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🇪🇺 We signed the open letter calling for an Open Source First approach in Europe.
The question public institutions should ask first is simple:
🤔 Is there already a qualified open-source solution that does the job?
If yes, it should be seriously considered before creating new dependencies.
That is how digital sovereignty becomes real.
Read the letter: https://www.open-xchange.com/hubfs/PDFs/An%20Open%20Letter%20from%20Europes%20Open%20Source%20Industry%20(signed).pdf
“Building Open Source and living from it without selling your soul.” A dramatic title? Maybe.
Ludovic Dubost’s foss-north talk is about the part of open source we don’t discuss enough: money.
How do you build software people can inspect, adapt, self-host, and leave, while still paying the team behind it?
Watch the full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwN_mcFyGus
Europe is drafting a strategy that positions open source as a pillar of sovereignty and security.
Outcomes depend on incentives, not intentions.
If open source is infrastructure, it needs infrastructure-level funding and procurement that rewards maintainers and actual contributors .
@ldubost@framapiaf.org shares lessons from building XWiki and CryptPad in Europe for 20+ years, and the concrete levers that would actually change the economics.
👉 https://www.xwiki.com/en/Blog/open-source-infrastructure-europe
🔐 When 15,000 users and 700 spaces move, migration is no longer just technical.
The European Parliament’s move from Confluence to XWiki shows what digital sovereignty looks like in practice: preserving structure, retaining control, and ensuring knowledge remains portable.
In this talk, we share lessons on financing migration tooling, preserving structure, and managing change at scale.
Watch from @osxp_paris@mastodon.social 2025:
https://peertube.xwiki.com/w/rtSYRXH8XXhJTKviJUG36y
🇦🇹 We’re in Vienna today for @nextcloud@mastodon.xyz Enterprise Day.
@caubin@mastodon.xyz (XWiki) will speak with Birthe Lindenthal ( @openproject@fosstodon.org )
🎤 Beyond Jira and Confluence: European digital sovereignty and control with OpenProject & XWiki
We’ll discuss how organizations connect knowledge management with XWiki and project coordination with OpenProject while maintaining control over their infrastructure and data.
If you’re attending the event, come say hello 👋
From August 17, Atlassian says metadata and, depending on plan and settings, in-app data from Jira, Confluence, and Jira Service Management may be used to improve AI experiences across its products.
If your knowledge lives inside someone else’s platform, who decides what it is used for next?
If that conversation is starting on your side, this is a useful place to start:
https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/Webinar-overview-break-free-from-Confluence/
🇦🇹 XWiki at the @nextcloud@mastodon.xyz Enterprise Day Vienna, March 24
At 13:45, Clément Aubin joins Birthe Lindenthal (OpenProject) to discuss:
“Beyond Jira and Confluence: European digital sovereignty & control.”
This is about governance, compliance, and building collaboration stacks that remain portable and self-hostable.
If you’re in Vienna, join the conversation.
#OpenSource #news #event #nextcloud
📍 Nice to be at Nextcloud Enterprise Day in Utrecht
This edition is the biggest one so far, with more than 750 registrations. That says a lot about the interest around open-source, digital sovereignty, and more control over IT environments.
Good to spend time with @openproject@fosstodon.org too and talk about the joint work around an open-source alternative to the Atlassian stack.
See you in Bern on May 11:
https://nextcloud.com/enterprise-day-bern-2026/
#OpenSource #Nextcloud #XWiki #OpenProject @nextcloud@mastodon.xyz
🧩 Coming back after the weekend, one thing stands out.
It didn’t look the same for everyone at XWiki.
For some, it was Easter
For others, Palm Sunday
For some, just a quieter weekend
For others, no change at all
That’s what a remote, international team looks like in practice.
We don’t try to standardize that. We build around it.
Different calendars, same focus on open source.
Thinking about leaving Confluence?
Today, Stefana and @caubin@mastodon.xyz break down what migration actually looks like, from methodology, to a migration demo, and live Q&A.
Still time to join 👇
https://nextcloud.com/fr/blog/event/xwiki-vs-confluence/
Devoxx France 🏢 kicked off today, and the floor was busy from the start.
If you’re at Devoxx and want to talk about switching from Atlassian, come by and see us at booth A06. 👋
We’ll be happy to talk through our Confluence Migration Toolkit, what migration looks like in practice, and the alternative stack to hashtag#Atlassian that we’re building together with @openproject@fosstodon.org .
Atlassian’s 2026 AI data contribution changes raise a real question for teams using Confluence:
If your pages, comments, workflows, and metadata help improve vendor AI systems, are they still fully your knowledge?
Legal ownership is one thing. Practical control is another.
For a knowledge base, that difference matters.
Looking for more control? Talk to us: https://xwiki.com/en/company/contact-us/
🤝 XWiki is partnering with Puratech, a Belgium-based IT consulting company.
Puratech now adds XWiki to its portfolio, with support for:
🌍 Consulting
⚙️ Rollout projects
☁️ Cloud or on-premises hosting
🔄 Migration from existing tools
🎓 Training and workshops
A good fit for organizations that want more control over their knowledge platform.
Read more: https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/XWiki-Puratech-partnership/
🧩 At XWiki, we run internal knowledge sharing sessions.
In April, we talked about feedback.
Jackal 🐺 vs giraffe 🦒 communication.
Main takeaway: Feedback is a gift. But it takes practice to pack it properly.
In a distributed team, where most communication is written, phrasing matters a lot.
Sessions like this help build shared understanding and trust over time.
P.S.: if this sounds like your kind of environment, we're hiring: 👇
https://xwiki.com/en/company/jobs/
As Atlassian Data Center comes to an end, many teams are rethinking more than just which tool comes next.
At @osxp_paris@mastodon.social 2025, we hosted a joint workshop with @openproject@fosstodon.org on what really matters in this transition: continuity, control, and long-term flexibility.
We also shared real migration lessons: what works, where to be careful, and how to avoid swapping one lock-in for another.
🎥 https://youtu.be/SvCAVw-XPuI
#OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #KnowledgeManagement #osxp2025
🤖 What if following European news did not mean opening 12 tabs and guessing which source to trust?
That’s the idea behind ChatEurope, led by @afpfr@amicale.net with 15 European media organizations.
At XWiki, we built the platform behind it.
The main point for us is simple: A chatbot is only as useful as the knowledge behind it. If the content is well organized, the answers are better. If it is messy, AI does not fix that.
Read the success story: https://xwiki.com/en/company/references/chateurope
🌍 XWiki team is on the road this spring.
A few stops:
📍 Digital Workplace & Documentation
📅 March 19–20
📍 Stand A74-B73 (Village Systematic), with FranceLabs and Linphone
📍 @nextcloud@mastodon.xyz Enterprise Day in Utrecht
📅 April 16
📍 Devoxx
📅 April 17–18
📍 Stand A06
📍 LEARNTEC
📅 May 6–8
Stand H30
If you’re attending any of these, come say hi.
We’re usually somewhere between a discussion about migration and a conversation about why knowledge becomes hard to manage over time.
🤝 XWiki and MassiveGRID
Most wiki discussions focus on features.
In practice, things usually break at the infrastructure level: latency, availability, distributed teams, operations.
This partnership is about that layer. Making it easier to run XWiki globally, on infrastructure designed for high-availability environments.
Less friction when scaling. More control over how your knowledge platform runs.
Read more: https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/XWiki-MassiveGRID-partnership/
#news #tech #opensource
⏳ Last chance to register.
Many teams running Confluence Data Center are starting to ask the same question:
What does documentation infrastructure look like after 2029?
In this webinar with @nextcloud@mastodon.xyz we’ll explore how XWiki supports structured knowledge management while keeping infrastructure and data under your control.
📅 Apr 2
⏰ 15:00 CET
🚨 Registration closes soon.
International Women’s Day is a moment to recognize the women shaping open source.
Beyond code, their work spans governance, product direction, migration engineering, policy, documentation, and community leadership.
Open source grows through sustained contribution.
Where have you seen meaningful progress in inclusion within your projects?
📺 We want to leave Confluence. Where do we even start?
We recently hosted a session with Nextcloud to walk through what that actually looks like in practice.
Now we’ve put together a full overview of the session, including:
✔️ Key takeaways
✔️ The Q&A from participants
📌 If you’re already thinking about migration, this should help you get a clearer picture of what’s ahead.
👉 Read the overview and watch the session: https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/XWiki-vs-Confluence-demo-webinar/
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📘 New guide: Compare the best knowledge management software.
The market is crowded. From Confluence and Notion to SharePoint, Microsoft 365, MediaWiki, and XWiki.
We built a clear, side-by-side datasheet to help IT teams cut through the noise.
🔎 Inside:
✔ Pricing & hosting options (cloud, on prem, hybrid)
✔ Feature breakdowns that actually matter
Because decision-makers deserve clarity, not clutter.
👉 https://xwiki.com/en/the-ultimate-guide-to-knowledge-management-software/
#XWiki #KnowledgeManagement #OpenSource #datasheet #technology
📌 A pattern we often see
A documentation tool works well at the beginning. Simple, quick to adopt.
Then the organization grows.
More teams, more permissions, more dependencies.
The knowledge base becomes critical.
That’s when things change.
It’s no longer about simplicity.
It’s about structure and governance.
👉 Try structured knowledge in practice:
https://try.xwiki.com
🇫🇷 We’ll be at Digital Workplace & Collaboration Forum (Paris, April 8–9)
Topics we’ll cover:
• AI, governance, and data sovereignty
• Structuring knowledge as information grows
📍 Paris Expo – Porte de Versailles
📍 Stand A74–B73, Village Systematic
📚 Many documentation systems fail for the same reason:
They were designed for the first 50 pages, not the next 50,000.
As organizations grow, pages multiply, ownership becomes unclear, search degrades, and outdated information accumulates.
The problem is structure!
In our recent webinar “Building a knowledge base that lasts,” we explore documentation as infrastructure.
🎥 The recording, slides, and full Q&A are available here: https://xwiki.com/en/webinars/XWiki-as-a-documentation-tool
🎥 During @osxp_paris@mastodon.social 2025, our founder and CEO @ldubost@framapiaf.org gave an interview about XWiki and @CryptPad@social.xwiki.com our journey in the free software ecosystem, and what lies ahead.
He reflects on what we built in 2025 and shares what we’re actively preparing for 2026, with a strong focus on open source, digital sovereignty, and long-term control.
If you want a clear overview of where XWiki and CryptPad stand today and where we’re heading next, this interview is worth watching.
📣XWiki and @CryptPad@social.xwiki.com will be at Devoxx France, booth A06.
If you’re there from April 22 to 24, come say hi.👋
Happy to talk about:
🔓 Open source that stays open
🤝 Real use cases and constraints
🫵 Confluence migrations, without the polished sales version
If you care about self-hosted wikis, encrypted collaboration, or digital sovereignty in practice, let’s talk.
#DevoxxFR #OpenSource #XWiki #CryptPad #France #news #tech #devops
💡 The hardest moment of a migration isn’t go-live.
It’s the Monday after.
When people try to work in the new system and things feel slower. Not broken. Just unfamiliar.
Most of the time, it comes down to expectations.
People expect the new tool to behave like the old one.
It doesn’t.
If you’re planning a migration from Confluence, one practical step is to look at how your current macros and use cases translate in XWiki:
👉 https://xwiki.com/en/confluence-macros-alternatives/
💪 Let's go for the 2-day Digital Workplace at the Porte de Versailles.
@ldubost@framapiaf.org will speak on April 8.
@caubin@mastodon.xyz will have 2 sessions on April 9, including one with France Labs and Linphone.
If you’re attending, feel free to come say hi.👋
📍 In Stuttgart today for the OpenChain & Friends event
@michitux@fosstodon.org (R&D at XWiki) presents:
🎙️ Sustainable OSS: lessons from XWiki.
The talk explores what it takes to keep an open-source platform sustainable over decades: architecture, governance, and funding models.
Thanks to our German partner, TekDynamics, who represented XWiki in the marketplace area.
https://openchainproject.org/news/2025/12/09/openchain-and-friends-2026
Who controls your documentation platform’s roadmap?
If your knowledge and project workflows run on proprietary tools, the answer is often the vendor.
Licensing changes. 💸
Deployment strategies shift.🔁
For organizations running mission-critical documentation systems, that raises practical questions about portability and control.
🎥 Learn more about the open-source alternative to Atlassian:
https://peertube.xwiki.com/w/svDchx1Baq16CPMX8zS1zw
#video #tech #webinar
Is Confluence Data Center still the right choice for your organization?
With its EOL announced for March 2029, many teams that rely on on-premise documentation are reassessing their options.
In this webinar with @nextcloud@mastodon.xyz we’ll explore how XWiki, an open-source knowledge management platform used by 1,000+ organizations, supports structured documentation while keeping full control over infrastructure and data.
📅 April 2
⏰ 15:00 CET
🤝 New partnership: XWiki and Ritter Technologie
Building collaboration platforms in secure or complex environments isn’t just about choosing tools. It’s about how they’re deployed, integrated, and maintained over time.
We’re combining:
• XWiki for structured knowledge
• Ritter’s expertise in enterprise & air-gapped environments
Our joint focus is implementing flexible, secure systems that last.
👉 https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/XWiki-Ritter-Technologie-partnership/
Be honest. Where does most of your organizational knowledge live today?
Confluence Data Center support is ending.
On April 2, we’re hosting a webinar with Nextcloud to explore what moving from Confluence to XWiki involves at enterprise scale.
Topics:
• Structure and governance continuity
• Deployment flexibility
• Lessons from real migrations
Register:
https://nextcloud.com/blog/event/xwiki-vs-confluence/
📢 New partnership alert: XWiki + Knowledge Management Associates (KMA)!
We're joining forces with KMA, an Austrian consultancy that helps teams turn knowledge into real impact, aligning people, strategy, and tech.
Together, we’re offering a sustainable solution for less chaos and more clarity.
Want to learn more? Read: https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/KMA-XWiki-partnership/
#OpenSource #XWiki #KnowledgeManagement #DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #Collaboration #Partnership #news
Building modular JavaScript applications is easy to start and hard to keep clean over time.
Cristal is a project we built at XWiki to tackle that problem. In this talk from Open Source Experience, @mleduc@framapiaf.org shares concrete feedback from designing and evolving Cristal: architectural choices, trade-offs, what worked, and what didn’t.
🔗 https://youtu.be/RtmrdoXx3DM
#JavaScript #OpenSource #FrontendArchitecture #SoftwareEngineering #XWiki #news #osxp #tech
🚀Early 2026 Pro Apps updates (Jan–Feb)
• Confluence Migrator trial limit upgraded to 200 pages
• Task Manager now supports offline install
• CSV support added to Pro Macros
• Better filtering in OpenProject Integration (Pro)
Plus stability & UX improvements across the suite.
🔭 What's next?
👉 Full details: https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/pro-apps-updates-january-february-2026/
