Open ERP

We have hit a few snags in the development of ComUnion which means we will be missing our original development roadmap.

That's the bad news.

The good news is we continue to make progress with the project and are happy with the interest the project has been getting from the international community. Our project leader--Rowel has been in touch with sone of you. We are aggressively looking for community volunteers to help us get the project off the ground and into Beta, so if you are interested, please sign up and join our Community Forums. 

We are also setting up a mailing list for those who want to join our development team. 

 We badly need help in:

• Testing
  
• Localization
• Documentation
  
• Core Development (experts in Javascript frameworks--ie  JQuery
• Core Development using PHP (expertise in Code Igniter needed)
• Developers who have experience in charting applications such as SWF charts or CSS-driven charts for the dashboard development. 
  

Please get in touch with us if you want to volunteer--specially for core development. Thanks!

Our project development team lead, Rowel recently gave an internal presentation on the different iterations the ComUnion user interface went through before settling on the final design.

In terms of UI design, one of the major goals was to make the interface elements consistent across all components. A lot of the icons and widgets are actually shared across many of the modules so navigating from one component to another presents users with a consistent experience. We used the excellent Flexigrid Jquery plugin (the developer Paulo and maintainer Lovely, are actually a core contributors to ComUnion--thanks Paulo and Lovely!!!) for data presentation to the user.

Here for posterity, are the UI design iterations. Im posting it here so the community can give feedback: