On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:17, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? > That seems to me really fair, and you have my big +1 ! Thanks, Denis > > 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 > -- Denis Gervalle SOFTEC sa - CEO eGuilde sarl - CTO _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
