News about the project and XWiki 1.0

Hi, I wanted to give some news about the project and XWiki 1.0 because a lot has been going on in the last week. Thanks to our clients in 2005 and a good start in 2006, we have been able to grow the team and invest a little to improve XWiki and our organization. I'm saying a little because it's still risky to have more full-time employees but we have had the opportunity to get more interns on board and also to launch an off-shore team in Vietnam. As some of you might have been seen, there has been more commits in the last two weeks. The main reason was that I have been in Hanoi, Vietnam to train our new team there. I'm happy to present you Nam and Chung who have joined our team and will be working on the XWiki 1.0 code. During the two weeks a few enhancements have been made on the attachment code and on error handling. Work is also undergoing to improve the WYSIWYG Editor created during the Summer of Code project. In addition to that, we have a new intern (Jean-Vincent) who have joined the team last Monday. Jean-Vincent is from Epitech (the same school as Jeremi) and already has some very interesting Open Source business experience since he worked for IdealX and Linbox. We are very happy to have Jean-Vincent join us. The main objective will be that Jean-Vincent works on the XWiki 1.0 release as the lead developer and project manager. The current objectives for the 1.0 are easy of use and reliability. We are of course always open to suggestions on what should be or not in the 1.0 version. The roadmap is in JIRA. The first objective is to release an updated version called 1.0 Beta 1 which would have the WYSIWYG Editor in Beta. Also Jeremi has done great work from Dalian in China (I would never have thought having so much relationship with Asia !) to help organize the community and also helped a lot answering questions in the users and dev mailing list. On this subject I also want to thank other XWiki users and developers because everytime a question is answered by a member of the community it is very valuable time that I actually save (my kid is also grateful that his dad closes the laptop sometimes). Jeremi's responsibility will be to make sure that the community's voice will be heard during the road to XWiki 1.0. Thanks again for all your support and interest in XWiki. Welcome to the new team members. Ludovic -- Ludovic Dubost XPertNet: http://www.xpertnet.fr/ Blog: http://www.ludovic.org/blog/ XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com Skype: ldubost AIM: nvludo Yahoo: ludovic