*Hello Fabien* thanks for the news. Some comments inline.
Hello, > > I'd like to thank everyone who participated to the Odoo Open Days a few weeks > ago. The event was great and it was a pleasure to meet you there, to share > knowledge and to learn from what people are doing with Odoo. > > The quality of the Odoo community is incredible and the Open Days > perfectly reflected this. > > You can find photos, statistics, videos and slides of the Open Days 2014 > here:https://www.odoo.com/event/OpenDays-2014-5/page/website_event.Introduction-OpenDays > > You can get statistics about the event > here:https://magic.piktochart.com/output/2170040-open-days-2014 > > As said above, the community is one of the biggest strength of Odoo. > > Here are a few news and ideas on how we can improve collaboration in the > future with the community: > **Community Q&A** > > When we launched the new Odoo.com website, we replaced our Q&A website (based > on Askbot, Drupal) with a new Odoo module. Since this launch, the community > forum's activity increased by 35% with 2.183 posts in june, compared to an > average of 1.618 posts per month over the past 3 months. > > But the most interesting part is that the growth is thanks to an increase of > the number of answers, not the number of questions. In june > > 2014, more answers have been posted than questions. (1.213 answers for 970 > questions.) > > 15.294 questions were asked over the past 16 months and 60% of these > questions have an answer. 970 questions were asked in june 2014 and 890 of > them have at least one answer. This gives us a 92% answer rate in june, a > huge improvement compared to previous months! We can expect the forum to > stick to a 85% answer rate in the future. > > Does this reflect accepted answers, or just answers (which could also be something else, but a correct answer)? > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hIUHwkc6wOckHHAGmHgunKTljrAN8_Bzbhkfpmvcl48/edit?usp=sharing > > On top of this, the Odoo Q&A application has been improved and new features > will appear at the next SaaS upgrade. We have added some new features, such > as: convert an answer to a comment, convert a comment to an answer, better > karma handling, etc. > > One feature badly missing to avoid redundancy is an intelligent search mechanism to propose you questions already asked at the moment of typing a question. Has this been acknowledged? Another feature is a "cleaner" presentation of questions and answers.. The present css is somewhat "unlucky". > **Functional Documentation: How-Tos** > > We started a new functional documentation for version 8. Over the past month, > we already wrote 70 how-tos. You can have a look at the new functional > documentation here: > - https://www.odoo.com/forum/how-to > > We also worked on a collaborative process allowing everyone to > contribute to the official documentation. The documentation is built on top > of the best Questions in the Q&A, allowing everyone to contribute by creating > or modifying questions. (you need to have a karma above 200) > > Then, our documentation team follows an editorial process to improve the > content. You can get more information about this new community flow here: > - http://www.slideshare.net/openobject/odoo-presentation-documentation-v8 > > I think, although not providing documentation at its best possible structure and form, I'm quite happy about this, as it assures a "rolling" documentation which will be more or less up to date.. Very nice approach. > > **We need your feedback** > > In addition to our efforts to improve the "How-tos", we are also > thinking about integrating a deployment guide in the application. > > This will answer the "What to do", not the "How to do". Every application > will have its own guide to help new users understand what to do. Here is the > initial draft mockup for the CRM application. It describes what to do to > improve sales efficiency: > - http://qf6iua.axshare.com/sales_planner_v2.html > > Please take a few minutes to review this mockup and send your feedback to > Lionel, one of our usability experts: [email protected] > > Every feedback is important: > - Wording/copywriting improvements > - Will it help new users to understand how to deploy a CRM? > - Is it clear enough? Would you use it for your customes? > > Note: Some "Contact us" boxes only appear if the customer have the 24/24 > support option as a part of his Odoo Enterprise contract. (like SaaS > customers) > > I suppose a dynamic mockup was the idea to give feedback on. I just get a static page on the link. There is not much to say rather than it is a nice green useful tooltip without typos. ;) > **Community Mailing Lists** > > Since we move all development efforts from Launchpad to Github, we will also > stop using Launchpad's mailing lists. These will be replaced by the mailing > list app of Odoo. As we will not import community members automatically, we > suggest you to subscribe to these lists if you want to stay in the community > mailing lists. > - https://www.odoo.com/page/odoo-community > **Pull Requests** > > For 2 months, we managed to process 100% of the pull requests on master. This > was probably the biggest demand from the community. Now, pull requests are > under control, no starvation anymore. All your contributions will be > processed quickly. The move to github and the reinforcement of our R&D team > helped a lot. Runbot has also been improved to test pull requests > automatically and mark them green or red on github. This speeds up the review > process a lot. > > In terms of numbers, since we moved to Github (one month ago), we > received 333 pull requests from the community and we already closed 298 of > them (89%). In total, including our own R&D teams, 513 pull requests have > been done and 423 of these have been closed. (82%). From the 35 pull requests > in progress: 14 have less than a week, 13 are under discussions and 6 are in > progress. > > You can find more information in the github wiki, with the direct links to > the pull requests to process: > > - https://github.com/odoo/odoo/wiki > > **Improve Community Collaboration** > > After several discussions with community members during the Open Days and the > OCA members, we decided that we will organize code sprints with the > community. We will announce the first code sprints in a few weeks. > > They will be dedicated to reports and accounting. > > Nice & nice. Don't forget about the south american market ;) > > Over the next 3 months, we will also create three crowd funding > campaigns like the POS one. The campains will be on accounting, MRP and > Themes for the CMS. > **Translation of the Website** > > With the Gengo integration of the new Odoo CMS, websites can be > translated automaticaly by professional translators. We launched theprocess > to translate the official Odoo website to French:https://www.odoo.com/fr_FR . > In a few days, we will translate the > website to Spanish, Dutch and German. Any feedback on the quality of the > translation is welcome! > > > *New features and V8* > > We have a lot of news to share with you, but future announcements will be > done on the new community mailing lists. You can subscribe here: > > - https://www.odoo.com/page/odoo-community > > Next week, we will keep you informed about the new features that have been > developed over the past 4 weeks and about the version 8 release. > > > > For those that are following me on twitter, please note that my twitter > account has changed. It's @fpodoo and not @fpopenerp anymore. The official > Odoo account is @odooapps. > > Thanks, > > -- > Fabien Pinckaers > Odoo Founder > > Phone: +32.81.81.37.00 > Web: https://www.odoo.com > Twitter: @fpodoo > > Instant Demo: https://odoo.com/start > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openerp-community > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openerp-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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