Shlomi,
I skimmed the existing timeline and my first impression was "ugh". =20
There's a lot a stuff that's unrelated to Perl ("Steven Jobs and =20
Steven Wozniak found Apple Computer") and overly opinionated details =20
("Microsoft infec^H^H^Htroduces Windows to the world."). But once I =20
read on further I realized that this do***ent is quite valuable as it =20=
has a ton of relevant information and links. I think it's a great =20
idea to update this do***ent and I applaud your initiative. It does =20
seem like a hard task, though.
To share the work, what do you think about moving it to the wiki? Or =20=
at least making the working copy be on the wiki with a "release" HTML =20=
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 =20=
> 2002.
> What I'm planning to do is:
>
> 1. Make the do***ent validate:
>
> http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=3Dhttp%3A//history.perl.org/=20
> PerlTimeline.html
>
> 2. Convert to XHTML 1.1.
>
> 3. Add more links and news items (that would be the hardest part) =20
> in the
> following years. Also prune some dead links.
>
> Note that I have some affiliations. I'll fork the do***ent to a =20
> tem****ary
> location (with a note). The copyright reads:
>
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<
> The Timeline of Perl and its Culture =A91999-2001 Elaine Ashton. =20
> Permission is
> granted for use of this do***ent in whole or in part for non-=20
> commercial
> purposes. For commercial uses, please contact the author first. =20
> Links to this
> do***ent are welcome after e-mailing the author with the do***ent =20
> URL where
> the link will appear.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> I don't know if it can be modified while retaining the same licence =20=
> (I've CCed
> her to ask her just in case.) If the HTML is generated from =20
> something else,
> it would be useful to know that now, but it doesn't seem that this =20
> is the
> case for it. Perhaps Elaine would like to specify a Creative =20
> Commons licence
> for it.
>
> Anyway, if you can think of any events that should be added, please =20=
> email me
> in private.
>
> Best Regards and thanks in advance,
>
> Shlomi Fish
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/
> Best Introductory Programming Language - http://xrl.us/bjn84
>
> The bad thing about hardware is that it sometimes work and =20
> sometimes doesn't.
> The good thing about software is that it's consistent: it always =20
> does not
> work, and it always does not work in exactly the same way.
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