The GLPI Project is an open source asset and IT service management solution used by small associations, public sector organizations, education institutions, industries, and banks. It allows users to manage hardware, software, licenses, incidents, requests, problems, changes, and knowledge base entries. The core is developed by a 10 person team at Teclib' along with contributions from integrators, freelancers, individuals, and companies. Upcoming related projects include FlyveMDM for mobile device management and Armadito for antivirus software. Maintaining and improving the long-standing GLPI codebase while adding new features presents ongoing challenges around modernizing code, improving tests, expanding documentation, and supporting an international community.

1. The GLPI Project
AFUP Meetup Montpellier 16/06/2017

2. The speaker
Walid Nouh:
• Associate at Teclib’ Group
• GLPI Core developer since 2006
• FusionInventory core developer since 2010
• “GLPI Product manager” at Teclib’
@wawaxx

4. Main features
Asset management:
• Hardware, software, licenses
• Local an remote inventory

5. Main features
ITIL Service Desk:
• Incident & request management
• Problem & change management
• Knowledge base
Other:
• Plugins
• REST API

6. Audience
A solution for everybody:
• Small associations to big companies
• Public sector
• Education
• Industry
• Banking sector
• Etc.

7. Technologies

8. Community tools

9. Project highlights

10. Team & community
Teclib’ team:
• 10 people in France & Spain
Community members:
• Integrators
• Freelances
• Individuals
• Companies
• Translators

11. Challenges
The code base:
• Specific framework
• Loosing knowledge
Features vs rewrite:
• Balance between new features and code rewrite
• Code modernization is mandatory
• Write tests for a 13 years old project...

12. Challenges
The community:
• New website
• Interact with our users in their language:
– Portuguese
– Spanish
– Russian
– English

13. Challenges
Contribution workflow:
• Unit tests for PR are become mandatory
• More reviewers, attract new contributors
• Write doc for new features and behavior changes
The product:
• Write an up-to-date user documentation
• New UI in JS
• Support for PostgreSQL and more

14. Upcoming products
FlyveMDM:
• Mobile Device Management on top of GLPI
• Android & iOS
• FLOSS: GPLv3
• AngularJS UI
• Developed by Teclib’ at github.com/flyve-mdm

15. Upcoming products
Armadito:
• FLOSS Antivirus
• Centralized console embedded in GLPI
• Developed by Teclib’ at github.com/armadito

16. github.com/glpi-project
jobs@teclib.com