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.

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   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.

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   An examination of successful implementations of Openbravo in different sectors and industries.

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   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.

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   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.

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   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.

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   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.

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   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.

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   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."

   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.

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