Wiki source code of Ideas for increasing Active Installs
Last modified by Vincent Massol on 2019/06/15 10:45
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1.1 | 1 | The purpose of this page is to brainstorm and list ideas about how to increase our [[Active Installs>>doc:xwiki:ActiveInstalls.WebHome]] numbers. | |
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3 | Increasing Active Installs can be done in 2 complementary ways: | ||
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5 | * Attract more users to XWiki | ||
6 | * Keep them using XWiki more | ||
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8 | The idea is to see if there are some low hanging fruits and implement them. | ||
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10 | = Attracting more users = | ||
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12 | |=Idea|=From|=Complexity & Cost | ||
13 | |Talk at more conferences|Vincent|Medium | ||
14 | |Move XWiki to a well known foundation such as Eclipse|Vincent|Hard | ||
15 | |Have XWiki bundled in some distributions (e.g. linux distributions)|Vincent|Hard | ||
3.1 | 16 | |Make it even simpler and more visible to demo XWiki on XWiki SAS Cloud|Vincent|Easy | |
5.1 | 17 | |More videos of XWiki in action on youtube and update old ones|Vincent|Medium | |
6.1 | 18 | |Write a book about XWiki|Vincent|Hard | |
7.1 | 19 | |Have some new large company using XWiki and advertise it|Vincent|Hard | |
12.1 | 20 | |Write a bot that creates new XWiki instances every day! **just kidding ofc** ;)|Vincent|Easy | |
15.1 | 21 | |Provide several Flavors for several needs|Vincent|Hard | |
21.1 | 22 | |Provide an XWiki package on the [[Snap Store>>https://dashboard.snapcraft.io]] (an app store for Linux supported by more and more distributions and the list is already impressive)|Thomas|Medium | |
18.1 | 23 | |Finish and maintain rpm packages and repository|Thomas|Technically easy but require someone who actually use a rpm based system or it won't work | |
22.1 | 24 | |Announce our releases on more websites. List of websites we could add:((( | |
25 | * [[Linuxfr.org>>https://linuxfr.org]] ([[Example>>https://linuxfr.org/news/sortie-de-xwiki-9-0]]) | ||
26 | )))|Vincent|Easy | ||
23.3 | 27 | |Promote myxwiki: make it work, promote wikis hosted here|xrichard|Hard (and already done with XWiki Cloud which is cheap and free for open source projects) | |
1.2 | 28 | |<add your idea here>|<add your name here>|<add cost here> | |
1.1 | 29 | ||
30 | = Keeping users = | ||
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32 | Reasons for leaving: | ||
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8.1 | 34 | * Fail to install XWiki | |
10.1 | 35 | * Generally too complex to use / Frustration | |
1.1 | 36 | * Doesn't understand how to use in the first 10mn | |
15.1 | 37 | * User don't see all the nice things they can do with their wiki and stop for lack of knowing this | |
4.1 | 38 | * Doesn't see the value of the features and what they can be used for | |
1.1 | 39 | * Missing some key feature. Which one? | |
40 | * Competition is better. Which one? | ||
14.1 | 41 | * Too hard to upgrade? (Hopefully not, we've worked hard to make this one no longer be the case) | |
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2.1 | 43 | |=Idea|=From|=What does it fix?|=Complexity & Cost | |
11.1 | 44 | |Provide a Feedback Panel by default in XS. Something similar to what we get in [[survey forms>>xwiki:Main.Feedback.DownloadFormFeedback]] Feedback would be aggregated on xwiki.org automatically.|Vincent|Understand frustration/problems|Medium | |
9.1 | 45 | |Make XWiki work on Java9+|Vincent|Fail to install XWiki|Medium | |
8.1 | 46 | |Promote more the cloud options instead of the download option (higher success rate). Maybe have a single "download" get on xwiki.org and ask if the user is technical or not and if not, promote the XWiki SAS cloud option|Vincent|Fail to install XWiki|Easy | |
16.1 | 47 | |Promote less the manual WAR install and instead promote more the Debian and Docker installs for installation on premises since they're easier to use and avoid mistakes|Vincent|Fail to install XWiki|Easy | |
4.1 | 48 | |In the Support panel, have a chat and allow Admin users to ask questions on this chat (possibly during the 1st week of usage to reduce support cost; after that time it could become a link to the chat page of xwiki.org, to reduce ). This chat would integrate the XWiki Matrix/IRC chat|Vincent|Generally too complex to use & Doesn't understand how to use in the first 10mn|Easy | |
49 | |Provide some demo content by default in XWiki Standard to see the usage in action, with ability to remove content easily when user is ready to use it for real.|Vincent|Doesn't see the value of the features and what they can be used for|Easy | ||
15.1 | 50 | |Provide several Flavors for several needs|Vincent|Users may not know what to do with their wiki and how to start|Hard | |
1.2 | 51 | |<add your idea here>|<add your name here>|<add cost here> |