Oops I forgot to mention that it was good to meet Taher too.This was the first time we had met face to face!
On 2016-11-20 12:32 (+0100), "Sharan Foga"<[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > \u2013 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 >
