[infrastructure] Next steps

[Ean Schuessler]

Hi, 

I've finished upgrading the production server to a much newer version of OFBiz. You will definitely notice the difference on the back-end. I also added the mission OSA_ORG role type that was causing the corporate sign up to break. With those out of the way I thought I would talk about some of the next items I would like to see us address on the site. Here goes: 

- The corporate sign-up should feed into a workflow for investigating approving the companies. I think this could be mapped onto either the customer requests system or the lead development system. The lead manager shows up under SFA and the customer requests, I believe, are in the workeffort screens. The lead management may be more fleshed out but the customer requests might give us more flexibility. 

- We've had a lot of requests for an event calendar tool. Gunnar and I put something very limited together by dropping a zimbra calendar into an iframe at http://opensourceforamerica.org/calendar. I'd like to see us use the workeffort system in OFBiz to create a user level tool for adding calendar events and aggregate all those into an official organization calendar. 

- The project management tool is greatly improved in the new OFBiz. I would like to open this system up to the workgroups to start enumerating the items they want to complete, scheduling them and assigning responsibilities. In the short term we could just give certain users security privileges to access the OFBiz backend but I would like to integrate these facilities into the OSFA branded front end. One option is to use the existing controller and model but build new views in webslinger, another option is to work on integrating the OFBiz screen widget with Webslinger (which we have some work started on) and yet another option is to brand the OFBiz backed pages so that they look OSFA. I'm rather interested in the last one because it would give us so much gear so quickly. 

- It would be great if we did some OpenID/OpenSocial/Facebook-Connect integration to streamline integration with other social systems. 

So that's a few thoughts. Comments? 

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Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com 
ean at brainfood.com - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315 
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