Re: [xwiki-devs] Redesign of Download page (was Re: [Proposal] Optional Contact Form in the download page)

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:17, Vincent Massol<vincent(a)massol.net>

> Hi everyone, > > Thanks for your feedback on my previous mail on this topic. I've

> it more with Gregory and Emilie and here's what we'd like to propose

> > * Add a Profesional Services heading on the download which would contain > ** Some text explaining about community support and linking to > http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Support (which already

> community support) > ** A livetable containing companies offering professional services for > XWiki. The columns would be: > *** Logo > *** Company name > *** Number of active committers > *** Link to the correct anchor on the Support page ( > http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Support) > ** The livetable would only show 3 entries > ** The livetable would be sorted by active committers by default > ** A text that explains how to add a new company to the list and which > would point to the Governance page ( > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Governance) > > * We will remove the current XWiki SAS support link since that

> will be moved to the livetable > > * Rework the download page so that when a download link is clicked, it > opens a new page containing the feedback questionnaire while the

> happens > ** Note that for this to be technically possible I propose to remove the > link to the OW2 mirrors and instead link to the only existing mirror

> seems to have only 1...). If not, we would need some code to compute

> OW2 mirror to use based on the location. > > * The feedback questionnaire page would contain the following: > ** The following questionnaire: >

> ** The questionnaire would start with a first question asking to which > companies it should be sent to. We would list all companies offering > professional support (using checkboxes) with a special text for the top

> ("Top contributor") and in parenthesis listing the number of active > committers. For example: > > [ ] XWiki SAS - Top contributor with 15 active committers > [ ] Softec - 1 active committer > > ** A text explaining that it's optional and what the questionnaire will

> used for, i.e. that > *** it will be published anonymously on xwiki.org to improve the

> *** it will be sent to the companies for which the user has checked the

> > > We've tried to design this proposal with taking 2 ideas into account: > 1) that it's fair and that all companies can have a fair visibility > 2) that it's visible which companies contribute the most (to reward

That seems to me really fair, and you have my big +1 ! Thanks,

Denis > > Thanks > -Vincent > > On Jan 10, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: > >> Hi devs and everyone, >> >> Emilie has proposed the following content to be added to the Download > page (http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download): >> >> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Drafts/TextDownload >> >> The idea is twofold: >> 1) to get feedback about what people think about our software. >> 2) some people who download the XWiki software from xwiki.org don't

> that XWiki SAS has a commercial offerings and could be interested by it >> >> The pros for the community are: >> 1) XWiki SAS will publish back the result of the feedback it receives > from the download form which will allow us to fine tune and improve the > software >> 2) XWiki SAS could get more business (from people who want to buy > support, dev work, hosting, etc) which will mean accrued budget for

> developers and resources to work on the XWiki project >> >> Note 1: the form would be of course optional >> Note 2: in the future I'd like to see a not for profit foundation to > handle xwiki.org, the xwiki open source project, donations, etc. When

> happens we could elect from member for the foundation and have the