Hi Vincent, People who are interested in free xwiki and want to use it as an experimental tool can download it and play with it. It costs nothing for them. As far as I have seen that students and other such individuals seldom become paying customers. They typically use for project work etc.
I think hosted solution should focus on paying customers only unless you want to test the scalability of xwiki real time by giving free access. Thanks Sachin Message: 6 > Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:32:41 +0100 > From: Vincent Massol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [xwiki-users] [Proposal] New free and community-managed farm > on xwiki.org? > To: XWiki Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, XWiki Users <users@xwiki.org> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > Hi everyone, > > Some time back XWiki SAS, the company who started XWiki had a free > online farm on xwiki.com. This farm was closed for new projects a few > months ago after XWiki SAS realized it didn't have the manpower (or > finance) to support it in a professional way. XWiki SAS still has a > professional farm offering but it's not a free farm (see > http://www.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Services/#HHosting) > . > > I'd like to discuss with you the idea of offering a free farm managed > by the xwiki community and under the xwiki.org umbrella. In essence it > means there would be 2 farms available: > * a paying one which is on xwiki.com, for professional needs > * a free one on xwiki.org for universities, individuals or anyone not > requiring guaranteed support/availability at all times > > Here's how it would work: > > * No support guarantee. All support done on the xwiki.org user mailing > list. > * No stability guarantee. We would always install the latest Platform/ > XE/XEM version on it and it would serve as a stability test for the > xwiki development team. Obviously the community will always try to > make it as stable as possible but that's not guaranteed. > * There will be several members of the community who'll have admin > access on the farm. > * We will reduce admin tasks by offering a simple UI on the farm > itself (restart, see memory stats, see blocking requests, ban a wiki, > etc) > * It will be open to anyone. However the target users will be > technical people who can support themselves to some extent. We won't > control that but it'll be mentioned on the registration page. > > XWiki SAS would pay for the machine, hosting and the initial > installation. > > I have 2 questions for you: > > 1) As a user of it, would you be interested by such a farm? Do you > think it's interesting for the xwiki project to have such a free farm? > > 2) As a community member, would you be willing to help administer it/ > support it? For this farm to work we need to find several members of > the xwiki community willing to help administer it. Here are the tasks > I can think of: > - work on the welcome page content for the farm > - work on the FAQ for the farm (like "what do I do if I've lost my > password", etc) > - help answer user questions on the list (this can and should be be > done by everyone) > > Thanks > -Vincent, with 2 hats: community developer and CTO of XWiki SAS > >
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