On 01/13/2011 01:39 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
> any opinion devs?
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
> On Jan 10, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
>
>> Hi devs and everyone,
>>
>> Emilie has proposed the following content to be added to the Download page 
>> (http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download):
>>
>> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Drafts/TextDownload

+1 for asking for feedback.
-0 for promoting XWiki SAS.

Personally I'm not very happy with the current text.

>> The idea is twofold:
>> 1) to get feedback about what people think about our software.
>> 2) some people who download the XWiki software from xwiki.org don't know 
>> that XWiki SAS has a commercial offerings and could be interested by it
>>
>> The pros for the community are:
>> 1) XWiki SAS will publish back the result of the feedback it receives from 
>> the download form which will allow us to fine tune and improve the software
>> 2) XWiki SAS could get more business (from people who want to buy support, 
>> dev work, hosting, etc) which will mean accrued budget for paying developers 
>> and resources to work on the XWiki project
>>
>> Note 1: the form would be of course optional
>> Note 2: in the future I'd like to see a not for profit foundation to handle 
>> xwiki.org, the xwiki open source project, donations, etc. When this happens 
>> we could elect from member for the foundation and have the feedback form 
>> sent to that foundation for example, with members of the foundation having 
>> access to the data (for example).
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent Massol, acting as both CTO of XWiki SAS and XWiki open source 
>> developer
>>


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Sergiu Dumitriu
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