Openbravo World Conference
Introduction to Openbravo Forge
Speakers: Jordi Mas and Rajesh Iyer Barcelona, 19th of April

Objectives
Openbravo Forge objectives
Openbravo Forge is a collaborative development platform target for developers
• Provides the home for Openbravo ERP and POS core projects
• Provides an infrastructure for community members to develop verticals, plug-ins and
localizations
• Provides an infrastructure for partners and custom development to privately share
verticals, plug-ins and localizations
• Provides a way to recognize peoples' contributions and make them visible
• Hosts the central repository, the modularity repository
• People can place a link to their own web-store to sell licenses or support
• Provide a directory of available projects for ERP & POS
• Provide a member directory
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Projects directory
Projects directory
Openbravo directory can host:
• Projects registered within the Forge
• Projects hosted fully or partially in external systems
•Projects can are classified in a browsable category taxonomy
•Users can:
• Search the directory
• Browse using the category taxonomy
• See latest additions following the Latest Activity
• Sort it by different criteria (creation date, alphabetically, etc)
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Member directory
Member directory
Openbravo member directory contains all the
registered users of the Forge
• Will evolve as a ecosystem directory
(including companies)
• It is connected to our Single Sign On System
• Allows search by name & username
• Key to break the anonymous character of the
web
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Incentives to adopt the Forge
• For everyone
– Registering a project in the Forge is a pre-requisite to publish it in the Central
Repository
• It is a great tool to increase dissemination of both free and commercial products
• People can place a link to their own web-store to sell licenses or support for
registered projects
– It allows community members to increase their visibility and recognition
• Partners
– The New Forge as a Professional Tool: Partners have the exclusive right to register
private projects
• This is designed to give them all the tools (code repository, bug tracker,
documentation repository, …) to manage client customizations
– Projects sold in collaboration are encouraged d to be performed in the Forge
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Openbravo community web properties summary
Openbravo web properties summary
• Openbravo Wiki. (http://wiki.openbravo.com). Openbravo POS & ERP project
documentation.
• Openbravo Issues (http://issues.openbravo.com). Openbravo ERP & POS public
issues database.
• Openbravo Code (http://code.openbravo.com). Openbravo ERP & POS source control
system. Contains Openbravo project source code.
• Planet Openbravo (http://planet.openbravo.com). Blog aggregator. Main
communication channel for the Openbravo ecosystem.
• Openbravo Forge (http://forge.openbravo.com). To register and develop projects in a
collaborative manner with others.
Openbravo core projects home
• Openbravo ERP home: http://forge.openbravo.com/projects/openbravoerp
• Openbravo POS home: http://forge.openbravo.com/projects/openbravopos
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Openbravo Forge
5 minutes demo
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Commercial Forge
• Company Sponsored Online Community
• Core Developers, Application Testers, Localizers, ISVs, Partners, Customers and End Users
• Collaborate, Communicate and Work Together Remotely
• Using Industry Leading Tools
• Social Networking
• Rich Content & Web2.0 User Experience
• Push Button Project Creation with Fine Grained Permissioning
• Banner Ads, Web Analytics, Lead Generation, Maturation & Commercialization
• Enterprise Search and Single Sign-On
• UTF8 and Cross-Browser Complaint
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EssentiaESP – Powering Forge
Admin – Forge, Project, Portal
Projects – User, implementation,
partner, localization, verticals,
plug-ins, etc.
Dev Tools – SVN, Release, Tracker, Lists
Social Tools – Wiki, Blog, Docs, Forum
Commerce – Marketplace, cart
Workspace – My Pages, Site, Project
Retrieval – Search, Browse
Access – Role Based, Single Sign-on
Performance, Availability, Reliability
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• Products
– EssentiaESP - Online Communities
– EssentiaBCT – Online Experience
• Services
– Open source Implementation, sponsored developments
– Dedicated development centers
– Offshore distribution/support/services
• Industry leading customers, Global presence
– Headquarters - San Francisco, California & Houston, Texas
– Chennai, India
– Malaysia & London
• Privately Held
– Founded 2006, Open Source + On Demand
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Questions
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Answers
Thank you!
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