Planet Openbravo

What a great OffSite!

2008-07-03T16:49:31+00:00

From the day I started working in Openbravo, we have been periodically conducting Offsites with all company employees. These are full day events in which we gather all Openbravo members who can make it (this year we had people in Miami that could not attend), in one place to:

Celebrate achievements and progress together
Give a brief update on the current status and plans for the coming months. Alignment of priorities are key to continue serving our community well.
Work together on selected topics which are important to our business and people
Participate in fun activities together. You know what they say… those who work hard, play hard! ;-)

This last OffSite has again brought me lots of good feelings and positive ideas to keep on making it happen. If anyone wants to understand what Openbravo’s biggest asset is… I’ll tell you right now... join Openbravo (whether as a community member, a partner, a customer or as an employee) and discover our amazing team!

I feel extremely proud on the almost 100 professionals from 15 different nationalities which are currently employed full time by the company, in a multitude of locations around the globe. Our people are highly professional, have the optimal knowledge and are passionate and committed to making it happen. And I tell you this … there is no better asset in a company like ours than people. People who work hard, play hard, and have fun doing both!

Ps_ Because the SanFermines holiday was right around the corner (the famous running of the bulls fair taking place in Pamplona), we had this Offsite in a bull fighting venue. This photo was taken in the arena where many Openbravo employees braved the bulls! By the way … nobody got hurt.

Openbravo: community releases localization for Chile

2008-06-27T20:03:57+00:00

Web based ERP for SMEs, built on proven MVC & MDD framework that facilitate customization & maintenance of code. Already in production, it encompasses a broad range of functionalities such as finance, supply chain, project mgmt, manufacturing & much more (0 comments)

Openbravo POS 2.20 Roadmap published

2008-06-27T15:57:52+00:00

We have just published our development plans for Openbravo POS 2.20. It follows the spirit of the previous releases: frequent releases, improvements in functionality, localization and stability of the application to make Openbravo POS a top Point of Sale solution in the global market, growing in the number of supported countries and translations in every release. Openbravo POS 2.2 follows the principles of all the versions of Openbravo POS: simplicity, easy to use, visually attractive, robust and scalable.

We request the collaboration of the community to help us to define and identify the most important features that need to be included in the product and things that need to be fixed. Your collaboration is important because you are the best people that are able to identify what is missing in Openbravo POS for each country and for different market segments. You are invited to the Open Discussion forum of Openbravo POS to discuss what do you want to have in the next releases of Openbravo POS.

The objectives of this roadmap is to continue to add value to partners and users of Openbravo POS to help them to develop a business around Openbravo POS, attract interest of current partners and potential partners of Openbravo. In Openbravo 2.10 we did a lot of efforts in this area with the new reports model and the improvements in scripting support and we want to continue in this area.

We have already published a draft of the roadmap for the release 2.20 in the wiki of Openbravo POS with the features what we think are the most important for the next released of Openbravo based on the time schedule and the resources that we have. This roadmap is not closed and we were are willing to align it with the needs and priorities of the Openbravo community.

Openbravo POS is and open source product and developed in a collaborative maner. During the last three months, we have started successful collaborations with individuals and companies that are working on extending the Openbravo POS functionality. For Openbravo POS 2.2, we plan to add in the core product new functionaries developed by third parties. You can guarantee that a particular feature is developed sooner rather than later by leading the development. We are willing to coordinate with people that is planing to invest on Openbravo POS product development to make sure that the results are going to be shared by all the community.

Openbravo POS packages for OpenSuse and Fedora

2008-06-25T06:45:56+00:00

Using the wonderful Opensuse build service I have built a set of packages for OpenSuse and Fedora. You can download them from:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/openbravo/

The packages for Fedora should work well under CentOS and Red Hat. You have the source code of the packages available and also a bug report with some know issues.

Please, let me know if you have any issue installing these packages.

Notice that these provided as they are. Use at your own risk.

Openbravo ERP 2.35MP5 virtual appliances available

2008-06-17T16:53:15+00:00

Openbravo announces the immediate availability of the Openbravo ERP 2.35MP5 virtual appliances. These images simplify the Openbravo evaluation process. The images are available for the VMware and Xen virtualization systems. (0 comments)

Openbravo ERP: 2.40alpha-r3 is available

2008-06-17T14:10:37+00:00

Openbravo announces the immediate availability of Openbravo ERP 2.40 alpha-r3, the latest version in the Openbravo ERP 2.40 series. (0 comments)

Openbravo POS 2.10 released

2008-06-13T16:39:30+00:00

Openbravo has just announced the release the latest version of Openbravo POS. This has been a hard work that continues with the plan of Openbravo to make frequent releases. As usual you can download the binaries and sources of Openbravo POS from the Sourceforge project files page.

There is a large list of new features and improvements. This is a summary of the changes included in the version 2.10:

New customers module. With this module Openbravo POS users will be able to assign customers to receipts using the customer's loyalty card, create invoices, track the customer account, make customers payments, execute customers reports, and more.

New localization features. To achieve the support of the taxes laws of different countries and cultures Openbravo POS now includes a new event system that allows to execute developer scripting code and adapt the receipts generation to the rules required. In this point there also has been included a new dialog that allows to split a receipt between two or more customers and a useful cash change calculator based on the country coins and banknotes. More information: Openbravo POS Scripting Tutorial.

New reports structure. With the new reports structure developers of Openbravo POS will be able to add and modify easily new reports and charts without having deal with the source code. Reports are now defined using plain text files that developers can edit using his preferred text editor or a graphical designer. To install newly created reports is as simple as copy the report definition files to the reports folder and create a menu option for the report. All reports and charts of Openbravo POS has been ported to the new structure and new reports has been created. More information: Openbravo POS Reports and Charts Tutorial.

Improved integration with Openbravo ERP. There has been included in the previous integration more data like customers synchronization and warehouse information synchronization. More information: Openbravo POS Integration.

Sample database. A sample restaurant database has been created for evaluation purposes with a list of products, images, users, and operational data. Available only from the SVN repository.

Included support for the IBM SurePOS 500 Series.

Many other other minor features and bugs fixes. For example:
- Users can log on using his employee card with his / her token stored in the magnetic band or printer in the bar code.
- Customer information can be assigned to the current receipt reading his / her loyalty card.
- Split a receipt payment between customers.
- The size of the selector and product buttons is configurable by the administrator.

We feel proud of this release but there is a long road ahead. The community around Openbravo POS is growing every day, is willing to collaborate and is very active proposing new functionalities and customizations for different countries, industries, ... Now we are working on the project plan for the next release 2.20. With the help of the community we trust that Openbravo POS will succeed.

Fourth community chat meeting on 18th of June at 14.00 GMT: the roadmap discussion

2008-06-13T05:13:28+00:00

As many of you already know, we are having bimonthly community chat meetings.

The sole objective is this chat meeting is to discuss with you our planed roadmap. Some of the discussion already has started in our forums following Paolo's call for your feedback.

If you are planning to develop a module or feature for Openbravo this is a good opportunity also to synchronize efforts.

Here you have all the information for the fourth meeting:

Date: 18th of June at 14.00 GMT
Where: IRC Network FreeNode at the #openbravo channel
Language: English

Please, if you are planning to attend it is important that you add your name to the chat meeting web page. If you are not familiar with the chats, we have a Wiki page that explains how to setup the software and get connected.

Mantis goes live!

2008-06-12T08:20:08+00:00

We started using Sourceforge two years ago, and since then we have done an intense use of it. Sourceforge is a great place to start a project because it gives you all the community tools you need in one place. But when projects grow, initial requisites may change and Sourceforge may not have all the flexibility needed.

As you may already know, we have been working in changing our issue tracker from SourceForge to Mantis. The transition is now complete and we now use Mantis as our only tracker. From now on, please report issues at issues.openbravo.com.

The main advantages of Mantis are that it provides a lot of flexibility, it has multiple projects, advanced filtering, subversion integration, advanced access level management, customizable issue workflow, issue relationships… Additionally it’s open source and that ensures us we can change it in the future.

All bugs have been migrated from Sourceforge to Mantis. From now on, you should only work with Mantis. New bugs should be reported there and old bugs can also be found there. When reporting a bug, remember to follow our guidelines.

If you have any comments about our implementation of Mantis, please feel free to tell us so. You can post general ideas as comments to this post or you can report defects and feature requests at issues.openbravo.com in the project Mantis@OB.

Openbravo community survey results

2008-06-05T02:51:07+00:00

Thanks to the many people that participated on the first Openbravo community survey.

I would like to share with you some of the main conclusions:

· 50.77% of respondents work for micro SME companies
· 47,69% of respondents are people related to information technology or software developers
· 52.31% of respondents have have less than 1 year of experience using ERPs
· 33.85% of respondents never worked in an open source community before
· The main areas of planned contributions of the respondents are participating in the forums and doing localizations
· 81.54% of of respondents use PostgreSQL

These results helps us to better understand the background and objectives of our community members.

Regarding Openbravo ERP product feedback, we got the following results (been 5 the maximum):

· How do you rate Openbravo ERP's extensibility capabilities? 3,2 (Absolute deviation 0,82)
· How do you rate Openbravo ERP's customisation capabilities? 3,35 (Absolute deviation 0,96)
· How do you rate Openbravo ERP's installation? 3,31(Absolute deviation 0,98)
· How do you rate Openbravo ERP's functionality? 3,55 (Absolute deviation 0,67)
· How do you rate Openbravo ERP's documentation? 2,5 (Absolute deviation 1,04)
· How do you rate Openbravo ERP's quality? 3,45 (Absolute deviation 0,81)
· How do you rate Openbravo ERP's performance? 3,16 (Absolute deviation 0,81)
· How do you rate Openbravo ERP's ease of use? 3,29 (Absolute deviation 1,00)
· How do you rate Openbravo ERP's ease of contributing? 3,17 (Absolute deviation 0,86)
· How do you rate Openbravo ERP's business value? 3,73 (Absolute deviation 0,73)
· How do you rate your overall satisfaction with Openbravo ERP's? 3,56 (Absolute deviation 0,8)

I would like to comment on some of these results:

· Installation used to be a major area of complaints for Openbravo ERP due to the number of components that are part of his stack and are needed to run the application. The installation process was enhanced when we licensed BitRock technology for Openbravo installers. We created also more documentation for the installation process, that many people helped us to enhance. The use of virtual images for evaluation also helped to easy the evaluation process. With Openbravo 2.40 we have fixed many small issues with the installer, that should help to rise the user's level of satisfaction.

· We know that documentation is a weak point of the product. Openbravo has been lately working a lot on this area and the community has played an important role. We have recently opened a full time position to put our documentation in good shape.

· We are very happy with the product quality results of the survey. There is no doubt that this has been one of the major areas of improvement during last year. Much better processes in place, the acceptance test or the opening of the Quality Assurance to our community. We are already in the process to deploy a more powerful bug tracking system that will allow us have a better control on Quality Assurance issues. We invite you to participate in the Quality Assurance efforts and assure that the bugs that are critical for you get fixed.

· Regarding extensibility capabilities that is going to be one of the major areas of improvements for Openbravo 2.50, specially on terms of plugins, verticals and its packing. We will shortly be sharing our plans regarding this.

· Regarding easy of contributing is something that we have still to work hard. We have the contributor's guide and some good process in place and a Forge collaboration platform coming in the next months, but still there are many things to do.

That's all for now. If you have any comments or suggestion please comment on!

Openbravo ERP: 2.35 Maintenance Pack 5 is available

2008-06-03T17:39:16+00:00

Openbravo announces the immediate availability of Openbravo ERP 2.35 Maintenance Pack 5, the latest maintenance pack in the Openbravo ERP 2.35 series.

This a stabilization release with no additional functionality. It is intended for production usage. (0 comments)

Freedom is a much powerful change agent than dictatorship!

2008-06-03T06:05:59+00:00

This Sunday I watched again V for Vendetta, the comic written in 1982 by Alan Moore and David Lloyd and brought to the cinema by many of the filmmakers involved in the Matrix trilogy and directed by James McTeigue. If you like fiction, politics and films with a powerful message, you need to watch this movie. Here are some takeaways that I think perfectly apply to nowadays world of software:

1) Dictatorship tries to force what a reduced number of people believes is right. Freedom, on the contrary, gives choice to people and allows for new ideas to appear.

Dictatorship in the world of software is represented by any company that thinks that through 100% vendor centralized approach they can satisfy the needs of all clients. Don't you think that the world is too large to be able to accomplish this by only a single vendor?.

2) You are free when you really have a choice to decide and, sometimes, human beings forget about being true to what they really want.

There is too much FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) around software. Extensive FUD from proprietary vendors to open source projects. Some FUD from open source projects to proprietary vendors. At the end, users decide. Our role as IT professionals, regardless of what is our origin (proprietary or open source vendors), should be to ensure that users can decide freely without so much FUD generated and allowing to be honest about what they need and want. In that mindset, I am sure the right choice will always be made.

3) The power of freedom is in the community (and if not, watch the movie until the end: GREAT!) built by people/ organizations that have made their choice and join forces.

This is by far the most important idea that open source brings over the table. An open source project with a successful community will always win in competition against 100% centralized proprietary vendors. The change proprietary players need to push within their organizations to adapt to the new paradigm of collaboration sometimes breaks the principles in which they were created. This is what I like about Openbravo: we are strictly built on the principles of open collaboration with users, partners and individuals who can contribute their ideas at will. Our principles are built on top of our competitor's weakest points.

Finally, for the ones that have seen the movie, I love the sequence when the inspector has that feeling of "I know what is going on here", "everything is connected". I sometimes have the same feeling. And the feeling is great because is when you discover that all facts, feedback that you get from the community, partners, clients, VCs, employees,.. plus your own thoughts come along into building a disruptive model: the leading open source ERP movement. ;-)

Anyway, this is what I wanted to share with you from this weekend. If you have seen the movie or you see it, please don't forget to leave your comments here.

Long live to V!

Resuming my blogging experience

2008-06-03T05:48:58+00:00

It has been a while since my last post and I want to apologize because of this. Although I am not the kind of person that has a natural blogging gene, I promise I will still try to keep on sharing with you my thoughts around Openbravo.

To resume my blogging experience I want to tell you two quite obvious things:

Openbravo is doing great and as a result of our growth we have successfully closed our second financing round. A round which was planned from the day we acquired our first investors in Jan 2006 . And a round that does not only give us additional resources to invest on our products and community but also strengthens our Board and gives even a more international profile in line with the nature of our opportunity.
My second obvious message is a logical one and is for you: Thank you so much for your interest on our products, your decisions to adopt them, your willingness to contribute your experiences and above all your willingness to be successful in opening the world of ERPs. We will continue to be faithful to our vision and continue to improve all the things we do with professionalism and emotion as we have done from day one.

Talk to you soon!
M

Feedback wanted on product priorities and road map

2008-06-02T21:38:05+00:00

One of the values at the core of the Openbravo project is collaboration with the Community in all aspects of the product life cycle, from planning, to build and launch.

A few days ago, we published Openbravo ERP 2.40 alpha. While we are still very much focused on stabilizing that release, it is also time to start planning for the next one, 2.50, and we intend to do that in collaboration with our Community.

For that purpose, we just published a forum post to discuss the release candidate features and their relative priorities.

Our feature list is very ambitious and addressing everything on that list would require an effort that is easily an order of magnitude bigger than our actual capacity, so we need to choose wisely.

This is an opportunity to influence that choice by commenting on the list and voice your needs by replying to my post.

I would also remind you that you can guarantee that a particular feature is developed sooner rather than later by volunteering and doing the work yourself. We had several such contributions in 2.40 and we hope to have more in 2.50.

I look forward to a very lively debate on the priorities for Openbravo!

Openbravo community releases accounting for Serbia

2008-05-29T12:04:54+00:00

Stevan Dzigurski from VictoriaGroup (http://www.victoriagroup.co.yu/) has completed the chart of accounts for Serbia for Openbravo R2.35.

The chart of accounts (file AccountingSGOpenbravo.csv) can be downloaded from the "openbravo-accounting" Openbravo download section at SourceForge: (0 comments)

3 days left to participate in the Community Survey

2008-05-29T01:45:27+00:00

A few days ago, we launched our first Community Survey to better understand the background and objectives of our Community Members. We would really appreciate it if you could spend a couple of minutes filling the survey and giving us, in an anonymous format, some data points on your interests in the Openbravo projects.

The information collected is going to help us to prioritize our community activities, infrastructure investments and other aspects.

Go to http://openbravo.questionform.com/public/Openbravo-Community-Event-Survey and make your opinion count!

Thanks a lot for your help!

Openbravo Get Together June 21st and 22nd in Miami, United States

2008-05-26T10:12:42+00:00

During June 21st and 22nd we will be holding the Openbravo Get Together in Miami, United States. The agenda is already available. There is a business day where you will get the insights of how to do business with Openbravo products and a technology day focus on Openbravo technology, product's roadmaps, localization and community services. The language of the event is English.

This is a great opportunity to learn about Openbravo products, do peer-to-peer networking and to share experiences with other Openbravo user's and developers. The Openbravo Get Together's are free and open to everyone, you only have to register. During this Get Together Brian Reale from Colosa Inc. will be visiting us and presenting the benefits of Colosa's open source workflow products and how they can add more value to Openbravo ERP implementations.

We are looking forward to meet you in Miami. If you have any suggestion or comment for this event please let us know.

Openbravo community releases accounting for Egypt

2008-05-25T21:06:57+00:00

Nihad Nagi from SupERP (http://superps.net/) has completed the chart of accounts for Egypt for Openbravo R2.35.

The chart of accounts can be downloaded from the "openbravo-accounting" Openbravo download section at SourceForge: (0 comments)

Openbravo ERP R2.40 alpha version is available

2008-05-23T13:56:54+00:00

Openbravo ERP 2.40 is an alpha version and it is intended for evaluation and stabilization purposes only. Openbravo 2.35 MP4 remains our best version for production usage. You cannot upgrade an existing system to 2.40 alpha and you will not be able to upgrade a 2.40 alpha instance to any subsequent version. (0 comments)

Announcing Openbravo ERP 2.40 alpha

2008-05-23T14:14:41+00:00

Today we announce the availability on SourceForge of the public alpha version of Openbravo ERP 2.40.

This new version includes many new exciting functionality that kept us busy for many months and we are very happy to be able to finally show it to our Community.

Among the many enhancements, usability emerges as a main theme. Openbravo ERP has traditionally been a ground breaking project in terms of user interface: in 2006, with release 2.14 we were the first open source ERP with a web based interface; 2007 was another major milestone and with release 2.30 we were once more the first open source ERP to feature a skinnable and Ajax-enabled UI.
This year, we continue on that tradition and, with release 2.40, Openbravo raises the bar again and brings the productivity of the user interface to levels comparable to client server applications. In particular, users can now fully operate the system using only the keyboard and all most frequently used operations are just one click away and conveniently accessible through a short cut. In addition, users can configure their system so that, when they open a window, the focus is automatically placed in the most important field according to their specific business processes; this reduces the number of keystrokes necessary to complete a transaction and dramatically increases productivity. Finally, a new set of icons and a revised look & feel keep the user better informed of the status of the system therefore avoiding confusion and preventing costly mistakes.

Another major theme of the release is improved global operation support. With the enhanced multi-schema accounting capabilities it is now possible to account each transaction according to multiple accounting rules, in multiple currencies and in multiple calendars. This enables organizations with operations in multiple countries to comply with the local accounting regulation while at the same time apply a corporate accounting standard that allows roll ups and consolidation.
Many new features also improve the ease of deploying Openbravo in different geographies. The completely revised VAT module, for instance, allows a much better support for key reporting requirements in many countries such as VAT Registers and Withholding Tax. We are particularly happy about these features as they were developed by a community contributor, Cosmic Blue Team, which demonstrates the power of what a collaborative community can achieve.
In addition, the new International Bank Account feature enables users to out of the box define bank accounts according to their local conventions and therefore it avoids a very frequent customization.

Besides this, there are many other cool new features and you can find the full list in the Release Notes.

Please notice that this is only an alpha version and it is intended for evaluation and stabilization purposes only. Openbravo 2.35 MP4 remains our best version for production usage. In particular, you cannot upgrade an existing system to 2.40 alpha and you will not be able to upgrade a 2.40 alpha instance to any subsequent version.

That said, we do encourage you to download and install this new version and give us your feedback. You can post your opinion and question on the new features in the Early Releases Discussion forum and you can log any defect that you might find in the product using our new tracker system.

We hope that you will enjoy testing this new version as much as we did developing it.

Openbravo community releases accounting for Great Britain

2008-05-22T16:36:17+00:00

Laurie Brown from JVolution (http://www.jvolution.co.uk) has completed the chart of accounts for Great Britain for Openbravo R2.35.

The chart of accounts can be downloaded from the "openbravo-accounting" Openbravo download section at SourceForge: (0 comments)

Mantis, the new Openbravo bug tracking system enters into the beta process

2008-05-22T14:27:44+00:00

If you have been participating on the Openbravo ERP or POS Acceptance Test you have noticed that we have started to use the Mantis issue tracker system at Openbravo. Mantis provides many benefits over SourceForge Tracker, the system that we have been traditionally using. Among them: better reporting, advanced query features, custom fields, tags and many others; all of this, coupled with a better system performance and an open source license.

We are still in the testing phase for the new issue tracker and we are tacking advantage of the ERP 2.40 alpha cycle to, at the same time, test our Mantis deployment. During a period of time of approximately two weeks, we will be using simultaneously Mantis -for issues on the 2.40 alpha release- and Source Forget Tracker -for issues on the production releases. After that period, Mantis will be fully in production and it would be the only system.

You can access the new tracker at issues.openbravo.com. We invite you to test it at any time. If you are testing 2.40 alpha, we would also prefer if you logged issues there while if you are using any other release, we would ask you to continue use SourceForge (but do not worry, we will attend to your request no matter where you log them). If you have any feedback, you can post it in the Openbravo Open Discussion forum. You can also log defects and feature requests on our Mantis implementation directly in Mantis by logging an issue in the Mantis@OB project.

When Mantis enters finally into production, we will blog about it and we will update the bug guidelines and other documents in the wiki.

Openbravo POS 2.10 Acceptance Test

2008-05-19T18:24:05+00:00

Following our plan to make frequent releases, Openbravo is going to launch Openbravo POS 2.10 in few days. In this release we put a lot of effort in creating new and exciting functionalities for users and developers, and in localization to help to adapt Openbravo POS to more countries and cultures. If you are interested in participating in this acceptance test, please notify us by sending an email to collaborate to openbravo dot com.

The goal of this acceptance test is:

Test regression. We want to be sure that we did not break things that worked in older releases.
The new functionalities included in this release are stable and complete. We want to focus on the new customer module, new reports engine, integration with Openbravo ERP, and the new localization functionalities, like events in the sales panel and split receipt.
The installation and upgrade database processes work perfectly in all the databases supported: HSQLDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle.
Starts properly in Windows XP, Vista and major distributions of Linux.
There are not major bugs.

The process is going to be very similar to what we do for the the last release of Openbravo POS and to what we do for Openbravo ERP. Specifically, here is what we are asking:

We will give volunteers early access to the installer through a private FTP server. You will essentially receive the release at the same time as our QA team.
We will give you access to our test plans so that you can see what to test (but you can test any flow you like as well).
We will ask you to give us frequent updates on your progress.
If you have problems or doubts during the process, we will respond to your messages using the discussion forums
We will publish a daily status update on the forums.

Acceptance testing should start on the middle of this week, and ideally should last 3 or 4 days.

We look forward to your continued support to our project and your participation in this important test.

Openbravo closes a new $12 million funding agreement

2008-05-19T04:15:08+00:00

Today, we are very happy to share with our Community that Openbravo has secured $12 million funding agreement from a consortium of 3 leading investment firms.

This new investment is a testimony to the work realized so far and shows the renewed confidence of the investment community in our projects. As you can imagine, we are very excited about this development and we are very much convinced that it will boost the growth and dissemination of the project in many meaningful ways.

These new resources will help us to increase our strong investment in the development of Openbravo ERP and Openbravo POS open source products. In the coming weeks we will publish a more detailed roadmap for our next versions of Openbravo ERP and POS products that we plan to discuss openly with our community. We also plan to increase our investment in our collaboration tools (see our tentative plan) to facilitate Community contributions and the creation of a very lively ecosystem around Openbravo.

We know that this important milestone would have not been possible without the help of our Community and we are very thankful for that.

Together, we can continue building leading open source solutions in the ERP and POS spaces!

First Community Survey Launched

2008-05-18T08:06:58+00:00

At Openbravo, we aim at serving our Community as best as we can.

For that purpose, we have launched the first Community Survey to better understand the background and objectives of our Community Members.
We would really appreciate it if you could spend a couple of minutes filling the survey and giving us, in an anonymous format, some data points on your interests in the Openbravo projects.

Bright Minds Wanted!

2008-05-15T06:15:11+00:00

Hello everyone,

Within the last few days new positions have been opened at Openbravo in several departments, namely our Sales & Business Development, Product Development, Professional Services, Consulting and Community Divisions in both our Pamplona and Barcelona offices. The company is also planning to expand overseas soon.

We are now looking for bright minds to join our team and to help build on our success… if you are ready for a challenging and highly rewarding experience in an international setting, then you should have a look at the list of openings in our Openbravo Employment Channel section.

We specially value people from the Openbravo community that has experience installing, configuring, customizing or developing on Openbravo ERP platform and for those of you who have engineering background (or related disciplines), with strong development and/or management experience.

Openbravo offers a complete HR plan within a rapidly growing technology company, with huge potential for professional development, a competitive compensation system which includes great benefits. Also, working for Openbravo means working in a dynamic and young environment, with flexible working conditions, which foster innovation and creativity.

Given our rapid growth, we have plans to keep hiring on a regular basis during the year. I recommend for those interested to keep checking the Openbravo Employment Channel page for new openings.

If Openbravo sounds like the place for you, don’t hesitate to contact us at careers@openbravo.com

We are looking forward to hearing from you!

Openbravo ERP: 2.35 Maintenance Pack 4 is available

2008-05-13T15:24:03+00:00

Barcelona Get Together Slides

2008-05-10T23:54:21+00:00

Hi all,

Since it's my first post in Planet Openbravo I should introduce myself:

I'm Gil Forcada, working at Openbravo in the community department (as Jordi already introduced me). For any comments or suggestions I'm always available at gil.forcada at openbravo dot com
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Looping back to the title, finally, the slides and their audio are available online. So, if you didn't get the chance to be there or you want to listen again any presentation it's your opportunity.

We hope it will be useful.

Regards,

Openbravo ERP bug fixing

2008-05-06T16:35:21+00:00

This is my first blog despite of the fact I have been working in Openbravo for more than two years. I have been doing several different tasks in the development team during this time, and at this moment I am in charge of the Community Support Team. Our tasks involves any task that could make easier to approach Openbravo to the Community as answering forums, fixing bugs, writing documentation, looking for new tools, helping with design suggestions for community projects and contributions, etc. I am sure you will be thinking about why I have just decided to write this blog after so long period. The reason is clear: I have something to tell you.

Openbravo is doing a big effort in order to improve its quality and one of the main focus areas is the Bug fixing. During this year more than four hundred bugs have been reported and more than a 90% have been fixed. One of main Openbravo's aim is to reduce drastically the number of opened bugs in 2.40 release. To fulfill this objective we have made a realistic estimation to reduce the number of opened bugs below 250 once the 2.40 beta version was released. It is a conservative estimation due to no have unlimited resources. In Openbravo we are sure that with the Community's help we could improve these results and the most important thing, to make a better product. You can see our expectations and follow the real evolution here: Openbravo ERP bugs evolution.

I am sure that with your help we will make it happen !!!!