Open ERP - Training centers solution

I spend a couple of days working with - https://launchpad.net/~openobject-training. This is a serie of addons modules for Open ERP. The target is the management of a training center.

Any companies active in training or conferencing could benefit of it once it is finished -which is far from being the case I must say.

On the mind map you can see more or less the scope of the modules. You first design you library of courses with potentially sub-courses.

Offers represent your commercial offering. For example you could decide to market only course A with course B. Or may be sell them separately and propose a discount on a package of both. A session is basically an instance of an offer with dates -> seances.

The document management is used for support materials and can be associated to products - probably to order from print shops.

There is a trainers management but with minimal functionnality concerning skills and knowledge management.

It seems the modules will be strong at ordering management, managing external resources and cost computations.

I had no time to look at the portal functionality at this stage. Of course there are dash boards and reports... But I could not make a quotation -- too buggy !

Beyond the fact it is not working completely at this time, I see two major concerns:

• planning is dramatically embryonic - no way to enter planning of availabilities trainers, locations) and very basic seance scheduling. So it will not help building your schedule.
• the other point is the integration with the rest of the application. From the offer you may link to a product while in my mind a training is a product... The consequence is that the standard Open EPR workflows for offering etc do not apply. So selling a classical product and a training will probably not easy to implement in the system... Potentially one could work around this by creating one product per offer, but I think it is too much admin work.
  

I hope these weakness will be worked out one way or another. There is really some potential in helping services companies and training management is part of it.