Sure Milind, we can always use help. Please have a look at the Jira issues and the design document.
The links are on the sfa homepage: https://localhost:8443/sfa Please let us know where you want to be working on.... Regards, Hans On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 15:45 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi Hans, > This is exactly what I am looking for. > Maybe a bit more in terms of forecasting, campaign management and other > general CRM stuff. > Not sure if Quotes/Proposals/Approvals is considered SFA in Ofbiz world > but its something I would like to build. > How much of what’s listed has been achieved so far? > I see the following entities: Accounts, Contacts, Opportunities, Leads. > I have a build based on the svn code I checked out a month ago. > I would love to contribute some of my time and maybe one more persons time > from my company for this effort. > My level as far as ofbiz goes is pretty basic (completed Si Chens > helloworld tutorials) at this point. > I think this exercise should help me get beyond the basic level. I have > over decade of CRM experience and technology experience and have worked > with similar architectures/data model to that of ofbiz (infact something > that attracts me to ofbiz over other stuff out there), so I should be able > to contribute in some form. > Is there a good place to see the design documents for the SFA stuff? > Apologizes if this email starts a separate thread. I could not figure out > how to respond to the old thread so if someone can clue me in on that > front as well, I would appreciate it. > -Milind > > Re: new SFA system > From: Hans Bakker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org > > Anil, > > My priority for this customer are the following entities and the related > functions: > leads > contacts > accounts > opportunities > activities > requests > > In this order and then the rest. My customer is prepared to start with a > basic system, and extend later....the list above would be enough for him > for a first version. > > I am prepared to implement the functions according the general OFBiz > principles which i also use in the projectmanager. Review we need to > spread over the people who actually want to use it. > > For this customer i need the above functions in about 3 months. If you > can commit for half of the hours (150) in 3 months we could have a deal. > > REgards, > Hans > > On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 23:34 -0800, Anil Patel wrote: > > Hans, > > Development is progressing in SFA. At the same time we are also > > working on AR, AP and HR app, so its going to remain slow progress in > > each app for sometime. I am sure very soon it will pick up. > > > > It will be useful to know which part of development effort will you > > like to contribute, "Analysis and defining requirement Spec", > > Implementation, Review and Commit. Based on which part you are > > interested in, I can switch resources to work other tasks. > > > > Also like David mentioned, I am also interested to know what your > > plans look like for Project Management app. > > > > Regards > > Anil Patel > > > > > > On Mar 4, 2008, at 1:53 PM, David E Jones wrote: > > > > > > > > Hans, > > > > > > It would be great to work together on this. Our goal right now is to > > > create a generic Sales Force Automation (SFA) application that will > > > add in to OFBiz. > > > > > > I did some analysis and design for this a long time ago and just > > > cleaned up the document a little bit, and it is now posted here: > > > > > > http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/CRM+Sales+Force+Automation+Plan > > > > > > We plan to have some people working on this here and there in the > > > near future, but any and all help and collaboration is of course > > > welcome! > > > > > > BTW, this might be better in another thread, but we eventually want > > > to pick up on the Project Management app and help with that some > > > more too (we're working internally to do some analysis and define > > > some specs and such right now). One of the things that we definitely > > > want to do is create a separate webapp specifically for clients, and > > > another specifically for non-manager employees and consultants. > > > > > > Anyway, yeah, let's move these along! > > > > > > -David > > > > > > > > > On Mar 4, 2008, at 7:49 AM, Hans Bakker wrote: > > > > > >> Should we start a design document explaining the principles of the > > >> system? like i did with project management? > > >> > > >> David, what are your ideas? > > >> > > >> On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 21:20 +0700, Hans Bakker wrote: > > >>> David, Anil, Vikas and others > > >>> I have a customer interested in the new SFA system using leads, > > >>> contacts, accounts, activities, opportunities and communications. > > >>> Currently they use an older version of CRMSFA as test however they > > >>> are > > >>> interested using the new SFA system as it is currently in Jira. > > >>> > > >>> Anybody else interested? We could build the system in the next 3 > > >>> months. > > >>> > > >>> I see that the activities stopped....what are the plans for the > > >>> next few > > >>> months? > > >>> > > >>> I can contribute substancially, but cannot do it on my own. > > >>> > > >>> can we work together? > > >>> > > >>> Regards, > > >>> Hans > > >>> > > >>> > > >> -- > > >> AntWebsystems.com: Quality OFBiz services for competitive rates..... > > >> > > > > > > >
