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Between the 12th and the 20th of October, Ludovic Dubost, Anca Luca and Clément Aubin will be in San Francisco. They're looking forward to meeting contributors and friends from the area, so let them know if you want to grab a coffee and exchange ideas.

What's more is that you can join themat the hackathon hosted by Noisebridge, on Saturday, 20 October. The event will start with a presentation about CryptPad, the end-to-end encrypted realtime collaboration tool, followed by the hackathon on CryptPad and XWiki, the open source software, where you can bring your contribution to the code.

The host will be Steve Phillips, creator of CrypTag & Cypherpunks Write Code and lead developer of LeapChat. Noisebridge is a hackerspace for technical-creative projects, doocratically run by its members. They are a non-profit educational institution intended for public benefit. Located in the heart of San Francisco, their motto is: We teach, we learn, we share. 

For more details about the event read a blog article posted on the XWiki SAS blog.

This is the eleventh year XWiki has participated in the Google Summer of Code program. XWiki had 12 mentors involved at various levels and 3 successful projects implemented. ...

The project focused on improving the existing DokuWiki importer that imports instances of DokuWiki to XWiki by using some intermediate common events based on Filter Stream Framework. In the previous Dokuwiki importer module already supported basic functionalities. Improvements like support for handling unserializing of files with no metadata, lists, image-link, interwiki-link, macro support and other syntax-parser bug resolution. ...

Aleksei Ovsiannikov summary of experience in participating in GSoC 2018 and open source projects contributing. ...

As XWiki developers we are happy to see that Active Installs are still progressing and that last week, we received the biggest reward we could have received from you, our users: an incredible increase of XWiki installs and instances activity. ...

On 3 & 4 February 2018 we've participated to the annual FOSDEM (Open Source Developers’ European Meeting) event. XWiki SAS sponsored 12 XWikiers that held 8 presentations around XWiki or other general interest topics. Check out some pictures and video recordings from the event. ...

Here are some statistics from the Google Code-in 2017 edition: 12 mentors, 380 successful students, 489 successful tasks, 154 merged PRs, 11 issues fixed, 23 contributors, 181 translations improved, 9 repos improved, etc. ...

After being mentors for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program for more than 10 years, we decided also to mentor pre-university students in the Google Code-in program. We had 489 successfully completed tasks thanks to 380 students and 12 mentors involved in the program. This was the first year we participated as an organization. ...

As the last blog post of the year, this article summarize the main events that happened during the past twelve months inside of the XWiki project. ...

We have 4 new Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) being published recently. We now have a total of 68 FAQs about using XWiki. Make sure to check them out! ...