Timeline of Consumerium

This is one timeline of the Consum(er)ium effort. Another is at Troll Timeline and MediaWiki article has a timeline of MW developments.

Nav 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 2015 - 2016 - 2017

2000

Initial idea of Consumerium forms in Juxo'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

Kalle Toivonen of http://korpikuu.fi sponsors the domain name and hosting after meeting Juxo and hearing his raves about the future of retail

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

26.4. First description ohttp://develop.consumerium.org/w/skins/common/images/button_hr.pngf Consumerium in Finnish released, unluckily it was built with proprietary tools so it didn't get updated at all.

English version of the materials released.

2003

January. Juxo 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

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

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

2005

Disarray and vandalism sets in. Hard times are about.

2006

Switching from Escapebox.net's FreeBSD to Kotisivut.com's Fedora Core Linux to have newer versions of stuff

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

Outdated Fedora Core server retired in favor of Debian GNU/Linux server from Kotisivut.com. MediaWiki upgraded 8 versions up and MediaWiki/extensions to combat automized vandalism are installed and the wiki is once again unlocked for editing

Fast forward to 2012. There are 2000+ extensions made for MediaWiki which must all be analyzed for usefulness.

July

Wikiteam archives all the non-deleted full article histories ( available here ) , User:Juxo sighs with relief as it is no longer up-to only him to keep working backups safe.