The software Benjamin has written himself looks quite
solid and reasonably feature complete to me. I
don't see why he would need to attract interest from developers when he's
obviously quite a
proficient one himself. Wikimedia could certainly benefit from Benjamin's expertise,
if we could win
him over, but I'm not sure what benefit Benjamin expects to derive from Wikimedia.
Whether or not
this is a Wikimedia project, Benjamin will have to do most of the development and
promotion himself.
Hosting costs should be small during startup, easily covered by donations. If he can
avoid
Wikimedia's bureaucracy and run the project himself, why not do so?
-- Tim Starling
Fortunately, in the genealogy world, there is a huge online presence. It
would be as simple as posting a well-written message to numerous
genealogy mailing lists to increase the user base.