Draft notes from the meeting: To be approved / confirmed by attendees.

Attendees:

Jacopo Capellato, Olivier Heintz, Catherine Heintz, Pierre Smits, Nicolas Malin, Anahita Goljahani Gil Portenseigne, Youssef Khaye, Sharan Foga

Location:

Corinthia Hotel, Budapest

Time: 14.00 - 17.00 (Pierre Smits left at 16.00)

Workshop Objective

To gain a common view of OFBiz and the way ahead for the future.

Background

The meeting started with Sharan giving a quick overview of some key areas that she thought needed to be discussed. These were

• 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 they see as important?
• 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

Discussion: Pariticipant's Current and Future Project Vision

Nicolas' vision of OFBiz was that it was an ERP but also a Application development framework that was very strong on integration

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She thinks the current community is very technically focussed and this needs to be balanced with business people so the project needs to attract business users. She thinks that project communication shouldnt be restricted to just the mailing lists (as having this face to face meeting is really good and we can easily discuss things and respond quickly).

Youssef's vision was that OFBiz was a framework used to build solutions because not many companies could use OFBiz "out of the box". Trying to make OFBiz an out of the box solution that could work for everyone will be too hard.The applications that are there need to include contextual help and integrated testing tools across the complete global process.

Original Project Vision:

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