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• No fixed agenda
• General brainstorming

Encouraging people in the community to participate and give their feedback

Sometimes when a thread is posted or proposal made on the mailing list, there is no community feedback at all. Lack of feedback makes it very difficult for the person making the proposal or starting the discussion because they dont know whether the community are not interested, think it's a bad idea or silent because they agree. Over the last few months with all the work that has been done, lots of ideas and proposals have been made.

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Use social media more  (blogs, twitter) - some people prefer other communication methods to mailing lists.

OFBiz Meetups

Meeting at Apachecon is a great way to strengthen relationships and also collaborate. What about making use of meetups (real and virtual) to bring the community together. Many other ASF project have meetups but OFBiz doesnt - we tend to meetup at Apachecon and that's it. Could we look at organising some meetups, hackathons, traininng etc. We have a lot of work so the meetups could be a way for a group of people to work together on a specific topic. Could also be used to do some outreach (recruit new members) as well as providing some valueable info for existing community members.

Find out if there is community interest in doing a specific OFBiz related event in India and /or Europe.

Work

There is a lot of work happening at the moment and there is work at every level. You dont need to be an expert - there are tasks ranging from beginner / newcomer to experienced expert. If we could break down the tasks into the levels then it would be easier for people to pick. The original refactor list had easy / intemediate / expert ratings. Might be good to use the JIRA labels to flag certain JIRA as newcomer / beginner. (NEed to make sure that the experienced developers dont pick these up so there is nothing left for a real newcomer....)

Project Strategy and Roadmap