
The Pythian Group - love your data
http://www.pythian.com


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