Hi, On 05/24/2017 01:20 PM, Yaron Koren wrote: >> * 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.
I think writing a book about open source software and soliciting donations online are different from a trademark perspective but IANAL. Someone else already let WMF legal know, so I'm sure they'll reach out to you if there are any issues. >> * 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. I'm mostly trying to understand what is the expected outcome of this. * Will you/the org be contributing to MediaWiki core? Or will all development take place in extensions? * What kind of work do you expect to be taking on? Will the planning/resource allocation process be public so interested developers can help out (I'm thinking like Wikimedia's Community Wishlist) * Will all the code be OSI licensed, preferably GPL v2+? Or will it be private and owned by the member organizations that asked for it? * Will the organization maintain the code it writes? Or will it just be one-off projects of writing code and publishing it? To be clear, I'm very excited that you are interested in working on this (and have wanted someone to pick this up for a while now), but I'm concerned about what seems like a lack of structure/transparency/etc. for an organization that I would like to promote and ask companies to donate to. -- Legoktm _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
