David E. Jones wrote: >What I said is that whatever we try to do, there has to be a model >for it and a plan to make it work.
Of course >I think it would be cool to go after the end-user who would never >think of customizing OFBiz or paying for it. The question is, how do >we get people to work on this as a derivative of OFBiz? What will be >the incentive for analysts, developers, documentation writers, >support personnel, etc? I'm a bit puzzled as to why as to why it has to be a derivative. I'll explain. The standard download of OFBiz provides a single package to demo what is available. Surely we can add to that so that the demo and its features improve and satisfy the basic needs of a business. However lets keep it simple, which enables us to customise it further for clients who need something more. Let's cater for a business that that buys stuff, manufactures some stuff both from the bought stuff and 3rd party services and the sells the finished products. If we add POS, then they can sell on the premises as well as on the web. Now apart from the manufacturing 3rd party part I was under the assumption that most of this functionality is already present. This would cater for a huge number of businesses. So let's get this package downloading and installing as sweet as sweet can be, and go from there. I am very willing to contribute to this effort. Yes, there will be further healthy discussion, but now we need to start it. Some issues that need to be addressed in the main body of OFBiz, I believe, as: Different taxation methods Different pricing methods Variations in national regulations Re-work of the presentation (look and feel) As I have said before I believe that this can be catered for with conditional code or plug-ins. As I have now discovered that I can edit the wiki if I login (the edit labels only appear if you are logged in), where do you want me to start writing this up? Kind regards, Andrew. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.8/649 - Release Date: 23/01/2007 20:40 ***************************************************************** This email has been checked by the altohiway Mailcontroller Service *****************************************************************
