the XWiki Team2018 has been both challenging and rewarding at XWiki, but overall, a very productive year for us. We participated in various events, developed our products and services, received two awards for our hard work, and took great care of our team spirit.
Here is a quick revision of XWikiers` journey:
Team work makes the dream work
1. Breaking records
In February we received the biggest reward we could have received from you, our users: an incredible increase in XWiki installs and instances activity.
2. Amazon uses XWiki for over 1 year
The internal Wiki platform for documentation and collaboration is being used by nearly 20 000 active users, mostly in engineering and product teams, as a collaborative knowledge sharing and documentation platform.
3. XWiki receives Best Open and Ethic Business Award
In December we were recognized as providers of ethic software and services for over 10 years.
4. CryptPad receives NGI startup award
Europe’s Next Generation Internet initiative (NGI.eu) awarded CryptPad the Next Generation Internet’s Privacy and trust-enhanced technologies startup award. The NGI Startup Awards recognize Europe’s most disruptive entrepreneurs who are advancing revolutionary products, solutions and services destined to have a major impact on the internet of the future.
What is new in XWiki?
1. XWiki 10.x
The 10.x cycle is defined by having an improved usability for on-boarding new users and administrators: from protection against refactoring operations, to editing inline macro content, to more auto-suggests, to a faster user interface. We managed to have over 750 issues closed: 415 bugs, 160 improvements, 31 new features and more!
2. ONLYOFFICE online editors added to XWiki`s ecosystem
Users can perform all their editing tasks directly in XWiki without having to switch between the editor and their collaboration software anymore. Furthermore, multiple users can collaborate in real time and push changes directly to XWiki.
3. XWiki Cloud free for Open Source Projects
Open source projects requesting a cloud wiki, can host their wikis with XWiki SAS at the bronze level and receive regular updates.
4. GDPR compliance with XWiki`s cookies consent application
In light of the latest European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), our team created a Cookies Consent application to help XWiki users ensure compliance. It can be installed for free and customized in such a way that it matches each brand`s identity.
XWiki at conferences
We've been more active than ever in the international conferences and meetings scene. Whether in France, Belgium, Romania or the United States of America, our team made sure we are well represented.
1. FOSDEM
We participated with presentations in six different tracks, tackling various hot subjects: new features, compatibility and integration with other tools and services, lessons learned from deployments, surveys, research and development, legal issues, and Artificial Intelligence.
2. Salon Intranet
Ludovic, our CEO, had 4 talks about collaboration and wiki culture.
3. OW2 Meetup
At the beginning of June, we hosted a user meetup within the OW2 conference. It was a great occasion to see and meet people from the corporate and Open Source world interested in the use cases of XWiki.
4. Libre Software Meeting
Our participating XWikiers, Clément Aubin, Ludovic Dubost and Anca Luca discussed about building a customized knowledge base in minutes, tips and tricks to finance free software, CryptPad - the Zero Knowledge editor, and Open Food Facts.
5. Hackathon in San Francisco
Ludovic, Anca, and Clement held a presentation about CryptPad, our end-to-end encrypted real-time collaboration tool. Also, they took part in a hackathon on CryptPad and XWiki.
6. Cloud Expo Europe
We met plenty of you at our stand and discussed about digital transformation problems linked to cloud and encrypted collaboration solutions.
7. Day Click
Our HR Team met potential candidates and shared our job openings and internship opportunities with them.
8. B-Boost Convention
Ludovic took part in the round table discussion on Open Source and free models. It was a great opportunity to exchange on security topics and CryptPad, too.
9. Capitol du Libre 2018
Ludovic brought to discussion the topic of financing free and open source software and described how collaboration with end-to-end encryption is possible using CryptPad.
10. Paris Open Source Summit 2018
We presented during the following tracks: Increasing ethics in Digital, End-user Solutions for the Workplace, Open Source Community Summit and European Open Source Law Event.
Team life
1. XWiki Seminar
Both teams from France and Romania had a great time together in Brasov. The theme chosen for this year was about the topic of “bears”, considering the mountain location.
2. Breakfast @XWiki on International Week of Happiness at Work
Armed with smiley badges, colorful balloons and inspired by the emblematic "Breakfast at Tiffany's" theme, we organized an early breakfast in Iasi and Paris, at the same time.
3. Women in Tech
PIN Magazine published an article about how in XWiki (Iasi) women proved that they can work in IT and even outnumber their male colleagues.
How was your 2018?
