Hi everyone, Thanks for your feedback on my previous mail on this topic. I've discussed it more with Gregory and Emilie and here's what we'd like to propose now:
* Add a Profesional Services heading on the download which would contain ** Some text explaining about community support and linking to http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Support (which already describes community support) ** A livetable containing companies offering professional services for XWiki. The columns would be: *** Logo *** Company name *** Number of active committers *** Link to the correct anchor on the Support page (http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Support) ** The livetable would only show 3 entries ** The livetable would be sorted by active committers by default ** A text that explains how to add a new company to the list and which would point to the Governance page (http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Governance) * We will remove the current XWiki SAS support link since that information will be moved to the livetable * Rework the download page so that when a download link is clicked, it opens a new page containing the feedback questionnaire while the download happens ** Note that for this to be technically possible I propose to remove the link to the OW2 mirrors and instead link to the only existing mirror (OW2 seems to have only 1...). If not, we would need some code to compute which OW2 mirror to use based on the location. * The feedback questionnaire page would contain the following: ** The following questionnaire: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Drafts/SatisfactionSurveyProducts (let's tune the questions together) ** The questionnaire would start with a first question asking to which companies it should be sent to. We would list all companies offering professional support (using checkboxes) with a special text for the top one ("Top contributor") and in parenthesis listing the number of active committers. For example: [ ] XWiki SAS - Top contributor with 15 active committers [ ] Softec - 1 active committer ** A text explaining that it's optional and what the questionnaire will be used for, i.e. that *** it will be published anonymously on xwiki.org to improve the product *** it will be sent to the companies for which the user has checked the box We've tried to design this proposal with taking 2 ideas into account: 1) that it's fair and that all companies can have a fair visibility 2) that it's visible which companies contribute the most (to reward their contributions) WDYT? 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 > > 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 > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
