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Jacopo mentioned that the original vision of the OFBiz was:

to have an

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Application Development Framework with a Data Model and some core skeleton applications with CRUD (create, read, update and delete) services that would be customised per implementation.

Over the years because of contributions from the community these 'skeleton' applications have become more and more complete. A User Interface was added and an effective 'out of the box' e-commerce solution.Currently we believe currently we think that we have the situation where OFBiz as an integrated ERP can only be used "out of the box" for specific cases.

As a project we need to look at what where we want the project to go in the future. Do we tidy up the applications to make them more business friendly? Do we standardise the applications to create a core set that can be customised for each industy or sector? Whatever we decide does this mean that we need to review the project vision and see if it needs to be updated.

Miscellaneous Discussions

Project Strategies

Sharan talked about the different strategies that projects generally have in place that she wanted to investigate for the project.

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Planning and Project Roadmap

Currently there 

External Dependencies

There was a brief discussion about external dependencies (i.e. on other projects or functionality) and how they have been implemented in OFBiz. The aim is to have a flexible framework that works with the Apache release process. Any external product needs to be maintained and when a release is made the project PMC are responsible for signing the release which ensures that any external dependencies willl be correctly integrated and maintained for the release.

We currently have cases where some external products should not have been implemented to form part of release but can be made available if users want to integrate them into an OFBiz release.

Draft Proposals to be raised for community feedback / concensus

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