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One more observation that XWiki is primarily presented in European
counties on 2012.01.21 following request
http://www.google.com/trends/?q=XWiki&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
produced
1. Algeria
2. France
3. Morocco
4. Czech Republic
5. Switzerland
6. Belgium
7. Romania
8. Singapore
9. Austria
10. India
I think it's essential to get other markets to increase the community
(north America comes first to mind, however taking into consideration
number of population - China, India and fast growing Latin America
world that might
depend)
Indeed, any recommendation?
BTW this is strange since xwiki.org website is in English and there's no reason
only people from Europe would use it. Maybe Europe countries use more open
source than say in the USA. UK is not in the list either which is strange too.
Thanks
-Vincent
I agree, hit the US and Canadian markets as Xwiki has the potential to
become huge out there.
Actually living in the UK and then taking a 2 year sabbatical to Turkey
I would have thought that opensource in the US and Canada were going to
be much larger then anywhere in Europe...... since most opensource
projects kind of kick-start out there and there is a huge following of
Linux/BSD among other things.
Turkey I can definitely say is a 99.9999% MS based environment with
almost everybody using Sharepoint as the - wiki, mainsite, collaboration
suite etc.... - actually I went out there as a UNIX engineer and ended
up an MS slave as my first position was as a Sharepoint admin.
Afterwards when I went to en enterprise grade investment company they
even used Sharepoint there even though I tried to politically incline
them towards opensource source especially Xwiki but in their own terms:
'there was no support as mailing lists aren't considered support and
nobody would understand how to work it'.
In the UK while job hunting I do express my knowledge in Xwiki to any
company I come into contact with and again the response usually is 'We
use Sharepoint in this firm'.
It's just unfortunate that I am not in a senior (or any) position here
with a bunch of contacts in the same place as I definitely would try to
get Xwiki on the map! I must sincerely appologies for this as I am a
huge fan of Xwiki - bar the inability to upgrade versions currently but
that's still a work in progress ;-)
But if there's anything I can do to help the project I will in anyway I can!
Regards,
Kaya
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