Hi, I'm a bit surprised that you are just talking about features and not about moving from a niche product to get more mainstream. When I'm saying niche product I'm just referring to what google trends says. http://www.google.com/trends?q=xwiki%2C+foswiki%2C+twiki%2C+confluence
Well I think that almost all people on this mailing list like xwiki a lot and the hard and devoted work the developers are doing and all wish xwiki and its backing company all the best and a long and prosperous future. However I'm concerned when reading that the XWiki SAS 'Product Marketing' lead (and CEO) thinks that it helps the product to get more involved as a developer. IMHO a product marketing lead should have totally different priorities. IMHO its a misconception to think that more features will help the product to attract a greater audience. Just a few things that come to my mind: * Push xwiki into as many linux distros as possible with 'one click installers' * Create ready-to-go images for popular cloud hosters (such as Amazon EC2) * Talk to as much hosters and push them to introduce XWiki as part of their offerings. * Make it simple and attractive for people currently using other software (Wordpress comes to my mind) to move to the more powerful XWiki I may be paranoid but I wonder if we will see XWiki survive the next couple of years if its not gaining momentum in the big world. just my 2 cents Andreas Am 03.03.2011 14:21, schrieb Ludovic Dubost: > > Hi all, > > As many of you may know, 7 years ago, I created the XWiki Open-Source > software. A few years ago, especially when Vincent arrived, I took a > step back from development of the XWiki product to focus on > developping XWiki SAS which allows to support the XWiki development. > I've particularly spent my time making sure that the deployments of > XWiki our Customers have been doing are successfull. I've left the > product development work to committers who under the lead of Vincent > have done amazing work in the last few years. We have provided some > product marketing in addition through Guillaume's and lately Gregory's > work which allowed to bring some feedback from users and customers and > also bring a different less technical perspective to the XWiki Product > development. Cati also joined the team and allowed us to make huge > steps forward in product usability and design. > > Now, as XWiki SAS's project implementation team is doing great work on > it's own, I've decided to involve myself more in the future of XWiki's > product. I'm now the new XWiki SAS 'Product Marketing' head which > means I will involve myself in community discussions about the product > features actively developped, investigated for future development as > well as in general discussions about the XWiki Software's future. I > will try to bring the knowledge that XWiki SAS's customer, project > managers, support team bring us from using XWiki in production > environments to the community so that we make better decisions, more > focused on developments that will allow to increase XWiki's success > with end users. At XWiki SAS we have already done a lot of work to > organize this feedback so that we know more things that XWiki SAS's > developers and the XWiki community should work on. > > In the next few weeks you will therefore see me work on the > investigations of future features as well as work more closely with > developers whenever they feel the need on the features they implement > actively. I will also manage the different surveys we have done in the > past to gather feedback from our community. These surveys have still > been running on the xwiki.org web site although they are now quite > outdated. I will propose to review them and launch them again. > > If users or developers have any feedback about XWiki, about what we > should work on in priority, please do send that feedback on the list > (preferably). Although we have a much bigger list of great ideas than > what we currently can achieve, you can help us on helping us select > the most important ones that will make a difference. > > I would like to use this occasion to thank our great community of > developers and users who help the committers every day to make XWiki > better. We could not do this without all the suggestions, ideas, > patches that our community provides. > > Thanks > Ludovic > > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
