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The '''UO Community Services [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consortium Consortium]''' is a concept in development.  It involves the possibility of many Internet-based service providers to work together in trust and confidence.  This can help ensure stable and long-lasting UO Reference and Support services to the Player Communities on all Shards.

This can be operated like a typical public-domain consortium where people work together cooperatively and for common service-oriented goals.  Copyright protection of source code, creative information, UO Game information, extracted information from various services, etc. will have to be documented and respected of course.  Such a consortium could even have a not-for-profit financial plan to help support all the consortium services.

== UO Community Services of Interest ==
The idea is to have a number of Internet-based Online Services working together.
* News (UO-Wide, Shard, and Guild/Communities)
* Forums (UO-Wide, Guilds, Projects, Communities)
* Reference Material (UO Game Mechanics and UO Player Community), e.g., UOGuide.com
* Internet Tools
* Internet-based Radio
* Voice Services (Team Speak, Ventrilo, etc.)
* Graphics Artists (for web sites, UO town mapping, etc.)
* More...

In other words, why have so many people hosting similar services, when they can be expanded to support many more players, if not all players on all shards?  The consortium can help reduce duplication of efforts, increase likelihood that useful services will not disappear overnight (i.e., no single point administrator failures), and increase "single-stop-shopping" for people wanting to play UO and learn about UO from any point-of-view.

== Concept Development ==
This is probably not a new concept in our UO Community.  But perhaps the idea is not well documented or pursued.

== People Interested in Becoming Involved in this Concept ==

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* --[[User:Winfield|Winfield]] 10:34, 1 January 2008 (PST) (created this initial page)

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