11 May
2016
11 May
'16
7:37 a.m.
Correct link http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Governance
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
I have now updated the governance page:
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ommunity/Governance
Thanks
-Vincent
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On 10 May 2016, at 13:34, Vincent Massol
<vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
Here are the results:
6 +1 globally, some 0 on specific items and no -1.
The VOTE is thus passed.
Thanks everyone who replied!
-Vincent
> On 30 Apr 2016, at 13:10, 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).
>
> 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, discuss
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.
>
> B) Similarly, inside the XWiki product, on the Admin user creation
screen in
the Distribution Wizard or elsewhere (place to be defined), have
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.
>
> 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 same
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.
>
> E) Similarly, allow top sponsoring companies (XWiki SAS at the moment)
to
create a monthly newsletter sent to the users list, gathering news about
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.
>
> 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,
the idea
is to mention this on xwiki.org, possibly in a panel or in the
footer (as we do our other sponsors)
>
> 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
have 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.
>
> 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