Openbravo Get Together Barcelona, October 28th 2007
Technology Day
Recent Achievements, Roadmap, and Community Contribution
Ismael Ciordia – Chief Technology Officer, Paolo Juvara – Chief Products Officer

Agenda
Recent Achievements
Openbravo 2.3x
Lessons Learned
Understanding Openbravo Releases
Roadmap
Community Contributions
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2006 and 2007: Two Years of Growth
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
2006 • Release 2.0x • Release 2.1x
Publish on RedHerring
SourceForge Award
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
• Release 2.2x • Release 2.3x • Release 2.35
2007
LinuxWorld 300,000 SourceForge
Award downloads Project
200,000 of the Month
downloads Bossie
Award
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Agenda
Recent Achievements
Openbravo 2.3x
Lessons Learned
Understanding Openbravo Releases
Roadmap
Community Contributions
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Openbravo 2.3x: New User Interface
• New look & feel
• Ajax
• Drag & drop
• Calendar & calculator
• User messages
• Menus
• Skins
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Openbravo 2.3x: New User Interface
• New look & feel
• Ajax
• Drag & drop
• Calendar & calculator
• User messages
• Menus
• Skins
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Openbravo 2.3x: Platform Enhancements
• Jasper Reports
• Single sign-on
• Alerts
• Revised source code
management
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Openbravo 2.3x: Functional Enhancements
• Accounting
– Payment dimension
– Option to filter cancelled entries in General Ledger
– Accounting reports
• Hierarchical accounting report
• General accounting report
• Tax reports
• Trial balance report
• General ledger report
• Improved Initial Client Setup
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Agenda
Recent Achievements
Openbravo 2.3x
Lessons Learned
Understanding Openbravo Releases
Roadmap
Community Contributions
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Lessons Learned
• Improved development practices • Improved release management
Lessons Learned
• Targeted roadmap • Leverage the community
Focus on quality and documentation!
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Agenda
Recent Achievements
Openbravo 2.3x
Lesson Learned
Understanding Openbravo Releases
Roadmap
Community Contributions
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Developer's Edition and Community Edition
Developer's Edition Community Edition
• Characteristics • Characteristics
•Frequent releases - Stable
•Minimal QA process - Full QA process
•Publish features as soon as they are done - Alpha and beta cycle
- Released twice a year
• Objectives • Objectives
- Community involvement in testing - Provide a product that can be acquired
- Early user feedback and operated in a truly free manner
- Increase dissemination
• Purpose • Purpose
- Testing - Production
- Collaborative Development - Testing
Clear communication, release early & often, offer a stable version
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Agenda
Recent Achievements
Openbravo 2.3x
Lesson Learned
Understanding Openbravo Releases
Roadmap
Community Contributions
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Product Vision
Productive, informative and collaborative
Easy to understand 5 Years
from No
w
Highly interoperable
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Product Priorities
1 2 3
• Support existing product
– Documentation
• Be successful now
– Bug fixes
– Support community contribution
• Develop new functionality requested by the
community
• Keep developing the product
• Broaden appeal to increase community
• Localization
• Develop next generation platform
• Introduce Green
• Coexhistence strategy
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Roadmap
2007 2008 2009
H2 H1 H2 H1
1
2.3x
2 BI Server -
Template -
2.4 Security – Performance
UI enhancements
3
2.5
(not announced)
4
Functional
Documentation documentation
Developer's Guide
5
Localization
A major release every six months
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Feature Queue
Release 2.4x Unscheduled features (cont'd)
• WS for alerts • Embedded BI dashboards
• Usability improvements • WS to integrate with CRM
•Processing feedback • WS to integrate with HR
•Favorites • Collaboration capabilities
•Description on hoover • EDI support
• Configuration templates • Embedded CRM
• Integration with Business Intelligence • Embedded HR
server • Analytical accounting
• Enhanced performance & security • Bank transaction download
• Approvals
• Enhanced budgeting
Unscheduled features • Discounts on invoice lines
• Hierarchical product categories
• More usability improvements • Accounting for Manufacturing
•Filters based on rules • Warning on price limits
•Simplified data drill-around
• Status on payment terms
•Live search on selector
•Button status drive by record status • Material receipt by PO#
•More keyboard shortcuts • etc.
•Master details
•etc.
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Agenda
Recent Achievements
Openbravo 2.3x
Lesson Learned
Understanding Openbravo Releases
Roadmap
Community Contributions
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How Can I Get Involved?
• Write some code
•Core contribution to Openbravo
•Plug-in
• Develop a vertical
• Help with testing
• Log a bug, a feature request or add a comment to existing entries
• Write documentation or edit the Wiki
• Tell us your or your customers' story
• Develop a new skin
• Participate in the forums
• Be active on IRC
• Write a blog about Openbravo – we can add it to planet.openbravo.com!
There are many ways to contibute. They all help the Community!
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Core Contributions and Plug-ins
Core Contribution Plug-in
• General Interest feature
• Vertical or local feature
• Always installed
• Optional component
• Distributed as part of Openbravo
• Author retains control
• Covered by the Openbravo license
• Covered by any license
• Indistinguishable from core product
• Supported by the author
• Supported by Openbravo
• Maintained by the author
• Maintained by Openbravo
Two different ways of contributing features
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How to get started?
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collaborate
request
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Yes
Contact Yes N
project Active? o Generic? Stop
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Plug-in
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Build or Sponsor a Contribution
Start
N Openbravo
Develop Sponsor
o develops
yourself? Project
for you
Yes
Merge
with core Release
Opebravo
Mail Functional
Implement
collaborate specs
Stop
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Build or Sponsor a Plug-in
Start
N Openbravo
Develop Sponsor
o develops
yourself? Project
for you
Yes
Release
as
stand alone
Mail Functional
Implement
collaborate specs
Stop
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Thank you!
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