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From: Niclas Hedhman <niclas@hedhman.org>
Organization: Independent
To: general@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:00:06 +0800
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Sender: Niclas Hedhman <hedhman@gmail.com>

On Friday 13 January 2006 04:27, David E. Jones wrote:
> As I understand it in order to become a top level project the Board =A0
> must be the sponsor, which is why the proposal was written that way. =A0

That is a misconception. For projects targetting top-level, EITHER the Boar=
d=20
or the Incubator PMC must sponsor.
Board doesn't like to sponsor, and do so only in exceptional cases. So the=
=20
Incubator PMC is the right folks to address. (And probably why you get the=
=20
"What is this doing here?" response from the Board.)


Anyway.
I am also quite intrigued by this proposal. OFBiz has been on my radar for=
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quite a few years, but never got into any active work I am doing.=20

However, I am currently working on a "competing product" which I think woul=
d=20
benefit from being based on something like OFBiz instead of "all in-house"=
=20
development. I think the company in question would also benefit is some of=
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the generic stuff is pushed out into OFBiz, to lower the man power=20
requirement. After all, this company doesn't sell the underlying technology=
,=20
they sell the end-user system, totally customized for a particular company.

I am in favour of bringing this to ASF, and would also like to assist in th=
e=20
incubation process.


Cheers
Niclas

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