[Labs-l] OpenMeetings.org & Wikimedia Labs

[George Chriss]

On Fri, May 18, 2012 12:55 am, Ryan Lane wrote:
>> I'm interested in migrating OpenMeetings.org into a Wikimedia Labs
>> project.  The migration would be special case compared to most other
>> Labs
>> projects---but, prospectively a good match---and an initial assessment
>> on
>> the proposal is welcome.
>>
>>
>> OpenMeetings.org is a MediaWiki+MetaVidWiki[1] instance with partial
>> Amara
>> (formerly Universal Subtitles) integration.  The driving idea is to
>> "open
>> up" meetings of public interest to the open web community and pending
>> technical development, the broader public.  OpenMeetings.org is aligned
>> with WMF's mission to "empower and engage people around the world to
>> collect and develop educational content" using OSI-approved licenses for
>> both hosted meetings and underlying code.
>>
>> Current development work needed includes a re-base to recent versions of
>> MediaWiki (currently running 1.15.1), CSS work, re-integration with
>> MwEmbed[2], building better video import/export tools, etc.
>>
>
>
> Development work seems like a really good match.


This would be a good starting point: launch a development-only copy of
OpenMeetings.org on Labs.  No content, accessible via
openmeetings.something.wmflabs.org, different project logo.

I'll push for production-level OpenMeetings.org independently of the dev
work in Labs.


Sincerely,
George


>
>>
>> Retaining the current URL structure is important.  I'm also interested
>> in
>> transferring domain ownership to the WMF.
>>
>> So, heads/tails on the above?  I'd remain active as the primary project
>> coordinator.
>>
>>
>
> If Wikimedia does indeed want to take over this project, it should
> exist in production, not in Labs. Labs isn't intended to run
> production-level services. We do support semi-production services,
> like bots and tools, but we can't change scope to handle full
> production services (community maintained or not).
>
> - Ryan
>
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