Sascha, Paul, thanks for your interesting reports.
Jacopo On Nov 12, 2012, at 10:19 AM, Paul Piper wrote: > Hi guys, > > Perhaps also a small word from my end - I personally attended Nov 7th only, > so I am sure there is a lot been covered that I haven't personally > experienced (maybe the others can fill in some information there). > > During the course of the day we had 3 OFBiz Tracks: > > * One on how to manage OFBiz Addons (Nicolas - Nereide) > * One general Introduction to OFBiz and a discussion on our target group > (Myself - Paul) > * One on OFBiz Extras - its purpose and a proposal (Olivier) > > As a short wrap-up to those: > > OFBiz Addons: > Nicolas showed us a tool for the management of Patches. The tool has been > developed by Nereide and had been used en large internally before. > Command-based at this moment, it already features some great methods for > merging, applying, and managing different patches. Personally most striking > was the idea of perhaps making use of this tool as part of OFBiz in order to > manage different installations. There was a debate afterwards on whether or > not this could be used as a means of automatically installing directories as > well and the idea was raised to incorporate this into an OFBiz Extras > project. > > General Introduction to OFBiz & target group: > I gave a general overview on the system, before arguing for a proper target > group for it. During the track I covered the general size of the project and > its implication to corporate sizes which want to make use of it. It was > proposed that our target group was mostly "mid- to largesize" businesses, > due to the complex nature of the system. We then went on to have a debate on > how to properly address the target group. The following steps were proposed: > 1. Rescope the backoffice for different target groups, 2. Redefine the > framework structure (OFBiz Extras), 3. Simplify the CMS, 4. Show less – make > it usable, 5. Keep the target group in mind with marketing material > (developers & companies) > > OFBiz Extras: > Olivier covered the need for an additional subproject "OFBiz Extras" in > which all supplemental applications should be made part of. The idea is to > strip any unnecessary part from the OFBiz framework and focus with OFBiz on > the core framework. OFBiz Extras would then contain all applications based > upon it. The presentation then went on to propose a system of automatic > checks on how to govern the applications. The system would be mostly based > on project maturity, code quality (based on automated tests) and > documentation. In a heated debate afterwards, the concern was raised to > handle this outside the OFBiz core as part of a non-apache project. The > concern was made that by stripping core functionalities outside of OFBiz the > commiting parties would participate less to it and the ingenuitiy of OFBiz > may get lost. All in all, everyone agreed, however, that a subproject of > sorts could be beneficial to the overall project scope. > > Afterwards some of the OFBiz specialists that were available sat down for a > private evening discussion. In it we discussed "OFBiz Alliance" and its > implication to the community if it were to happen. The companies at present > agreed to contribute more to the community - in particular marketing > material which could be used by the general public. > > Cheers, > Paul > > > --- > Paul Piper > Geschäftsführer > > > Web: http://www.ilscipio.com > Tel: (+49) 611-94589441 > Mobil: (+49) 176-63283066 > Fax: (+49) 611-94589449 > eMail: [email protected] > > > ilscipio GmbH > Am Drosselschlag 7 > D-35452 Heuchelheim > Germany > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Jacopo Cappellato [mailto:[email protected]] > Gesendet: Sonntag, 11. November 2012 04:23 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: OFBiz track at ApacheCon Europe in 2 weeks > > Any news from the conference (OFBiz people who attended etc...)? > > Thanks > > Jacopo > > On Oct 23, 2012, at 12:47 PM, Christian Geisert wrote: > >> Am 22.10.2012 18:24, schrieb olivier Heintz: >>> Hi, >>> >>> ApacheCon Europe will be from Monday 5th November to Thursday 8th at >>> Rhein-Neckar-Arena, Sinsheim, Germany. http://www.apachecon.eu/ >> >> [..] >> >>> I proposed to organize 2 or 3 meeting for all present people, to have >>> time to discuss on main OFBiz subject : slim-down, ofbiz-extra, >>> ofbizAlliance, increase collaboration, contribution, .... >>> - Tuesday 6th evening >>> - Wednesday 7th lunch Time >>> - Wednesday 7th evening >>> These meeting could be discussion or if needed some training of >>> technical point, agenda will be done at the beginning depending on >>> who is present. >>> Say me (directly or on this mailing list) who will be attendee and >>> which subject would be interesting and/or important. >> >> I'll be at ApacheCon (probably not on Monday but I don't know the >> details yet) and looking forward to meet you. >> >> Christian > > >
