[Xerte-dev] Re: xerte.net

Fri Oct 18 10:24:09 BST 2013

> These organisation won't touch Xerte at the moment because a) there's no visible sustainable business model, b) there's no paid-for support with service levels etc, and c) there's no quick way to get started without involving corporate IT (which is often the most significant barrier).

It’s interesting that we tend to put a lot of emphasis on the ‘free’ side of Open Source, but actually for the commercial sector, having something to pay for is better. The commercial organisations I’ve worked in would definitely see it that way, and would be leery of a free product: no support / SLAs etc would kill the idea straightaway. IT teams can be a barrier wherever you are as we know. There are products that aren’t as good as ours charging a lot of money for a year’s access, it’s not just a tenner here and there, more like $1k per user per year with discounts for volume.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Mark Berthelemy
Sent: 18 October 2013 09:37
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: xerte.net

Yet, in the corporate world the opposite is becoming true… with far more cloud-based systems being made available organisation-wide (using SAML or LDAP authentication).

Even without authentication, there is still a large untapped market for Xerte in the corporate world, where Articulate and Captivate currently reign. There's no need for sophisticated authentication, as long as there's an easy way of adding users through some sort of CSV upload process.

These organisation won't touch Xerte at the moment because a) there's no visible sustainable business model, b) there's no paid-for support with service levels etc, and c) there's no quick way to get started without involving corporate IT (which is often the most significant barrier).

These are all real issues. I know we can argue that Xerte is sustainable simply because it's open source. But that's not really true is it - because it still relies on developers who have the motivation, finance and ability to spend time understanding how the software works.

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Mark

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On Friday, 18 October 2013 at 09:18, Ron Mitchell wrote:
At organisation level organisations are far better hosting in-house
particularly because of authentication reasons. I think if your objective is
to use this to pay for ongoing work I'm not sure that will work.

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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 16 October 2013 22:54
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: xerte.net<http://xerte.net>

I know. But it nags at me and has done for a while, It's an opportunity.
There's no reason why people can't set up such a service, in many ways I'd
prefer it was us.
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[xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Smith, John
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Sent: 16 October 2013 22:30
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: xerte.net<http://xerte.net>

oooh what will the Nottingham IPR Police say... ;-)

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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
[xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
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Sent: 16 October 2013 22:26
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: xerte.net<http://xerte.net>

I think we should keep the domain name, I'll pay for it, I think it's only
£20 or so. I keep thinking we should set up a paid for service somewhere to
earn the money to pay for the ongoing work, the idea keeps naggng me,
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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
[xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
[reijnders at tor.nl<mailto:reijnders at tor.nl>]
Sent: 16 October 2013 21:03
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: xerte.net<http://xerte.net>

We might want to transfer the contents of the database...

Tom

Ron Mitchell schreef op 16-10-2013 10:30:
RIP old wiki…

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ingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of
Julian Tenney
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(xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>)
Subject: [Xerte-dev] xerte.net<http://xerte.net>

Hi, Mark Tomlinson who looks after the old Xerte.net<http://Xerte.net> has been in touch to
say the domain registration is about to lapse. It’s where the old wiki is –
are there any concerns if we just let it quietly pass away?

J

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