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XWiki took part in the first edition of Open Source Camp, hosted at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, in Iasi, Romania. …

XWiki has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2016. Since its inception in 2005, the program has brought together over 10,900 successful student participants from over 103 countries worldwide and over 500 open source organizations, all for the love of code. This is our 9th time participating in the program and we are pretty excited about it. We value the participation in the program since it allows us to meet and discuss ideas with smart students from around the world. …

Remember FOSDEM? That big free event which every year gathers thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world in Brussels? This year will take place at ULB Campus Solbosch on Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st of January 2016. The XWiki team members will be there as speakers, as representatives at the stand or as attendances, ready to meet and share ideas with you!  …

Guillaume Delhumeau, one of our developers, has recently been invited to talk at the OW2 conference about the XWiki project and its community. It's a brief resume about our governance rules, and an example of collaboration between a sponsoring company and the community. …

On the 26th of September, I’ve attended CSSconf EU 2015. It was really nice to see a conference focused mostly on CSS, and not combining very much other development or design topics. Doing front-end and being a front-end developer is considered very hip these days. We are living in an era where Photoshop or big heavy frameworks are fast getting deprecated. Unfortunately this era doesn’t care much about backwards-compatibility or support. People are trying to make everything faster and easier and don’t look too much in the past. If we want to stay relevant we should try to move a bit faster on the front-end development front, but I guess this is a problem any platform faces in these rapidly changing times. …

Results of a 2-weeks sprint by XWiki SAS developers working on XWiki features. …

For two days (Oct 31 - Nov 1 2014) XWiki community members will be at Design Jam in Iasi, Romania. We presented the design process inside open communities, focused more on how things work inside the XWiki Community. …

On the 15th of December 2003 Ludovic Dubost did the first commit of the XWiki software.
Thus, XWiki was 10 years old last December! What a journey it's been so far
On this page we've collected some stories of XWiki users who've been using XWiki either for a very long time or who joined the XWiki community recently. …

XWiki community members (Vincent, Ludovic, Marius, Anca, Oana and Fabio) participated once again to FOSDEM (Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting) on Saturday February 1st, 2014 in Brussels (Belgium). In cooperation with Tiki and MediaWiki we helped coordinating the 'Wikis devroom', where XWiki project was lucky to have 6 talks. …

On the 24th of September I had the pleasure to participate to SmartWeb, the "first world class web conference in Eastern Europe", held in Bucharest.
The presentations covered topics such as Responsive Web Design, writing CSS the right way, performance, working with a distributed team, usability testing, etc. (Take a look at the program) …