Openbravo community highlights 12th of April 2007

Hello everybody,

There are some news that happened during the past days:

• Jens Wilke and Birgit Matthaei have almost completed the localization of the German version (except for the Help file) including an account of charts file for Germany. They are looking for feedback of their work.
• Due to popular demand, we now have a new page at the Wiki explaining how to translate documentation to other languages. This allows to localize Openbravo Wiki content, like the user manual or the installation instructions, into other languages.
• Dejinlee, Xin.lv and LinuxWind are leading the translation of the Openbravo user manual into Simplified Chinese. They already have made some nice progress.
• We have also opened a new Chinese support forum that we hope will complement the excellent job done by the Openbravofans project.
• Patrick Beaucamp from BPM Conseil has put together a proposal for Dataware house integration with Openbravo ERP. Any feedback or comments are welcome.
• I send a proposal to translate the user manual into Spanish. ¿Alguien se anima?
  

That's all for now. If you have any news regarding Openbravo success or efforts, please let me know (jmas at openbravo.com)

Openbravo community highlights 29th of March 2007

Hello everybody,

There are some news that happened during the past days:

• We have updated our product roadmap. Release 2.30 has been delayed a bit but new functionality is going to be included. Also we have detailed the roadmap for Openbravo R.2 until the end of the year and we have give more details about the current roadmap for Openbravo R3 (the new platform due mid 2008). Soon, we will publish new details of the new platform and ask everyone in the community for feedback.
• We have finished documenting the localisation of Openbravo using PO files. This new way of translating the application (is still possible to use XML) makes more easy the translation and allows to leverage all the popular tools that support PO format.
  

That's all for now.

See you at Cebit

Openbravo is going to be this year at Cebit in Hannover, Germany. Cebit is the largest computer tradeshow in the world with around 700.000 visitors. Cebit starts on the 15th of March and ends on the 21st.

Openbravo stand is located at Hall 5 Booth No: F 58/2. (in the Linux park area).

If you want to discuss any localization or community issue, I'm going to be in our stand from Monday 19th until Wednesday 21st of March. Looking forward to talk to you there.

Openbravo community highlights 9th of March 2007

Hello everybody,

There are some news that happened during the past days:

• Dai Bo, Xin.Lv, Jeff Wang and Fat Dog and another contributors around the openbravofans.net community have completed the Chinese localization of Openbravo. This is the second localization completed by the Openbravo community and the fourth available for Openbravo ERP (also available in English, Spanish and Italian). You can get it from our download area.
• We have started a Wiki page where we are collecting project ideas for people that wants to start contributing to Openbravo. Do you have more ideas? Do you want to lead some of the projects? Let us know through our developers forum.
• Matt Asay at Infoworld is running a story about Openbravo commenting in his success at Sourceforge and Matt's vision of ERP market.
  

That's all folks!

Openbravo community highlights 26/02/2007

Hello everybody,

There are some news that happened during the past days:

• Miguel Armas from CanaryTek has updated our pre-installed and pre-configured application Virtual appliances to Openbravo version 2.22. They are available from SourceForge. There also step by step on-line instructions.
• I have been working on Openbravo documentation style guide. It does attempt nor desire to cover all aspects of technical writing. The objective is to be concise and focused for Openbravo documentation writers. Please, feel free to give suggestions or comments in our documentation forum. I also have created a small Help page explaining how to edit documents our Wiki.
  
• Some community members in the Spanish support forum are starting an effort to document Openbravo processes and workflows. There is an early draft is already published.
  

Also in case the you missed Earthweb has an interesting article Ten Leading Open Source Innovators about companies that are innovative. Not all of them are open source or innovating so much but still very interesting.

Openbravo community highlights 17/02/2007

This is the first of a series of posts that I will write regularly to highlight the news and accomplishments around the Openbravo community.

Some recent news:

• Openbravo roadmap has been updated and extended a few days back providing extra detail on new features. You are welcome to give your feedback in our developers forum.
• Our engineering team have been successfully tested Openbravo on Microsoft Windows Vista and Java 6.
• The III Libro blanco de software libre en España (3rd white book on free software in Spain) was presented last week. Openbravo was invited to write an article about "Creating Value" in open source companies.
• Decio Franchin, a student mastering at Bournemouth University in UK, is requesting help for his research around the viability of ERPs for SME. Can you help him?
  

I will try to keep this compilation rolling every week. Feel free to send me achievements that you have done around Openbravo.

Knock Knock

This my first post from Blogger. At Openbravo I'm in charge of our community services. This new channel will help us to communicate to everyone our progress and get direct feedback from the community.

For any comment or suggestion I'm always available at jmas at openbravo.com

Regards