Community & Partner Meeting, 23-25 March

2010-03-15T14:00:00.000-07:00

Hello,

As already announced, we will organize the annual OpenERP Community Meeting on the 23th and 24th of march. This event will be followed the 25th by a meeting restricted to partners.

Please note that registration is mandatory. To suscribe or for any other informations, please contact : adb@openerp.com

Below is the program of these 3 days :

COMMUNITY MEETING

23th of march

08:30 - 09:00 : Welcome breakfast

09:00 - 09:20 : Keynote

09:20 - 12:00 : The new features of OpenERP v6.0

12:00 - 12:30 : R&D Strategy for the future

12:30 - 13:00 : Lunch

13:00 - 15:00 : Technical improvements in OpenERP v6.0

15:00 - 18:00 : Community contributions

18:00 - ... : Dinner

Keynote (20') – Fabien Pinckaers, CEO OpenERP SA

A short opening by Fabien Pinckaers, Chief Executive Officer of OpenERP sa, will start these 2

community days. He will summarize in a few words OpenERP's vision and the goals of this

Community meeting.

The new features of OpenERP v6.0 (2:30) – Fabien Pinckaers, CEO

OpenERP v6.0 is well on its way, with new features for Human Resources management, project

management, CRM, multi-company setups, Document Management System, point of sales, ...

We will present you in details these features and the new user interface.

R&D Strategy for the future (30') – Antony Lesuisse, CTO

Thanks to the fund raising of 3 millions euros in February 2010, we have been introducing a lot of

changes in OpenERP sa. We have reorganized our teams for R&D and for Editor services such as

maintenance, support and the SaaS offer. We are also improving our methodology (SCRUM

project management, organization of the community on launchpad, ...)

Technical improvements in OpenERP v6.0 (2:00) - Antony Lesuisse, CTO

OpenERP framework v6.0 has been reviewed and improved for a more robust and faster

development experience. Our aim is to present the innovations of OpenERP v6.0 : client-side

modules on the web client to extend the user interface without limits, new diagram and search

views, improved automated tests, YAML data format, integration of reporting engines, new

communication mode, customizable services, and so on...

Community contributions (3:00)

This part of the agenda will consist of a series of short talks by invited Community contributors

and OpenERP employees about new contributions or specific technology highlights [prospective list]

- Timesheet module by mobile phone – BHC Consulting

- Holidays HR – Quentin De Paoli, OpenERP

- MODEC : a methodology and a set of tools to implement OpenERP in SME's –

Camptocamp

- Direct marketing - Fabian Semal, OpenERP

- Power Email / Magento Bridge – Openlabs business solutions

- OpenERP scenario : a tool for automatic testing – Camptocamp

Dinner

We will end this eventful day of work with a diner all together, which will be a good occasion to

increase knowledge between community members.

24th of march

The whole day, from 9 am to 6 pm, will be dedicated to workshops. We will form small groups

on different topics. These groups will be animated by an OpenERP s.a. project manager and by an

OpenERP partner. The goal of these workshops is to refine ideas and write detailed specifications

to be integrated by the community or by OpenERP s.a.

Registration is required for each workshop session and we strongly advice a basic knowledge and

advance preparation of the selected topic.

Hereafter are the proposed workshop topics :

Useability improvements of v6.0 – Julien Thewys, Aline Preillon

This workshop is dedicated to a functional review of the new OpenERP version. The objective is

to test and improve the user interface, to develop test scenarios and to review the different

modules and client interfaces.

Community, Partners & OpenERP collaboration - Fabien Pinckaers

This group will review the community contribution processes to propose improvements in order

to increase our productivity. We will discuss development processes (release cycles, merge

proposals, wish-lists, ...) as well as translations, tests and documentations.

Merge proposals - Xavier Morel , Olivier Dony

This technical workshop will review LaunchPad merge proposals, in order to approve/disapprove

them, and possibly merge them directly.

This workshop will also review and prioritize the current Launchpad « bugs » and « whishlist ».

Participants to this session should prepare and publish their merge proposals and bug reports

before the session.

Accounting & Finance – Quentin De Paoli, Marc Laporte

This group will discuss the financial reporting, the reconciliation processes, the useability of

financial modules and their localization, as well as multi-company support.

Services Management – Antony Lesuisse

This session will cover possible functional and useability improvements to the new v.6.0 series of

CRM and project management related modules for Services companies.

Manufacturing - Phuong Luu, François Pietquin, BHC Consulting

This group will perform a global review of manufacturing features to improve the functional

coverage. The session will also focus the useability of production order views, new functionalities

such as partial production and scrap management, better traceability, etc.

Report Engine Improvements - Michaël Dubois, Camptocamp

The goal of this workshop is to analyze and improve the reporting engine performance, integrate

openoffice reports and to administrate the report through the interface.

Tryton to OpenERP - Stéphane Wirtel

This group will review the main changes that have been done in the Tryton fork and identify the

best candidates for backporting into OpenERP. We will later dedicate a developer team to merge

the selected codes or features. Participants are expected to prepare this topic in advance.

In order to maximize the efficiency of these workshops, please select now the topic you would

like to work on, and send your registration by e-mail to adb@openerp.com

25th of march

This day is limited to partners only. We plan to have an open discussion about the market,

customers, sales strategies, etc. The morning is dedicated to a presentation of all innovations

introduced in OpenERP sa, while the afternoon will have discussions on various topics, as listed

below.

09:00 - 09:30 : Impact of OpenERP sa's fund raising

09:30 - 11:00 : The 2010 new partner program and services

11:00 - 11:45 : Our Short term action plan for 2010

11:45 - 12:30 : The OpenERP SaaS offer

12:30 - 13:00 : Lunch

13:00 - 14:00 : Discussion about the OpenERP implementation methodology

14:00 - 15:00 : eLearning platform and training partners

15:00 - 16:00 : Improving the partner network

16:00 - 17:00 : Open Discussion

Impact of OpenERP sa's fund raising – Fabien Pinckaers, CEO

Our 3 million EUR fund raising of February 2010 allowed us to review our business model and

strategy to focus on quality and services to partners. We will discuss our 2010/2011 budget and

how we plan to invest to improve the OpenERP software and our partner network.

The 2010 new partner program and services – Fabien Pinckaers, CEO

We worked on a new partner program to be proposed to all our partners. We will present this new

partner program during this partner meeting of the 25th of march. All services have been

reviewed, including the lead generation program, the maintenance contract and the modules

quality certifications.

Our Action Plan for 2010 – Marc Laporte, COO

As we plan to improve a lot of things during the next months, we will present our action plan and

goals for the coming year.

The SaaS offer

The Odoo platform and the business plan for the next 3 years will be presented to our partners

during this meeting.

Implementation Methodology – Fabien Pinckaers + Camptocamp

In order to continuously improve the success rate of OpenERP's implementation, we defined a

complete implementation methodology. This methodology will be discussed during this session.

We also defined a Memento that details this methodology as well as templates of documents to be

used in the project (contracts, planning, sample of specifications, sales material, etc.).

Camptocamp will also have a methodology to propose and discuss.

eLearning and training partners – Nora Marcon, Sales

We plan to release an eLearning platform that includes new OpenERP training material. The first

courses are ready on the platform. We plan to present this eLearning platform during the partner

meeting. We will also discuss our plans for official training partnerships.

Improving the partner network, Fabien Pinckaers & Marc Laporte

This is an open discussion on how to improve the partner network.

Reservations and Contact

Registration is mandatory. If you plan to attend the free community meeting and/or the partner meeting, or need any other information, please contact:

Aline De Bock : adb@openerp.com

Please note that the community meeting is free and open to everyone. The partner meeting (the last day only) is dedicated to official OpenERP partners.