Wikia, Inc., a community resources for building free content on topics, yesterday announced OpenServing, a next step in Jimmy Wales’s vision for community-centered content and computing.
Wikia’s OpenServing extends the essence of the open source model – free software and content – to all aspects of web-based computing. The Wikia’s OpenServing offers free software, bandwidth, storage, computing power, content over the Internet and 100% of the ad inventory and revenue to bloggers and website owners who partner with Wikia. Wikia supports the development of the open source software that runs both Wikipedia and Wikia, as well as thousands of other wiki sites. Wikia plans to enhance the software with usability, spam prevention and community management, says the company.
“OpenServing is a call-to-action for developers that want to take open source to the next level and we are looking for volunteers to help us install and maintain other open-source software at OpenServing.com,” said Gil Penchina, Wikia’s CEO. “We’ve already witnessed the power of these ideas in action by the thousands of dedicated people contributing to Wikia on a daily basis. We look forward to helping the next wave of brilliant and passionate people get their great ideas off the ground.”
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