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• Project Vision: Do we all have the same vision and understanding of OFBiz and where it is going ? / Which direction do they want to project to go in? / What do people they see as the project directionimportant?
• Project Strategies: What strategies are currently in place? (e.g Communication, Risk, Issue Management,
• Planning: Is there a High Level Plan?
• Main Areas of Focus: What is the overall planare the main areas the project is working on
• Organisation: How is the project being managed, controlled and organised

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As new OFBiz user Anahita spoke from her experience and said that she found it difficult to learn and get started with OFBiz. There seemed a lack of logic and organisation of information and it took patience and perserverance to get familiar with OFBiz. Once you are familiar with it then the idea behind the product is amazing and the potential is huge.

Gil's vision of OFBiz also covered several areas:

The first was that it was a technical development framework that has application components. The applications are examples and the goal was not to deliver an 'out of the box' solution. Each implementation needs to be deliver a solution for the customer.

The second was that we need to ensure that the framework technology and applications need to be kept up to date (eg. refactoring where necessary, security etc)

The third area was improved communitcation

Original Project Vision:

Jacopo mentioned that the original vision of the OFBiz was to have an application development framework with some skeleton applications that would be customised per implementation. Over the years because of contributions from the community these 'skeleton' applications have become more and more complete.

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