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Welcome to our newsroom: your hub for the latest XWiki news, press resources, and media assets.
Whether you’re a journalist, podcaster, or media partner, you’ll find everything you need to cover our work.
XWiki offers a sustainable, ethical alternative to Big Tech. Our CEO Ludovic Dubost is a recognized leader in open source with over 20 years of experience advocating for transparency, digital sovereignty, and open collaboration.
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XWiki SAS is an independent European software company founded in 2004. We develop XWiki, an open-source knowledge management platform, and CryptPad, a privacy-first collaboration suite with end-to-end encryption.
We build software openly, transparently, and collaboratively. All our shareholders are employees, former employees, or open-source contributors committed to free software and digital sovereignty. You can learn more about who we are and our commitments towards open source.
With a team of over 70 people across France, Romania, and other countries, we help organizations document knowledge, migrate from proprietary tools, and collaborate securely while keeping full control of their data.
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Who we are
About XWiki
XWiki is an open-source enterprise wiki and knowledge management platform. It offers customizable features for collaboration, document management, and structured data organization. Ideal for teams, it supports extensions, macros, and integrations.
- 2004
XWiki SAS is founded in France as an independent European company. - 2016
Recognized with the Lutèce d’Or award for the best open-source enterprise software. - 2021
Launched the first Confluence Migrator. - 2023
Selected for France 2030 funding to advance the development of open-source collaboration technologies, reinforcing XWiki’s role in Europe’s digital sovereignty strategy.
XWiki joins the openDesk initiative by ZenDiS to contribute to a fully open, interoperable, and sovereign public administration stack in Germany, reinforcing our commitment to digital sovereignty. - 2024
Celebration of 20 years of XWiki, creation of the FOSS Fund to support the open-source ecosystem, introduction of the Confluence Migration Toolkit, for complex and large-scale migrations, and a new partnership with Nextcloud to strengthen the European open-collaboration stack. - 2025
Launch of a strategic partnership with OpenProject to create a fully open-source alternative to the Atlassian Data Center suite, offering organizations a complete, sovereign collaboration environment.
About CryptPad
CryptPad is an open-source, privacy-focused collaboration suite with end-to-end encryption. It offers real-time editing for documents, spreadsheets, presentations and more, ensuring data remains secure and private.
- 2014
CryptPad prototype was created at XWiki SAS, funded through French research projects, laying the foundation for secure, privacy-focused collaboration. - 2016–2018
The prototype version of CryptPad.fr was created and launched publicly, with code released under the AGPL, opening CryptPad to a global community. The project improved step-by-step. Funding supported ~2 people. - 2018–2022
Received multiple NGI grants, enabling significant feature growth. (Team grew to ~5.) Commercial offer for CryptPad.fr launched in 2018. Team Drives (2019) and CryptPad Forms (2021) introduced. In 2019, CryptPad received NGI’s “Privacy and trust-enhanced technologies” startup award. - 2023–2024
Through NLnet/NGI Assure, delivered Two-Factor Authentication and Single Sign-On, plus accessibility and quality testing improvements.
Selected in French Bpifrance consortiums for collaborative suites. (APIs and Office components) CryptPad’s diagram editor integrated into openDesk via the Nextcloud add-on “Open in CryptPad”. Combined public funding and commercial offers grew the team to ~9. - 2025
Launched CryptPad Cloud. Office-compatible Document and Presentation editors became available for all users on cryptpad.fr, including free accounts.
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Team profiles
Ludovic Dubost
With more than 20 years of experience in the software industry, Ludovic Dubost has been recognized as one of the top 100 notable French programmers for his ongoing involvement in the open-source world and the collaborative tools market.
After graduating from École Polytechnique and Télécom Paris, Ludovic Dubost began his career as a Software Architect at Netscape Communications Europe. Later, he joined NetValue as CTO, where he worked until 2002 when the company was acquired by Nielsen/NetRatings. In 2004, he created XWiki and founded XWiki SAS to build a competitive open-source company in the collaboration software market.
XWiki SAS aims to build the best knowledge and collaboration software in this space, as well as to innovate through breakthrough projects such as CryptPad, the first zero-knowledge real-time collaborative editor.
Clément Aubin
Passionate Web Developer and hacker at heart, with a strong interest in open-source software. Working at XWiki SAS since 2017, he has held roles at XWiki SAS ranging from software development to leading the Services Team.
You can find him contributing to the OW2 board, the FOSDEM organization, or making pull requests to Open Food Facts and Passbolt.
Ștefana Nazare
With a cool mix of skills in web development, psychology, and marketing that helps her understand what clients need and turn those needs into actual solutions, Ștefana is an XWikier since 2017.
As the Product Owner for the Apps and Cloud services, she wears many hats, from managing product lines, to helping clients switch from proprietary software and mentoring team members.
Vincent Massol
Vincent has been with XWiki since 2005 and took on the role of CTO in 2006. He's not just a Tech Leader, but also one of the original team members who helped build the company from a 3-person startup working out of a 3sqm office space.
He's passionate about creating quality software that people around the world can use freely. When he's not leading XWiki's talented development team, he's co-authoring books on software engineering or speaking at industry events.
Pauline Bessoles
Pauline Bessoles is XWiki’s Product and Partnerships Manager, where she connects product strategy with growing a network of partners across Europe. She focuses on building sustainable collaborations and products that help organizations adopt open-source tools and strengthen digital sovereignty.
Pauline is also a member of the coordination committee of the Decidim project, supporting organizations in deploying participatory platforms and shaping open governance models. With a background in political science, she brings a unique perspective that bridges technology, ethics, and policy.
Anca Luca
Anca Luca is a passionate Web Programmer and dedicated open-source advocate who has been with XWiki since 2007. With over 15 years of experience in building collaborative knowledge solutions, she started out developing specific features and now leads full-scale collaboration projects from needs analysis through execution.
Outside of work, Anca actively contributes to the Open Food Facts community, combining her technical expertise with a commitment to sustainable innovation.
Elena-Oana Florea
Oana Florea is the Director of Support at XWiki, bringing over 15 years of experience in open-source knowledge collaboration. Her journey with XWiki began in 2009 as a Web Developer, and through dedication and leadership, she has advanced to oversee global support operations.
Oana has been instrumental in defining support strategies for new products like CryptPad and enhancing customer satisfaction across various business lines. ​
Manuel Leduc
Manuel joined XWiki SAS in 2020 as an R&D Engineer, bringing his expertise in software development and a PhD in Software Language Engineering.
He contributes primarily to the XWiki open-source project, applying his skills in Java, Maven, and other technologies to improve the platform.
His passion for open source began in high school with Linux distributions and has evolved throughout his career.
Michael Hamman
Michael joined XWiki SAS in October 2021, bringing a decade of experience in open-source wiki development. Before XWiki, Michael earned his PhD in Computer Science from the KIT in 2020, focusing on scalable algorithms for community detection.
His academic background in Algorithmic Engineering combines perfectly with his passion for open source, making him a valuable addition to XWiki's Development Team.
David Benqué
David joined XWiki in 2019 as the Design Lead for CryptPad after completing his PhD and working at the Royal College of Art and Microsoft Research.
For him, the open-source value of "public money, public code" strongly resonates with CryptPad's mission, especially since much of their funding comes from EU taxpayers.
He takes particular pride in his contributions to the CryptPad Kanban and toolbar, where his design work made visible improvements to the platform.
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Key quotes from Ludovic Dubost
These quotes are available for press use and reflect Ludovic Dubost’s views on open source, transparency, and digital sovereignty. Please attribute accordingly.
"We can see that VC funding is a double-edged sword. We, at XWiki, don’t believe that it’s an ethical business behavior, and we have preferred to stay independent and do 'community open-source' with no 'Contributor License Agreement' which means that our business is based on open-source principles today and also in the future."
"Today, users are realizing that the more data, the more reasons to try to steal it, and even though the large cloud companies promise to be highly competent in security, they still leave holes."
"If you are a technologist or a company with an IT department, you have the possibility to understand how data privacy actually works and read behind the lines of the marketing offerings. You might even have the possibility to run some software yourself."
"Just make the switch. Prioritize your privacy and your data protection, and prioritize open source. Get more people to join you. The more we are, the more all the solutions will get used as the new norm."
"Reaching 20 years is a huge milestone for us," says Ludovic Dubost. "We’re proud of the path we’ve carved and the ethical practices that continue to guide us. OSXP is the perfect stage to showcase our latest innovations, such as our new AI assistant, and to discuss the future of open source and ethical IT in Europe."
"While we are at XWiki SAS already a big contributor to open source, as our products XWiki and CryptPad are both fully open source, we believe that it's very important that the developers of the upstream software that we use in our own products but also in our operations need to be supported and that we also need to show the way to larger companies that funding open source is key to its sustainability."
"We must recognize that there is a spectrum of 'freedom' within open source. Whenever possible, we advocate for 'better' free software — software that adheres to the highest principles of freedom and user autonomy."
"By investing in open source and open standards, Europe can accelerate its technological transformation and regain control of its digital future. It can also boost its economy, by enabling a wide range of players across the continent to leverage open-source building blocks to develop new opportunities for local businesses, while attracting talent from all over the world."
"Our goal is to continue creating ethical, sustainable software that serves the needs of our community. We are excited for the next chapter and all the possibilities it holds."
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