1 Feb
2011
1 Feb
'11
5:11 p.m.
On 01/10/2011 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.
we should get that on the list, wouldn't we?
2) some people who download the XWiki software from
xwiki.org don't know that XWiki SAS has a commercial offerings and could be interested
by it
But we already have an advertisement about that in the download page,
don't we? How would this be different?
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 paying developers and resources to work
on the XWiki project
Just as Sergiu said, I'm not very fond of the current state of the text.
It wouldn't make me fill in the form + it's a little long, I would say.
Don't get me wrong, I don't want XWiki SAS to stay out of XWiki.org
because I am too opensource minded, but I wouldn't want it to be all
over it just because we can (it would seem to business driven, I like
the current state where we seem to have a personality as an open source
project).
Thanks,
Anca Luca (as xwiki sas dev and open source contributor)
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 this happens we could elect
from member for the foundation and have the feedback form sent to that foundation for
example, with members of the foundation having access to the data (for example).
WDYT?
Thanks
-Vincent Massol, acting as both CTO of XWiki SAS and XWiki open source developer
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