On 11/13/10, phoebe ayers <phoebe.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:05 AM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 12 November 2010 17:34, Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org> wrote: >> >>> These are all questions which would have to be answered before WMF >>> should even consider getting involved. To cover itself legally it >>> should have the agreement of Larry Sanger, the Tides Center, and at >>> least a majority of the Management Counsel >>> (http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Management_Council). >> >> >> This would be WMF just providing ISP services for free, no more liable >> than Slicehost presently are. > > You know what would be kind of awesome? If there was a neutral hosting > service -- by which I mean neutral hosting and technical support > service -- for a whole variety of small free content projects that > don't truly have the capacity to run independent technical > organizations but are otherwise fairly stable. We've seen two such > organizations brought up on Foundation-l just this year -- the > fanhistory wiki and now Citizendium -- both of which need stable > hosting, people who understand MediaWiki, and maybe even a bit of an > organizational platform (like fundraising support) too. This platform > could be a hosting service that was geared towards free and > participatory projects, the upstart free content of the web. > > Such a hosting service would be a commons approach to this problem, > with the costs and burden shared not just among the small projects but > perhaps among the big ones too: I can see the big free culture > organizations (us, Mozilla, Creative Commons, etc.) pitching in to > such a thing in order to have a space to direct small projects to. > This would be different from wiki hosting because perhaps all the > projects wouldn't even be a wiki, as we understand them now; and there > would be room for Citizendium's funky branch of MediaWiki and every > other hack you can think of. And it would be neutral ground: not > necessarily tied to the values of our Foundation or anyone else's. > > What do you think? Does such a thing exist already? Would it work? > > -- Phoebe
Ourproject.org does something like this, but I think that something evolved with the help of the big free culture organizations and building on this model, could turn into even a much greater resource. http://ourproject.org/ Thanks, Pharos > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
