Hi All It was great to have yet another OFBiz track at Apachecon and also meet everyone in Seville. We chat and do a lot of work on our mailing lists but it is also nice to meet people in person.
This time my main task at Apachecon was booth duty and event support so I couldn't attend all the presentations in our track but I do have the attendance figures which I've put in brackets below. - OFBiz +Modern UI (13) - Collaborative Approach to Automated UI Testing (16) - Introducing Plug In Manager (10) - Data Extraction: How to get your data out of OFBiz (10) - Screen Rendering in OFBiz (10) As well as meeting some people I already knew, it was good to meet new ones. One highlight was meeting fellow OFBiz PMC member Bilgin Ibryam and also Gaurav Saini (son on Raj for those who remember him and his contributions to OFBiz) who gave a presentation about OFBiz and a Modern UI. As usual whenever we get our community together we talk, so we held an informal brainstorming session on Wednesday evening and a mini OFBiz hackathon on Friday evening. I only partly attended the brainstorming but I have been given the whiteboard notes so will summarise them. I think there will probably be some ideas for discussion with the community. We also connected with Paul King from the Apache Groovy project (Pierre â I think you might have introduced me to him in Budapest last year because he definitely looked familiar...). The Groovy track was on at the same time as the OFBiz one so a potential suggestion could be that future it might be good to see if both communities can liaise on the scheduling so we don't clash.... Being at an event like Apachecon gives me a very positive feeling as you see everyone else involved across a range of communities that are keen to learn and help. I think we received some potential offers of help especially on the UI / UX areas - all because of the track talks and interest. Anyway all of those who attended Apachecon, please also feel free to add your comments and feedback about the event. Thanks Sharan
