3 May
2016
3 May
'16
11:50 a.m.
Hi,
So +1 in general.
I have no problem with A), G), H), I), J).
Still I think we need iterations for B), C), F) since they are affecting
the product and we need to be careful to not interact with the usability /
functionality of the areas we are affecting.
D), E) depends on the quality and content of those posts / content. Again I
think it's ok in general, but I can imagine some problematic scenarios.
Thanks,
Caty
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Guillaume Delhumeau <
guillaume.delhumeau(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
+1
2016-04-30 21:42 GMT+02:00 Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com>om>:
+1
On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net>
wrote:
> Dear XWiki Developers,
>
> In order to better ensure the long term success of the xwiki open
source
project, we need to work on making xwiki.org a
place where sponsoring
companies (the main one being XWiki SAS) can thrive and get some revenues
from their contributions to the project (thus allowing them to invest and
even increase their investment in open source).
discuss
Actually we've already started this a while ago by defining our
governance
process at
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Governance.
This mail is about going further in this direction and providing more
leverage for
sponsoring companies.
Without further ado, here's a list of actions I'm proposing:
A) On the download page, introduce a form (that can be skipped) to let
user enter
their details (name, email) to accept to receive offers, business projects, and provide onboarding
help/tips from companies
creating
XWiki. Since XWiki SAS is currently hosting and
maintaining xwiki.org,
I'm proposing that the user details will be sent by mail to some XWiki
SAS
email address (i.e. XWiki SAS will be operating
user data gathering on
behalf of xwiki.org, which has no legal entity). On the other side,
XWiki
SAS will provide those information to other
companies offering a good
level
of code contribution to the development of XWiki:
I'm proposing the
threshold of 3 active committers to be able to receive those contact
details.
have
B) Similarly, inside the XWiki product, on the Admin user creation
screen in the
Distribution Wizard or elsewhere (place to be defined), some checkbox to accept to receive
news/onboarding tips/offers from
companies creating XWiki. It'll work the same and send an email to some
XWiki SAS-operated email address. And again XWiki SAS will redistribute
the
information to companies having more than 3
active committers on the
project.
same
C) Add a Support/Offer Panel inside the default XWiki flavor where
companies
creating XWiki can advertising their services/offers. In
addition, find a place, maybe in some Admin UI menu for providing the information + a configuration option to remove
this panel from the UI.
>
> D) Allow companies creating XWiki to publish blog entries to present
new
offers/services/extensions. We don't want
this to turn into spam so the
rule could be no more than 1 such blog entry/mail per month to start with
and those entries need to be presented in a nice community-oriented way.
about
E) Similarly, allow top sponsoring companies (XWiki SAS at the moment)
to create a
monthly newsletter sent to the users list, gathering news the xwiki ecosystem in general (product news,
events, new
offers/services/paying extensions, tips, etc). There could also be
surveys.
XWiki SAS is happy to start this effort and to
gather such news from
other
sponsoring companies to include them in the
newsletter. The idea is to
let
the community be more aware of all news that
exists be them free or for
pay, and in addition also advertise conferences at which xwiki is
represented, etc.
the
F) Find a good place in the XWiki runtime (maybe rework the Admin UI
home page to
remove the current icons which don't bring any useful
information) to display the xwiki.org blog. The idea is to provide news
from inside XWiki but not make it intrusive to users (hence the idea of
locating it somewhere in the Admin UI). Of course we need handle the
fallback when the instance is not connected to the internet or behind a
proxy.
>
> G) Since XWiki SAS is paying for hosting and maintaining xwiki.org, idea is to mention this on xwiki.org, possibly in
a panel or in the
footer (as we do our other sponsors)
have
H) Put some company logos of companies using xwiki on the home page or
somewhere
visible to advertise more the xwiki software: "hey, look, those
companies are using XWiki”.
>
> I) Increase the visibility for the top sponsoring company. Today we an issue is that the company that sponsors the
big majority of the source
code is not much more visible than companies which sponsor less than 1%
of
the code. Right now we're saying on [[
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Governance]]: "The
commercial offerings are listed in the order of their contribution
levels,
the biggest contributor getting the top spot. In
order to keep it simple
the contribution level corresponds to the number of active Committers.".
I'd like to keep the spirit but I believe we need to change the
implementation. Right now all companies are put one under another. This
has
the effect of making it more confusing for users
to choose and doesn't
reflect the level of contributions of companies. So the new rule I'd like
to have is that on all pages where we list companies, we make the top
contributing company displayed very visibly and have a link for other
companies, leading to another page where they advertise for their
services
and offers.
--
Guillaume Delhumeau (guillaume.delhumeau(a)xwiki.com)
Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS
Committer on the XWiki.org project
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J) Allow sponsoring companies to have paying extensions on
extensions.xwiki.org,
under any license (open source or not).
Here’s my +1
Thanks
-Vincent Massol
Hat 1: CTO XWiki SAS
Hat 2: XWiki Core Committer
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