how an open source community won a contest in 5 days
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www.exoplatform.com The unexpected story of a community of enterprise open source users who fought hard to win a software contest in just 5 days. www.exoplatform.comTRANSCRIPT
How A Strong
Open Source Community Won A Contest In 5 Days!
T H E E X O P L AT F O R M C O N T E S T S TO RY
The Setup
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The Contest
Bitnami is a library of popular server applications and development environments that can be installed with one click, either in your laptop, in
a virtual machine or hosted in the cloud. Bitnami’s commercial offering, Bitnami Cloud Hosting, simplifies the process of deploying and managing applications in Amazon EC2.
Since the beginning of the year, Bitnami has been running a contest every month.
The winning app gets added to the Bitnami Application Library.
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How We Entered The Contest
One day, one of our dear users announced on eXo Community Website:
We only had 5 days left before a winner was picked!
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Only 5 Days Left To Give It A Try And Win…
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So We Joined The Fight And Gave It All
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eXo Employees Got Involved & Passionate
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eXo Marketing Team Was On Top Of It
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We Like Fair Games At eXoSo We Followed The Rules
Attentively…
No Cheating With Scripts or Paid Votes
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The competition was tough but they didn’t see us coming…
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‘Cause We Are Just An Alternative Open Source Software Trying to Fight Big Giants On The Market
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• Our Community of Users and Fans Who Voted Massively!
In just 2 days we were #3 on the leaderboard and couldn’t believe it!
Then #2! Then #1!
Then back to #2 And finally…
We won!!!
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Moral Of The Story
No One Expected Us To Win Because They Didn’t know We
Had A Secret Weapon…
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A Group of Beautiful Users Ready To Fight!
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Hum Hum… Or More Likely Like These Guys
Anyway… where was I??
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Now Thanks To eXo Community, We Feel Like Nothing Can Stop Us
Yes!
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We’re committed!
We’ll fight Enterprise Social Networks giants like Jive or Sharepoint to death because we know we can with your help… So Join Us Now
And share this story of an epic win thanks to an active open source community!