Openbravo Get Together

Introduction

Openbravo Get Together is the official event for the Openbravo community, welcoming all the different people on the Openbravo ecosystem: consultants, users, companies, partners, and newcomers. The objective of the event is get all together and share experiences around Openbravo ERP technology.

The event will be hold in Barcelona, Spain, in October 26th-28th. The community days (27th and 28th) are open to everyone and will be free access to everyone previously registered. On the 26th there is a meeting for Openbravo partners only. English is the official language of the meeting.

If you have ideas, proposals or suggestions you can use the message thread in the Open Discussion forum. Please send them before September 27th.

Registration

Please, make sure that you register in the event using the registration form.

Schedule

This is a tentative schedule for the event.

Business and Experiences, October 27th

Community Capitalism: The Art of Corporate Involvement in Open Source Communities. (10.00 - 11.30)

Speaker: Matt Asay (Vice President of Business Development, Alfresco and Board of Directors, Open Source Initiative)

Abstract: As enterprises, government organizations, and educational institutions increasingly turn to open source for lower costs, improved innovation, and better software, they are also discovering that a project's community largely determines the relative value of each of these. In other words, the stronger a community, the better the software and the less it costs.

But community is hard to come by in any product - open source or proprietary source. This presentation will identify the most successful mechanism commercial open source vendors and community open source projects have found to improve the depth and breadth of their communities, and how end users can derive significant benefits from participating in and contributing to relevant open source communities.

Openbravo in the world of ERPs (11.30 - 12.15)

Speaker: Manel Sarasa

Abstract: This session will give a broad overview to participants on how the world of software is changing and how Openbravo is a key enabler of this change in the ERP space. Topics included are: Key trends in the software world; The ERPs market opportunity; Openbravo's business model; results so far; future plans; and an interactive Q&A session with all participants.

Success stories (12.15 - 13.00)

Speaker: Eugeni Vives and Josep Mitjà

Abstract: Cases of successful implementations of Openbravo in different sectors and industries.

Lunch (13.00 - 14.30)

LibrePOS and Openbravo in retail market (14.30 - 15.30)

Speaker: Adrian Romero

Abstract: LibrePOS is a point of sale application designed for touch screens. It is the most popular open source POS and supports a wide variety of POS hardware like touch screens, receipt printers, customer displays, barcode scanners, scales, etc.

In this session we will present a general overview of the functionality and configuration possibilities of Librepos, how Librepos can work together with Openbravo and the different architectures that adapt to the size and needs of your business.

Open Solution Alliance's common customer view project (15.30 - 16.30)

Speaker: Josep Mitjà, Sanjeev Nath and Adrian Romero

Abstract: The common customer view project is a project lead by the Open Solution Alliance, a consortium of leading companies dedicated to making enterprise-class open software solutions work together where Openbravo forms part of. In this session we will present the Common customer view project, the current achievements currently done and presented in the Linux World Expo: Single sign-on integration between applications, Customer data application integration, and data analysis. And the future of the project.

Slot for Community presentation / To be defined (16.30 - 17.30)

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Technology, October 28th

Openbravo: recent achievements, product roadmap, and community contributions (10.00 - 12.00)

Speaker: Paolo Juvara and Ismael Ciordia

Abstract: This session will provide you a unique perspective of Openbravo, its recent history, and immediate future and it is a great opportunity for those of you who want to contribute to the direction of the project.

Starting from a review of the recently completed 2.3x development cycle, we will introduce you to the new features built in that release and we will share with you the lessons we learned in the process.

We will then present our technology and functional roadmap for the next year, including release schedules, planned feature content, and resource constraints. We will solicit your feedback to help us better understand what is important to our community and prioritize features appropriately.

Finally we will introduce our exciting new community development capabilities which enables you to deliver modules and extended functionality on top of Openbravo. This discussion will cover the technology, the process and the policy to incorporate a module in Openbravo core or to keep it as a community supported plugin.

This session is going to be in open forum format and we ask for an active community participation.

Openbravo development environment (12.00 - 13.00)

Speaker: Adrian Romero and Ismael Ciordia

Abstract: Openbravo development environment is the framework of tools, methodologies and processes that will help Openbravo developers to create new functionality, debug, test and deploy easier than ever, and will help developers contribute to Openbravo and create a bigger community around Openbravo.

In this session we will present the efforts made on the Openbravo database structure, metadata an data management. The Eclipse environment, plug-ins and add-ons to develop, test and deploy Openbravo ERP. Integration of Eclipse with change logs generation tools and tracker tools. And the Subversion revision control system for source code management and contributions management. Feedback is welcome. Let us know your opinion about the new Openbravo Development Environment and help us to improve it.

Lunch (13.00 - 14.30)

Openbravo Green (14.30 - 15.30)

Speaker: Adrián Romero and Ismael Ciordia

Abstract: Green is the codename for the third major release of Openbravo. This release will be built on the strengths of the current release, improving those areas where limitations to the current model have been encountered. In this session we will present the vision of Openbravo Green, and the main ideas how Openbravo is working to create the best Opensource ERP for SMEs. We will also present the architecture basis and the best of breed open source technologies that Openbravo Green will be based on. We are really interested in your feedback. Let us engineer Green in a community-driven way!

Localization and internationalization round table (15.30 - 16.30)

Speaker: Jordi Mas, Nicolás Serrano, Paolo Juvara and community localizers

Abstract: Adapting a product to a local market is a very long process that involves meeting technical requirements (Unicode, etc), legal requirements (accounting methods, reports for the government, etc) but also local functional requirements and business processes.

In an open forum format, we will explain how we are simplifying the processes reducing the number of default accounts in the chart of accounts and documenting them. Also how we are planing to simplify the translation of Openbravo moving to Portable Object and making more easy the distribution and installation of language packs and how to we will manage region specific requirements."

Openbravo community services and vision (16.30 - 17.30)

Speaker: Jordi Mas and Josep Mitjà

Abstract: An exploration of Openbravo’s community services including forums, source control system, bug tracking system, forums, Wiki, weblogs and IRC. We will get into the detail of how they work and what are they useful for. We also will explain how to contribute to Openbravo projects and the different mechanisms available to communicate with other community members.

Dinners and additional activities will be scheduled for those interested in keeping the talking informally after the end of the sessions.

Key dates

These are key deadlines for the event.

• September 28th - deadline to propose presentations, round tables or key note speakers.
• October 21th - deadline to send your communications
• October 27th and 28th - Openbravo Get Together

Location

The meeting is taking place in the NH Master Hotel in Barcelona, Spain. See this page for more details.

Participate

We have reserved slots for Community presentations. If you have any idea that you want to present, a round table that you will like to propose, an idea for a key note speaker, send a message to our Conference forum (link to SF forum) and share your ideas with us.

If you are presenting any paper you can participate as an attendee and ask questions and proactively participate in our round tables.

Travel

Airports Barcelona is served by three airports. The closest one to town is the Barcelona International Airport, known as El Prat.

By Taxi Cost between 15€ - 25€ dependent on pick/up drop off point in Barcelona. Journey time is approx 20 minutes. There is also a supplement for each large piece of luggage carried in taxi boot (approx 1 euro per piece).

By Train Cost one way 2,25€. Departs from platform located between Terminals A and B which can be accessed by crossing the long overhead moving walkway. Operates every half hour with a journey time of 20 minutes.

There are also daily flights into the Reus or the Girona airports, usually at bargain prices. However, Reus and Girona are ~100km away from Barcelona, and you may find the lower price you pay by flying there instead of El Prat may not be worth the extra time and money spent on transportation to Barcelona.

Typical flight costs to Barcelona from different cities:

• London 280 euros
• Paris 200 euros
• Beijing 770 euros
• Sydney 900 euros
• New York 510 euros
• Hamburg 230 euros
• Dublin 230 euros
• San Francisco 880 Euros
• South Africa 700 euros
• Tokyo 920 euros

Visas

We recommend that you ensure you remain legal while resident in Spain and do not try to enter the country without the required paperwork. Citizens of the European Union are not required to get a visa for Spain since they already have the right to residency.

Non-EU citizens visiting Spain need a visa (visado) in order to enter and visit Spain, unless there exists a special agreement between Spain and your home country; these countries are those of North & South America in addition to:

Andorra, Australia, Brunei, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Gibraltar, Grenada, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Malta, Monaco, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, San Marino, Singapore, Slovakia and Switzerland.

If you are one of these nationalities, you can enter Spain without a visa and stay for up to 90 days in any 6-month period.

Visas are managed by the Spanish Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) through its consulates and embassies around the world.

You apply for and obtain a visa through the Spanish consulate nearest to your residence before you travel. Honorary consuls generally cannot issue visas but may provide application forms.

Since visas are never issued in Spain, you must apply for them before you leave your country of residency. Do not attempt to enter Spain without a visa if you need one. There is no emergency procedure, you can't bribe the police, your embassy in Spain can't help and you will probably be refused entry.

If you need an invitation letter to support your visa application, please contact Jordi Mas <jmas@openbravo.com>

Getting around

• Money saving tip. All of the modes of public transport in Barcelona are integrated into the Autoritat del Transporte Metropolitá (ATM) system. Anyone planning on being in Barcelona for a number of days will benefit from buying a ticket called the T-10 de 1 Zona (1 Zone T-10 ticket). This ticket will get you to Barcelona from El Prat (Barcelona's Airport) on the train (RENFE) and allow you to take 9 more trips within Zone 1. You will also be able to continue your trip on other modes of transportation without paying again as long as you make your connection within a little over an hour of having started your trip. The T-10 de 1 Zona presently costs 6.90€ (March, 2007).

• The metro. This is probably the quickest and easiest mode of transportation around the inner areas while buses or suburban trains can get you to places that are a little further out. Buses service the airport and can get you into town pretty efficiently. There is limited all night metro service on Saturdays for those of you celebrating a night on the town.

• Bus. The bus service runs along most city routes every few minutes and also provides limited routes every night. There is a tourist bus that covers two major circuits of major sites (three in the summer). You can also take a bus from the airport to get into town.

• Taxi. For the most part it's better not to rent a car while you're here because the traffic is more grief than it's worth. Taxis can get you around easily. Look for a green light on the roof which means that the taxi is for hire. Telephone: (+34) 93 303 3033

• Biking Bicycle aficionados will enjoy the latest of the ever expanding transportation services in this Catalonian city.

Contact

You can contact the event organizers at obmeeting@openbravo.com