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The GLPI Project - present & future
The speaker discussed the GLPI project, an open source IT asset and service management solution. Main features include hardware, software and license asset management, inventory functions, and ITIL service desk capabilities. The project is used by small organizations to large companies and governments. It has a codebase developed over 13 years on specific frameworks. The presenter outlined challenges around code maintenance, growing the contributor community, and plans for new products extending GLPI's capabilities like mobile device management and antivirus software.
The GLPI Project - present & future
- 1. The GLPI Project OW2Conference, June 2017
- 2. The speaker Walid Nouh: •Associate at Teclib’ Group • GLPI core developer since 2006 • FusionInventory core developer since 2010 • GLPI Product manager at Teclib’ @wawaxx
- 4. Main features Asset management: •Hardware, software, licenses • Local inventory • Extra features: – Network discovery – Remote inventory – Software deployment
- 5. Main features ITIL ServiceDesk: • Incident & request management • Problem & change management • Knowledge base Other: • Plugins • REST API
- 6. Audience A solution foreverybody: • Small associations to big companies • Public sector • Education • Industry • Banking sector • Etc.
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- 10. Team & community Teclib’team: • 10 people in France & Spain Community members: • Integrators • Freelances • Individuals • Companies • Translators
- 11. Challenges The code base: •Specific framework • Loosing knowledge Features vs rewrite: • Balance between new features and code rewrite • Write tests for a 13 years old project
- 12. Challenges The community: • Newwebsite • Interact with our users in their language: – Portuguese – Spanish – Russian – English
- 13. Challenges Contribution workflow: • Unittests for PR soon mandatory • More reviewers • Write doc for new features and behavior changes • Attract new contributors The product: • Write an up-to-date user documentation • New User Interface in JS • DB support: PostgreSQL and more
- 14. Upcoming products FlyveMDM: • MobileDevice Management on top of GLPI • Android & iOS • Open Source: GPLv3 • AngularJS UI • Developed by Teclib’ at github.com/flyve-mdm
- 15. Upcoming products Armadito: • OpenSource Antivirus for Linux and Windows: LGPL v3 • Real-time protection, uses ClamAV and Yara signatures • Centralized console embedded in GLPI • Developed by Teclib’ at github.com/armadito
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