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27 au 29 mars 2013
XWiki SAS an open source company
Vincent Massol XWiki Committer CTO XWiki SAS
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@vmassolVincent Massol, March 2014
XWiki SAS - Quick Timeline
• 2003: Ludovic Dubost created the XWiki open source project, an Extensible enterprise wiki
• 2004: Creation of XPertNet by Ludovic, office in Paris
• 2005: First employee & first customer
• 2007: XWiki Romania creation
• 2008: Ethical Open Source commitment through Manifesto
• 2008: All employees become shareholders
• 2014: XWiki Algeria creation
XWiki SAS - The team!July 2013 Seminar
XWiki SAS: A Distributed Company
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1• GSOC: Romania
• Open source hires (e.g. USA)
• Past: Russia + Sri Lanka
• Buyout: Algeria
Team Organization
Product Dev (6)
Sales & Marketing
(4)
Product Marketing
(3)
Research (3)
Platform (2)
HR (2)
Support (3)
Client Projects
(15)
XWiki SAS
What type of company is XWiki SAS?
• A software publisher?
• No license revenue since it’s all LGPL and free
• Majority of developers are working on client projects
• A Service Company?
• Yes but it also spends a large part of its revenues (about 30%) sponsoring the development of the XWiki open source product
Open source Business model
Downloads/year
New active installs/year (sticking users)
New clients or projects/year (viral marketing, clients calling in)
250K
2500
25
10% of installs
1% of active installs
+ 90% renewal of existing customers
New installs/year 25000 10% of downloads
Sep. 2013 - Feb 2014
What does XWiki SAS sell? 2012
Revenues - Sales + subsidies
Source: Mid 2013
Open source project management
• Independent from XWiki SAS, defines its own rules
• Meritocracy, similar rules as ASF (Apache Software Foundation)
• VETO (-1) on mailing list to remain honest!
• Only individuals at open source level (no company), everyone at the same level
• Consensus-based approach (no hierarchical decisions)
Active Committers & Contributors
• XWiki SAS: 38
• Core Committers: 19
• Contributors: 60
• Contributors but not Core Committers: 41
• 60% of Core Committers are from XWiki SAS
XWiki SAS Open source contributors
CoreCommitters
5 21 12 7 20
Roadmap Process
Product Dev
Sales & Marketing
Product Marketing
Research
Platform
Support
Client Projects
Roadmap Team
XWiki SAS (Company) Open Source Project (Individuals)
Developer 1
Developer 2
Developer 3
Developer 4
Developer 1
Developer 2
Developer 3
Developer 4
Developer 5
Developer 6
Developer 7
Developer 8
Challenges• Ambiguity between “XWiki” (the open source project) and “XWiki” (the
company, which we call “XWiki SAS”)
• Need an official legal foundation to hold the “XWiki” trademark and allow donations.
• Could make it easier for outsiders to invest in the XWiki project
• Open source is about Give-Give
• Works if businesses play the game
• Problem of SSII in France for example who take but don’t give much in general
• Attract even more contributors/committers and businesses sponsoring the development of XWiki
Q&A
Me
Vincent Massol
• Speaker Bio
• CTO XWiki SAS
• Your Projects
• XWiki (community-driven open source project)
• Past: Maven, Apache Cargo, Apache Cactus, Pattern Testing
• Other Credentials:
• LesCastCodeurs podcast
• Creator of OSSGTP open source group in Paris
• 3 books: JUnit in Action, Maven: A Developer’s Notebook, BBWM