Just a heads up for those wanting to find a way to make a decent timeline with special thanks to the simile project at MIT.

I’ve been desperately looking for a way to present my project’s ‘work’, that enables me to draw in relationships between things going on. For example, Deliverable 11 - a Synthesis report on sustainability literacy is due in February, yet is reliant on other deliverables coming in. Who’s working on those other deliverables and when do they need to submit them in order for the D11 to be possible… Yes that’s right I want it all presented clearly and visibly for my team, then I want to email / link to it so they can access it whenever they want.

I’m not sure this is the timeline for me, as I haven’t on first glance worked out if it is capable of drawing relationships between events. Then again, having spent about 2 hours googling the damn things, this one impressed me the most. The major downside is that its not available in a content managed form - you have to go in at html & Java level and do some copy and pasting, but no rocket science, I promise.

My biggest issue is that I don’t have time to use this timeline. It could help my team’s work but…(clearly I have time for a moan): I’m a not a programmer, I’m an environmental scientist (or whatever I’ve decided my job is this week), I don’t have time to learn how to use this, or the know how to debug any errors I inadvertently create.

Still, for those of you with a little more programming savvy, you may be pleased to have tracked this one down.

In any case, well done David Francois Huynh for developing the prettiest and most useable open source timeline I could find- from a viewer’s perspective. Please come and make me a timelining CMS so I can crack out timelines like this in minutes ;p