Hi,
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 3:26 PM, Legoktm legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
On 05/24/2017 07:49 AM, Yaron Koren wrote:
I'm very excited to announce the launch of the Enterprise MediaWiki Consortium (EMC), an organization devoted to supporting and maintaining "enterprise MediaWiki" software.
While I'm excited that someone is finally taking this on, I'm also a bit concerned.
- Did you receive approval from the Wikimedia Foundation's legal
department to use the MediaWiki trademark?
No, and I haven't asked. For what it's worth, I've been involved with other projects that used the word "MediaWiki" (like the book "Working with MediaWiki", and the Enterprise MediaWiki Conference), and I didn't ask permission for those either. I'm guessing that it won't be an issue, but if it is, I'll be happy to talk to the relevant people about it.
- What is the roadmap of the organization? What is the planned
governance model?
As I said before, it would be great to have nonprofit status in one way or another, and it would be great to have a board of directors and so on. At the moment, the key goal is bringing in more member organizations. As for decision-making, the idea is that members' votes are tied to the amount of money they put in - so more or less, every member organization decides how it wants its own contribution to be spent. Though of course there will be coordination and discussion. I don't know if that answers your questions.
-Yaron
Thanks, -- Legoktm
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