Hi, All conference have been recorded and all slides centralized, so, some link to be able to view each presentations will be available. The Organization was great, thank you to them.
it should be at http://archive.apachecon.com/eu2012/presentations/ During this ApacheCon, we had great discussion. It's very nice to, sometime, to able to talk face to face and having time to share ideas and to compare our activities understanding or our way of using and contributing to OFBiz. For this OFBiz track there was two talk type : - realization done with ofbiz (and howto used) - addon manager - eCommerce multistore - CRM - OFBiz evolution idea/proposition/discussion - OFBiz functions and advantages versus target group - OFBiz-extra for what, which quality criteria I think it was good to have these two types, maybe a third type, Tutorial, will be a good thing too. Personally I attended some Apache OpenOffice talk, because some of their questions of AOO community are the same as ofbiz community (ex: how to build/ to share marketing support ? does the apche solution should be a OOTB solution or a super-framework for integrator to help us to propose OOTB solution for their customers, ....). Very Interesting discussion too ;-) and some Apache-way rules to better understanding how to better contribute. :-) About ApacheCon-NA, is there a lot of "talk proposal" proposed ? is there some people who are already sure to attend ? Olivier Le 12/11/2012 10:24, Jacopo Cappellato a écrit : > 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 >> >> >
