Vincent Massol is the founder and CTO of XWiki SAS, a commercial company that provides support, custom development, training, hosting, and consulting for the open source XWiki project. XWiki is an enterprise wiki and generic web development platform available at XWiki.org under the LGPL license, with 15 active committers. XWiki SAS uses a community-driven open source business model where the commercial and open source sites are separate, with governance structures to ensure the community remains in control of the project.

1. XWiki.org vs XWiki.com
Vincent Massol (vincent@xwiki.com)
9 February 2010

2. Presentation: Vincent Massol
● 10 years doing open source development
● 7 years as a « pure player » (i.e. Not paid)
● Creator of Cargo, Cactus, committer on Maven
● Founder OSSGTP
● Wrote several books on JUnit and Maven
● XWiki developer since 2005
● CTO of XWiki SAS since December 2006
● Blog: http://massol.net
● Twitter: vmassol

3. Presentation: XWiki.org
● Open source project at http://xwiki.org
● Second Generation Enterprise Wiki
● Generic Web development platform
● LGPL licence
● 15 active committers

4. Presentation: XWiki SAS
● Commercial company at http://xwiki.com
● Business Model
● Support, custom development, training, hosting, consulting
● No proprietary code, all under LGPL license
● 28 employees (12 committers, 7 contributors)

5. Community-Driven Open Source
● Business-friendly licence (e.g. LGPL)
● Separate XWiki.org & XWiki.com sites
● Meritocracy
● All Community members have the same power
● Benefits for Users
● Assurance the project won't disappear
● Allow investing on it
● Especially since XWiki is a dev platform
● Benefits for XWiki SAS
● Viral spread + international development
● Ecosystem which can compete with companies with more money
(requires extension system)

6. How not to be « Evil »
● Published Project Governance (http://dev.xwiki.org)
● Published Company Manifesto and Values
● http://www.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/About/Values
● http://www.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/About/Manifesto
● Votes for anything important, with veto
● Vote for accepting new committers
● Need good quality patches, takes 3-6+ months of
continuous patch for XWiki SAS newcomers to get voted
in, same process as anyone else

7. Handling Conflicts of Interest
● Make sure to have committers not from the company
● Veto for all votes and vote all important decisions
● Roadmaps, new committers, etc
● Dedicate a person responsible for the well being of the
community
● Dedicated XWiki SAS developers for the open source project
● All code under an open source license

8. Future Improvements
● Defined Governance for XWiki.org content
● Proposal sent: http://markmail.org/thread/3mpyhk6u5addevag
● Add ads but same rules for everyone.
● Special distributions on xwiki.com
● To draw non-tech users
● More Bounties
● Non profit association