Hi,
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 3:26 PM, Legoktm <legoktm.wikipedia(a)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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