The Paraplu Unified Bibliographing (PUB) Consortium gives member organisations collective governance over Pubbin's development, ensuring the platform evolves to serve the people who depend on it most.
The PUB Consortium is a membership body that gives organisations a direct voice in how Pubbin is built. Rather than relying on a single vendor's product vision, consortium members collectively decide which features get prioritised, which integrations matter most, and where the platform heads next.
The process is close to democracy: Paraplu facilitates the discussions and leads the meetings, but the goal is always to produce features and decisions that benefit the common good of the majority. Weighted voting ensures investment scales with influence, but every member has a voice.
Requests that are too narrow or specific for a single organisation are better served through a custom CodeSociety engagement — that’s what the consulting arm is for. The consortium focuses on what lifts everyone.
Major design decisions — database choices, API contracts, schema strategies — are discussed openly with members before they’re finalised. This isn’t a product you use passively. It’s a product you help build.
Every member — regardless of tier — gets access to the joint forums. Exchange knowledge, share best practices, compare publishing pipelines, and learn from how peers across industries structure their content operations. Part professional network, part social club.
Members propose and vote on features, ensuring development aligns with real-world needs rather than speculative product bets.
The consortium prioritises features that benefit the majority. Niche requirements for a single organisation are best handled through a custom CodeSociety contract — keeping the shared roadmap focused.
Quarterly reports, open roadmap discussions, and direct access to engineering keep members fully informed.
Commercial maintainer of TerminusDB. Provides technical advisory on database architecture, graph modelling, and the TerminusDB integration that underpins Pubbin.
Every tier gives you a seat at the table. The Founding Partner tier is reserved for the handful of organisations who believe in Pubbin early enough to shape it from day one — and those seats are almost gone.
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The Founding Partner window closes permanently once all seats are filled. Full Member and Associate tiers remain available on an ongoing basis. All prices exclude VAT.
The Estonian holding company that owns and operates all subsidiaries. Paraplu OU provides the legal and financial framework for the entire ecosystem.
Professional services arm. FontoXML consulting, XML schema design, and custom integration work.
The XML CMS product. Built on TerminusDB, powered by FontoXML, funded by the consortium.
Member governance body. Collective decision-making over Pubbin's roadmap and architecture.
Founding and Full consortium members are eligible to acquire stock in Paraplu OU, the holding company behind Pubbin. This isn't just governance -- it's ownership. As the platform grows, so does the value of your investment.
Stock eligibility aligns incentives between Pubbin's development team and the organisations that rely on it. When you invest in Paraplu OU, you're investing in the long-term success of a platform you already use every day.
Organisations that aren't consortium members can still use Pubbin through commercial licences. Revenue from these licences funds ongoing development and reduces the financial burden on consortium members.
Consortium members receive preferential pricing, governance rights, and stock eligibility. The more the commercial side grows, the more development capacity is available to fulfil the consortium's roadmap priorities.
This dual-revenue model creates a sustainable funding cycle: commercial licences fund development, consortium members steer direction, and everyone benefits from a better product. It's open-source principles applied to a commercial product.