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2 Fenfire (formerly Gzz (formerly GZigZag)) project milestones
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4
5 .. very much incomplete - please add stuff questions:
6
7 - when did Janne change from cellular automata
8 - when were the name changes
9
10 This document contains the most important events in the project's history.
11 It's intended to be *honest*, so it does contain several of the mistakes we made.
12 When reading, please remember that most such documents would only explain
13 the positive aspects.
14
15 1999
16 ====
17
18 After returning to Finland from his Junior Fellowship at Harvard
19 University, USA, Tuomas reads Ted's talk about ZigZag. Something clicks:
20 Tuomas notices this this system would be very close to several things
21 he's been longing for in his computer use.
22
23 He contacts Ted Nelson and after some emails, they agree that Tuomas
24 can develop a free version, if Ted gets to do his "director's cut".
25
26 The project starts as a work project for some students, Vesa Parkkinen
27 and Heikki Maaranen, as a C++ version using Gtk for graphics.
28
29 2000
30 ====
31
32 Spring:
33 -------
34
35 For portability and ease of programming (garbage collection &c) the Java
36 version is started by Tuomas. The work project finishes.
37
38 The first version of libvob (called Flobs) is created.
39
40 Summer:
41 -------
42
43 funded by Sonera, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho (student at Jyväskylä) and
44 Tuukka Hastrup (high school student in Helsinki) join the project.
45
46 Asko Soukka hears about ZZ from Tuukka Hastrup.
47
48 Benja Fallenstein also joins, using his own time (as a college student
49 in Germany).
50
51 Zobs: Java objects whose fields are read from the zzStructure
52 are developed to help coding.
53
54 AJ is developing the first cellular language.
55
56 Tuomas works a lot on versioning, solving some of the issues with versioning
57 ZZ-like sequences.
58
59 Fall:
60 -----
61
62 Rauli Ruohonen, a CS student at Helsinki University
63
64 2001
65 ====
66
67 Spring:
68 -------
69
70 Tero Mäyränen (local student) and Katariina Ervasti (a graduated humanist from Vaasa)
71 join the project.
72
73 Tuomas is ??? weeks on sick leave.
74
75 Summer:
76 -------
77
78 Tuomas, Tuukka, Benja, Kimmo, (anyone else?) give presentations at the ZigZag workshop
79 at the HyperText'01 conference.
80
81 Fall:
82 -----
83
84 Asko Soukka starts to use GZZ 0.6 in hope of better re-usability
85 and interconnectivity of his notes. Because Asko used to create
86 his notes as mind maps, from fall 2001 to spring 2002 he did some
87 wheel view development to "emulate" mind mapping on GZZ.
88
89 2002
90 ====
91
92 Spring:
93 -------
94
95 Tuomas invents unique backgrounds using procedural texturing and fillets (softened
96 connections).
97
98 Summer:
99 -------
100
101 Fillets published in Information Visualization '02 -conference in London.
102
103 Basic design of storm (xanalogical hypertext using GUIDs) published by Tuomas and Benja
104 at HT'02. Benja gives the presentation as Tuomas doesn't want to travel to the US.
105
106 Irregular edges invented
107
108 Fall:
109 -----
110
111 Asko Soukka (a user-friendly information technology student at
112 Jyväskylä University) joins the projects as a conscientious
113 objector (person undergoing non-military service). Asko gets
114 introduced with the new development version and sets his target
115 to create a new mind map note tool until fall 2003.
116
117 Tuomas and Janne make the mistake of overreaching by trying to send articles
118 about both irregular edges and unique backgrounds to the same conference.
119 Neither article passes because both had to be finished in a hurry. However, encouragingly,
120 the referees' reports are contradictory, implying that there *is* a lot of potential.
121
122 2003
123 ====
124
125 Spring:
126 -------
127
128 The idea for building Lego controllers invented in a discussion about
129 how we could order Legos with the project's funds ;) ;)
130
131 The secret controller (secret because a patent may be applied) invented.
132
133 Ted Nelson informs us that he doesn't want to license the zzStructure US patent
134 after all, and is building a commercial version. After the initial shock,
135 we react by changing the name of the project, splitting the project (so that
136 as many as possible parts are not depending on each other) and starting
137 to use RDF.
138
139 RDF turns out to be successful: it's a standard format with already several
140 tools, and does not share zzStructure's problems. What seemed like a catastrophe
141 has actually turned out well.
142
143 Asko reimplements his wheel view for Loom, the possible successor of
144 the basic GZZ client. Wheel view seem to have at least some
145 potential to show plain RDF structure as a spatial *hyper space*.
146
147 Asko works for a independent release Navidoc: the collection of
148 project's documentation utilies. An article about Navidoc's
149 ability to crosslink between distinct documentation using
150 imagemapped UML diagrams is submitted to HyperText '03 conference,
151 but gets slightly rejected because of its immaturity.

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