ASF Board Report 2014-12

Report for December 2014 for Apache OFBiz as a top level project.

Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of
enterprise processes that includes framework components and business
applications for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP),
Customer Relationship Management (CRM),
E-Business / E-Commerce, Supply Chain Management (SCM),
Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP).
We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.
*Releases*
* Apache OFBiz 11.04.06 has been released in September 2014; this is
the last release of the 11.04 series
* Apache OFBiz 12.04.05 has been released in September 2014
* Apache OFBiz 13.07.01 has been released in October 2014
*Community and Project*
* new committers: Nicolas Malin (nmalin) is a new committer since September 2014
* new PMC members: Sharan Foga (sharan), has been elected in the PMC
in September 2014
* mailing list traffic and commit rates are steady with significant
activity in the enhancement of documentation
* ApacheCon EU Budapest has been a successful event for the OFBiz
project; six sessions have been presented covering a range of
business and technical topics:
** "What Business Users See and Want" by Sharan Foga, PMC (Czech
Republic)
** "Brewing with Apache OFBiz - A Case Study" by Pierre Smits,
contributor (The Netherlands)
** "Introduction To A Groovy Based DSL For Apache OFBiz" by
Jacopo Cappellato, PMC (Italy)
** "Gui Unit Test For Apache OFBiz" by Olivier Heintz,
contributor (France)
** "Apache OFBiz Infra Task Automation For Deployment And Hosting" by
Nicolas Malin, committer and Gil Portenseigne, contributor (France)
** "Introduction To A Recommender System For Apache OFBiz" by
Anahita Goljahani, contributor (Italy)
*Infra/Legal*
We have no issues that require Board assistance.