[Erp5-users] ERP5/TioLive plans

[Jacques Honoré]

Hi there,

I think I need to give explanations about what are the plan with ERP5, 
TioLive, OSOE and why we changed website, close KB etc.

The response to Bartek's question is no, we don't plan to use ERP5 as just a 
framework of TioLive. It will in fact TioLive must be an accelerator of ERP5 
development. I will explain the purpose of the latest changes.

## ERP5 Website ##

Some work is still needed, but the purpose of the change is to simplify the 
available resource on internet about ERP5.

www.erp5.com should replace the knowledge base and www.erp5.org website. The 
subject of the website is 'what is ERP5, what it does, what is the available 
documentation, what is the last news about ERP5'.

It should become the community/marketing website of ERP5. One single website 
to promote ERP5. It should stay 'Neutral' which means that the purpose is not 
to sell a service of anyone.

We will maintain some 'marketing' pages who will describe the features of 
ERP5. Then all documentation will be made public on this website.

The wiki should be someday moved to the website (we need to have more 'wiki 
like' behaviour of ERP5 to make it available). It will be done little by 
little.

The plan is also to have a public Road Map and a public bug tracker on the 
website.

We have introduced a section about the 'Cloud' capacity of ERP5 and we speak 
of TioLive in some places. There is two reasons for that. The first is that 
today everyone is talking about cloud computing, No-SQL and web-based 
software. We have the chance that ERP5 has been designed like that 10 years 
ago. We have to promote it on the website. Maybe the texts are not good 
enough, or are confusing. Any feed-back, help, rewritting of webpages are 
welcome.

The second reason of promoting a little TioLive on the website is because it 
is the fastest and easiest way to use ERP5. I believe it should be used and 
promoted as such by the entire Community. If you are not happy with that let 
us know and we can discuss it.

So this bring us to the question, what is TioLive :-) ?


## TioLive ##

TioLive is a way for us to promote ERP5 and spread the use of ERP5 among SOHO 
businesses.

TioLive is a way to build a partnership network around ERP5. Because there is 
no need to be a developer to become a consulting partner, it will spread the 
use of ERP5 among consultant.

<small advertisement>
Everyone is very welcome to become a partner. Being a partner you are able to 
deliver as much ERP5 instances as you want for your clients. You will be able 
to customize the categories and all support requests will be handle by you 
through your own CRM.
</small advertisement>

ERP5 is expensive. If you wish to use it on your own server it will cost quite 
a lot. With TioLive, companies which are willing to pay just a little can 
access ERP5. The idea is that little by little, with those contributions we 
will be able to improve ERP5.

For instance, TioLive customers are the one which have financed the user 
documentation. It is good also for ERP5.

Did you try TioLive? Do you use it? If not, why not?

I will post more information about current work on documentation, website, 
ERP5 current development here. Feedbacks and contributions (for documentation) 
are very welcome.

Best Regards,
Jacques



On Saturday, July 17, 2010 01:20:35 pm Bartek Gorny wrote:
> Yes, the main question is overly simple: what are Nexedi's plans as to
> the future of ERP5? There is no roadmap or any other publicly
> available information (except for a torrent of svn commits), so it is
> difficult to formulate a specific question.
> 
> I, personally, have an impression that ERP5 is being wound down as an
> "Open Source ERP" project, and it is going to be just a framework for
> TioLive SaaS service and nothing else (except perhaps of occasional
> projects done by Nexedi). In other words, that Nexedi chose a "pure
> SaaS" strategy.
> 
> I might also have some very specific questions - like, are any of the
> following things planned (or maybe already done but I didn't notice):
> 
>  * improvements in UI (in particular using AJAX more extensively)
>  * using alternative SCM tools (mercurial, perhaps?)
>  * any of these: http://www.erp5.org/Discussion/FeatureRequests
> 
> I'm sure Boris can add to the list :)
> 
> Cheers
> Bartek