Wayne (and Pierre),
Insight and ideas are exactly what we need right now.
There are two forms you might consider using to write up your thoughts:
1. general functionality/capability statements
2. process stories
There are sections for each of these in a document on the OFBiz docs
site:
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBREQDES/Story+of+Apache+Software+Foundation
which is part of a more general business process library effort:
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBREQDES/Universal+Business+Process+Library+Index
The first link is fairly specifically for the ASF, since that is our
first target audience, but feel free to submit things (as comments
there, or as an email to this mailing list) that are more general. If
there is too much stuff that doesn't really fit with the ASF, then
we'll just create another story page for it!
-David
On Nov 21, 2008, at 4:10 PM, Wayne Moses Burke wrote:
Pierre,
Thank you for the inclusion. I seem to be entering this in the
middle of a
conversation, but am happy to contribute as may be possible for
developing a
legitimate and easy to use nonprofit CRM and Fund Accounting solution.
In the interest of full disclosure, I am the Executive Director of a
new
organization so I will have a lot of insight and not a lot of time
to push
this project forward in the short term.
Nonetheless, I'm excited at the prospect,
Wayne
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Pierre Smits
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
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
--
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HotWax Media
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Wayne Moses Burke
Executive Director
The Open Forum Foundation
http://openforumfoundation.org
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