Anyone know of a BarCamp timeline?

[Eric Skiff]

As the *Camp meme spreads further and further from it's origins, I often find myself recanting the story of FooCamp and BarCamp, and how things came to be. Unfortunately I'm a little fuzzy on dates for the beginning events. Does anyone have a rough timeline of the original camps?

It'd be fun to the data in the barcamp wiki and watch the idea spread... Hmm, maybe with KML and google earth... :)

-Eric

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[Corsin Camichel]

I would _love_ to see an interactive Flash timeline. Like this one:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/timelines/british/index.shtml

With all the *Camps on it, fetching some Flickr photos, links and so on.
Any professional Flash artists here? :-)

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[Tegan Dowling]

Maybe first assign some wiki space to the project, to gather contributions of records, images, links, anecdotes, etc, from the *camps -- there wouldn't need to be any limit to the size or time-span of that part of such a project, just archiving the things worth noting, remembering and passing along -- then a flashed-up timeline could be assembled, and occasionally re-assembled over the years?

[Chris Messina]

Flash--! SRSLY. Have you learned nothing from BarCamp?! :P

j/k, but let's keep our formats open so next generation can enjoy our
creations royalty free, m'kay?

In fact, all you need to do is figure out how to take the hCalendar
content from the homepage and http://barcamp.org/PreviousBarCamps and
map it to a SIMILE timeline:

http://www.siatec.net/timeline/
http://simile.mit.edu/

I couldn't get it to work, but ideally, we'd be able to use the
microformatted content we already have (and what's on Upcoming) and
then make it using Google Earth. I'd love to see something like that.

Also, these are historic photos:

http://flickr.com/photos/tags/barcampbirth

;)

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[Eric Skiff]

I've taken a first crack at this using KML. Not a bad little markup language, although I'm having a little trouble with the timeline.

I've loaded in all the camps listed on barcamp.org from the beginning through the end of 2006.

http://glitchnyc.com/BarCampTimeline.kml
(right click and save - my server doesn't know how to handle KML yet, I'll fix it asap)

You'll need a somewhat recent version of Google Earth to view the timeline data in this file.

Some fun tricks:

If you select the barcamp folder and then click on the clock next to the timeline at the top, and select "clamp beginning..." and "restrict time", you can watch the barcamp meme spread over the first year.

You can also hit the 'play' button under the folder of barcamp placemarks to take a virtual tour, visiting each place that barcamp has sprung up. It's amazing a) how many of these places I was completely ignorant about (where is Saskatoon? Vienna?) and b) just how far this idea has spread, and this just shows the first year!

I'll likely add 2007 soon. Consider this kml public domain, please add to it, make things from it, etc :) Just be sure to let us know what you do with it!

[Eric Skiff]

If you'd like to link to this or send it to anyone offlist, I've blogged it with a little Barcamp history here:

http://glitchnyc.com/2007/10/13/barcamp-timeline-in-google-earth/

-Eric

On 10/13/07, Eric Skiff <glitc...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Chris Messina]

This is great Eric!

I went ahead and made a Google Code project:

http://code.google.com/p/barcamp/

I also checked in your KML which we can maintain collectively:

http://barcamp.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/timeline/

I've made Eric and Project Owner for now so he and I can maintain the
code for now.

Let me know if anyone wants to contribute code, etc.

Chris

[Samuel Rose]

See replies...

On Oct 12, 8:07 pm, "Chris Messina" <chris.mess...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Flash--! SRSLY. Have you learned nothing from BarCamp?! :P
>
> j/k, but let's keep our formats open so next generation can enjoy our
> creations royalty free, m'kay?
>
> In fact, all you need to do is figure out how to take the hCalendar
> content from the homepage andhttp://barcamp.org/PreviousBarCampsand
> map it to a SIMILE timeline:
>
> http://www.siatec.net/timeline/http://simile.mit.edu/

Actually, you've hit on something I have been thinking about in
general, which is "how to map microformats to RDF?"

Do you, or anyone else reading this, know much about this? I was
exploring SIMILE as a tag mapping system for some people I collaborate
with. Would love to be able to incorporate many established
microformats....

>
> I couldn't get it to work, but ideally, we'd be able to use the
> microformatted content we already have (and what's on Upcoming) and
> then make it using Google Earth. I'd love to see something like that.
>
> Also, these are historic photos:
>
> http://flickr.com/photos/tags/barcampbirth
>
> ;)
>
> Chris
>

> On 10/12/07, Tegan Dowling <tmdowl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Maybe first assign some wiki space to the project, to gather contributions
> > of records, images, links, anecdotes, etc, from the *camps -- there wouldn't
> > need to be any limit to the size or time-span of that part of such a
> > project, just archiving the things worth noting, remembering and passing
> > along -- then a flashed-up timeline could be assembled, and occasionally
> > re-assembled over the years?
>

> > On 10/12/07, Corsin Camichel <coca...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I would _love_ to see an interactive Flash timeline. Like this one:
>
> >http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/timelines/british/index.shtml
>
> > > With all the *Camps on it, fetching some Flickr photos, links and so on.
> > > Any professional Flash artists here? :-)
>
> > > Corsin
>

> > > On 10/13/07, Eric Skiff <glitchc...@gmail.com > wrote:
> > > > As the *Camp meme spreads further and further from it's origins, I often
> > > > find myself recanting the story of FooCamp and BarCamp, and how things
> > came
> > > > to be. Unfortunately I'm a little fuzzy on dates for the beginning
> > events.
> > > > Does anyone have a rough timeline of the original camps?
>
> > > > It'd be fun to the data in the barcamp wiki and watch the idea spread...
> > > > Hmm, maybe with KML and google earth... :)
>
> > > > -Eric
>
> > > > --
> > > > Eric Skiff
> > > >http://clipmarks.com
> > > > 718-809-8692
>
> > > > Blog :http://GlitchNYC.com
> > > > Podcast :http://AlternativeMusicShow.com
> > > > Learn Stuff:http://clipiversity.com
>
> > > --
> > > Corsin Camichel

> > > coca...@gmail.com (Private)
> > > corsin.camic...@hsr.ch (School)
> > > Bloghttp://cocaman.ch/wp/
> > > BarCampSwitzerlandhttp://barcamp.ch

[Chris Messina]

On 10/14/07, Samuel Rose <samue...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Actually, you've hit on something I have been thinking about in
> general, which is "how to map microformats to RDF?"
>
> Do you, or anyone else reading this, know much about this? I was
> exploring SIMILE as a tag mapping system for some people I collaborate
> with. Would love to be able to incorporate many established
> microformats....

This is probably a better subject for the Microformats list, but it's
been considered and discussed before, but I'm not sure what the point
would be?

http://microformats.org/wiki/faqs-for-rdf

Chris

[Samuel Rose]

Thanks Chris, and you're right, it is off topic for this list.

I'll move discussion to micorformats list. And, thanks for the link.

On Oct 14, 1:56 pm, "Chris Messina" <chris.mess...@gmail.com> wrote: