Erdenet (Mongolia).
Professors, Madams, Sirs, you receive this mail because you're involved in BabelNet, OpenLogos or Apertium. I'm a contributor of Omegawiki.org, and represent neither the project's community nor the owner of the domain name. This project seems to me an excellent idea, but its governance is very poor. As I wrote there more than one month ago: I'm very grateful to people who launched Omegawiki, developed and have been maintained it. However we couldn't make any registered organization, we don't get money for the project so the project is not developing well. Notably, we still cannot deal with inflexions, the server is more and more often down, we are too few, the project is not well known, that's now 8 months nobody wrote anything in this parlour etc.. And we don't even know what will happen the day the owner of the domain Omegawiki.org will die. During more than a decade, the founder and some contributors waited for the Wikimedia foundation to adopt the project. This never happened. I also don't think it's very wholesome that the owner contributes so little to the project. I notice some of the very same people who initiated or developed the project at the same time have been slowing it down by refusing to look actively for solutions and refusing proposals of solutions, above all the creation of an association. So I suggest we look for an existing bigger, registered organisation which would develop the project quicker, possibly integrating it into a bigger project, even if it means forking the project if there is too much resistance from here. To my mind, we should check that the said organization be really involved, and not just one representative of the organization. Specially if it's a university, it shouldn't be just one professor's idea, but the involvement of a team. I hope I will get a few answers to this proposal... I didn't get any answer. Would your organisation be interested to take over Omegawiki? It not, do you know another organisation which could be interested? To my mind, the project should go on as a truly OpenSource one, open to anybody's contribution (not just scholars, for instance). Such a proposal should be done to the small community of Omegawiki but, if no answer comes, or if the answer is a refusal without any reasonable alternative, forking the project should be thought of. The right place to discuss these matters with Omegawiki's community is there: http://www.omegawiki.org/Meta:strategy Thank you for having reading this, and happy new year! (I'm French, in France, new year wishes can be sent up to January 31st). _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list Apertium-stuff@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
