ASF Board Report 2007-03

This report, for March 2007, is the third monthly report for OFBiz (Open For Business) as a top level project.

The Open For Business Project (Apache OFBiz) is an open source enterprise automation software project. By enterprise automation we mean: ERP, CRM, E-Business / E-Commerce, MRP, SCM, CMMS/EAM, and so on.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Community:
- two new committers (Timothy Ruppert and Ray Barlow) were voted in just before the February report, and now have SVN commit access, Jira access, and so on setup
- a Developers Conference (a hackathon of sorts) for OFBiz happened the week of 5-9 Mar 2007 in Ephraim, Utah, USA; attendance varied over the week with a total of 12 people participating on-site, plus involvement of a few people in efforts remotely; we made progress on testing tools, content management, project/workeffort management, visual refinements, and various code modernization and cleanup and refactoring efforts
- there is a great deal of community interaction on the mailing lists and issue tracker as the community grows and we are working on getting more people involved on a regular basis with access to the necessary resources to help leverage this increase of involvement

Project:
- we are now planning a release branch and beta release for late March; the release plan for OFBiz is available here: http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/1wE