Hi All See below for my thoughts and feedback on Apachecon last week. It was an amazing experience to see so many people that are involved with Apache as well as OFBiz in one place.
Monday (the OFBiz track day) was the very intense. In the morning most of us met each other face to face for the first very time and straightaway we found that we could sit down and start discussions on a range of topics. As the only native English speaker I must admit that I was impressed by everyone's language ability! My presentation was the first (so I was a bit aprehensive) but like all the presentations that day – raised questions for discussion. I think one of the most surprising things that came out of my presentation was that the host of the talk (a committer from the FreeBSD project) spoke to us about the problems he had as a potential new user trying to download, setup and use OFBiz. We would have probably never got this feedback if he hadnt been assigned to host our talk. Just for information - here are the attendance stats. - I think my talk attracted 8 people - Pierre's talk attracted 11 people - Jacopo's talk attracted 11 people - Olivier's talk attracted 16 people - Nicolas and Gil's talk attracted 11 people - Anahita's talk attracted 27 people On Tuesday we attended some other tracks and I hosted the talk for committer on the Tomcat project (so someone good to know). I also went to see a talk on Trademarks and Branding so this is as task that I'd like to do a bit more about just to make sure that the OFBiz brand is not being misrepresented. On Wednesday afternoon we all decided to hold a bit of a workshop to talk about OFBiz and what our ideas are now and for the future. It was really interesting to hear everyone's vision of the project and how they wanted it to be. We identified a range of areas and some proposals that we'd like to consult the community about. I am in the process of writing up the minutes and summarising the range of proposals that came out of that meeting so will share that with the mailing list via a different thread. On Thursday a lot of us attended the Barcamp which was a specific forum for asking questions and getting feedback from other Apache projects. Any topic could be raised and we had some great discussions around How Apache works, Git vs SVN, PMC roles, Updating other people's code without offending them, etc. It was a very busy week and I think I can speak for everyone when I say that we also had a lot of fun too. Looking forward to the next one! Thanks Sharan Sharan-F wrote > Hi All > > We've been having a busy week at Apachecon in Budapest and I'm sure that > the people that attended will be posting their updates about it soon. > > I just wanted to let the community mailing list know that I think the > OFBiz track was a success (our biggest session was Anahita's where 27 > people came along!) > > As well as running our own track, meeting each other for the first time, > attending some other sessions, we found some time to hold a round table > session to talk about some project related topics. I will be summarising > our discussions and post these here - I think we have some great potential > proposals that we'd like to consult the community about. > > More news coming soon! > > Thanks > Sharan -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/OFBiz-at-Apachecon-Europe-tp4658651p4658773.html Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
