Re: [xwiki-users] [Proposal] New free and community-managed farm on xwiki.org? - xwiki-users@xwiki.org

23 Jan 2008

Hi Vincent,

It sounds like a good idea. It would provide:
* a place to test out the latest XWiki builds and quickly identify issues
and resolve them
* a free place for people to host their websites

I'd certainly consider it for my non-work related material.

Regards,

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces(a)xwiki.org [mailto:users-bounces@xwiki.org]On Behalf
Of Vincent Massol
Sent: 23 January 2008 09:32
To: XWiki Users
Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] [Proposal] New free and community-managed
farm on xwiki.org?

Hi Ricardo,

On Jan 22, 2008, at 10:27 PM, [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your EPEC Network  
ICT Team wrote:

...
  sachin mittal wrote:
  Hi Vincent,
 People who are interested in free xwiki and want to use it as an
 experimental tool can download it and play with it. It costs nothing
 for them.
 As far as I have seen that students and other such individuals seldom
 become paying customers. They typically use for project work etc.

 I think hosted solution should focus on paying customers only unless
 you want to test the scalability of xwiki real time by giving free  
 access. 
 Following this reasoning, how does Netcipia (http:// 
 www.netcipia.net)fit
 in the proposed schema? 
Netcipia is another farm that could be seen as a kind of competitor to  
this new xwiki.org farm. However there are some differences:
* the xwiki.org farm will be using the default UI (same as XWiki  
Enterprise) and the same features
* it'll be supported by the xwiki community
* it'll have latest versions installed at all times
* there's no business model behind this xwiki.org farm

I think the target is really different. Netcipia's idea is to propose  
ways for users to sell their content online whereas this farm will be  
more for hosting "intranets"/"web sites".

Anyway the free xwiki.org farm is not fully decided yet. I'd like to  
see more opinions form the xwiki users and dev community about it.

Thanks
-Vincent

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