https://peertube.watch/videos/watch/7fe4cd00-854e-4874-b69f-5747b3218d75 This talk is about our Journey as an Open Source creator, project maintainer and company, from being alone creating the Open Source software XWiki and the associated company, to the first users and contributors, first hires, first clients, growing the company over the years to more than 50 people, fully bootstrapped. It is about the struggles to compete with proprietary software and then having customers asking to transition from their provider forcing them to a 5x more expensive offer. It is about creating a new product CryptPad and running 2 open source communities and our journey providing a privacy protecting software. It is about licenses and the temptation to close some code to be able to be more successful and finally finding other ways. It is about the joys of building Open Source together as a team, how you meet other FOSS people, at FOSDEM, in local communities or in business conferences, and collaborate and share your passion and beliefs. It is about Digital Sovereignty. It's also about what we could have done differently if we knew. It is about how you can live from Open Source, while respecting your contributors, your users , your customers and your employees. I hope this talk, sharing our experience will help other FOSS lovers be able also to live from Open Source and push them to move to full time Open Source. As for many companies, our story is somewhat a roller coaster with its set of successes and failures. Open Source success takes time, but good things can come for those who are resilient enough. Speaker: Ludovic Dubost, Track: Main Track - K Building, Room: K.1.105 (La Fontaine), When: Sunday 4 February 2024, 09:00–09:50 (Brussels time), Schedule: FOSDEM 2024 event page, Slides & links Slides deck of 20 Years of Open Source building XWiki and CryptPad, XWiki SAS, XWiki.org, CryptPad, Blog, Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Belgium (CC BY 2.0 BE) (as stated in the FOSDEM video archive). Attribution: “20 Years of Open Source building XWiki and CryptPad” by Ludovic Dubost, FOSDEM 2024. Original recording: 2024/k1105/fosdem-2024-1830-20-years-of-open-source-building-xwiki-and-cryptpad.av1.webm from the FOSDEM video archive. This channel is an unofficial mirror; FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for the community. Sat, 24 Oct 2026 01:31:28 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.watch https://peertube.watch/lazy-static/avatars/3b284627-b75f-409e-ac2e-10f4c2946f43.png https://peertube.watch/videos/watch/7fe4cd00-854e-4874-b69f-5747b3218d75 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.watch/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.