+1 for Jacopo and Tim's sentence proposition. A bit of humour also may be good, but I agree not in front page. Though, who knows ? Most of the peple interested in OFBiz are enough clever to understand a bit of it :o)
Jacques ----- Message d'origine ----- De : "Jacopo Cappellato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> À : <[email protected]> Envoyé : samedi 19 mai 2007 08:17 Objet : Re: Defining the OFBiz's project goal > David, Tim, > > thanks for your comments. > I agree that in the project's web site there is already a description of > what OFBiz is. > Maybe we should just add a clear, short, statement about our final goal > at the top of the site. > In my opinion Tim has implicitly suggested a good one: "Our goal is to > build the best ERP system in the World". > A concise statement like this could catch people attention. > > Jacopo > > David E Jones wrote: > > > > > > Tim Ruppert wrote: > >> Now getting back to the OFBiz project goal, I'm going to have to ever > >> so slightly disagree with our goal stopping there. While I agree that > >> OFBiz is a comprehensive enterprise information automation system - > >> and I'm WAY stoked to be working on it - I think that OFBiz is FAR > >> more than just a framework that people use to build applications. In > >> fact if OFBiz is just a framework - than what application out there > >> that takes some configuration (note that I didn't say customization) > >> isn't? > > > > Just to clarify, I really do agree with this. Maybe if I took my scope > > paragraph and split it into some bullet points it would make it more > > clear... > > > > In general though the goal of OFBiz is as stated on the home page. It is > > meant to be a comprehensive enterprise information automation system: > > > > 1. the core of the project is intended to include a general framework > > for efficiently building applications > > > > 2. plus a complete set of applications (data model, services, UI > > elements) to automate general business processes and support "most of > > what most companies need to operate" > > > > 3. on top of those we also have (and plan to have more of) a number of > > more "special purpose" applications that are used for specific types of > > users or organizations > > > > -David >
