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January 29, 2010
Hello everybody, My name is Julien Thewys and I have just been working on the new communication process here at Tiny. Olivier Dony and I set up a new team that will focus on the community and its ever evolving challenges. The responsibility of this team is to be the link between Tiny and the community. We are very excited to share with you what has been keeping us busy! - We are defining clearer points of contact for the community. We already agreed on the following ones:
- The Quality Team is responsible of merging contributions and managing releases. This team will be ready starting from 8 February; we will let you know how to contact them.
- The Community Team is in charge of mediating in the community and enhancing processes. We are talking to you right now! Please join us on the community mailing list.
- The overhaul of the communication process is ongoing. We just opened two dedicated Twitter accounts: one for OpenERP, one for OpenObject. Also, our website will experience an appropriate redesign to accommodate the community needs.
- We are planning community meetings more frequently. Just to remind you, the next on-site community meeting is held on 23 and 24 March, while the next IRC meeting is planned for the 12th February. The list of topics to be discussed has already been added to the wiki (this list is still open).
- Bugs and wishlists have been followed with a particular attention recently: we are addressing more than 85% of them and we are determined to do even better very soon.
- We have been concentrating on enhancing the documentation: we are currently tuning the Technical Memo (here is a draft, your suggestions are welcome) and there is an e-learning resource site in preparation.
Of course, we are always open to suggestions. Feel free to let us know what is on your mind and how you envision an even brighter OpenERP community. Many thanks to Raphaël Valyi for his great article in this regard. Stay tuned, we have lots of cool stuffs for the forthcoming weeks. Note: We would appreciate if you could help us making a survey about the communication. Can you provide some concise and relevant questions? (for example: what are the preferred channels of communication: mailing list, blog, twitter, irc,...?) Thanks to all!
by Julien Thewys (noreply@blogger.com) at January 29, 2010 06:41 AM
January 27, 2010
Hello, We did lots of improvements on HR (as well as others modules) in the trunk, to be released in new versions. The biggest ones: - resources : employees are resources, as well as work centers. We made a generic scheduler in the trunk that computes capacity based plannings using resources.
- time scale: these resources have working time (ex: from monday to friday, 9am-6pm), capacities, ... This allows to efficiently compte project's planning (long term and short term) and manufacturing orders based on work centers capacities.
- the time scale is integrated with public and employee's holidays.
For the scheduler, we took the algorythm implemented in the open source project: faces. We did lot's of efforts in internal evaluation of employees, hr surveys and salary grid. The most significant changes in these area is the survey module that allows you to build forms/survey to: - recruit new people
- do internal survey (satisfaction, efficiency, ...)
- manage the internal interviews plan per employee.
For internal evaluations, we did a plan system, ex: first meeting after 6 months, next every year if everything is ok. You can define goals, review goals, ... Others small improvements in hr: - Better integration with document management system for jobs hiring processes (database of CV's, ...)
- Much more better views, menus
- Review of crm.case into better redruitement forms (the object is separated)
- Leaves and holidays have been improved a lot. (leaves requests, recuperation days, ...)
by Fabien Pinckaers (noreply@blogger.com) at January 27, 2010 09:52 AM
January 22, 2010
Ever-shifting conditions, shorter lead times, and heightened global competition are facts of life in today's business climate. To effectively compete, you need to operate more efficiently and reduce TCO. ERP systems can provide significant improvements in operational and administrative costs, on-time delivery, and order accuracy. And running open-source Open ERP on the Sun platform can help you implement and ERP solution cost effectively. Here is a screenshot of the announce on SUN's homepage:  You can get more information on the OpenERP + Sun Partnership. You can download MySQL branches of OpenERP on launchpad.
by Fabien Pinckaers (noreply@blogger.com) at January 22, 2010 07:25 AM
January 13, 2010
Hello, The 23th and 24th of march, we will organise the annual OpenERP Community Meeting in our offices in Belgium. The proposed planning is: 23th of March- Presentation of the new version and new features: 4h
- Lunch
- Each contributor will have to opportunity to present his contributions and modules, 20 minuts per module to present: 3h
- Q&A, Discussion about the future of OpenERP: 1h
- Diner at a typical belgian restaurant
24th of March- The whole day is dedicated to workshops by small groups: useability, accouting expert, services mgt, community organisation, ...
- The goal of these workshops is to discuss priorities and write specifications for the next version of OpenERP.
This community meeting will be followed by the partner meeting, the 25th of march, to discuss business issues. 25th of March: restricted to partners
- Development Strategy 2010
- Services and products (Odoo, support, maintenance, certification)
- Organisation of the partners network
- Management of leads
- Marketing activities
If you need more information and want to subscribe to one of these events (or both), you can subscribe by sending an email to nma AT openerp.com.
by Fabien Pinckaers (noreply@blogger.com) at January 13, 2010 01:03 AM
January 11, 2010
Discussing the shortcomings of OpenERP Client themes on various platforms with Fabrice, we found out that it was in fact quite simple to switch to a different GTK theme on Windows as well. It works fine with the All-In-One installation of OpenERP, so that’s an easy way of customizing the looks of the OpenERP GTK Client.
GTK is the framework on top of which the OpenERP desktop client is built, and GTK supports themes. The runtime library also ships with a handy theme selector application, to write the appropriate magic in the .gtkrc-2.0 file in your home directory. So with the All-In-One you can just go into wherever you installed OpenERP, then down into “OpenERP AllInOne\Client\GTK\bin\” and start gtkthemeselector.exe.
Of course on Ubuntu you can easily change your GTK theme through System/Preferences/Appearance.
With the GTK runtime on Windows you get only a few themes. The default one is Wimp and is usually labelled “MS-Windows”. What Wimp does is reuse the default Windows look, for maximum coherence. This means that you will get different results on XP, Vista, Seven, as well as if you change to the Windows Classic theme (the latter specifically gives an ugly result with Wimp).
Adding themes on Windows is easy as well, you only need to:
- find a suitable GTK theme online, and download the Windows build (the engine needs to be built as a Windows DLL)
- add the theme definition in the GTK\share\themes directory (inside OpenERP Client), next to the existing ones
- put the engine (named libsomething.dll) in GTK\lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\engines, next to the others
- start the theme selector to switch to the chosen theme
- restart your GTK application, in this case your OpenERP client
You can find a lot of GTK themes for Windows in the Windows GTK theme selector that goes with the GTK Windows Runtime. Grab the zip version as you just want the source of the themes. You’ll find them in the lib and share subdirectories after unzipping.
However, I think Wimp is not a bad theme, and after all if you’re using a specific Windows theme, it may be that you like it. It’s just that it has some shortcomings, wastes space everywhere (other themes too), and does not have alternating row colors in lists.
The space-waste problem is common to many GTK themes and is addressed by Martin Ankerl’s compact themes, improving classical GTK themes such as Clearlooks Compact and Human Compact. This is an area where users of all platforms can benefit! The compact theme reusing the original engines, they’re cross-platform but your need to install the original ones (which are included in the Windows GTK themes archive)
Both Clearlooks and Human themes do have alternating row colors, which is not the case by default in Wimp. To fix it, you can simply patch the existing Wimp definition by editing the GTK\share\themes\MS-Windows\gtk-2.0\gtkrc file in your OpenERP Client (with your favorite code editor, or Wordpad) and change the following line:
GtkTreeView::allow-rules = 1 # Changed to 1 to allow alternating row colors
Looking at other themes is a nice source of inspiration for other tweaks… and there’s always the GTK documentation.
     
by odony at January 11, 2010 12:08 AM
December 29, 2009
Hello, We are working to improve useability for the future v5.2 version of OpenERP. You can follow some of our thoughts on this launchpad item: We did not started the design yet, but worked on some wireframes, like the one bellow:  You can also follow the discussion about this topic in the forum:
by Fabien Pinckaers (noreply@blogger.com) at December 29, 2009 07:31 AM
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