I also wonder why several OFBiz groups are closed. Doesn't that go against the Open Source principle? And doesn't that hamper adoption?
Regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Ron Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote: > Given the level of traffic in the major group "I am Open For Business" , I > doubt if a new group is really needed at this point. > I am not sure why the "OFBiz professional users group! " was started or > what the difference is between these two groups. > It looks like there is an overlap in membership. > > The other groups seem to have such small number of users that they are not > worth considering unless you are interested in their focus (OfBiz Italia - > 1 member, OfBiz User India - 127 members) . > > My suggestion would be to build up participation and membership in one > group to a point where there are too many discussion going on at once. > Then add a group to handle a specific area that is generating a lot of > traffic. > > Ron > > > > > On 06/08/2014 1:24 PM, Pierre Smits wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Today Hans Bakker, one of your committers and PMC member established a new >> group on LinkedIn. This group is called 'OFBiz Marketing' and aims to >> >> improve the marketing of Apache *OFBiz*, the open source ERP system >> >> >> This group brings the total of OFBiz related groups to 18. I wonder if >> there is a need within this community for this specific group to discuss >> there the improvement of the marketing of this project and its work in >> stead of here, or the already other groups on LinkedIn. >> >> What do you feel? >> >> Regards, >> >> Pierre Smits >> >> *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* >> >> Services & Solutions for Cloud- >> Based Manufacturing, Professional >> Services and Retail & Trade >> http://www.orrtiz.com >> >> > > -- > Ron Wheeler > President > Artifact Software Inc > email: [email protected] > skype: ronaldmwheeler > phone: 866-970-2435, ext 102 > >
