Alex Hough wrote (excerpts):
GET OUR BUSINESS HEADS TOGETHER ?
The point about governance is an interesting one that has come up
before, its an interesting one given the context - of open source
innovation. It would make a great study for a student of business (I
have made some enquiries for myself) - the story should be written up.
But I don't think governance should get in the way of some
entrepreneurial thinking.
What with Jeremy and Erik both looking for some ways to support both
TiddlyWiki and themselves, it seems like this is the time to start
thinking business model and organization very seriously.
And in that regard, two possible models suggest themselves:
1. Zotero (Zotero.org) is a bibliographic tool for managing research
citations. It runs as both a stand-alone browser plug-in, and in
concert with a central server for sharing bibliographic records. It's
as, or more, capable than commercial products and has a significant
following among academic researchers. It strikes me as an effort of
comparable scope to Tiddly.
The project "lives" within the "Roy Rosenzweig Center for Historiy and
New Media" in the Dept. of History and Art History, at George Mason
University - with work funded by several foundation grants. I.e., a few
techies are employed by a grant to develop and maintain the software,
within a university department.
It strikes me that Jeremy and Erik might have some serious discussion
with UnaMesa about how to set up a similar arrangement under UnaMesa's
501(c)3 umbrella, and pursuing foundation and/or corporate sponsors for
the work.
2. Talk to the folks behind CouchDB about how they ended up operating
under the Apache Software Foundation, and how they support themselves
and the continued development of CouchDB.
At some point, Tiddly is going to live or die by whether or not the
folks most committed to it find a long-term model for supporting the
software and themselves.
(Just one man's opinion.)
Miles Fidelman
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