 Okay. Hi. Sorry for the delay. This is going to be a strange talk. Let's put it out there. You know, we're all amongst friends, right? So here's where you need to make a choice. Because this is my introductory slide about me. There are two choices. Oh, one choice. Should I do the high impact presentation of me? Or should I do a low impact presentation of me? So what? It's on me. It's about me. High impact or low impact? Who's in favor of the low impact? Okay. One, two, three, four. Who's in favor of the high impact? That's clearly a majority. Okay. So don't blame I didn't warn you, right? So it's going to be the high impact. And it's an experiment. This is the second time I'm doing this. So afterwards, after this slide, I'll ask you if I should do that again. I should get a mouse on screen somehow because I need to... Should work on this end. Come on. Give me. Give me, give me, give me. Oh, this. Okay, okay, okay. Okay, thanks. High impact, right? Okay, there we go. Okay, so who am I? I'm father of five with a picture of five girls. One of them is single. But you get me as a father-in-law. And I'm the one that wears a t-shirt, ten rules for dating my daughter. With the first one being get a job. And my girls are like, no, not again. You know, I wear this somehow. It happens to be the first time that some guy comes around. Yeah? Okay. I'm also, I've been a volunteer firefighter for ten years. So playing around with cars, rescuing dogs. My helmet, this part is melted. It was hot, but it was exercise and fun. I do stuff with boy scouts, girl scouts, scouting. This is a combination of course of firefighting and scouting. A large event in the Netherlands. 5,000 scouts every four years. I'm the author of, I'm currently writing book nine and book ten. So these are three of those. And I'm also a caretaker. So this is one of the girls. And this also gives you an idea of the balance in our lives. I'm also the liberal plan project leader. And this is the boring introduction. What do I do? I do remote systems management. You know, monitoring backups at the consultancy, teaching and training, Python, Web, Linux, whatever, all fun stuff. And I write. This is my main project. But I said I would ask you, so that first slide, should I do that again or shouldn't I do that again? Who's in favor that I should do that again? You know, high-impact introduction of me in one slide. We think that, okay. Okay, thanks. You know, it's sort of, you know, you put yourself out there way, make yourself vulnerable. It's a touchy subject. So thanks. Okay. LibrePlan is a web-based project management application. It's open source. And it's very cool. Don't let the fact that it's been four years since the last release scare you off, but I had other things to do, as you could see by the introduction of the slide. But last week I was at the notary, so there's now an official LibrePlan enterprise company. And we're really going to reboot it. Apologies first about my English. Other people here from the U.K. Okay, so thanks. I will try not to make really lame jokes about current Brexit situation. But it's, I'm pretty spontaneous, so I can't really guarantee that I won't. But it's not, I'm not trying out, it's just making bad jokes, you know? I'm not trying to insult people. But the Dutch, they speak English, but they take everything literally. And this is best shown by this table I once found somewhere on Facebook. If a British guy says, with all due respect, he means, I think you're wrong. And I here, he's listening to me, he's respecting me, we've got a nice dialogue going, right? And several things that I don't know by heart, so I'll probably mess up. Other people from other countries I'll probably mess up too, but that's another culture, right? Okay, the reason for this talk, tell you how I did things. That's it. There's no hidden agenda, it's just telling you how I did this. And what is this? Well, who knows about Odu? Okay, so a lot of people don't, right? Who doesn't know about Odu? See, that's a majority. It's Python based. It's written by a Belgian company, mainly, but it's got a big open source community. It's used all over the world, and it's sort of an ERP kind of system, enterprise resource planning, you can do your finances, you can do your logistics, warehousing, customer relation management, email campaigns, billing, quotations, all that kind of business processing stuff. It's all in there. There's a community edition, which is, of course, free, and then we've got an enterprise edition, which is, of course, not free. Like Wikipedia said, it's all in one business software, including CRM, website, billing, accounting, manufacturing, warehousing management, project management, inventory, web-based, Python, Postgres, at the back, started in 2005. Community and enterprise edition has also a community association, the OCCA. They are sort of doing their thing in open source, connecting to Odo, and has a large get-up rapport with many adults. What does it look like? Well, this is your main, could be, this could be a personalized main menu. And this is where you install one of the standard 360 apps. That's on the standard system, so you can expand on that. And this is just a screen where you see your CRM, your customer relationship management, your sales, your opportunities that are currently playing. There's a potential customer. What's the chance that he will be interested? What do you think he will buy or not? What do you think he will spend on your company or not? And what's the project goal? My project goal, I have been asked to write a book about Odo. Somebody asked me to write a book. And my answer was no, because in the Netherlands, writing a book is a poor man's job. If you write a bestseller, you have to think every copy sold is about one euro for the author. It doesn't matter what book, any book in any bookstore, in any way in the world is about one, one fifty. A thick book is maybe two euros for the author. So if you sell 80,000 copies, which is a bestseller in the Netherlands, and you do three books a year, you've got a very good salary. But if you're into IT, and I guess most of us poor slobs are, then maybe you sell 600 copies, which means you can go one time for a very fancy dinner, but that's it. But this guy approached me and said, I want you to write a book about Odo. And I said, no, yeah, but I want you to write. You've written before, you've got a good source, you can talk about it pretty well, I guess. Actually, I met him when I did a talk in the northern part of Spain. Two Dutch guys there, in 300 people, and we end up with each other. Well, talking anyway, don't get me wrong. And so I said, well, I've been happily married for 13 years, and my wife had just finished a contract management course for her work. She said, invite him for dinner and let's talk about this. So we invited him for dinner, we talked about this, and turned out that she said, well, this is basically a project, and a project is just an hourly rate. So he said, that's fine, we agreed on a modest fee. And so this is a project that I'm now standing here, I'm not getting paid. This is just me returning to share some knowledge after 20 years of gaining knowledge at FOSDEM. And he wants this book targeted at fresh startups. So really low barrier to entry. If you want to start a business, start with Odoo. That's what he wants to, the message he wants to get across. And he has a vision for that, and it's a good vision, I think. Yeah, sure, I'll write a book about it. How do Odoo can help them grow their business? It has to be in British English, and I talked earlier about my English. So, you know. But one of my daughters, after finishing high school, did about a half a year at a course she paid for, oh, completely herself, in London, because she loved the English language and wanted to learn more about it. So she really dove into the subject in London, and I asked her if she could spell check my book. I gave her a red pen, and I got her red pages, all stack of red pages back. Anyway, it's corrected now, and the manuscript says correctly. And I'd love to do talks. So this may be some nice subject. And to spread the word to other countries about what we're doing here is also a reason. Now, steps I took in this project. I wrote the book. It's very simple. I developed a logo, and I registered the domain. I talk about the book. Now, let's get into a bit of detail. You know, let's take these steps one slide at a time. Writing a book. Get for version control. If you don't know get, I'm not going to explain it to you. The source is an ASCII doc, or basically ASCII doc tour, dash PDF. That's my go-to tool for this book, because it creates PDF. I use a special build script, and that's always in any project. Your build script is what you make to combine your source files with ASCII doc or dash doc or dash PDF to get to a PDF. So that's, depending on the book, your build script will change. And publishing it on lulu.com. Now, this is not a commercial message, but lulu.com is publishing on demand. So you upload a PDF of the content, you upload a PDF of the cover, and then anybody in the world, well, you could make the URL hidden, so only you can order the books, or you can make the URL public, and then anybody can order the books. And as soon as somebody orders the books, that's when it's written at a print shop sort of nearest to your location. And the funny thing is about this, there's no stock. So after, normally, if you go to a publisher, they have some 1,500 copies printed, and they put it in their warehouse, and when it's done, it's done. Sorry, books out of stock. With lulu, it's never out of stock, and it's very easy to update if somebody says, boy, there's an error on page whatever. I correct the error, I run the build script, I upload PDF, so 15 minutes later, I have an up-to-date corrected book for sale in the shop. Okay, designing a logo. I don't know if I need to tell this, but I'm a geek, and geeks are worse in design, bad in design. I'm bad in design. I've created a few websites. The message is correct, but it looks like crap, right? So I think tech nerds don't do design. They shouldn't. But then there's Fiverr with two Rs. And Fiverr is a sort of a web shop with designers from all over the world, and those are designers. That's their thing. That's in their DNA, where tech and nerdy geeky stuff is in my DNA. Designing is in their DNA. So you can commission, look somebody's design work, say, will you make a design for me? It can be very cheap. One of those designs I'll show you was made by a woman in Indonesia, €475, which is in Indonesia, well, it's the daily wage, €3 a day, so it's enough for... €3,300 for two months, right? Okay, I got at the end of... I had two great logos, and I paid both of them and the result. Well, this was a logo that I loved. You know, it's the jump that I found nice. And then there's the other one. There's also a jump. A little more funny. And it took me a long while to make a decision which one I chose for the book. Which one would you... Who would choose this one? Okay, who would choose this one? That's a minority. Let's go back to the fact that I said I can't design because I chose this one. Okay, clearly I should have chosen this one, right? That's a clear majority. That's good for me to know. Thanks. Okay, then there is designing the cover. I have my content. It's content. It's in a PDF. I upload it. And I have Inkscape. I'm assuming people know what Inkscape is. Who doesn't know what Inkscape is? Okay, Inkscape is... Do you know what GIMP is? Okay, so that's pixel-oriented graphics. The other type of graphics is vector-oriented graphics. Like Illustrator. Exactly. So that's Inkscape. And then when you upload the PDF, you get a cover. And the cover has a backside. Then the spine, it's called in English. I learned. And then there's the front cover. But together, that's spread. If you remove the content and you make it flat, you get a spread. But a spread with depends on the thickness of your content. Yeah? With me so far? So, after uploading to Lulu, Lulu tells me the spread with should be X. Now, and then you go to Inkscape and you design. Well, this is my design effort. Sorry, I know I shouldn't. And clearly I have to replace this logo. But this is what I came up with. And this word cloud I made with a very easy writing script that I found online, because I wanted a word cloud. I thought it was fun. Oh, by the way, if you ever read a book again, this page on the back that always says, oh, this author is brilliant. And this is his masterpiece. And every author is asked by the publisher to write that text. Right? So there's nothing, not somebody else. The author himself has to write all this bullshit on the back. Okay, current status. I've got 165 pages. Testprint 2 is out. Version for computers, 0.2 alpha. All right? Current estimated release date. Somewhere Q2 this year. And oh, that's something else. The book looks like, looks like this. So it's got pages and pictures. You know, if you make graphs in books, you know what the term is. For the non-tech people, it's management porn. Management love graphs. It's management porn. Anyway, so, and you just order a copy. And Lulu, for the author, Lulu tells you it's so many euro to print one copy. So you know what their cost is. And then you can also say what would you think would be a fair sales price. And the difference is yours. So you make a lot more money selling these than selling a book via normal publisher. Maybe you sell less because now you are in charge of the marketing. That's the downside, but you make more money. So maybe it evens out, but it feels better. You know what I mean? It feels better. Okay. And then there is the scoop. I started a hobby project. So this slide I just put in this morning. And other people who know what this is. Wow, one. Okay. This is the DSKY, this key. The display and the keyboard. And this used to be an Apollo space shuttle to the moon, back in 69. And there are several projects online. Currently my 3D printer has been working for a week to make all the parts for the outside. There is already a project for the PCB, but I want something different. So I did do some electronics in a bachelor level someday in the past, way back in the past. So now I'm doing a key cat online training course so I can learn to design another PCB. So that's my hobby project. I've just registered the domain. There's no website. There's no email yet working. We'll all be done tomorrow, I guess. Okay. Thanks for your attention. Any questions? Say what? Yeah, I can. Is the video off? I think he doesn't like the spotlight. Once he started a business, and in selling a specific kind of fertilizer, and that grew into a company in 30 countries, and then he sold that, making him an instant millionaire, maybe built multi, I don't know how much, but he's in there, you know? And he knows about open source. I don't think he programs, but he could be in the audience. He isn't. He's not here, but he could be in the audience. You wouldn't see the difference. He's half nerd, half human. And he wanted this book to... Oh, yeah. And he also automated his whole business with Odoo Community Edition. And that's why he now feels like, he wants to encourage new entrepreneurs to do what he learned, start early using Odoo. Don't start with WordPress for your website first, because you can also do that in Odoo. Start with your website, even your website in Odoo, and grow from there. Yes. Okay, so for one, it's free, which is nice for a startup. It has huge functionality that's really at a professional level. So your income taxes, your invoicing, it's all in there. You can expand on it. And if your business grows at some point, probably you will shift to the Enterprise Edition when you have 100 or 200 people working for you. But it's with innovation and startups, not everybody will grow to that level. So you need to encourage as many people as possible to start a business with a good idea and a cheap piece of good software and see if that can grow into a big business. You have to settle for the next exit. Can I do one? Yeah. Okay. Is the book open-source? The book content is not open-source. For example, I start with the community version, and let's say I need one application which is the Enterprise version. The Enterprise version offers self-hosted support, but they charge for all the apps for the user which you're using. Is there a possibility to use a combination of community-based for most of the application and just use the Oracle scanner from the Enterprise version? It works differently. So the OCA, the Odo Community Association, has a GitHub repository with a huge amount of open-source add-ons. So you just have to find the correct add-on in GitHub, incorporate that into the community edition, and then it's completely integrated because it's a large community. Being Java-based, of course, this is Python, but no, I'm not a business specialist. I'm not a specialist, by the way. Okay. Thank you so much.