OFBiz on LinkedIn

[Pierre Smits]

Hi All,

Today Hans Bakker, one of your committers and PMC member established a new
group on LinkedIn. This group is called 'OFBiz Marketing' and aims to

improve the marketing of Apache *OFBiz*, the open source ERP system

This group brings the total of OFBiz related groups to 18. I wonder if
there is a need within this community for this specific group to discuss
there the improvement of the marketing of this project and its work in
stead of here, or the already other groups on LinkedIn.

What do you feel?

Regards,

Pierre Smits

*ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
Services & Solutions for Cloud-
Based Manufacturing, Professional
Services and Retail & Trade
http://www.orrtiz.com

[Ron Wheeler]

Given the level of traffic in the major group "I am Open For Business" ,
I doubt if a new group is really needed at this point.
I am not sure why the "OFBiz professional users group! " was started or
what the difference is between these two groups.
It looks like there is an overlap in membership.

The other groups seem to have such small number of users that they are
not worth considering unless you are interested in their focus (OfBiz
Italia - 1 member, OfBiz User India - 127 members) .

My suggestion would be to build up participation and membership in one
group to a point where there are too many discussion going on at once.
Then add a group to handle a specific area that is generating a lot of
traffic.

Ron



On 06/08/2014 1:24 PM, Pierre Smits wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Today Hans Bakker, one of your committers and PMC member established a new
> group on LinkedIn. This group is called 'OFBiz Marketing' and aims to
>
> improve the marketing of Apache *OFBiz*, the open source ERP system
>
> This group brings the total of OFBiz related groups to 18. I wonder if
> there is a need within this community for this specific group to discuss
> there the improvement of the marketing of this project and its work in
> stead of here, or the already other groups on LinkedIn.
>
> What do you feel?
>
> Regards,
>
> Pierre Smits
>
> *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
> Services & Solutions for Cloud-
> Based Manufacturing, Professional
> Services and Retail & Trade
> http://www.orrtiz.com
>

--
Ron Wheeler
President
Artifact Software Inc
email: [hidden email]
skype: ronaldmwheeler
phone: [phone], ext 102

[Pierre Smits]

I also wonder why several OFBiz groups are closed. Doesn't that go against
the Open Source principle? And doesn't that hamper adoption?

Regards,

Pierre Smits

*ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
Services & Solutions for Cloud-
Based Manufacturing, Professional
Services and Retail & Trade
http://www.orrtiz.com


On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Ron Wheeler <[hidden email]>
wrote:

> Given the level of traffic in the major group "I am Open For Business" , I
> doubt if a new group is really needed at this point.
> I am not sure why the "OFBiz professional users group! " was started or
> what the difference is between these two groups.
> It looks like there is an overlap in membership.
>
> The other groups seem to have such small number of users that they are not
> worth considering unless you are interested in their focus (OfBiz Italia -
> 1 member, OfBiz User India - 127 members) .
>
> My suggestion would be to build up participation and membership in one
> group to a point where there are too many discussion going on at once.
> Then add a group to handle a specific area that is generating a lot of
> traffic.
>
> Ron
>
>
>
>
> On 06/08/2014 1:24 PM, Pierre Smits wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Today Hans Bakker, one of your committers and PMC member established a new
>> group on LinkedIn. This group is called 'OFBiz Marketing' and aims to
>>
>> improve the marketing of Apache *OFBiz*, the open source ERP system
>>
>>
>> This group brings the total of OFBiz related groups to 18. I wonder if
>> there is a need within this community for this specific group to discuss
>> there the improvement of the marketing of this project and its work in
>> stead of here, or the already other groups on LinkedIn.
>>
>> What do you feel?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Pierre Smits
>>
>> *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
>>
>> Services & Solutions for Cloud-
>> Based Manufacturing, Professional
>> Services and Retail & Trade
>> http://www.orrtiz.com
>>
>>
>
> --
> Ron Wheeler
> President
> Artifact Software Inc
> email: [hidden email]
> skype: ronaldmwheeler
> phone: [phone], ext 102
>
>

[Ron Wheeler]

They may be inactive and perhaps set up while "closed" was the default.
If they only have 1 member or a few, they may have been abandoned.

It is also possible that they are only open to the customers of one
company and are really intended to be private.
"Open source" does not say that you have to support all OffBiz users in
the same way that you support your own.

Ron

On 06/08/2014 2:45 PM, Pierre Smits wrote:

> I also wonder why several OFBiz groups are closed. Doesn't that go
> against the Open Source principle? And doesn't that hamper adoption?
>
> Regards,
>
> Pierre Smits
>
> *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
> Services & Solutions for Cloud-
> Based Manufacturing, Professional
> Services and Retail & Trade
> http://www.orrtiz.com <http://www.orrtiz.com/>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Ron Wheeler
> <[hidden email]
> <mailto:[hidden email]>> wrote:
>
>     Given the level of traffic in the major group "I am Open For
>     Business" , I doubt if a new group is really needed at this point.
>     I am not sure why the "OFBiz professional users group! " was
>     started or what the difference is between these two groups.
>     It looks like there is an overlap in membership.
>
>     The other groups seem to have such small number of users that they
>     are not worth considering unless you are interested in their focus
>     (OfBiz Italia - 1 member, OfBiz User India - 127 members) .
>
>     My suggestion would be to build up participation and membership in
>     one group to a point where there are too many discussion going on
>     at once.
>     Then add a group to handle a specific area that is generating a
>     lot of traffic.
>
>     Ron
>
>
>
>
>     On 06/08/2014 1:24 PM, Pierre Smits wrote:
>
>         Hi All,
>
>         Today Hans Bakker, one of your committers and PMC member
>         established a new
>         group on LinkedIn. This group is called 'OFBiz Marketing' and
>         aims to
>
>         improve the marketing of Apache *OFBiz*, the open source ERP
>         system
>
>
>         This group brings the total of OFBiz related groups to 18. I
>         wonder if
>         there is a need within this community for this specific group
>         to discuss
>         there the improvement of the marketing of this project and its
>         work in
>         stead of here, or the already other groups on LinkedIn.
>
>         What do you feel?
>
>         Regards,
>
>         Pierre Smits
>
>         *ORRTIZ.COM <http://ORRTIZ.COM> <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
>
>         Services & Solutions for Cloud-
>         Based Manufacturing, Professional
>         Services and Retail & Trade
>         http://www.orrtiz.com
>
>
>
>     --
>     Ron Wheeler
>     President
>     Artifact Software Inc
>     email: [hidden email]
>     <mailto:[hidden email]>
>     skype: ronaldmwheeler
>     phone: [phone], ext 102 <tel:[phone]%2C%20ext%20102>
>
>

--
Ron Wheeler
President
Artifact Software Inc
email: [hidden email]
skype: ronaldmwheeler
phone: [phone], ext 102

[Pierre Smits]

Ron,

I can understand that when talking about organisation specific support
groups, and there are a few. But apart from these and the open groups, it
seems to me that these closed groups were created to explore how far the
OFBiz community extends in order to execute some marketing scheme (by its
creator).

We can only guess about the intentions.

Regards,

Pierre Smits

*ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
Services & Solutions for Cloud-
Based Manufacturing, Professional
Services and Retail & Trade
http://www.orrtiz.com