Marketing Committee Meeting 20230331

Date: 2023-03-31
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/pfi6u1ye3i8ym8c6hz3wcm6a9h

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

What's new from last week?
- Bug fixes
  - IDEMPIERE-5238 Record_ID editor - fix 2Pack broken
  - IDEMPIERE-5604 Column Encryption is broken in native postgresql
- Development Improvements
  - IDEMPIERE-5570 Zk: Improve readability of code
  - IDEMPIERE-5655 Add setup file for Oomph Import
- Functional Improvements
  - IDEMPIERE-5602 Adding PriceEntered in Expense report
  - IDEMPIERE-5640 Fix Cross Tenant Sending BroadCast Message
- Usability Improvements
  - IDEMPIERE-5644 Allow to set an image per form
- Technical Improvements
  - IDEMPIERE-5647 allow define context variables by role
  - IDEMPIERE-5654 UnMark flag isProcessing in AD_PInstance table after start server
- @dpansheriya is a new core developer and did his first pull request and push
- Website was upgraded to Wordpress 6.2
- Two videos added to the home page
Donations vs Sponsorship initiatives
- There are two different concepts involving money:
  - Donation: is to give money without expecting nothing in return, just to be a good citizen, the project decides how to use those resources
  - Sponsorship: there's a clear goal in mind when the money is given. It has a purpose and the sponsor expects something in return.
- @chuckboecking repeated the message during the conference of companies making a revenue from iDempiere donating the equivalent to 100 USD monthly to support the project
- On the other hand, many implementers have mentioned to me that we need a way to handle sponsorship via crowd-funding for developments that benefit everyone in the community
- We want to try and explore the idea of crowd funded developments. We discuss in a future meeting the guidelines and procedure.
- We discuss in another meeting how to communicate the donate message proposed by @chuckboecking.
- We would like to try first a donation campaign communicating what we need and expect and why we need it.