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 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 of http://korpikuu.fi 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
Read more
- Blog December 2003
- Blog November 2003
- Blog October 2003
- User:Juboxi/Blog/Archive/September2003
- User:Juboxi/Blog/Archive/August2003
- User:Juboxi/Blog/Archive/July2003
- User:Juboxi/Blog/Archive/June2003
- User:Juboxi/Blog/Archive/May2003
- User:Juboxi/Blog/Archive/April2003
- User:Juboxi/Blog/Archive/March2003
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
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 server retired in favor of Debian GNU/Linux server from Kotisivut.com.
2009
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
Fast forward to 2012. There are 2000+ extensions made for MediaWiki which must all be analyzed for usefulness.
July 2012 milestone Wikiteam 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.
more from
2013
2013 highlights
- New server 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