New subject: Wikimedia-genealogy Digest, Vol 2, Issue 4

25 May 2017

Hi Michael,

I am interested in helping where I can..
   My PLUS's:
     I am retired, and I am interested in Ancestry for my Family Tree and
connecting with others from my families names:  Baxter, Herman, Lewellyn,
(Single first L ) and Ladeau.
    I am good with 'e' mails, and pretty good with keyboard typing.
     I have a fair internet speed for out in the country-- but no cable
runs by my house-- so my connection is not as fast as yours, I am sure! :-)
     I have 2 sons who are really good with computers-- tho they live an
hour away.
   I am learning to work with DropBox more and more..
    I have an Evernote account-- if that helps.

    My negatives:
     I am 76 years old, and I am NOT a programmer.
   Tho I am capable of learning, if you have classes on line, planned.

Let me know if I can be of some help-- and WHEN are you going to be moving
forward?

Sincerely,

Mack Baxter

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    1. Wikimedia genealogy and historical research software - a
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       proposal for HRE (Michael Smith)
    3. Re: Wikimedia genealogy and historical research software - a
       proposal for HRE (Michael Maggs)

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 Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 15:58:34 +0100
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 There has been quite bit of discussion over the years about how the
 Wikimedia movement could engage with those who have research interests
 in family history or genealogy, and a centralised discussion page [1]
 has been set up on Meta.

 I am posting to ask whether there would be Wikimedian developers who
 would be interested in joining an open source project to create a free
 platform independent application called History Research Environment [2]
 (‘HRE’) for the serious genealogist or historical researcher.
 Considerable effort has been put into high-level planning over several
 years, and we are now ready to start writing code.

 While the proposed software is not currently an official Wikimedia
 project, if there is enough interest we are open to it becoming
 integrated or affiliated in some way. The plan is, in any event, that
 the software should be interoperable with Wikidata to allow (subject to
 the agreement of the Wikidata community) the exchange of a variety of
 structured data including verified and fully sourced family trees.

 I'd be happy to answer queries.

 Michael Maggs

 [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_genealogy_project

 [2] https://historyresearchenvironment.org

 (please excuse cross-posting for greater visibility, as the
 [wikimedia-genealogy] mailing list still has very few subscribers)

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 Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 12:20:36 -0500
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 As it happens, both my wife and I were members of Bob Velke's original
 development team for TMG in one of Dick Eastman's back rooms at CompuServe
 in the early '90s. (That's how we first met, in fact.) If this project is
 meant to function as a full-dress desktop application for recording
 genealogical research -- perhaps among other, more general types of
 historical research -- I would be very interested. I've just spent some
 time browsing through the info at the website you linked to and I've
 already begun making a list of comments and points to consider.

 I've been doing this stuff since the early '60s, before I even did my first
 history degree, so all my original family research was
 pencil-and-clipboard. I still do "regular" history research, mostly of the
 local history variety -- but, to be honest, I've never needed software for
 that. Still just a pencil and clipboard, with the addition of a digital
 camera a decade ago.

 Michael K. Smith

 On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Michael Maggs &lt;Michael(a)maggs.name&gt; wrote:

  There has been quite bit of discussion over the
years about how the
 Wikimedia movement could engage with those who have research interests in
 family history or genealogy, and a centralised discussion page [1] has  been
  set up on Meta.

 I am posting to ask whether there would be Wikimedian developers who  would
  be interested in joining an open source project
to create a free platform
 independent application called History Research Environment [2] (‘HRE’)  for
  the serious genealogist or historical researcher.
 Considerable effort  has
  been put into high-level planning over several
years, and we are now  ready
  to start writing code.

 While the proposed software is not currently an official Wikimedia
 project, if there is enough interest we are open to it becoming  integrated
  or affiliated in some way. The plan is, in any
event, that the software
 should be interoperable with Wikidata to allow (subject to the agreement  of
  the Wikidata community) the exchange of a variety
of structured data
 including verified and fully sourced family trees.

 I'd be happy to answer queries.

 Michael Maggs

 [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_genealogy_project

 [2] https://historyresearchenvironment.org

 (please excuse cross-posting for greater visibility, as the
 [wikimedia-genealogy] mailing list still has very few subscribers)

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