Marketing Committee Meeting 20200918

Date: 2020-09-18
Time: 12:00 UTC
Venue: Mattermost - Channel: Marketing
Called by: Marketing Committee

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You can find the detailed meeting here:
https://mattermost.idempiere.org/idempiere/pl/rcnps1qghjfk8cwb8f5oy1hfpr

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

1. What's new from this week?
   1. Info Window performance
   2. Fix RUN_SyncDB
   3. Global search element id
   4. Implement filter for SQL debug - unify oracle and postgresql variable
   5. Implement Support for JUnit5 Unit Testing
   6. Important Fix from Paul Bowden
   7. There's a major contribution this week. the update of [iDempiere Fitnesse integration](https://github.com/idempiere/idempiere-fitnesse) done by @muriloht. This is a big plus

1. Weekly meeting - how to improve it? Follow up
   1. Some more mature projects such as WordPress have weekly meetings but of specific teams: Marketing meeting, design meeting, core meeting, documentation meeting, etc ...
   2. Propose improvements
   3. Important design discussions
   4. A project does a 15 minutes weekly meeting: "Last week in ____" -> Stay up to date with iDempiere in 15 minutes a week
   5. Ubuntu has an open agenda, community members propose items during the week
   6. Drupal defines it as: One way to find out what’s happening in Drupal. This means, what has been done, what is the project currently working on, roadmap, plans
   7. NodeJS does a bi-weekly meeting of "trainings" or crash courses. One hour where they choose a topic and teach the audience about it.
   8. The proposal is for iDempiere to try first a weekly meeting "Last week in iDempiere (15 minutes to stay up to date with the project)". And bi-weekly do a +45 to talk about the roadmap-plans, etc...
2. Next release - how can we help?
   1. We pursue to do a "Q&A to help promote the latest versions" -> The marketing commmitee supports the upcoming release by bringing together questions from developers feedback, users, etc. And answering them in a document for each significant feature to be introduced.
3. Additional mentioned topics:
   1. On the next meetings we want to talk about sub-comittess and their leaders.