[Ottawa-pm] Sneak preview of an upcoming tech meeting
Yanick Champoux
champoux at pythian.com
Thu Feb 16 08:17:03 PST 2012
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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