ADempiere ERP Wiki:Community Portal
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- Its Just A Community - Nothing Personal -
Who Are We?
The ADempiere community is made up of various categories of people, and we are sure you must fit into at least one of them. There are contributors, developers, testers, writers, users, as well as businesses, authorities, experts, newbies and students. There is also a Council of trustees to be responsible for this community and the project's well-being.
Each community has its own history and culture. This particular community has its roots within the Compiere SourceForge project over the last 3 years. We started as users and implementors of this great software project, and began to progress in leaps and bounds in our own capability to master it and even extend it for various end-users.
The community was generally grateful to Compiere's creator, Jorg Janke, and tolerated his business model of charging users for priority support, training and the user manual. Many of us contributed code, bug reports, fixes and recommendations on how this premiere Open Source ERP/CRM solution could continue to expand. And though Jorg Janke hardly responded to the forums' messages (even those that were directly aimed at him) the Compiere community enjoyed ample support and encouragement from other community seniors on a voluntary and vigilant basis.
Trouble set in soon after ComPiere Inc, USA, the commercial entity behind this project, purportedly obtained some USD6 million funding from an "angel" investor who soon joined its Board of Directors. Many among the paying partners of Compiere began to question new policy directions, this led to the Forking Debate, and eventually sparked off the Adempiere community. The name "Adempiere" is an Italian word related to "Compiere" (which means "to deliver or fulfill"), but also semantically reflects the core ideal of this community: "to fulfill towards completion, with respect and honour".
My Contribution
- (register into this wiki)
- (Click on edit at the right upper corner of this title)
- (Write at the bottom here your details)
- (Once you are accepted, we remove the details here, and put you into http://adempiere.org)
- (If you find your name still here, we are just testing your patience, a needed virtue to get in).
Nama:Syamsul Maarif From: Indonesia
I am a software developer. Currently using compiere at workplace. (may prove useful to ADempiere!).
Name: Akos Gabriel
From: Hungary
Currently evaluating Compiere (again, did it one year ago) at workplace. Senior J2EE developer, system administrator background. I'd love PostgreSQL support very much. I documented installation of ERBox (another fork :) ) on Linux+Pg. I'd build a Debian package if licenses permit. I have documented PgCluster installation (could be interesting for HA-production environments). First idea: do not block installation into that installer.jar, it is absolutely not datacenter-friendly. I'd prefer a no-GUI, configurable installer. For example what if I don't want pg814 but instead I want my pgcluster being used. Or I have already pg815... :)
Welcome Akos! can u put your documentation install of ERBox/Linux+Pg into this wiki link? at the wiki Tutorial .. u can use title such as 'ERBox Install On Linux'. Just make link from this title if it is already online. After that, we put your name in! :) So simple!
Red1 19:55, 8 November 2006 (EST)
Name : M Zainudin Sumiry From Malaysia. Currently using compiere at workplace. Encounters some problems and solutions which can be shared. Accounting background. Beginner's knowledge at sql & Ireport.
Thank you.
Welcome Din! this is a gud start.. of course u can read up all the accting threads, and in due time u know what to do.. mistakes are allowed ;)
- Red1 09:36, 31 October 2006 (EST)
Name: Ben Stewart: Australia Currently working in a company that I have formed withe a friend. 10+ years of development, sysadmin and ERP implementations. I have had experience in Oracle Ebusiness Suite, Accpac and a number of other more obscure packages. What we really need is something that works and is comperable (from a features point of view) with the packages already out there. What I like to see in an ERP package.. reports.. and lots of them... they are what company managers/owners need on a day to day basis. We evaluated Compiere some time ago and lost interest when we were asked to give big $$ for an ERP package that had a reporting solution involving exporting to excel?? what the. www.pentaho.org and www.liferay.com are our friends...lets go !!!
Hi Ben! looking forward to your points and ideas. Yes, we want to push the limits of freedom, to truly end to end free.
- Red1 02:37, 10 November 2006 (EST)
Name: Leif Perzon: Sweden Been following Compiere for two years. I've been an IT-consultant, as developer, for 20-years, the last 10 years mainly in management positions, still with my soul in software development. At present my focus is in establishing a business that delivers IT-solutions based on OpenSource products to SMB-market. We are using Mandriva Linux, Liferay, Alfresco and ADempiere.
I have refined the Swedish translation and created a Swedish accounting file. These were contributed to ADempere using my SourceForge user "lpz06". My personal contributions will mostly be around requirements and testing, but I also have good knowledge in Java, Oracle, mySQL and general systems architecture. As a company we are proffessionals in J2EE systems development. Among other things we are running the TimeTrix project at SourceForge. The TimeTrix system itself isn't very sofisticated but we started it mainly to get practical experience in OpenSource project development.
Welcome Leif we already listed u anyway! just give me your email id.. update your Talk page will do. i will refer to it.
Red1 04:16, 15 November 2006 (EST)
Name: Marion, Australia
Have been working in IT as business process consultant for many years (better not tell HOW MANY - you might be able to guess my age :-) ). Was project leader for the implementation of a CRM system in a company with some 2000 staff. Have been working with Linux (SUSE and Ubuntu) servers and desktops for several years. In 2004, my husband and I completed a Master in Business (e-Business and Communication) degree and we are currently in the process of establishing a business that provides e-Business solutions, based on OpenSource products, to small and medium enterprises.
Welcome Marion! the first lady of the house! Ok, special privlege granted - no age required. (We didnt even ask for it! :D ) also update your talk page.. so that i can link your contact.
Red1 04:16, 15 November 2006 (EST)
Name: Ariel Cabral, Argentina
I've been working in IT business for about 25 years. Along my career I´d play many roles from developer to IT consultant, also I was a project leader for the implementation of many local ERP solutions in small to medium size enterprises. I've been working with Debian distributions for workstations (KDE desktops) and servers since year 2001. Currently I work in a company that I formed with my brother centered in the implementation of free software as a system analyst, also we have interest in deliver a geniune free solution to our customer. Where free means freedom even from us. My best regards to all the community
Welcome Ariel
Pls update your User page with contact info. Make your contributions. Advertise yourself!
Red1 18:36, 18 November 2006 (EST)
Name: Soheil Qanbari, IRAN.
I have been working in IT Enterprise Solutions as an ERP Product Manager specificly Compiere Solution for 4 years.My little expertise orientation is focusing on the Software Enterprise Mgmt & Enterprise Architecture.Now seeking an opportunity in an Adempiere environment, in which my experience, problem solving and teamwork skills, may contribute to the success of the Adempiere and Community growth.Well, Enterprise solutions has got special terminology & literature, i hope my translation contribution & Enterprise Architecture comments if i may ofcourse , will make Adempiere much more useful for another culture as well.Blessings Be Upon Community. My Pleasure
Welcome Soheil we welcome an Iranian/Persian translation - - Red1 07:42, 18 December 2006 (EST)
Name: Bahman Movaqar, Iran.
I have been working with Compiere for 1 year at workplace, therefore as my last task, currently analysing and studying the feasibility of utilising a rule engine (Drools or Manadarax) in Compiere (may prove useful to ADempiere!). In addition I am a senior J2EE developer and a Linux guru with strong background in Linux and PostgreSQL administration. Also, I admire the 'open documentation' philosophy, thus willing to take part in translation process (as I have done for PC-BSD project). I would be very glad if you would find my knowledge and will to participate, helpful. Warm Regards
Welcome Bahman Drools stuff is interesting and u shuld get into the ongoing discussions in our SF. Since u come here after Soheil above, u both know each other? Of course whatever u do will be appreciated like the rest of us! -- Red1 09:39, 19 December 2006 (EST)
Thank you! I would be very happy if I could share my knowledge about Drools but where?! I didn't find the relative forum on SF.
And as a matter of your interest I and Soheil are colleagues at the same department (You may have found a whole department behind you!
Name: Fariborz Golara, IRAN.
I have been working Compiere since 1 year ago as an senior system analyst at Haseb system engineering consultancy Co.(http://www.adempiere.com/wiki/index.php/Iran). Currently analyzing and studying the feasibility of Compiere's localization in Iran. I'm so glad for Adempiere project birth and community foundation. I hope as Mr. Qanbari stated before, if we may: will make Adempiere much more useful for another culture specifically Iran and others, have got right to left (BiDi) mode.
Welcome to Fariborz too. Yes, we are multi-cultural and global. - Red1 11:42, 20 December 2006 (EST)
Part II (2007)
Name: Hakem Taourchi, Jadanet Algeria
I am an IT consultant with some 8 years of experience in Billing systems integration for GSM operators. A bit of everything, development, documenting, tuning, testing, analysis, project management. My team and myself got into Adempiere from Compiere. We want to make this working for our own need and contribute along the way with documentation, bug fixes, bring some piece to the edifice.
Welcome Hakem! u have expensive skills.. hopeu can write more bout it in the wiki. - Red1 05:26, 7 January 2007 (EST)
Name: Jenaro Centeno G., Jalisco, Mexico I am IT consultant, actually working as dba/na, I have experience with PostgreSQL, SQLServer, Oracle and Interbase databases, actually I am working with Delphi, I also have experience with C, PHP, Ruby, VB and C#, actually exploring .NET. I like to develop and document. I have helped with translations in other projects at sourceforge as moregroupware. I've working as consultant for more than 15 years, have a lot of knowledge about Network and Database Security, Systems Implementation, Accounting, Administrative Tasks and specially on Sales Force Automation area. Hope I can help. Thanks.
- Welcome Jenaro! Yes, documentation is king! And there may be a Ruby sub project that u can lead. Also this subject area of Sales Force Automation is expensive knowledge to share. -- Red1 22:02, 12 January 2007 (EST)
Name: Chia Chang, USA.
Somehow I couldn't find my previous entry anywhere. But I am glad that I can start it over again like the new year and the new me. ;-) I'm new to both Compiere and Adempiere. Therefore, there are a lot for me to learn and to catch up with other folks. I am a senior software developer with vast years' experiences. I also know Chinese and might be able to help in the Chinese translation. My goals are to contribute to the success of the ADempiere and the ADempiere Community and to grow with the community. :-)
- Ni hou, ChiaChang! again! Must be due to the crash we had in last December. Anyway, glad u are always new! - - Red1 22:02, 12 January 2007 (EST)
Name: Teo Sarca, Romania
I am a software developer. Working with Compiere and them with Adempiere for more than an year, I have implied/developed customizations, localization, accounting etc. I have experience with contains Java, Oracle, Networking, Accounting.
- Welcome Teo keep up the fantastic work! -- Red1 22:02, 12 January 2007 (EST)
Name: Fuad Ćurčić Manager of company Establish. IT company based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. We decided to implement Compiere in Fall of 2006, but since 1.1.2007 we are moving to ADempiere. We have a huge task of implementing this in no less then 15 companies that are vertically and horizontally linked into the Holding company. I have some 5 years as software developer and 3-4 years as IT manager and project leader. We are looking to help Community anyway we can since we need to upgrade software in may ways. Also, translation in Bosnian is our plan as well.
- Welcome Fuad i have received your email and extracting for bazaar to assist as well.
- - Red1 03:21, 14 January 2007 (EST)
Name: Martin Augustine From: South Africa Company: NTier Software Services
As a company we have been involved with Compiere since 2003 (As a partner). My IT experience is over 15 years, mainly in the development world. Personally I have assisted with Compiere implementations at numerous clients. We have faced quite a few challenges with working with Compiere. The only way we could effectively use Compiere was with a lot of customizations and fixes. We look forward to contributing to ADempiere.
- Name: Yogan Naidoo
- From: South Africa
- Company: nTier Software Services
- We were a Compiere partner since 2003. We have decided to join Adempiere due to various reasons. Some of them include new restrictive licensing conditions, lack of true community involvement and hence duplication of effort by the partner base. Thank you Adempiere for giving us an alternative.
At the moment I have chosen to remain outside development and instead focus on implementation and business processes. I guess you could call me a super-user of Adempiere.
Our company however have extensive development and implementation experience, with quite a few 'live' clients. In due course you will see a few of my colleagues edit their details here as well.
We look forward to working with Adempiere.
- Welcome South Africa! very happy that you are here! Red1 11:44, 17 January 2007 (EST)
Name: Anesh Meghraj From: South Africa Company: NTier Software Services
I've have been involved with Compiere and Compiere implementations since 2003. I've been involved in most aspects from business analysis, design, customisation and implementation.
I'm very encouraged by the roadmap and the functionality that is being proposed.
Looking forward to the challenge of migrating current implementation to Adempiere.
Name: Phani Kumar G From: India
I am very young to this community and i am looking forward to contribute myself to the best to the development of "ADempiere" as well as the community. I am a software engineer into testing. I have got very good experience in SCM Domain and technically as well. I have got good experience in Testing of the system (Black box & White Box). I have the working experience of SQL, UNIX, XML too. We have got the best team award and technical excellence award from the testing team. I am good in Automation Testing as well as manual testing. I can prepare the automation script and can be run for every release/major path applied to have the better quality of the product.
I will be greatfull if I am given the opportunity to work on this as a QA.
- Welcome Phani pls contribute your ideas in the sourceforge forums and start some of your own works... as ppl see your work, u shall be entrusted more official role. Red1 13:00, 31 January 2007 (EST)
Name:Bülent Aydin From:Germany & Turkey Company:openpoint
For a long time , I am following Compiere and now Adempiere. It is great project I am a project leader and developer (Database Design, Message Queues & Brokering, SQL, java, iSeries etc..) for over 10 years. I would like to contribute for documentation and turkish translation. I hope that in near future I can contribute more than translation & documentation.
- Welcome Bülent Aydin, looking forward to your contribution.. -- Red1 04:28, 1 February 2007 (EST)
Name:Stuart Gathman From:Fairfax, VA USA Company:Business Management Systems
We have a US import / export "green screen" ERP system that we will be trying to port to Adempiere. While many parts are US specific, there are many supporting tables that will apply to any country. For example, Carriers, Vessels, Airlines, Ports, Countries, Manufacturers, Consignees, Units of Measure. Many of these tables are common across all users of the system (e.g. Airlines, Ports, Countries, etc). (Adempiere should have downloadable data to populate such reference data, and a way for contibutors to update it.) US Specific tables include Harmonized Tariff, Quotas, Entries. We are just getting started understanding the system.
At the same time, I am installing Adempiere for a book distributor. I will be porting EDI interfaces and royalty accounting from their legacy system.
