Thank you for joining

[Bart Mroz]

Thank you for joining the group. We would like to use this group to
talk about anything to do with ecommerce. So to start it of can you
guys post something about your self ... a quick intro would be great.

Thanks

[Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg]

Hey- I'm Alex UA, founder/partner/business lead of Zivtech, a Philly based Open Source Software shop located in Old City. We've done a number of e-commerce sites, all of which were done with Drupal + the Ubercart Suite (though we'll be moving to Drupal Commerce whenever Drupal 7 is released). The largest/most complex ecommerce site we've built is Flat World Knowledge, an Open Source Textbook Publisher a "freemium" platform that makes money by selling add-ons like print-on-deman, quizes, audio version, printable versions, etc. It's extremely complex as the 'products' are mostly automatically created via a DocBook XML import. It gets much more complicated due to the fact that professors can 'adopt' a book and rearrange/delete chapters as well as annotate on a per paragraph basis, and then those changes are (mostly) automatically synced to new products (so if you buy the print-on-demand it comes with the notes and the chapters/chapter order created by the profresser). Anyway, we're part of the Core Drupal Commerce team (formerly Ubercore), though we haven't been active in a while, and while we think D7 Commerce is going to kick Magento's ass we're definitely still keeping an open mind to using it in the near-mid term while it finishes baking. 

Anyway, we're here to learn about what other people in the area are doing about Ecommerce, and see how it figures into our devious plans for world domination. 

Looking forward to the next meetup- sorry I missed the last one, but daddy duties kept me tied up...

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Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg
Partner | Business Lead
Zivtech, LLC
http://zivtech.com
al...@zivtech.com
office: (267) 940-7737
cell: (215) 866-8956