Thanks for the announcement. I see that membership has a minimum price of $2,000 per year. Why is there a fee to join the organization?
Is the organization a 501(c)(3)? Who are the owners or directors of the organization? Thank you, Pine On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 7:49 AM, Yaron Koren <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm very excited to announce the launch of the Enterprise MediaWiki > Consortium (EMC), an organization devoted to supporting and maintaining > "enterprise MediaWiki" software. > > As you may know, a lot of open-source software has some sort of > organization or foundation that is intended to pool money from users of the > software toward developers. MediaWiki is in an unusual situation: it is > funded by the Wikimedia Foundation (and, to a lesser extent, Wikimedia > Deutschland and others), but those organizations' primary allegiance is to > software that runs on Wikimedia sites. That leaves a lot of > MediaWiki-related software (extensions, skins, etc.) that is mostly > intended for use on non-Wikimedia sites, i.e. "enterprise" uses: some of > this software has significant usage, but very little of it has > institutional support. > > That is where the Enterprise MediaWiki Consortium fits in. It is intended > to fund the development of extensions and other software that otherwise has > no funding source. The set of software being funded is entirely up to the > membership of the EMC, and of course the amount of support that can be > provided depends on the amount of money that members contribute - an amount > that will hopefully grow over time. > > If you belong to an organization, company or website that makes use of > MediaWiki - and specifically, of MediaWiki-related software not used on > Wikimedia sites - please consider joining the Enterprise MediaWiki > Consortium - to provide much-needed support for the software you use, and > to have a greater say in shaping its future. > > You can read more about the EMC here: > > http://enterprisemediawikiconsortium.org/ > > -Yaron > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
