As ASF acts as a nonprofit organisation and I recently saw a request in de User ML by Wayne Burke regarding implementations in non-profit organisations there is an opportunity here to kill 2 birds with 1 stone.
One is the enhancement of the CRM module and the other is the, when properly documented, the implementation. Hopefully ASF requirements regarding the CRM module are feasable. This will create visibility enormously. Regards, Pierre On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Bruno Busco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having OFBiz used in ASF for (#1, #2 and #3) looks really challenging! > It is a very good occasion to coordinate efforts towards a common (to all > developers) vertical end-user application. > > -Bruno > > > 2008/11/20 David E Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > I spoke with Tim about this and some clarification might be helpful. > > > > What the ASF is actually looking for, based on what I heard from people > > (and this seems to be consistent with what Tim heard when I spoke with > him): > > > > 1. project management (replace Jira) > > 2. content management (replace the various wiki servers) > > 3. foundation management (replace lots of scripts and manually maintained > > text files) > > > > To push these along and start better defining what these mean, I've added > > some skeletons to the Universal Business Process Library with stories > > specific to these purposes: > > > > http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBREQDES/Story+of+Apache+OFBiz > > > http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBREQDES/Story+of+Apache+Software+Foundation > > > > For an intro to the UBPL and to see what these will be like: > > > > http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBREQDES/UBPL+Introduction > > > > If anyone would like to get involved with ideas (go into the Ideas to > > Incorporate section) or on the Story itself, please write to the list and > > start sending ideas about things to include, or activities that we > perform > > as part of OFBiz and as part of ASF. > > > > -David > > > > > > > > On Nov 16, 2008, at 9:27 AM, Tim Ruppert wrote: > > > > Calling all people who'd like to be a part of the effort to finish the > >> implementation of CRMSFA in OFBiz! > >> > >> I'm sure that everyone knows the history of the CRMSFA application in > >> OFBiz and other derivative applications, so I won't go into that detail > >> here, but needless to say, we've had a request to complete the CRMSFA > >> application in OFBiz by the ASF for internal use (and we've got almost > all > >> of the pieces sitting there already). As many of you know, this is a > pretty > >> big deal and this discussion continued into other realms as the ASF > wants to > >> eat their own dog food, and OFBiz happens to be the best platform for > >> building these vertical applications. > >> > >> We have a number of resources that could be ready to go on this and will > >> offer to dedicate someone to help drive the process (as this tends to > help). > >> We'd start / continue driving this thru JIRA, but it'd be nice to know > what > >> other people in the community might want to be a part of this so that it > can > >> be more coordinated. Looking forward to hearing feedback and excitement > >> over this neat opportunity! > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Tim > >> -- > >> Tim Ruppert > >> HotWax Media > >> http://www.hotwaxmedia.com > >> > >> o:801.649.6594 > >> f:801.649.6595 > >> > >> > > >
