The Open Source

The Open Source

XWiki chose to follow an Open Source strategy for all its solutions. For XWiki, liberty is understood as:

• Liberty for our clients to take advantage of all the improved features of XWiki. We can adapt and develop your XWiki in order to best meet your organization's needs. 
• Liberty for the community of XWiki developers to follow the most advanced research in the field of enterprise wiki, with the help of partners like the consortium OW2, Google, the RNTL and the European Union. 
• Liberty to contribute to a development process of open software, with a public roadmap, where the decisions are taken by a group of committers chosen according to their competences and their investment.

• We appreciate the support of our community, of our users and of our clients. The choice of the LGPL license, according to which we distribute our source code, confirms our dedication to an Open Source strategy for our solutions. The Open Source is the only Sustainable Development.

Social responsibility and sustainable development

Ethics, sustainable development and social openness are the components of a responsible management. Since its creation, XWiki has adopted a responsible attitude in all activities (marketing activities, interaction with its partners, development, relations with the employees, etc.). The social dimension is our greatest strength. 

We equally wish that the aggregate of actions in which we get involved to be 1) useful and productive for our partners, clients... and 2) would imply for our collaborators to work together systematically.

We wish to apply the values of the Open Source Culture to all our actions.

That's why XWiki SAS has published a Manifesto concerning it's commitment to open source and transparency.

Community

At XWiki, we are aware of the crucial role that different communities have in the success of the enterprise. Communities guarantee our development and support our corporate vision with their know-how and expertise. 

Initially, XWiki was counting only on a few people. Today, XWiki has thirty collaborators that work in close coordination with several people, who participate in different ways to the development of XWiki. We thank everyone for their work.

This big family is "headed" by two experts : 

• Ludovic Dubost - President & Founder
• Vincent Massol - Technical Director

Taking action!

XWiki is involved in several initiatives whose aim is to promote, to support or to animate: 

• the universe of Open Source: XWiki is a member of APRIL and PLOSS.
• the community of users : XWiki hosts for free the groups Java User Group (JUG) from the entire world like the Paris Java User Group (Paris JUG).
• the development in Open Source Software communities: in 2010, XWiki should organize a bounty.
• the uses of wikis: XWiki regularly organizes and animates seminars that bring together representative people from the universes of wikis and collaboration. For instance, XWiki organizes Wiki Wednesday. Moreover, everyone can get their own wiki on the community farm myxwiki.org.
• the new technologies, collaboration... : XWiki launched COLAB in order to present tools, practices... in an original way, more dynamic and participative.

Associative projects

XWiki is involved in several associative projects, like the project Globe2Child.

The project aims to create the first free community of children without borders acting to protect the planet and its perennial evolution.

In order to help the creation of this new community, Pascal Bouche (the creator of the project) was looking for a flexible and extensible platform open to 6 year old children. The XWiki team used their know-how and expertise in building collaboration solutions to create Globe2Child. 

The wiki removes barriers of time and distance between children here and abroad. We are very happy to work with Wiki-Up, which represents the values that we must pass on to organizations. The help of Wiki-Up is also an invitation for us to develop an innovative solution that connects children around the world. 

The project Globe2Child is a journey that we are happy to take together !