News

New documentation and screenshots upload (24-July-2007)

New documentation about Fisterra-Base and Fisterra-Bmodules has been upload. In addition, documentaiton about last vertical implementation, called Fisterra Garage V2 has been uploaded too.

There are also screenshots of Fisterra Garage v2 in Overview section of this page,. These screenshots are only a small piece of all functionalities implemented in this new application.

New Fisterra release is comming soon (20-July-2007)

Hi Fisterra guys, we have done a lot of work, some quite good and some ... well, not so bad :). WE mus try to establish our platform, review and write new documentation, bug triaging, we must review release numbers, ...

I would like to summarize the main features added in this new release.
First, new architecture design:

• Fisterra-Base
  • Core of Fisterra development framework which provides basic tools to build applications:
    • Code generator
    • Basic classes and interfaces
    • Printing and reports system
    • Task scheduler
  • This part of framework does not define any business logic.
  • Provides tools for SOAP/CORBA compatibility
• Fisterra-BModules
  • Services modules.
    • Authentication and authorization
    • Tasks scheduler
    • Data bases replication
  • Business modules
    • Document workflow
    • Payment management
    • Contact management
    • Tax management

Second, new vertical applications developed:

• Fisterra-Textil
  • Application focused on Fashion bussines
  • Very small, only a few use cases implemented
    • Contact management
    • Supply orders editing and listing
• Fisterra-Repair
  • Complete ERP application for Garage business
  • Accounting basic uses cases
  • Purchases and Sales use cases
  • Warehouses and items management

Third, support for new communication technologies

• CORBA/SOAP compatibility
  • Orbit/GSoap
• Automatic data structure mapping in communications
  • IDL to WSDL

Fourth, new user interface technologies

• Fisterra now provides tools to implement Web interfaces using Mono
• Binnings for GTK# using GAPI project
  • GAPI was used to port Gtk+ to C#

Fisterra in the Guadec 2006 at Vilanova (27-June-2006)

Igalia has presented Fisterra project on Vilanova Guadec-2006. A talk was performed in the Guadec-es section, to describe the Fisterra architecture and the technologies involved on this project.

New project name for Fisterra1 based applications (06-September-2005)

The project name of the legacy Fisterra 1.x application has been changed to Fisterra Garage, to avoid confussion with Fisterra development framework. Fisterra Garage is an application which manages vehicle repair garage businesses

There was a problem with the link defined in this web to the SourceForge dowloads web. The previous link downloaded directly the previous version (1.5).
The main release of Fisterra Garage published on SourceForge is 1.6, see on Fisterra stable downloads webpage for more details about Fisterra stable releases.

New release Fisterra 1.6 published (29-August-2005)

New release Fisterra-1.6 is now available. New features and fixed bugs are developed for the vertical implementation for vehicle repair business, based on Fisterra1 development framework.

This version has been updated to fix bugs detected during the first two years of application running on various real business environments.

Some new features has been developed too :

• Clients has a default payment method, which it will be used in invoicing process.
• Some database queries has been reviewed to optimize these critical search operations, such invoice and IVA listings.
• The envelopes printing has been enable for multiple clients. A client listing can be used to print all envelopes with the default address.
• The repairs listing has been modified to include a new column, to show the accident reference, associated to the repair work.
• A new field has been added to manages provider selection. This filed is the AUTOVER code. This code is used by the AUTOVER provider, which is a very important provider for the most of business on which Fisterra1 is implemented.
• New template printing has been designed, to adapt them to the template models of insurance companies.
• The invoices interchange protocol implemented on Fisterra1 application has been modified to automate the sending process via mail.

The installation process has been enhanced to make it more easy to the user. The dpkg installation use a dialog based configuration to assign the enterprise and shop parameters, configuring and install the database, dump the initial data required to run the application, and other configuration parameters and files, such logs and replication directories.

Sarge Debian GNU/Linux packages are available.

Fisterra 2 published (22-July-2005)

Fisterra 2 was published yesterday, at the moment contains:

• "fisterra-base": is a stable and mature GNOME framework to develop sectorial applications.
• "fisterra-distribution": is a beta implementation yet, with POS (point of sale) functionality.

The packages (GNU/Linux Debian Sarge) can be downloaded from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fisterra/

You can also use the 'apt' server of Igalia: http://community.igalia.com/twiki/bin/view/Fisterra/ProjectDownloadStable

Fisterra in "I Congreso Tecnologías del Software Libre" (8-July-2005)

The Fisterra project participated in the recent "I Congreso Tecnologías del Software Libre", which took place at the Public University of A Coruña on the 7th and 8th of July.

The article about Fisterra 2 written for this Conference is already in the Documentation section for download.

Stablished the requirements of shop register (11-May-2005)

The Fisterra team has stablished the requirements of the shop register that will be implemented in the Fisterra project, this requirements are in the doc of Fisterra Distribution. the shop register contains the operations:

• The cashiers can charge to the clients.
• The clients can refund items.
• The cashier can add/retire cash to the shop register.
• The cashier can close the shop register.
• The shop chief can close the shop.
• The shop chief can insert items and define the sell prices.
• The shop chief can manage incidents about unsquare of the closings of shop registers.
• The shop chief can consult the cash quantity of each shop register.

Weekly work @ Fisterra (05-May-2005)

The Fisterra team was working in two different directions that will come together soon. Alejandro García and Sergio Villar were working together this week in a new design of document work-flow. Their work was based on the analysis performed last week. This is a critical part of Fisterra so we want to spend as time as needed.

On the other hand Javier Fernández and Eloy Froufe began to implement the first use cases approved for Fisterra Distribution. Eloy added the legacy system before implementing his use case called "Items Management". The legacy system allows the definition and the execution of scheduled tasks. Javier Fernández begin the implementation of the use case of the Shop Register.

We are also pleased to announce you the next release of an application developed for car glass business based on Fisterra technology shortly.

Fisterra papers accepted for the II GUADEC-ES (04-May-2005)

The GUADEC-ES organization has announced the schedule of the conference and there are three talks related to Fisterra:

• "Métodos y herramientas de desarrollo en comunidad", José Dapena
• "Orbit2 como middleware para una aplicación multicapa, usando el servicio de nombres CORBA", Alejandro García Castro, Juan José Sánchez Penas
• "Programación de un caso de uso en Fisterra", Sergio Villar

The GUADEC-ES conference was born on 2004 on Almendralejo, it has the same motivations of the original GUADEC but focus on spanish speakers. Igalia is supporting this year the conference and taking part on its organization. You can find more information about the conference and the schedule on their webpage: http://2005.guadec-es.org.

If you want to talk to programmers of the Fisterra project this is a great opportunity, we will look forward you on A Coruña :).

New web for Fisterra project (20-April-2005)

We've migrated the project web to the new Igalia Community portal this week. Though the web design is nearly the same, it's now fully wiki, and integrates better with our development tools.

Main changes are:

• It's done in TWiki, and has been focused on increasing the easiness to add new contents for project developers.
• Increased information about how to collaborate with the project, and reorganized contents.
• Better integration with development tools. It now includes links to browse the code through Bonsai, the Tinderbox compilation status and shortcuts to add or query bugs. It's all in the home page, in the Fast Board section.

More information about the Community Portal in Igalia release announcement.

The Fisterra project at the "Encuentro de desarrolladores de GNOME" (1-October-2004)

The Fisterra project participated in the recent "Encuentro de desarrolladores de GNOME" (Spanish-speaking GNOME developers meeting), which took place at the Public University of Pamplona on the 18th and 19th of September. In the meeting, organized by the GNOME-Hispano association, participated several developers of the Fisterra project, all of them members of Igalia, the main company behind the project at the moment.

In the meeting, the main features of GNOME 2.8, together with the news for the near future of the main projects of the desktop, like Evolution, Planner, or gnome-system-tools, were explained and discussed. Coordination tasks for other interesting innitiatives, such as the GNOME book in Spanish, were also carried out. During the two days, several discussions related to the current status and future plans for Fisterra were held.

During the meeting, several GNOME training and bug fixing sessions took place. The Fisterra team worked hard those days improving some parts of the project source code.

Completed the implementation of first group of use cases for the fisterra-distribution component (1-September-2004)

During the month of August, the implementation of the use cases included in the specification of the first version of the fisterra-distribution component was completed. Although bug fixing and validation are still pending tasks, the source code is already available in the CVS repository. The structure for creating the Debian GNU/Linux distribution package is also available in the CVS. As soon as the revised version is ready, the Debian package will be uploaded to the webpage to make the installation easier. The creation of an RPM package are being considered.

After completing these steps, we would like to have all kind of contributions and suggestions from the community for the specification of the next version of this component. Any comment or idea will sent to the mailing list related to what would be interesting to include, both in the architecture and the new set of use cases for fisterra-distribution, will be very welcome.

Fisterra Team talks at Guadec-es 2004 (25-May-2004)

The I Guadec Hispano (Gnome conference for Spanish speaking people) took place in Extremadura during the past weekend (21-23 of May). The main Spanish speaking Gnome developers and an important amount of users, most of them from the different projects related to GNU/LinEx, participated in different talks, discussion groups and collaboration meetings.

During the weekend, two talks related with the Fisterra project were presented to the audience: José María Casanova Crespo gave the talk "Fisterra Barnacle: persistencia de objetos con Gobject"; José Dapena Paz explained "Fisterra 2: software libre para gestión empresarial "; and Juan José Sánchez Penas participated as member of the Fisterra Team in a round table about Free Software companies and projects where the main ideas behind the Fisterra project development and business model were discussed.

The articles and the slides can be found here: project articles.

Tools for the open development of Fisterra (13-April-2004)

Bugzilla, Tinderbox and Bonsai, together with the Fisterra CVS repository, can already be used by the Fisterra project developers. Please, visit Community section to learn about how to participate in the Fisterra community (mailing lists, irc channel, and the new open development tools).

Fisterra 2 presentation at OSIC 2004 (23-February-2004)

On February 19-20th, the Open Source International Conference 2004 was hold in Malaga, Spain.

During the conference, Igalia's engineer José María Casanova Crespo gave the talk "Fisterra 2: free software for enterprise management". More than 100 people attended to the talk and asked many questions about the present and future of the Fisterra project.

Fisterra 2 presentation at Hispalinux Congress 2003 (25-September-2003)

On 23, 24, 25 and 26 of september is hold another year the greatest free software event in Spain, the VI Hispalinux Congress, that this year will be at King Juan Carlos University (Mostoles).

Igalia attends to this congress where most important science and technical international experiences come together. There will be the first social-politics debates about free software in Spain.

On September 25th, José María Casanova Crespo gave the talk "Towards Fisterra 2.0: Bussines Applications for SMEs." where he introduced the state of art in bussiness applications and the Igalia's proposal based in Fisterra 2 arquitecture as development platform for business management applications.

Fisterra2 0.0.2 (19-August-2003)

Today has been released on fisterra CVS the first version of Fisterra2 the Gnome2 release of fisterra. This release is a subset of Fisterra 1.5.9 features. Fisterra2 0.0.2 implements a part of CRM, this is the case study for the new architecture. This first milestone just removes the libraries of Gnome1.4 in order to use Gnome2.

Domain model has been changed into gobject and database traslated into English.

This is just a technological test of architecture release, for operational use continue using Fisterra 1.5.90

Presentation of fisterra at Caixanova NetGame (10-July-2003)

On July 10th 2003, José Dapena is going to participate in the NetGame Caixanova party, with the talk entitled: "Fisterra: Free Software for SMEs". In the talk, he will explain the main SMEs needs and how GNOME and Fisterra project solve them.

Igalia cooperates this way with the dissemination of the free software projects in which it is more involved: Gnome as desktop solution and Fisterra as SMEs management solution.

NetGame Caixanova is a computer party that is going to get together computer professionals and users coming from several places in Europe that are going to meet for 5 days (from 9th to 14th of July), at the Recinto Ferial de Cotogrande, in Vigo, with the goal of sharing all kind of activities related with computing and communications. Among the events that are going to take place, it is the II Conference on Free Software in Galiza, organized by the Galiza's LUG.
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