21 Jan
2012
21 Jan
'12
2:34 p.m.
Hi Roman,
On Jan 21, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Roman Muntyanu wrote:
Well,
I do have one idea. Appear more in the news.
Why don't you use that news about XWiki becoming part of cloudbees platform and post
it into most popular technical news-sites
e.g.
http://www.infoq.com/ (western English-speaking world)
http://habrahabr.ru/ (Russia and Ukraine)
http://www.roseindia.net/ (Indian)
those I recollect off-hand, there are definitely more.
You could also prepare some case-studies on the technical part of XWiki and on the
innovations adopted there, and post the info to the above sites or even to something like
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
Indeed.
Except that it's not "you" but "we" (as in "we" the
xwiki community). Everyone here is part of the xwiki community.
Note that the XWiki SAS company (http://xwiki.com) does its own marketing (re the
cloudbees integration for example it did quite a lot but mostly in French:
http://www.google.fr/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=cloudbees+xw… )
I completely that the XWiki open source project is not very good at doing "tech
marketing". Everyone in the community can do it and the XWiki committers too but very
few of them do any advertising of XWiki in web site articles, speak at conferences, blog
posts, etc. I do quite a few talks but mostly are in France (where I'm based).
So let's see: who would be wiling to write some article about a part of XWiki?
That would be a very nice way for XWiki users to contribute something back to help the
open source project.
Thanks
-Vincent
-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces(a)xwiki.org [mailto:users-bounces@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of Vincent
Massol
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 13:21 PM
To: XWiki Users
Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] State of the XWiki Community
On Jan 21, 2012, at 12:42 AM, coldserenity wrote:
Hi,
Today I have noticed that XWiki made it into a commercial solution
* http://www.cloudbees.com/platform-ecosystem.cb
*
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/cloudbees-adds-mongohq-papertrail-and
-xwiki-to-integrated-partner-ecosystem-of-hosted-cloud-services-for-ja
va-developers-2011-10-24
My congratulations! :)
Yes this is very cool and did a lot of good advertising for the xwiki project :)
One more observation that XWiki is primarily
presented in European
counties on 2012.01.21 following request
http://www.google.com/trends/?q=XWiki&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&a…
produced
1. Algeria
2. France
3. Morocco
4. Czech Republic
5. Switzerland
6. Belgium
7. Romania
8. Singapore
9. Austria
10. India
I think it's essential to get other markets to increase the community
(north America comes first to mind, however taking into consideration
number of population - China, India and fast growing Latin America
world that might
depend)
Indeed, any recommendation?
BTW this is strange since xwiki.org website is in English and there's no reason only
people from Europe would use it. Maybe Europe countries use more open source than say in
the USA. UK is not in the list either which is strange too.
Thanks
-Vincent