Buying group software

[Federico Bruni]

In Italy there are local buying groups who order food or any stuff from local organic farms. They are called GAS (Gruppo di Acquisto Solidale).

I'm wondering if you know similar groups in Europe. If yes, do they use a Free web service to collect the orders?

In Italy we have a small Italian project, probably run by one person:
http://www.economia-solidale.org/

The php code should be on Sourcefourge.

Of course an international Free Software project would scale much better.
Does it exist already and I'm missing it?
Or there's no interest in such a service?

Thanks
Federico
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[Florian Schmidt]

Hi Federico,
in Germany we have such groups too. They are called
"Verbrauchergemeinschaft" or Food Coops.

Sombody started this project (sourcecode hosted on Github):
http://www.foodcoops.net/
https://github.com/foodcoops/foodsoft

A quick search revealed also the following project:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/foodcoop/

Anyway, i've never used these packages. In my old food coop we used to
have a self-programmed platform that is not really maintained.

Regards,
Florian

Post by Federico Bruni
In Italy there are local buying groups who order food or any stuff
from local organic farms. They are called GAS (Gruppo di Acquisto
Solidale).
I'm wondering if you know similar groups in Europe. If yes, do they
use a Free web service to collect the orders?
http://www.economia-solidale.org/
The php code should be on Sourcefourge.
Of course an international Free Software project would scale much better.
Does it exist already and I'm missing it?
Or there's no interest in such a service?
Thanks
Federico
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[Odile Bénassy]

Le Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:57:24 +0000,

Post by Florian Schmidt
Hi Federico,
in Germany we have such groups too. They are called
"Verbrauchergemeinschaft" or Food Coops.

and in France :
AMAP for "Association pour le Maintien d'une Agriculture
Paysanne"

http://www.reseau-amap.org

My AMAP uses a simple web site + a google spreadsheet

Post by Florian Schmidt
http://www.foodcoops.net/
https://github.com/foodcoops/foodsoft
http://sourceforge.net/projects/foodcoop/
Anyway, i've never used these packages. In my old food coop we used to
have a self-programmed platform that is not really maintained.
Regards,
Florian

Post by Federico Bruni
In Italy there are local buying groups who order food or any stuff
from local organic farms. They are called GAS (Gruppo di Acquisto
Solidale).
I'm wondering if you know similar groups in Europe. If yes, do they
use a Free web service to collect the orders?
http://www.economia-solidale.org/
The php code should be on Sourcefourge.
Of course an international Free Software project would scale much better.
Does it exist already and I'm missing it?
Or there's no interest in such a service?
Thanks
Federico
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[Federico Bruni]

Post by Odile Bénassy
Le Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:57:24 +0000,

Post by Florian Schmidt
Hi Federico,
in Germany we have such groups too. They are called
"Verbrauchergemeinschaft" or Food Coops.

AMAP for "Association pour le Maintien d'une Agriculture
Paysanne"
http://www.reseau-amap.org
My AMAP uses a simple web site + a google spreadsheet

In my group, for most orders, we send and collect spreadsheets through emails. It's quite boring.

I'm currently thinking about automating it with a python script and cron.

[Federico Bruni]

Hi Florian
Thanks for the info!

You showed to me the right keywords so I could find also a django project:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-coop/
https://github.com/credis/django-coop

Good to know that there are several international projects.

Post by Florian Schmidt
Hi Federico,
in Germany we have such groups too. They are called
"Verbrauchergemeinschaft" or Food Coops.
http://www.foodcoops.net/
https://github.com/foodcoops/foodsoft
http://sourceforge.net/projects/foodcoop/
Anyway, i've never used these packages. In my old food coop we used to
have a self-programmed platform that is not really maintained.
Regards,
Florian

Post by Federico Bruni
In Italy there are local buying groups who order food or any stuff
from local organic farms. They are called GAS (Gruppo di Acquisto
Solidale).
I'm wondering if you know similar groups in Europe. If yes, do they
use a Free web service to collect the orders?
http://www.economia-solidale.org/
The php code should be on Sourcefourge.
Of course an international Free Software project would scale much

better.

Post by Federico Bruni
Does it exist already and I'm missing it?
Or there's no interest in such a service?
Thanks
Federico
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[Wouter Tebbens]

Hi Federico,

here's a small community of mainly Spanish cooperative consumption
groups sharing the code as free software:
https://github.com/jmueller17/Aixada

with our local consumption coop we're currently looking for better
alternatives. A neighbouring coop has adapted drupal, which might fit
our needs - at least in part.

But it would be interesting to hear about other options as well.

best,

Wouter

Post by Federico Bruni
In Italy there are local buying groups who order food or any stuff from
local organic farms. They are called GAS (Gruppo di Acquisto Solidale).
I'm wondering if you know similar groups in Europe. If yes, do they use
a Free web service to collect the orders?
http://www.economia-solidale.org/
The php code should be on Sourcefourge.
Of course an international Free Software project would scale much better.
Does it exist already and I'm missing it?
Or there's no interest in such a service?
Thanks
Federico
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