[Labs-l] OpenMeetings.org & Wikimedia Labs

Fri May 18 04:55:25 UTC 2012

> I'm interested in migrating OpenMeetings.org into a Wikimedia Labs
> project.  The migration would be special case compared to most other Labs
> projects---but, prospectively a good match---and an initial assessment on
> the proposal is welcome.
>
>
> OpenMeetings.org is a MediaWiki+MetaVidWiki[1] instance with partial Amara
> (formerly Universal Subtitles) integration.  The driving idea is to "open
> up" meetings of public interest to the open web community and pending
> technical development, the broader public.  OpenMeetings.org is aligned
> with WMF's mission to "empower and engage people around the world to
> collect and develop educational content" using OSI-approved licenses for
> both hosted meetings and underlying code.
>
> Current development work needed includes a re-base to recent versions of
> MediaWiki (currently running 1.15.1), CSS work, re-integration with
> MwEmbed[2], building better video import/export tools, etc.
>

Development work seems like a really good match.

>
> Retaining the current URL structure is important.  I'm also interested in
> transferring domain ownership to the WMF.
>
> So, heads/tails on the above?  I'd remain active as the primary project
> coordinator.
>
>

If Wikimedia does indeed want to take over this project, it should
exist in production, not in Labs. Labs isn't intended to run
production-level services. We do support semi-production services,
like bots and tools, but we can't change scope to handle full
production services (community maintained or not).

- Ryan