19 · 07
Here a cool thing. After haggling with the folks at
Wikipedia, I finally got a page "OK'd" on
Wikipedia for OpenWine Consortium. :)
I thought it'd be important as I setup that organization to outlast my tenure as
Executive Director. I'm taking it step by step. Its established now, even attracting sponsors and producing the events (like the Wine Blogger Conference in
Sonoma in
the Fall). Behind the scenes I am preparing to announce the
board of directors, a new strategic partner that will help attract potentially thousands of members, and eventually closing on getting official
non-profit status (because there isn't a membership fee I really need to get some revenue to pay for the non-profit paperwork preparation - a non-trivial task).
In the meantime, its pretty cool to have the Wikipedia page, in a geeky sorta way.