Author: robert
Date: 2007-02-02 00:07:28 +0000 (Fri, 02 Feb 2007)
New Revision: 8797
Modified:
metabrainz/trunk/htdocs/about/annualreport2006/index.html
metabrainz/trunk/htdocs/comp/sitemenu
metabrainz/trunk/htdocs/news/index.html
Log:
Added the annual report
Modified: metabrainz/trunk/htdocs/about/annualreport2006/index.html
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--- metabrainz/trunk/htdocs/about/annualreport2006/index.html 2007-02-01
02:50:10 UTC (rev 8796)
+++ metabrainz/trunk/htdocs/about/annualreport2006/index.html 2007-02-02
00:07:28 UTC (rev 8797)
@@ -6,34 +6,37 @@
<div class="sec1">Introduction</div>
<p>
2006 was the MetaBrainz Foundation's first interesting year of doing business
and it is time to take a quantitative
-look of the business practices of the Foundation. The MetaBrainz Foundation
was established in October of 2004 and
-it wasn't until 2006 that the foundation had significant income from other
sources than donations.
+look at the business practices of the Foundation. The MetaBrainz Foundation
was established in October of 2004 and
+it wasn't until 2006 that the foundation had significant income from sources
other than donations.
Even though the Foundation earned a modest $42,312.93 in 2006 (as compared to
<a
href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/mitchell/archives/2007/01/the_mozilla_foundation_achievi.html";>millions
of dollars over at the
Mozilla Foundation</a>) the trends over the year provide a glance at things to
come.
</p>
<p>
-In 2006 the Foundation gained quite a bit of traction as it unveiled a batch
of new features and <a href="http://muiscip.com";>MusicIP</a>
-as its new partner in the acoustic fingerprinting business. Traffic to the
site continually increased and the database grew at a consistent
-rate throughout 2006, even as a rift in the MusicBrainz community appeared in
the summer. Disputes between developers and the community
-caused a fair amount of upheaval that ended up in the dismissal of one of the
developers. In the fall business returned to normal
-as the community returned its focus on building a world class music
encyclopedia and improving features on all levels of the project.
+In 2006 MusicBrainz grew significantly as it moved to a new data center in San
Luis Obispo and expanded its collection
+of servers from three to twelve. MusicBrainz also gained quite a bit of
traction as it unveiled a batch of new features,
+and <a href="http://muiscip.com";>MusicIP</a> as its new partner in the
acoustic fingerprinting business.
+Traffic to the site continually increased and the database grew at a
consistent
+rate throughout 2006, even as a rift in the MusicBrainz community appeared in
the summer. Disputes between
+developers and the community caused a fair amount of upheaval that culminated
in the dismissal of one
+of the developers. In the fall business returned to normal as the community
renewed its focus on building
+a world class music encyclopedia and improving features on all levels of the
project.
</p>
<p>
The finances of the Foundation received a huge boost when <a
href="http://blog.musicbrainz.org/archives/2006/07/google_pledges.html";>Google
donated $15,000</a>, which allowed for a small salary for the Executive
-Director. New business relationships with the <a
href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/";>British Broadcasting Company</a> and the emergence
of tagger
-affiliate program in latter
-half of 2006 provided validation that the MetaBrainz Foundation is on the
right track to becoming a viable open business.
+Director. New business relationships with the <a
href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/";>British Broadcasting Company</a> and the
+emergence of the tagger affiliate program in the latter half of 2006 provided
validation that the MetaBrainz Foundation is on
+the right track to becoming a viable open business.
</p>
<div class="sec1">MetaBrainz as an open business</div>
<p>
MusicBrainz and MetaBrainz are deeply committed to the openness of its data,
software and finances. In 2006 it became apparent
-that MusicBrainz is starting to capitalize on its data and software assets and
enables others to capitalize on these open
+that MusicBrainz is starting to capitalize on its data and software assets and
enabling others to capitalize on these open
assets. With these accomplishments, it appears that the MetaBrainz Foundation
and its supporters are lending credibility
to its open business model.
</p>
@@ -47,10 +50,11 @@
</blockquote>
<p>
-The Foundation certainly fits the description of an open business, since its
<a href="http://metabrainz.org/finances/";>finances are open</a>,
+The Foundation certainly fits the description of an open business,
+since its <a href="http://metabrainz.org/finances/";>finances are open</a>,
the services free and the access to its data ensured by the Public Domain and
<a href="http://creativecommons.org";>Creative Commons</a> licenses.
-In 2006 it became apparent that not only the MetaBrainz Foundation was
beginning to capitalize on these assets, but third parties
-working with the Foundation were participating to earn more money than the
Foundation itself.
+In 2006 it became apparent not only that the MetaBrainz Foundation was
beginning to capitalize on these assets, but
+third parties working with the Foundation were participating to earn more
money than the Foundation itself.
</p>
<p>
@@ -65,10 +69,10 @@
<p>
A successful open business should foster the creation of other businesses to
form an active ecosystem of companies that
-rely on another. Matthias has proven that MusicBrainz is enabling others to
create new businesses
-that were previously not possible. And now in the beginning of 2007 two more
authors have expressed interest in participating
-in the tagger affiliate program allowing the Foundation to set the goal to
have the day-to-day costs of operating the service
-be covered by donations from the community and affiliate income.
+rely on each other. Matthias has proven that MusicBrainz is enabling others to
create new businesses
+that were previously not possible. And now, at the beginning of 2007 two more
authors have expressed interest in participating
+in the tagger affiliate program. This will allow the Foundation to set the
goal to have the day-to-day costs of
+operating the service be covered by donations from the community and affiliate
income.
</p>
@@ -100,7 +104,7 @@
MusicIP, which was still Predixis at the start of 2006, agreed to provide
MusicBrainz and its community free acoustic fingerprint
services as part of their new <a href="http://musicdns.org";>MusicDNS
service</a>. MusicBrainz in turn integrated the MusicDNS
services into its upcoming Picard music tagging
-application. In exchange for theses services MusicIP started using
MusicBrainz' live data-feed to integrate MusicBrainz data
+application. In exchange for these services MusicIP started using MusicBrainz'
live data-feed to integrate MusicBrainz data
into the MusicDNS service. MusicIP customers can now choose MusicBrainz
metadata as an optional add-on service for MusicDNS with
MusicIP providing MetaBrainz with a 10% revenue share for the add-on service.
</p>
@@ -137,15 +141,16 @@
got involved and helped out to extract the important lessons from the dispute
and how to prevent these situations
from escalating again. (The great dispute covers many aspects of online
communities and social interactions that
go beyond the scope of this annual report. If you'd like to find out more
about this dispute, please read our
-<a href="http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/GreatDispute";>GreatDispute</a> wiki page).
+"<a href="http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/GreatDispute";>GreatDispute</a>" wiki
page).
</p>
<div class="sec2">Fall: Getting back to business</div>
<p>
-During the fall of 2006 the MusicBrainz community quieted down and focused on
getting back to work. While the server development moves at
-a slower pace today, the community has been relatively conflict free since the
late summer. In December one more server update was made to
-roll out a number of bug fixes and to smooth our some problems left over from
the turbulent improved look and feel release.
+During the fall of 2006 the MusicBrainz community quieted down and focused on
getting back to work. While
+the server development moves at a slower pace today, the community has been
relatively conflict free since the
+late summer. In December one more server update was made to roll out a number
of bug fixes and to smooth out
+some problems left over from the turbulent improved look and feel release.
</p>
<p>
@@ -161,7 +166,7 @@
<p>
For 2006 MetaBrainz took in $41,312.93 and spent $34,973.98, for a total
<i>profit</i> of $6,338.95.
(non-profits can still earn a profit, but that profit
-must be reinvested into the company, not paid out to is officers/directors.) A
detailed break down of where the income
+must be reinvested into the company, not paid out to its officers and
directors.) A detailed break down of where the income
came from and where it went to is shown below:
</p>
@@ -323,7 +328,7 @@
<p>
MusicBrainz served out 614 million web hits, 283 million RDF web service hits
and 69 million XML web service hits in 2006.
Throughout the year the MusicBrainz traffic generally increased with the
exception of January when MusicBrainz
-was recovering from having the MusicBrainz Classic Tagger be named of of the
top audio products of 2005 by Wired Magazine.
+was recovering from having the MusicBrainz Classic Tagger be named one of the
top audio products of 2005 by Wired Magazine.
</p>
<div style="float:left; margin: 2em;">
@@ -474,8 +479,8 @@
<p>
The lack of active server development is the most significant challenge that
the Foundation faces for 2007. To solve this problem
-more effort needs to be expended to sell more licenses of the MusicBrainz data
and to forge more relationships with
-partners that are willing to support the development of new features in
MusicBrainz. The overall goal for the Foundation
+more effort needs to be expended to sell more licenses for the MusicBrainz
data and to forge more relationships with
+partners who are willing to support the development of new features in
MusicBrainz. The overall goal for the Foundation
in this respect is to hire at least one full time server developer in the
course of the year and start working towards the
implementation of a new database schema that drastically increases the
information that MusicBrainz can collect.
</p>
Modified: metabrainz/trunk/htdocs/comp/sitemenu
===================================================================
--- metabrainz/trunk/htdocs/comp/sitemenu 2007-02-01 02:50:10 UTC (rev
8796)
+++ metabrainz/trunk/htdocs/comp/sitemenu 2007-02-02 00:07:28 UTC (rev
8797)
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
{ name => "About", url =>
"/about/index.html" },
{ name => "Data Licenses", url =>
"/about/license.html" },
{ name => "Customers", url =>
"/about/customers.html" },
+ { name => "Annual report", url =>
"/about/annualreport2006/index.html" },
{ name => "Supporters", url =>
"/about/supporters.html" },
{ name => "Privacy policy", url =>
"/about/privacy.html" },
{ name => "White papers", url =>
"/about/papers.html" },
Modified: metabrainz/trunk/htdocs/news/index.html
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--- metabrainz/trunk/htdocs/news/index.html 2007-02-01 02:50:10 UTC (rev
8796)
+++ metabrainz/trunk/htdocs/news/index.html 2007-02-02 00:07:28 UTC (rev
8797)
@@ -5,6 +5,14 @@
<table>
<tr>
+ <td width="15%" valign="top">2007-02-01</td>
+ <td>
+ The MetaBrainz Foundation releases its <a
href="/about/annualreport2006">Annual Report for 2006</a>
+ outlining how the business practices for the Foundation are shaping up.
Financial results,
+ statistics, trends and a general review of 2006 are discussed in this
first annual report.
+ </td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
<td width="15%" valign="top">2006-03-14</td>
<td>
The MetaBrainz Foundation and <a
href="http://www.musicip.com";>MusicIP</a> announce their
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