XWiki est a JavaOne 2008. Venez nous voir sur le stand OW2 numero 212.

As we talked about a month ago we are at JavaOne starting tomorrow on the OW2 Booth 212 in San Francisco.

Come see a demo of our brand new XWiki Workspaces 1.0 release as well as XWiki Enterprise 1.4, XWiki Watch, XWiki Enterprise Manager, Chronopolys, Curriki and more..

Here we go, XWiki Workspaces 1.0 is out at last ! We decided to celebrate this important milestone with a video teaser :

Here is a quick demo video showcasing the main features of XWiki Workspaces :

You'll find all you want to know about our brand new collaboration solution here.

XWiki Workspaces is our simple collaboration solution. Here are the steps to follow to start testing it on your local machine. Looks long & complicated ? It's not. Trust us. If you don't, you may find this website entertaining. Don't forget to come back afterwards !

Basically, you're gonna be mimicking the job of both a server and a client right on your Desktop.
Yeah, you can do it.
I believe in you.

You can give an in-depth look at XWiki Workspaces' feature set here or go for the short version here.

Launching the software

1. Download the Software ! To do so, simply right-click on this link and select "Save to Disk".
2. Find out where the heck you saved the damn file. If needed, move it to a location where you'll be able to find it easily (say, your Desktop).
3. Go make yourself a cup of coffee (in any case, that can't do no harm).
4. Hint : you forgot to add sugar. Plus your coffee's probably too hot to be drunk right now anyway.
5. Make sure Java (the programming language, not the coffee) is available on your computer : click here and you'll know !
6. If it's not, install it (alternatively, you can write an incendiary letter to Sun)
7. Now unzip the file you just downloaded (that's easier than it sounds. Most of the time, all you'll have to do is to double-click on it.)
8. Open the xwiki-workspaces-distribution… folder. Find out whether you're running Windows, Mac OS or Linux as your current Operating System.
   1. You're running Windows. Double-click the start_xwiki.bat file.
   2. You're running Linux or Mac OS. Open a terminal window (Applications > Utilities > Terminal under Mac OS X). Drag & Drop the start_xwiki.sh file in your terminal window. Click on the terminal window. Hit Enter.
9. Give yourself a congratulation hug : your XWiki Workspaces instance is now up & running !!
10. If you don't quite know what to do next, it's perfectly normal. I haven't told you yet.
11. Open your browser (Firefox, IE7, or even Internet Explorer 6 : we got you working as well, b**h !)
12. Go to http://localhost:8080/xwiki
13. Log-in using login : Admin / password : admin as your credentials. You're in !

First steps

1. You've now successfully installed XWiki Workspaces on your computer, in practice using it as a server. You rock !
2. You're an Admin over here. The first thing you want to do is to create a space for your organization (say, your current company). To do so, click on "Create the organization's space".
3. You can now either start playing with the space you just created or go playing around with other global administration features.
4. Let's say you want to add a bunch of fake users to play with the software a bit :
   1. Go to the http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/edit/XWSAdmin/AddingFakeUsers?editor=wiki page
   2. Copy / Paste the contents of this .txt file in the page.
   3. Click on "Save & View" : Wow, you've just created 200 random users using the Groovy programming language !
5. Now you can go play with your organization's space to find out how it works. To do so, go to http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/view/XWS/MySpaces, then click on the only space available there for now.
6. Once you're in the space, there's a couple things you could do. Say you want to invite a couple friends :
   1. Click on the "administration" link in the "Space" panel located on the left of your screen.
   2. Now click on "Space Members" in the panel on the left.
   3. Choose a group and click on the "add members to this group" button
      1. You can now see the list of all the people in your XWiki Workspaces instance. There's a quick access box at the top of the list : type the name of someone you know (say, "Georges Abitbol"), then click on the green arrow to add him / her to the list.
      2. Click on "add selected users to the group" at the bottom of the page. Well done, you're not alone any longer !
   4. You can change the background color of your space too. Click on "Space Informations" in the panel on the left, then on "Edit space information" in the page.
   5. Choose a color in the select box, then click on "Save & View".
   6. C'mon. You kidding me ? I know you've got better taste than this !
   7. Anyway… Click on the title of your space (the big black title located at the top of the page) to get back to the home of your space.
   8. Start working together ! There's a wiki, a blog, a photo gallery and a file manager available in here, simply click around a bit to discover how stuff works… You're a big guy / gal now ;-)

If you experienced any problem or have a question, simply send us a mail at users@xwiki.org or drop by on our IRC channel, #xwiki on Freenode.net . Hopefully our team will be there to answer your questions ! You can also contact me at guillaume-XWS Rocks !-xwiki.com or on skype, id : wikibc. Don't forget to follow us on Twitter as well !

Loads of information about the software are available on http://workspaces.xwiki.org/, the Open-Source community website.

This is a mail to the extjs folks, that have apparently moved from an LGPL licence to a dual licenced GPL:

I'm Ludovic Dubost, the CEO of XWiki, an open source non dual-licenced LGPL software. I've just found on the Internet that you have decided to move extjs from an LGPL to a dual licenced GPL.

I wanted to let you know my personal opinion both as a potential user (we where going to work with extjs in XWiki) and as the head of an Open-Source company,

While I respect your need and wishes to make money out of extjs, I think your move is a betrayal to your community. When you launch with a certain licence, this will have the effect of people using your software, deciding to bundle and promote it based on this specific licence. Changing this licence is a betrayal. Just by having thought about using and studied extjs and ext-gwt I feel betrayed by the licence change. I let you imagine what the other people that have done it will feel.

Secondly, while dual licensing models may seem like the right way to mix business and open source, I believe that it could instead have the effect of killing the business and Open-Source relationship. It will very probably not be so good for your business or at least for the company that will be acquiring your business.

It makes the dual licensed software potentially proprietary. For the simple reason that your company can make it proprietary at any time it means that the community might lose the development effort brought by the company leading the project. From your pespective, dual Licensing models will necessarly at some point lead to a GPL fork of your work, thus creating competition to your very own business.

Of course, you might have sold out your company by then having had the support of the GPL lovers that want a world of GPL software as well as having used the community of people that don't understand what all this is about. But the software jobs you have created will go back to a pool of "nearly" proprietary software.

Let me finish by saying that I'm no Open-Source nor moneymaking fanatic. I'm only a individual who believes that when you create a relationship with users and clients based on certain terms, basic ethics and respect are about commiting yourself to these terms. It is not about using favorable terms to get known and then start closing them progressively.

This is why I believe the LGPL licence is the one that protects both users, customers and creators.

Ludovic Dubost