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What can we do as a community to encourage people to participate more on the mailing lists and in the discussions.?

• Perhaps people Make sure that the tone of the discussions is friendly, open and welcoming of other opinions.
• Be more patient.
• Take the time to explain things in a friendly way to others that don't understand.
• Use social media more  (blogs, twitter) - some people prefer other communication methods to mailing lists.

OFBiz Meetups

Meeting up at Apachecon is a great way to strengthen relationships and also collaborate. What about making Could we make use of meetups (real and virtual) to bring the community together?

. Many other ASF project projects have meetups but OFBiz doesn't - we tend to meetup at Apachecon and that's it. Could we look at organising some meetups, hackathons, training 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 It could also be used to do some outreach (recruit new members) as well as providing some valuable info information / training etc for existing community members.

Find out if there is community interest in doing a specific OFBiz related event in India and /or Europe.   (ACTION: Start mailing list thread)

Project Work

There is a lot of work happening on the project at the moment and there is work at every level. We need to highlight that we accept all types and levels of contributions. You dont don't 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 up.

The original refactor list had easy / intermediate  / expert ratings. Might be good to use the We could use JIRA labels to flag certain JIRA JIRAs as newcomer / beginner. (Need We would need to communicate to the existing community to make sure that the experienced developers don't pick these up so there is nothing left for a real newcomer....)

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The project desperately needs at clear strategy and roadmap. Attempts have been made to draft one in the past but we need to formalise this in a better way and . We also need to have people willing to drive it (or a specific area of it) forward.

Benefits:Strategy

• A strategy will provide a clear path for people to follow

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• A strategy will allow us to set goals / milestones and metrics about progress

In past maybe we have tried to do too much (tried to do it all at once - which is why we find it hard to focus). Suggestion was to set a maximum of 3 goals and then work only on these. To define these goals we need to look at what is the most important thing that we want to achieve - and base them on that.

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