[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
Congratulations! Even though this is important, I am sure this is one a new small step toward an even greater product! I would like to "hijack" this thread to thank all devs and users to make XWiki better every day. Best wishes for a highly productive new course! Ricardo Ludovic Dubost wrote:
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
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I fully agree with you :) Beyond congratulations, let me tell you that, now, when I say the word "XWiki" when I propose professional solutions, people don't oppose against it anymore and it even tends to bring some credibility to my propositions... What does it mean? Is it XWiki itself gaining notoriety or is it Wiki solutions generally which are becoming more and more common? I will let you guess... Anyway, your announcement is good news and it means we can go on investing time and money into XWiki because this is a project with a future (and a past also ;)) Congratulations guys and go on because I'm interested in the new v2.0 and all the new stuff and I hope I will be able to participate a bit more than my recent busy months:) regards Pascal 2009/9/16 [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your EPEC Network ICT Team < [email protected]>
Congratulations! Even though this is important, I am sure this is one a new small step toward an even greater product! I would like to "hijack" this thread to thank all devs and users to make XWiki better every day.
Best wishes for a highly productive new course!
Ricardo
Ludovic Dubost wrote:
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
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