On 02/11/2011 10:33 AM, Denis Gervalle wrote: > 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,
+1 too. Thanks, Marius > > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
