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Day 29: $7,186.1 contributed so far. $32,813.9 left to go!
We cannot continue without your help. Please make your tax-deductible donation today. The History Commons project is DEEP in the RED!In January we raised enough money to get us through the end of May, but since then we've been operating in the red and our debt has accrued to about $15,000. We were unable to do a fundraiser in May because our server had been pushed to its limits by the increase in traffic and the surge in contributor activity, and as a result the site was relatively unstable. After optimizing the software that runs the site and upgrading to a faster server, everything is running extremely smoothly now. At the same time, our daily output of timeline entries has nearly doubled, so finacially we've fallen way behind. We no longer have the funds to support the 9/11 Timeline project and other important investigations. We can only run the site on our credit card for a few more weeks. Why is our website so important? The History Commons makes it possible for people at the grassroots level to assume a dominant role in public and private sector oversight. By supporting this effort, you are helping civil society end its reliance on the corporate media, which has failed in its presumed role as a government and corporate watchdog. Over the last two quarters, a ton of material has been added on a variety of topics ranging from NSA wiretapping, global warming, free trade, 9/11, “the war on terrorism,” civil liberties, the Iraq war, the Iran confrontation, and more. For a complete list of what we have done, and what we hope to accomplish by next quarter, visit the main fundraiser page. Find InformationThe History Commons contains summaries of 8,342 events, which are published on the website in the format of dynamic timelines. These timelines can be filtered by investigative project, topic, or entity (e.g., a person, organization, or corporation). You can even generate a “scalable context” timeline for any event in the History Commons database simply by clicking the date of the timeline entry. You can search for events by using the search box at the top right-hand corner, or by browsing through the list of projects. Contribute InformationThe History Commons website is an experiment in open-content civic journalism. It provides a space for people to conduct grassroots-level investigations on any issue, providing the public with a useful tool to conduct oversight of government and private sector entities. It is collaborative and thus allows individuals to build upon the work of others. Each investigation is organized as a “project,” which is made up of at least one timeline. You can contribute to a project by adding new events to the timeline associated with that project. All submissions are peer-reviewed by other users before being published. If you would like to participate in this effort, you will first need to create a user account. Once you have done that, you can begin adding events to any timeline. Share InformationThe History Commons is a product of public collaboration created for public consumption. You are free to reuse, republish, and make derivative works from the textual content of the History Commons for non-commercial purposes (see terms for details). All timelines are exportable into XML so the data can be used in other applications. | Events Recently Added to the Commons
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