[OSGeo-Discuss] Does the OSGeo have a historian?

[Agustin Diez Castillo]

Only for clarification, HIstory is much more than a timeline and event  
[1] and historians do things other than timelines [i.e. 2].
And for the original question I am historian but I'm afraid I am not  
what the original post was looking for.
History is more than events, historians (some at least) like to look  
at the Longue Durée [3] and from below [4].
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annales_School
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_history
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longue_durée
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_from_below


El Nov 3, 2008, a las 10:56 PM, Landon Blake escribió:

> I'll wait for others to respond. If we don't already have this
> information on the wiki I will create a page.
>
> Landon
>
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> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Does the OSGeo have a historian?
>
> Landon Blake wrote:
>> While preparing my recent proposal for the OSGeo I realized there
> wasn't
>> a lot of information on the history of the organization. I realize
> part
>> of this is because the OSGeo is pretty young as far as organizations
> go.
>> However, most of the information I could find about the OSGeo was
>> related to the founding of the organization. Do we have any type of
>> timeline that presents important events in the history of the OSGeo
>> since that time? Do we have a historian?
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm thinking that such a timeline could contain information about
>> projects and sponsors joining the OSGeo, brief summaries about OSGeo
>> conferences, and information about the formation of local OSGeo
>> projects.
>>
>>
>>
>> Landon
>>
>
> Thanks for asking about this, I was interesting in such information  
> too.
>
> I want to make a timeline of OSGeo and OSGeo projects for a poster  
> that
> we can use in marketing.
>
> Maybe we need a history page on the wiki to track such information in
> one place similar to Tyler's recent summary of OSGeo contributors.
>
> Alex
>
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