XWiki was asked to participate and it is with great pleasure that we accepted. This afternoon, Guillaume Lerouge went to La Cantine where the meeting was organized.

We'll talk, for sure, very soon!

About Travelling Geeks ?

"Travelling Geeks is a consortium of entrepreneurs, thought leaders, authors, journalists, bloggers, technology innovators and influencers who travel to countries to share and learn from peers, governments, corporations, and the general public in order to educate, share, evaluate, and promote new, innovative technologies."

• The Facebook Page
• On Twitter

Fortunately, Adi Mironescu was not ready to let go and I was lucky to receive an invitation among my fellow XWikiers to attend this year's revitalized edition. The talks were a mix between business (Marius Deak from GreenPixel on 100 tips to make it through the crisis, Marius Ursache from Grapefruit on The games the brands play in Social Media) and technology (the XWiki presentation by Anca Luca on Collaborative Web Applications the wiki way, Laurian Gridinoc from KMI, Dr. Sabin Buraga on the Semantic Social Web).

People were curious about XWiki and offered useful feedback. We also debated upon the eternal "Mac vs PC" and found out why GreenPixel isn't Vodafone's social web guardian anymore. All in all, a Saturday well spent.

If you missed Anca's talk, here is the XWiki presentation:

Please, nominate XWiki and Ludovic Dubost for one (or more) of the following Crunchie award categories below:

Best Enterprise StartUp

Best International StartUp

Best Overall StartUp Of 2009

CEO Of The Year

You can submit one nomination per category per day until December 4th 2009 at Midnight PST.

Thanks a lot for your participation and support!

About the Crunchies

"The 2009 Crunchies is our third annual competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year."

• Where: the award ceremony will take place in San Francisco
• When: on Friday, January 8, 2010, at 7:30 pm

Thanks to Miguel Membrado, who was in San Francisco too, for the video.

Congratulations to CubeTree, winner of this Launchpad. XWiki finished third. A great satisfaction for the team, proud to see that XWiki can compete in a worldwide competition.

The slides are in English but the presentation was in French:

Thanks to all for helping making this happen! This is just great for XWiki.

• Linus Torvalds
• Richard Stallman
• Alan Cox
• Brian Behlendorf
• Simon Phipps
• Bob Sutor
• Chris Dibona
• Nat Friedman
• Mark Shuttleworth
• Michael Tieman

• Are these people really great figures of the Open Source domain? (I suppose the opinion might be different)
• if not (for some of them), who would you see in this list/in their place?

We're also going to make a random draw among the respondents, to win an XWiki t-shirt.