21 Jan
2012
21 Jan
'12
3:13 p.m.
On Jan 21, 2012, at 2:41 PM, Kaya Saman wrote:
<snip>
I agree, hit the US and Canadian markets as Xwiki has the potential to become huge out
there.
Actually living in the UK and then taking a 2 year sabbatical to Turkey I would have
thought that opensource in the US and Canada were going to be much larger then anywhere in
Europe...... since most opensource projects kind of kick-start out there and there is a
huge following of Linux/BSD among other things.
Turkey I can definitely say is a 99.9999% MS based environment with almost everybody
using Sharepoint as the - wiki, mainsite, collaboration suite etc.... - actually I went
out there as a UNIX engineer and ended up an MS slave as my first position was as a
Sharepoint admin. Afterwards when I went to en enterprise grade investment company they
even used Sharepoint there even though I tried to politically incline them towards
opensource source especially Xwiki but in their own terms: 'there was no support as
mailing lists aren't considered support and nobody would understand how to work
it'.
This is a very typical misconception. It's not because some software is open source
that there aren't companies doing support for it. Quite the opposite. Whereas with
closed software you'll have only 1 company doing support, with open source you'll
generally find several companies doing support for products… ;)
You can point them to
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Support#HProfessionalSupport
(this link is available on xwiki.org in the top level horizontal menu under the
"Support" tab)
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
In the UK while job hunting I do express my knowledge
in Xwiki to any company I come into contact with and again the response usually is 'We
use Sharepoint in this firm'.
Thanks for sharing the xwiki love around you! :) That's great.
It's just unfortunate that I am not in a senior
(or any) position here with a bunch of contacts in the same place as I definitely would
try to get Xwiki on the map! I must sincerely appologies for this as I am a huge fan of
Xwiki - bar the inability to upgrade versions currently but that's still a work in
progress ;-)
hehe… that's still one of the difficult points even though we're trying to
improve…
But if there's anything I can do to help the
project I will in anyway I can!
Thanks
-Vincent
Regards,
Kaya