On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear XWiki Developers, > > In order to better ensure the long term success of the xwiki open source > project, we need to work on making xwiki.org a place where sponsoring > companies (the main one being XWiki SAS) can thrive and get some revenues > from their contributions to the project (thus allowing them to invest and > even increase their investment in open source). > > Actually we've already started this a while ago by defining our governance > process at http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Governance. > > This mail is about going further in this direction and providing more > leverage for sponsoring companies. > > Without further ado, here's a list of actions I'm proposing: > > > A) On the download page, introduce a form (that can be skipped) to let > user enter their details (name, email) to accept to receive offers, discuss > business projects, and provide onboarding help/tips from companies creating > XWiki. Since XWiki SAS is currently hosting and maintaining xwiki.org, > I'm proposing that the user details will be sent by mail to some XWiki SAS > email address (i.e. XWiki SAS will be operating user data gathering on > behalf of xwiki.org, which has no legal entity). On the other side, XWiki > SAS will provide those information to other companies offering a good level > of code contribution to the development of XWiki: I'm proposing the > threshold of 3 active committers to be able to receive those contact > details. > +1 > > B) Similarly, inside the XWiki product, on the Admin user creation screen > in the Distribution Wizard or elsewhere (place to be defined), have some > checkbox to accept to receive news/onboarding tips/offers from companies > creating XWiki. It'll work the same and send an email to some XWiki > SAS-operated email address. And again XWiki SAS will redistribute the > information to companies having more than 3 active committers on the > project. > +0 > > C) Add a Support/Offer Panel inside the default XWiki flavor where > companies creating XWiki can advertising their services/offers. In > addition, find a place, maybe in some Admin UI menu for providing the same > information + a configuration option to remove this panel from the UI. > Same as Edy, I prefer having this in the Admin UI rather than in a panel. > > D) Allow companies creating XWiki to publish blog entries to present new > offers/services/extensions. We don't want this to turn into spam so the > rule could be no more than 1 such blog entry/mail per month to start with > and those entries need to be presented in a nice community-oriented way. > +1 > > E) Similarly, allow top sponsoring companies (XWiki SAS at the moment) to > create a monthly newsletter sent to the users list, gathering news about > the xwiki ecosystem in general (product news, events, new > offers/services/paying extensions, tips, etc). There could also be surveys. > XWiki SAS is happy to start this effort and to gather such news from other > sponsoring companies to include them in the newsletter. The idea is to let > the community be more aware of all news that exists be them free or for > pay, and in addition also advertise conferences at which xwiki is > represented, etc. > +1 > > F) Find a good place in the XWiki runtime (maybe rework the Admin UI home > page to remove the current icons which don't bring any useful information) > to display the xwiki.org blog. The idea is to provide news from inside > XWiki but not make it intrusive to users (hence the idea of locating it > somewhere in the Admin UI). Of course we need handle the fallback when the > instance is not connected to the internet or behind a proxy. > +0 > > G) Since XWiki SAS is paying for hosting and maintaining xwiki.org, the > idea is to mention this on xwiki.org, possibly in a panel or in the > footer (as we do our other sponsors) > +1 > > H) Put some company logos of companies using xwiki on the home page or > somewhere visible to advertise more the xwiki software: "hey, look, those > companies are using XWiki”. > +1 > > I) Increase the visibility for the top sponsoring company. Today we have > an issue is that the company that sponsors the big majority of the source > code is not much more visible than companies which sponsor less than 1% of > the code. Right now we're saying on [[ > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Governance]]: "The > commercial offerings are listed in the order of their contribution levels, > the biggest contributor getting the top spot. In order to keep it simple > the contribution level corresponds to the number of active Committers.". > I'd like to keep the spirit but I believe we need to change the > implementation. Right now all companies are put one under another. This has > the effect of making it more confusing for users to choose and doesn't > reflect the level of contributions of companies. So the new rule I'd like > to have is that on all pages where we list companies, we make the top > contributing company displayed very visibly and have a link for other > companies, leading to another page where they advertise for their services > and offers. > +0 > > J) Allow sponsoring companies to have paying extensions on > extensions.xwiki.org, under any license (open source or not). > +1 Thanks, Marius > > Here’s my +1 > > Thanks > -Vincent Massol > Hat 1: CTO XWiki SAS > Hat 2: XWiki Core Committer > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
