Using OFBiz as an Online Store for ASF Swag ?

[Sharan Foga]

Hi All

I'm posting this message here as a potential idea for OFBiz to help out the ASF. I'm not sure if it will go anywhere but here goes.

At the moment I help to manage the stock of ASF branded merchandise for conferences such as Apachecon and FOSDEM for Europe.

During FOSDEM although we were giving stuff away for free, we did have limited stock of some items and we actually had quite a few people interested in buying ASF branded stuff so I was thinking about the possibility of using OFBiz to setup an ASF online store.

This is only the start of an idea and I would need to discuss it with marketing, branding and community development to understand if it is even possible and if there are any restrictions etc and how it could work.

Thanks
Sharan.

[Jacques Le Roux]

We could have an instance on the demo VM not restarted everyday with only few admin access

My 2cts

Jacques


Le 08/02/2017 à 11:49, Sharan Foga a écrit :

> Hi All
>
> I'm posting this message here as a potential idea for OFBiz to help out the ASF. I'm not sure if it will go anywhere but here goes.
>
> At the moment I help to manage the stock of ASF branded merchandise for conferences such as Apachecon and FOSDEM for Europe.
>
> During FOSDEM although we were giving stuff away for free, we did have limited stock of some items and we actually had quite a few people interested in buying ASF branded stuff so I was thinking about the possibility of using OFBiz to setup an ASF online store.
>
> This is only the start of an idea and I would need to discuss it with marketing, branding and community development to understand if it is even possible and if there are any restrictions etc and how it could work.
>
> Thanks
> Sharan.
>
>

[Pierre Smits]

Who would own this (be responsible for) solutions/service?

If it is the project, then having it on the existing demo VM could make
sense. Otherwise another VM could make more sense.

Best regards,

Pierre Smits

ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>
OFBiz based solutions & services

OFBiz Extensions Marketplace
http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 12:15 PM, Jacques Le Roux <
[hidden email]> wrote:

> We could have an instance on the demo VM not restarted everyday with only
> few admin access
>
> My 2cts
>
> Jacques
>
>
>
> Le 08/02/2017 à 11:49, Sharan Foga a écrit :
>
>> Hi All
>>
>> I'm posting this message here as a potential idea for OFBiz to help out
>> the ASF. I'm not sure if it will go anywhere but here goes.
>>
>> At the moment I help to manage the stock of ASF branded merchandise for
>> conferences such as Apachecon and FOSDEM for Europe.
>>
>> During FOSDEM although we were giving stuff away for free, we did have
>> limited stock of some items and we actually had quite a few people
>> interested in buying ASF branded stuff so I was thinking about the
>> possibility of using OFBiz to setup an ASF online store.
>>
>> This is only the start of an idea and I would need to discuss it with
>> marketing, branding and community development to understand if it is even
>> possible and if there are any restrictions etc and how it could work.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Sharan.
>>
>>
>>
>

[Jacopo Cappellato-5]

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Sharan Foga <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi All
>
> I'm posting this message here as a potential idea for OFBiz to help out
> the ASF. I'm not sure if it will go anywhere but here goes.
>
> At the moment I help to manage the stock of ASF branded merchandise for
> conferences such as Apachecon and FOSDEM for Europe.
>
> During FOSDEM although we were giving stuff away for free, we did have
> limited stock of some items and we actually had quite a few people
> interested in buying ASF branded stuff so I was thinking about the
> possibility of using OFBiz to setup an ASF online store.
>
> This is only the start of an idea and I would need to discuss it with
> marketing, branding and community development to understand if it is even
> possible and if there are any restrictions etc and how it could work.
>
> Thanks
> Sharan.
>
>

I like the idea of the ASF using OFBiz to run their web shop to sell
gadgets etc and raise some funding. The instance would be maintained by the
ASF Infra and we could help them when needed.

Jacopo

[Pierre Smits]

Yes,

Though there might be some reservations at ASF level to run a shop
organisation (with sales/purchase and warehousing/shipment staff, etc.) we
could help them start off with a one-stop solution where projects and/or
offices could make their products (stickers, t-shirts, giveaways, etc.)
visible to the interested parties, with link-throughs to project/office
sites, etc.

Best regards,

Pierre Smits

ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>
OFBiz based solutions & services

OFBiz Extensions Marketplace
http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Jacopo Cappellato <
[hidden email]> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Sharan Foga <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> > Hi All
> >
> > I'm posting this message here as a potential idea for OFBiz to help out
> > the ASF. I'm not sure if it will go anywhere but here goes.
> >
> > At the moment I help to manage the stock of ASF branded merchandise for
> > conferences such as Apachecon and FOSDEM for Europe.
> >
> > During FOSDEM although we were giving stuff away for free, we did have
> > limited stock of some items and we actually had quite a few people
> > interested in buying ASF branded stuff so I was thinking about the
> > possibility of using OFBiz to setup an ASF online store.
> >
> > This is only the start of an idea and I would need to discuss it with
> > marketing, branding and community development to understand if it is even
> > possible and if there are any restrictions etc and how it could work.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Sharan.
> >
> >
> I like the idea of the ASF using OFBiz to run their web shop to sell
> gadgets etc and raise some funding. The instance would be maintained by the
> ASF Infra and we could help them when needed.
>
> Jacopo
>

[Jacopo Cappellato-5]

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Pierre Smits <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> Though there might be some reservations at ASF level to run a shop
> organisation (with sales/purchase and warehousing/shipment staff, etc.)
> [...]


This (and other important aspects) is definitely something they will have
to figure out if they are interested to the idea.
I guess that Sharan is going to explore this with them.

Jacopo

[Shi Jinghai-3]

Great idea, Sharan.

I want to buy a T-Shirt of Miami Apachecon. I'm afraid I won't be there :).

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主题: Using OFBiz as an Online Store for ASF Swag ?

Hi All

I'm posting this message here as a potential idea for OFBiz to help out the ASF. I'm not sure if it will go anywhere but here goes.

At the moment I help to manage the stock of ASF branded merchandise for conferences such as Apachecon and FOSDEM for Europe.

During FOSDEM although we were giving stuff away for free, we did have limited stock of some items and we actually had quite a few people interested in buying ASF branded stuff so I was thinking about the possibility of using OFBiz to setup an ASF online store.

This is only the start of an idea and I would need to discuss it with marketing, branding and community development to understand if it is even possible and if there are any restrictions etc and how it could work.

Thanks
Sharan.

[Sharan Foga]

Hi All

I've had some initial positive feedback on this so I'd like to bring this discussion back up again on our lists to see if we have enough support to take it further. The general idea is the same – so allowing people to buy Apache branded swag, but then also at some point extending it to allow people to buy branded swag for any Apache project.

So firstly would our community be willing to build and set this up? And secondly (and more importantly) would our community be willing to support it if anything needed fixing or updating?

Thanks
Sharan

On 2017-02-08 11:49, "Sharan Foga"<[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi All
>
> I'm posting this message here as a potential idea for OFBiz to help out the ASF. I'm not sure if it will go anywhere but here goes.
>
> At the moment I help to manage the stock of ASF branded merchandise for conferences such as Apachecon and FOSDEM for Europe.
>
> During FOSDEM although we were giving stuff away for free, we did have limited stock of some items and we actually had quite a few people interested in buying ASF branded stuff so I was thinking about the possibility of using OFBiz to setup an ASF online store.
>
> This is only the start of an idea and I would need to discuss it with marketing, branding and community development to understand if it is even possible and if there are any restrictions etc and how it could work.
>
> Thanks
> Sharan.
>
>

[Michael Brohl-3]

Hi Sharan,

I missed to answer to the first call, so thank you for bringing this up
again.

I think it would be great to have a (multi-project) merchandising shop
build on base of Apache OFBiz.

 From the OFBiz community/product view it might help us to gain more
attention and for the ASF it could be a good starting point for a
central platform for merchandising and more.

Happy to help if I can.

Best regards,

Michael Brohl
ecomify GmbH
www.ecomify.de


Am 29.10.17 um 17:18 schrieb Sharan Foga:

> Hi All
>
> I've had some initial positive feedback on this so I'd like to bring this discussion back up again on our lists to see if we have enough support to take it further. The general idea is the same – so allowing people to buy Apache branded swag, but then also at some point extending it to allow people to buy branded swag for any Apache project.
>
> So firstly would our community be willing to build and set this up? And secondly (and more importantly) would our community be willing to support it if anything needed fixing or updating?
>
> Thanks
> Sharan
>
> On 2017-02-08 11:49, "Sharan Foga"<[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Hi All
>>
>> I'm posting this message here as a potential idea for OFBiz to help out the ASF. I'm not sure if it will go anywhere but here goes.
>>
>> At the moment I help to manage the stock of ASF branded merchandise for conferences such as Apachecon and FOSDEM for Europe.
>>
>> During FOSDEM although we were giving stuff away for free, we did have limited stock of some items and we actually had quite a few people interested in buying ASF branded stuff so I was thinking about the possibility of using OFBiz to setup an ASF online store.
>>
>> This is only the start of an idea and I would need to discuss it with marketing, branding and community development to understand if it is even possible and if there are any restrictions etc and how it could work.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Sharan.
>>
>>