Vtiger Gettogether Meeting - Brescia, August 25, 2007
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We had a wonderful get together meeting in Brescia with productive discussions on various topics ranging from Product Roadmap, Community participation, Partnership models, ..etc. I have summarized the discussions below.
First, let me thank all the attendees for taking the time on a Saturday to travel to Brescia and join the get together, and special thanks to Andrea Alberici from Studio Synthesis, for being a wonderful host.
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[edit] Attendees and brief introductions:
1. Studio Synthesis (Brescia, Italy) - Andrea Alberici, Carlo Beschi
- Power user of CRM, teaches CRM course in a local university - 2 years teaching on vtiger - Consulting firm focused on delivering CRM solutions to SMEs - Ideas of application of CRM in financial system
2. TSolucio (Spain) - Joe Bordes, Lorenzo Perez
- Addressing SME needs
3. Different Solutions (Munich, Germany) - Martin Henke, Alex
- Delivered vtiger solutions to companies like PosBank and Volkswagen - maintaining vtiger.de site
4. big consulting (Hamburg, Germany) - Thorsten Vocks, Heika
- serving the Hospital industry - interested in BI integration
5. CRMVillage.biz (Brescia, Italy) - Davide Bonamini, Tullio Bezzornia
- serving SME needs - maintaining vtiger.it site
6. Visionava (Bovezzo, Italy) - Davide Garzetti, Jean Beppe (excuse me if i got the name down incorrectly)
- getting started on CRM market
7. vtiger team - Richie, Sreenivas Kanumuru
[edit] Meeting Schedule:
1. Introduction by Andrea
2. vtiger Status by Sreenivas Kanumuru
- 5.0.3 success, Competitive Threats, Plan of Action
3. vtiger Product Roadmap by Sreenivas Kanumuru
- 3 tracks (5.0, 5.1, 6.0) - 5.1 in Nov/Dec timeframe - Next generation modular, extensible CRM platform (6.0) - 6.0 - Standard APIs between modules - 6.0 - One-click download of extensions, and web services - 6.0 Early access in Dec/Jan, and GA in May/June 2008
4. TSolucio's experience with vtiger by Joe Bordes
- serving SME needs by delivering the custom solutions on vtiger - contributing extensions to community - Need to simplify module creation - Need to have a modular platform - roadmap - Calendar/Activity integration with other modules - Language pack wizard should be bundled with product - Coding guidelines - BI - integration with Pentaho will be better instead of internal reports module
5. CRMVillage.biz Suggestions by Davide Bonamini
- Sugar's marketing machine - Sugar's community edition - new plans to counter vtiger? - Making money for contributors.. (Online Store for vtiger extensions)
Lunch Break
6. Winery Tour
7. Different Solutions experience with vtiger by Martin Henke and Alex
- developed solutions for large enterprises like Volkswagen and Posbank - funded Oracle porting and plan to release to community
8. Open Discussion
9. vtiger Partnership Model - Sreenivas Kanumuru
- Free partnership - Gold and Platinum levels (Fee based) - Development, Marketing and Sales benefits.
[edit] Open Discussion Items:
1. vtiger forums
- vtiger forums needs a few heavy contributors who share the responsibility. (Alex) - vtiger forums responsibility should be handled by community members. (Joe, Alex, Martin)
2. Documentation, Test Cases, and Testing
- vtiger team should take help from developer community to develop documentation (Joe)
3. vtiger Europe
- Mailing list should be created to help communicate, collaborate on local events (Martin)
4. vtiger Wiki
- is not user friendly. - incompleted wiki pages should be deleted - Alex
5. vtiger developers list
- vtiger team should be active in the developers forum. There are issues only vtiger team can respond to (Joe)
6. Marketing help for partners
- Brochures, Banners should be provided by vtiger team so that a common layout is used by all regional partners (Joe)
7. Listing local events on vtiger site
- need to promote local communities on vtiger site - Sreenivas
8. Points based system for community members
- Get points for writing an article, or contributing a plugin - Thorsten, Davide Garzetti
[edit] Action-Items:
1. vtiger forums will be enhanced to incorporate rankings/ratings (Owner: vtiger team)
2. Community Portal will be enhanced to improve collaboration (Owner: vtige team)
3. Followup on other suggestions. (Owner: vtiger team)
Sreenivas Kanumuru
vtiger team