Multi-CSA system
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bobhaugen
Jun 17, 2009, 10:27:44 AM6/17/09
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That's my project for this fall.
CSA = Community Supported Agriculture. Eaters support growers. That
is, people who want food buy shares in a farm. In return, they get a
series of food baskets throughout the growing season: what ever's
fresh.
Good for the farmers, good for the eaters.
Here's a sample:
http://www.familyfarmed.org/csa_list.html
I'll be working with a bunch of CSA's in Illinois and Wisconsin. More
is merrier.
Current plan is for a hosted system where CSA's can sign up and get
running. (Plans may change without warning...)
Each CSA will have its own "home page" and members (people who buy
shares), as well as "product" pages showing the variations on food
baskets members can buy into, and maybe "specials" that people can
order in addition to the regular food baskets. Each CSA will probably
want a blog, photos and member emails (both incoming and outgoing).
Maybe forums.
We'll support PayPal (only) for online payments.
On the "back end", each CSA will in turn be a member of the group of
CSA's, where they can send messages to each other, do aggregation
deals (which is very common - one CSA supplements their offerings with
something a neighbor produces that they don't), and share experiences
(maybe internal blogs, tweets and forums).
We'll also want a CSA directory with maps and other features for
people to find a CSA in their area that has open shares.
Does any of that seem insane to anybody?
What technical or other problems hit you on the head?
Anybody want any part of this?
CSA = Community Supported Agriculture. Eaters support growers. That
is, people who want food buy shares in a farm. In return, they get a
series of food baskets throughout the growing season: what ever's
fresh.
Good for the farmers, good for the eaters.
Here's a sample:
http://www.familyfarmed.org/csa_list.html
I'll be working with a bunch of CSA's in Illinois and Wisconsin. More
is merrier.
Current plan is for a hosted system where CSA's can sign up and get
running. (Plans may change without warning...)
Each CSA will have its own "home page" and members (people who buy
shares), as well as "product" pages showing the variations on food
baskets members can buy into, and maybe "specials" that people can
order in addition to the regular food baskets. Each CSA will probably
want a blog, photos and member emails (both incoming and outgoing).
Maybe forums.
We'll support PayPal (only) for online payments.
On the "back end", each CSA will in turn be a member of the group of
CSA's, where they can send messages to each other, do aggregation
deals (which is very common - one CSA supplements their offerings with
something a neighbor produces that they don't), and share experiences
(maybe internal blogs, tweets and forums).
We'll also want a CSA directory with maps and other features for
people to find a CSA in their area that has open shares.
Does any of that seem insane to anybody?
What technical or other problems hit you on the head?
Anybody want any part of this?
Rob Yates
Jun 17, 2009, 10:56:16 AM6/17/09
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Bob,
Everything you have outlined sounds spot-on and a perfect fit for what
it seems a CSA needs to reach out to their customers and their
community.
As a customer, I can say that my CSA does a wonderful job with their
website including purchasing shares online and receiving regular e-
mail communications. They are very forward-thinking technically and
may be interesting to talk to. Check them out at:
http://www.spiralpathfarm.com/
As much as I'd love to help, time is really short for me right now,
but I'm happy to help vet ideas.
-Rob
Sent from my iPhone
Everything you have outlined sounds spot-on and a perfect fit for what
it seems a CSA needs to reach out to their customers and their
community.
As a customer, I can say that my CSA does a wonderful job with their
website including purchasing shares online and receiving regular e-
mail communications. They are very forward-thinking technically and
may be interesting to talk to. Check them out at:
http://www.spiralpathfarm.com/
As much as I'd love to help, time is really short for me right now,
but I'm happy to help vet ideas.
-Rob
Sent from my iPhone
bobhaugen
Jun 17, 2009, 11:15:05 AM6/17/09
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Rob, thanks for the feedback. Hope it will continue. Understand time
pressures very well.
On Jun 17, 9:56 am, Rob Yates <ryates...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.spiralpathfarm.com/
Their "community bulletin board" looks like a great idea!
I'll borrow it...
pressures very well.
On Jun 17, 9:56 am, Rob Yates <ryates...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.spiralpathfarm.com/
Their "community bulletin board" looks like a great idea!
I'll borrow it...
Brian Rosner
Jun 17, 2009, 4:27:13 PM6/17/09
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On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:27 AM, bobhaugen <bob.h...@gmail.com> wrote:
Each CSA will have its own "home page" and members (people who buy
shares), as well as "product" pages showing the variations on food
baskets members can buy into, and maybe "specials" that people can
order in addition to the regular food baskets. Each CSA will probably
want a blog, photos and member emails (both incoming and outgoing).
Maybe forums.
This all sounds like the perfect use case for the group refactor work. I recently sent out a notice to the pinax-core-developers mailing list warning of breakage on master. I am going to be merging in the work. There will be some rough edges and I hope you'll be able to work some of them out. If not with code, but at least some auditing for your purposes.
Anybody want any part of this?
Unfortunately, I am unsure if I will have any available to time to dedicated (other than through Pinax which would benefit this project). Are you going to be developing this open source? It seems this could highlight a use case for Pinax 0.7 as well as help us (the core developers) understand how it can be used in different ways.
Brian Rosner
http://oebfare.com
bobhaugen
Jun 19, 2009, 8:08:54 AM6/19/09
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On Jun 17, 3:27 pm, Brian Rosner <bros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This all sounds like the perfect use case for the group refactor work.
I'm counting on it, and will check it out when I get closer to actual
> This all sounds like the perfect use case for the group refactor work.
work on this project, which I think will be in the fall.
>Are you going
> to be developing this open source? It seems this could highlight a use case
> for Pinax 0.7 as well as help us (the core developers) understand how it can
> be used in different ways.
persuading partners, who seem open to the idea.
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