Marketing Committee Meeting 20200911

Date: 2020-09-11
Time: 12:00 UTC
Venue: Mattermost - Channel: Marketing
Called by: Marketing Committee

You can find the detailed meeting here:
https://mattermost.idempiere.org/idempiere/pl/pt94fyaz6bgsddy7dzrgqutqzr

Summary of the day
Participation
Meeting led by: Diego
Meeting notes and follow-up actions: Diego
Attendance list: Diego, Carlos, Eugene

What's new from this week?
1. Add offset to the query class
2. Change Locator Dialog TableDirect
3. Support for Under/Over line and Blank line in finacial report line.
4. Adding support for blank line export in CSV, HTML, Excel. Also allowing to show description if provided.
5. Wrong GL postings for matched invoice in RMA/Vendor Return/Credit Memo
6. Fixed a reported issue that substracted 1 day in certain cases on the client side, causing inconsistent data.
7. Adding 'Relative Period To' on financial report column which allow to specify period range to produce YoY. QoQ like comparision report.
Next community day follow up
1. We make a public announcement to the community to ask them what they feel is missing and should be improved documentation-wise, this will be done through a idempiere-marketing forum thread.
Project financial support. Sponsorship initiative
1. We identify 3 subtopics regarding sponsoring and project financial support:
  1. How to engage people to donate more, to sustain the project in the long-term.
  2. What are the things the project should do - without asking for volunteers, sponsored tasks
  3. Donating money with a specific purpose in mind - how to handle this.
2. Ideas ->
  1. Exposure
  2. Credit
  3. Openness
  4. Meaning (what did the project accomplish with the money you donated)
  5. We have talked also about mentioning sponsors in groups such as Platinum, gold, silver, bronze, etc ....
  6. ask them
  7. give them feedback re what changes were made bc of there donations (even if they do not chose how money are to be spent)
  8. give them a badge or a prize, something they can show with pride to others.
  9. Improve the communication message for the sponsors (it's not about a big amount, small amounts constantly is equally important)
Special mentions:
1. Steven/Adaxa and @dpansheriya contributed nice improvements on financial reports this week - great!
2. Change Locator Dialog TableDirect have a positive impact on users. Thanks to @igor.pojzl and @norbertbede
3. The bug fixes from Elaine (and sponsorship from Michael) are very important too.