[xwiki-devs] Good News for the XWiki Open Source Project: French State Research funding

Hi XWiki Community, I'm happy to share some good news for the XWiki Platform and Community that we got today. We (XWiki SAS) had responded to a French Government Call for Web 2.0 Projects in early July and we got the good news today that our project was selected with 43 other projects (among 340 proposals) to receive state funding. In this project, where the research entity INRIA/ECOO and Open Source company Mandriva are also participating, we have proposed to enhance XWiki's social features and integrate Real-Time capabilities in XWiki (both for editing information and viewing information in real-time). We already worked with INRIA/ECOO on XWiki Concerto (offline and mobile XWiki) which is the specialist in France and probably Europe of Operational Transformation Technology (which is used in Google Wave for real-time capabilities). We'll talk more about the features this will bring to XWiki when we formally launch the project. We don't know yet how fast it will go to formalize the public funding and start the project (it usually takes at least a few month). It's great to be able to continue to work on innovative technologies in the Wiki space, which is not that easy as we have already so much work to package and polish all the great ideas and features that are already in the XWiki platform. It's also great to see the progress the XWiki software has made in the last year, from XWiki 1.8 to XWiki 2.0 coming out soon. The new rendering, new Wysiwyg editor, the Office Importer and now the new skin are making XWiki do a lightyear of progress in just one year ! Ludovic -- Ludovic Dubost Blog: http://blog.ludovic.org/ XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com Skype: ldubost GTalk: ldubost