PD:Timeline

View the key events of the Public Domain Project:

2009

January

Establishment of the Public Domain Project

December

The Public Domain Radio starts his broadcasting

2010

January

The MediaWiki of the Public Domain Project goes online

December

The Public Domain Project is among the winners of the first competition of ideas of Wikimedia Deutschland

2011

September

Arrival of the provided laser turntable by Wikimedia Deutschland

2012

February

The ITZ of the Zurich University of the Arts offers the server housing and sponsors bandwidth and rackspace

August

Martin Osterwalder donates 35,000 gramophone records (phonograph records)

September

First speech at a Wikimedia conference (WikiCon 2012 in Dornbirn, Austria)

December

Establishment of the Swiss Foundation Public Domain

2013

February

The supervision of the foundation is now up to the Federal Department of Home Affairs

May

The Swiss Foundation Public Domain is now officially a charitable organization (tax exempt) in Switzerland

August

We attend at the Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong. The result is a partnership with a digitization project in Uruguay

2014

January

The Public Domain project is actively supported by Wikimedia CH in 2014

February

Integration of the digitization project in the CD recording of the SOS-ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich)

April

Dominio Público Sonoro Uruguay becomes the official representative of the Public Domain Project in South America

July

Start of the digitization of the Martin Osterwalder collection. WMCH financed an employee with Asperger syndrome and the SOS-ETH is sponsoring a space for the recording studio

August

We attend at the Wikimania 2014 in London. Wikimedia Deutschland gives us a literary grant for the procurement of much needed reference books (Copyright investigation)

September

We attend at WikiCon 2014 in Cologne. Wikimedia CH assumes the cost for another employee with Asperger syndrome. The record cleaning machine is now ready for use. We find a pleasure in the Wiki of Music (WoM) and discuss about a closer cooperation

December

We are guests in the radio show Hackerfunk of Radio Radius and Christian Mäder published his blog about the Public Domain Project.

Visit also

• Photo stream of the Public Domain Project in Flickr.