Timeline of Consumerium: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 14:32, 10 September 2016

This is one timeline of the Consumerium effort. Another is at Troll Timeline and MediaWiki article has a timeline of MW developments.

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2000 - Idea of Consumerium appears to the Lowest Troll
2001 - Nothing much happens
2002 - Our first philantropist appears. Consumerium.org domain and hosting is donated to the effort.
2003 - Copylefting and adopting MediaWiki to drive development
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2013 - Consumium free social starts
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2000

Initial idea of Consumerium forms in the Lowest Troll’s mind inspired by information on Bluetooth

2001

Consumerium buying signal idea of green light for good products appears at act.greenpeace.org - lookup by barcodes.

2002

2002 highlights

Kalle Hallivuori sponsors the domain name Consumerium.org at Gandi.net and hosting at Pingviini.net after meeting Juho and hearing his raves about a future of consumism and browsing the handout the Lowest Troll had prepared just in case meet nice technically adept peple.

First plan-of-intent of Consumerium in Finnish and English released.

2002 elsewhere

Adbusters begins discussing its Greenscan service - also based on barcodes. Neither Adbusters nor Greenpeace has proposed an architecture for delivery.

2003

January. Juho gets an internet connection :)

Finnish version scrapped. Too much hassle.

10.3. Consumerium gets Wikified and GFDL'd (see: old articles for most of the original articles copied from the old site.)

15.3. First GPL'd DTDs released

15.3. Added monopoly to features

16.3. Started researching in Wikipedia to benefit all.

5.6. The First Ever Bluetooth Barcode Scanner (Baracoda Pencil) added to Hardware Requirements

6.6. Track record of Charitable contributions or Social services added to section Indicators of ethical aspects and social responsibility of Features

6.6. Added distinction between functional packaging and decorative packaging to section Indicators of Environmental Friendliness of Features

6.6. Added Bluetooth keyboards to the optional requirements subsection of the Store's hardware requirements section of Hardware Requirements

8.6. Preparations for getting registered in Sourceforge get underway.

12.6. Added Product substitution to Other services section of Features.

15.6. Added Consumerium to the InterWiki map from MeatballWiki

19.6. Added Inter-shop navigation to section Other services of Features

3.7. Added SA8000 certification to Indicators of ethical aspects and social responsibility of Features

23.7. Registered XML development project under GPL at http://consuml.sourceforge.net

31.8. The Design paradigm revisioned from using ConsuML (XML) to store the content to using a Wiki as the content platform

22.9. The principles of The Consumerium Exchange outlined

13.10. Majority of TCE implementation moved to be the responsibility of The Opinion Wiki

6.11. The concept of Fairtrade On Demand is introduced

29.11. Workplace Upgrade Requests added to Indicators of ethical aspects and social responsibility of Features

29.11. Fairtrade On Demand is added to new section Future features of features

3.12. Translation work initiated in Wiktionary

2003 Headlines

Copyleft everything
MediaWiki introduced
http://develop.consumerium.org, the 1st subdomain is created and the development wiki is placed here.
Active development of knowledge

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2004

10.3. Added Checkout Consumerium to section Other services Features

10.3. Consumerium Development Wiki has been available for One Year!

18.3. Nokia, Sony and Phillips form NFC-forum to advance NFC development, implementation and interoperability, which is great news for Checkout Consumerium designated as one of the first instore Consumerium Services

See Consumerium anticipated rollout for planned future events and known scheduled events. Don't take those as seriously as you take the above!

By 9.9. Main Page reaches 10.000 views and number of articles exeeds 1.000 unfortunatelly mostly due to some active participants diverging into useless wordplay and other activities which are not part of the main goal of this wiki

2.11. Nokia announces NFC enabled phone covers for Nokia 3220 (available 1st quarter 2005 in Europe and 2nd quarter 2005 in Americas and Asia

27.11.

The international "buy nothing day" or BND for short http://www.buynothingday.co.uk/

2004 highlights

How Consumerium differs from Wikipedia in a nutshell gets written, desteams conflict with Wikimedia.

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2005

2005 highlights

Fair Flower and Plants label is expected to be finalized and introduced to consumers

Fair trade There are plans to introduce Fair trade cotton and textiles to the market

UCC requires that by January 1, 2005 all retail scanning systems in the US must be able to accept EAN-13

2005 lowlights

Disarray and vandalism sets in. Hard times are about.

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2006

Blog September 2006

2007

Switching from Escapebox.net's nice Semi-Managed FreeBSD in Germany to a w:Fedora Core (v5 lol) GNU/Linux at Kotisivut.com to have newer versions of stuff.

2008

Outdated Fedora Core 5 server retired in favor of a proper w:Debian GNU/Linux 6 server at Kotisivut.com.

2009

2010

Blog May 2010

2011

2012

MediaWiki upgraded 8 versions up and MediaWiki/extensions to combat automized vandalism are installed and the wiki is once again unlocked for editing.
In 2012 there were 2000+ extensions made for MediaWiki which must all be analyzed for usefulness which was attempted at MediaWiki/extensions

2012 highlights

Archive Team archives all the non-deleted full article histories ( available here ) , Lowest Troll sighs with relief as it is no longer up-to only him to keep working backups safe.

Consumerium plans as of 2013 was originally "Consumerium plans as of 2012" and contained an interesting take on voting systems.

2013

2013 highlights

New server with Debian7 at the excellent https://transip.eu hosting guys in Netherlands for the first Consumium free social medium, diaspora*.

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and other sources.

2014

To be constructed from User:Juboxi/Blog/2014 and other sources.

2015

To be constructed from User:Juboxi/Blog/2015 and other sources.

2016

2016 is the current year. Going ons in greater detail there. I'll be drawing content to there from the Lowest Troll's blog for year 2016

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 * [[Archive Team]] archives all the non-deleted full article histories ( available [http://archive.org/details/wiki-develop.consumerium.org here] ) , [[Lowest Troll]] sighs with relief as it is no longer up-to only him to keep working backups safe.
+* [[Consumerium plans as of 2013]] was originally "Consumerium plans as of 2012" and contained an interesting take on [[voting]] systems.
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