Trying to squeeze in the extra time this week to open up to developers soon but first:
Non-technical- Nominate a name!
- Right now the code name I'm using is 'Samara' after the fruit that a maple tree produces but I'd like to hear better ideas if anyone has them (and maybe get some sort of consensus)
- Will my shop / organization be able to use it?
- Yes. The intention is to make everything completely customizable so that it can work with the way your organization does, although I'm not going to promote it over any of the other options
- It will be web-based and (if required) compatible with Wordpress, Joomla, and Drupal and eventually hopefully IPad and Android. Setting it up to work offline will also be possible.
- What will it do?
- The focus at the beginning is to create a point of sale system, after that I'd like to implement other features from news feeds to keep everyone informed to budget planning and audit modules (everything will be optional)
- Whatever else you can dream of and find someone to help build
- Why are you doing this?
- To create a common tool that will work for everyone's needs, so that we can combine our efforts where we can and diverge when we need to
- Because I like software development and especially interesting projects
- Not to overshadow other people's efforts such as freehub
- When will it be ready?
- No clue. I've made a number of promises in the past but I realized that I really need to stop making them, we all know what volunteering is like
- Don't wait for it if you need something now, there's lots of other tools out there and if you eventually want to switch we may be able to work together to get that done.
- Check out:
http://erply.com/, http://www.merchantos.com/, and of course
https://github.com/asalant/freehub/wiki/
How to get involved
GIVE IT A NAME! - It's likely that your shop name will be more prominent (if this name is even visible at all) but it would be nice to have something to call it when downloading or when talking amongst ourselves
Design a logo - You might want to wait for the name
Otherwise wait for my next email (but don't hold your breath), I'll be setting up a development environment so that people can jump on as they can. We'll be more in need of experienced PHP developers in the beginning stages to round out the framework, less experienced developers can hop on in the later stages to build modules and themes.
Feel free to send questions or feedback (critical or otherwise) directly to me if you'd like,
.godwin