2020-06-17 –, Main Video Conference Room
Open-Source is highly present. However, the competition in the end-user app space with Cloud providers is tough. A lot of proprietary solutions exist and are build on Open-Source libraries and technologies, but are not shared as Open-Source.
XWiki SAS is a provider of open-source collaboration apps (XWiki, CryptPad) for now 15 years living only off it's Open-Source technologies.
How is it possible to develop Open Source end-user apps ? What are the challenges to achieve this ? How do you finance the technology ? How do you sell it ? How do you differentiate your software from proprietary solutions ?
This is the aim of this presentation, to share our experience and our history.
XWiki SAS
Creator of XWiki and CEO of XWiki SAS, Ludovic has been the gentle organizer of the XWiki SAS company for 15 years.
XWiki SAS, only building free & open-source software leads the development of the XWiki Software used by thousands of organizations and helps companies and organizations all over the world organize, share, and collaborate on content. XWiki also leads the development of CryptPad (https://cryptpad.fr), the first Zero Knowledge Realtime Collaborative Editor and Drive.
A graduate of Ecole Polytechnique (X90) and Telecom Paris (95), Ludovic Dubost started his career as a software architect for Netscape Communications Europe. He then joined NetValue as CTO, a company doing online usage analysis. He left NetValue after the company was purchased by Nielsen/NetRatings, before creating and launching XWiki in 2004. Ludovic has been a speaker at various events including Paris Open Source Summit, FOSDEM, OW2 Conference, RMLL, Capitole du Libre, speaking about Collaboration Software, Financing FLOSS software and Privacy Solutions.
I'm also member of the OpenFoodFacts board.