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FA1: Frank Antwerpes
Title: Talking about money. (ID FA1)
- Language: English | License: GFDL
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Author[s]: Frank Antwerpes.
- Contact: frank@antwerpes.de [OTRS]
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Wikipedia is proud of being a non-profit organization. However, relying completely on non-profit aspects has its pitfalls: Authors may loose interest, legal support has to be financed and hosting costs may explode. Questions from the financial side are: How can Wikipedia earn its infrastructure costs without loosing its open-source face? And how can commercial companies be moved to support the idea of free knowledge?
This workshop is looking for ideas, how the long-term financing of Wikipedia could be managed without meeting „the dark side of the force“.
About the author[s]: Dr. Frank Antwerpes is the CEO of DocCheck, a company running a German open source medical dictionnary (http://flexicon.doccheck.com) based on Wikimedia.
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- accept:
- Elian (interesting topic not treated anywhere/acceptance should depend on the sponsoring deal).
- I believe it is a most needed topic. People involved in local chapters and Board should really consider participating in this workshop, even if not in the "main-stream" program. I strongly support it. notafish
- reject:PD, EM (no thanks),
JV (nothing against flexicon, but this workshop is not needed), AB - status: