Hi, I don't know how to respond to that, other than that (a) I have a lot of experience running a business (my company WikiWorks), and (b) this isn't really a business - it's a consortium, whose primary tasks are the pooling and disbursement of money.
-Yaron On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 2:12 AM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > As much as I think that such a cooperative would be a good idea, it sounds > to me like you're a long distance from being able to bring the vision to > reality. With a few months of work and a good professional network you > might be able to pull this off. But you're coming across to me as someone > who's completely new to running a business, and I would find it very > difficult to trust my company's money to someone in your position. That's > not to say that your intentions are bad, it's just that I don't think that > this is the business for you to be running here and now. You might very > well *work* for such a business and be very good in your role, and maybe > after a couple of years you will indeed end up in the lead role. I admire > your ambition, and perhaps you have skills and professional contacts that I > don't know about, but from what I've learned so far, I wouldn't encourage > enterprise MediaWiki users to join your organization at this time, and I > think that you would do better with a different goal, at least in the short > term. > > I hope that I don't come across as being negative about your ambition. Some > of your instincts are good, and perhaps in a few years you will indeed be > in a good position to lead an organization like the one you have in mind. > > Pine > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > -- WikiWorks · MediaWiki Consulting · http://wikiworks.com _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
