Consumerium timeline
See Timeline of Consumerium for the "real" historical timeline
This is a future perfect timeline of plans that will not perfectly converge with with the historical Timeline of Consumerium - it might be titled ideal timeline of consumerium pilot project or something
The Consumerium timeline is:
Summer 2003 - started
Fall 2003 - worked out all basic concepts unique to Consumerium
Winter 2004 - start recruiting Consumerium developers to kick tires and work out more details; first drafts of Consumerium License and etc.
- Progress as of March 15, 2004 includes MediaWiki modifications requested, and a start at sketching Consumerium Process and four user interfaces (full web, worn web, print, audio/headset) for delivering Consumerium buying signal; other Consumerium Service access outlined and some business strategy potential, e.g. friendly retail, etc.. Good division of function. By end of March, should be able to start building the Consumerium:intermediate pages and clearly separating the "three wikis".
Spring 2004 - seek publicity and help kick starting self-funding, get Consumerium Governance Organization in place
- April should be devoted to getting more participation in each of the three: some users doing lookup, of some pages probably imported via XML and updated, with some development work going on to see if all the standards can be met.
- May would be a good time to set up the CGO
- June is the last chance before summer to seek funding, maybe from orgs like Adbusters that are trying to do this but whose Greenscan has stalled;
Summer 2004 - first beta testers can test the Consumerium buying signal in a variety of settings
Fall 2004 - deployment on retail shelf
- (Consumerium Prediction Market may help keep timelines realistic.)
- Trolls bet one Euro that none of the MediaWiki modifications will be made by end of May 2004.