Rushabh Mehta

131 points

Mumbai

Rushabh is the founder of ERPNext an Open Source ERP product for Small and Medium Sized Businesses and loves writing code in Python, Javascript and HTML/CSS. He lives in Mumbai, India and you can find him on Twitter @rushabh_mehta. Projects at GitHub

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Good design matters for open source projects

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Can India break the pattern and do open source right?

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An open source ERP system built to self-implement

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rmehta

5 Feb 2015

Good design matters for open source projects

David, ERPNext is also built on a bootstrap based framework. Its called "Frappe" https://frappe.io. When we started off, there was no standard framework like Django so we had to build it with our own. Considering the amount of work that has already gone in, it is a very difficult switch now.

rmehta

5 Feb 2015

Good design matters for open source projects

Bilas, you will be surprised how many companies need an ERP and don't need advanced MES and routing. ERPNext does have a planning system though. The goal is to make ERPNext accessible to everyone and those who can only pay big money. You should checkout some of stories shared by the users (https://erpnext.com/conf/videos#user) to get a better idea.