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= [[File:who.png]] Why Dolibarr as name for this project ? =
In a mail found on a mailing-list, we can learn that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores_Ib%C3%A1rruri Dolores Ibárruri] was used to found this name.


'''How do you pronounce name of project ?'''

Like this: '''Dawl-eee-bahr'''

or to put it another way: "Doll", "eee", "bar"

= [[File:orientation.png]] History of Dolibarr development =

Dolibarr was started by [[Rodolphe Quiédeville]], from scratch, and saved under CVS on Savannah, [[Jean-Louis Bergamo]], another [https://www.april.org April] member, started the foundation management module.

* First commit was done the 29th April 2002 and Version 1.0 was released in September 2003.

Rodolphe works principally on development and win First Place at the Trophées du libre in 2003, in the category "Enterprise management".
This was the reason why other developers discovered this new software.
Among them, [[Laurent Destailleur]] (Also know to be the author of [https://awstats.org AWStats Log Analyzer] and [https://sellyoursaas.org SellYourSaas]) realized its first modifications to the project in December 2003.
He was then helped by [[Régis Houssin]] 1.5 year later, in June 2005.
They are the 2 main leaders until today but were helped by many external contributions from other standalone developers or companies.

* On September 2011, sources were moved onto GitHub and contribution are coming since from all the world.

* The first book about Dolibarr is released by Romain Deschamps, an independent technical book writer in June 2016: https://www.dolibarr.org/fr/parution-du-livre-bien-gerer-son-entreprise-avec-dolibarr-societes-de-services-et-consultants.php. Several updates will be done the following years...

* The Dolibarr project leader with the April organization participates to the feedback and working group to rewrite the "Loi Finance 2016" in january 2018 (also called VAT AntiFraud Law): https://wiki.dolibarr.org/index.php?title=Loi_finances_2016_sur_les_logiciels_de_caisse_et_Certification_NF525_ou_LNE

* Dolibarr is the winner of the award "Projet Open Naos D'or" in december 2020: https://www.dolibarr.org/fr/dolibarr-vainqueur-du-prix-projet-open-naos-d-or.php, https://naos-cluster.com/2021/01/12/retour-sur-les-naos-dor-2020/

* Dolibarr become compliant with the Best Practice of the Open Source Security foundation in january 2022: https://www.dolibarr.org/dolibarr-project-conforms-to-the-best-practice-of-the-opensource-security-foundation.php

* Dolibarr enter the list SILL of the french governement in October 2022: https://www.dolibarr.org/fr/Cataloguenumeriquegouvfr.php, https://code.gouv.fr/sill/detail?name=Dolibarr

* Dolibarr win 20i FOSS award in June 2023: https://www.dolibarr.org/dolibarr-win-the-20i-foss-awards.php

* Elected multiple times as project of the week and Community project of month by sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/blog/december-2020-community-choice-project-month-dolibarr-erp-crm/

* Read page [[:Category:RoadMap|Roadmap]] for history of other versions.

A lot of other developers, freelances, amateurs or companies contribute, with their tests, their patch submission, their translation to the enhancement of Dolibarr.

[[Laurent Destailleur]] is now the project leader since 2008.



The following pages [https://ossinsight.io/analyze/Dolibarr/dolibarr#overview Project statistics] and [[Statistics]] gives miscellaneous statistics on the Dolibarr project.

= [[File:orientation.png]] The present =
Take a look at page [[Dolibarr_Project]] for information on the current Dolibarr team.

This is a short video of Dolibarr ecosystem:
https://youtu.be/GJ8-r9bHyB8

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[[Image:Dolibarr ecosystem.jpg|link=https://youtu.be/GJ8-r9bHyB8|Dolibarr ecosystem]]
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= [[File:orientation.png]] And the future ? =
See last version on page [[:Category:RoadMap|Roadmap]]