On Jan 21, 2012, at 2:41 PM, Kaya Saman wrote: > <snip> >>> 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'.
This is a very typical misconception. It's not because some software is open source that there aren't companies doing support for it. Quite the opposite. Whereas with closed software you'll have only 1 company doing support, with open source you'll generally find several companies doing support for products… ;) You can point them to http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Support#HProfessionalSupport (this link is available on xwiki.org in the top level horizontal menu under the "Support" tab) > 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'. Thanks for sharing the xwiki love around you! :) That's great. > 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 ;-) hehe… that's still one of the difficult points even though we're trying to improve… > But if there's anything I can do to help the project I will in anyway I can! Thanks -Vincent > Regards, > > > Kaya _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
