On Jan 21, 2012, at 2:41 PM, Kaya Saman wrote:
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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&sort=0 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
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)
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