Help support e-commerce in Plone - sponsor PloneGetPaid

[Jon Stahl]

Dear Friends-

Have you ever wished you could use your Plone website for e-commerce, online donations and paid content subscriptions?  

I know I have.  And I've long been frustrated by the limited choices in the Plone ecosystem.  Now a new solution is within reach!  

PloneGetPaid will provide a solid ecommerce solution for Plone—but to make it happen, we need your help.

http://plonegetpaid.com/sponsor

PloneGetPaid will be an add-on Product for Plone containing a simple set of ready-to-use features—and a solid, easy-to-customize Zope 3-style framework—that will let you quickly and easily do basic e-commerce tasks in Plone. 

We think that there's a lot of demand in the broader Plone community for a simple, flexible e-commerce solution.  But there's no single sponsor who can underwrite the entire effort.  So we've decided to pursue a "social source" funding model, where we turn to the Plone community itself for support.   That's where you can help!

http://plonegetpaid.com/sponsor

 Thanks to the generosity of several sponsors, we’ve already raised $4,500 of our initial $7,500 budget.  But we need to raise the additional $3,000 to get a usable first release built in time for work on a second release milestone at the Doc-Com Sprint. 

 Will you make an investment in ecommerce for Plone with a sponsorship for PloneGetPaid?

http://plonegetpaid.com/sponsor

 You will be investing in a quality product created by trusted members of the Plone community.   PloneGetPaid is being led by Chris Johnson of ifPeople and Kapil Thangavelu of ObjectRealms.  Both are long-time Plone community members with solid track records as integrators and developers.   

Along with a great team of contributors (including me!), who started initial work at Plone Conference 2006, they've created use cases, done the initial product design and set realistic development milestones.  There will be a team of people working on GetPaid at the upcoming Doc-Com Sprint (that's "documentation and commerce") being held at Google HQ in California on June 25-29.

With your support, you will join already committed sponsors including ifPeople, ObjectRealms, Contextual Corporation, Totsie.com and ONE/Northwest.  Your sponsorship will support Kapil's work over the next month to do the heavy development lifting to get a usable first relase built for the Documentation/E-commerce sprint in late June. 

We've already raised over $4,500 (and leveraged a ton of volunteer time!), but as you know, e-commerce is a big problem space, and it's going to take more resources to do the job right.  Your donation will make it happen. 

If you—or your clients—need a simple, modern, customizable, e-commerce system for Plone, we ask you to become a sponsor of PloneGetPaid.  You don't have to bankroll the whole project (not that we'd refuse!), you just have to do your part.  $50 makes a difference.  So does $500.  And so does $5000.  If we all pitch in, we all get a great solution we can drive forward together.

http://plonegetpaid.com/sponsor

Thanks for your support.

If you have questions about PloneGetPaid, please contact PloneGetPaid project leader Chris Johnson (cjj -at- ifpeople.net).

Sincerely,
Jon Stahl

Program Manager
ONE/Northwest
www.onenw.org

 

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[cjj]

Thanks, Jon, for getting this out to the group. You all may be interested to know that we have had good progress to date and you can already start testing the code! What follows is an update about the code, how you can learn more, and our "social source" funding model. Please let me know if you have any questions or want to get involved with the project. And see www.plonegetpaid/sponsor to contribute.

See the full article (also pasted below) on our blog http://plonegetpaid.com/updates or subscribe to our feed!

Best wishes,

Christopher
--
ifPeople - Innovation for People
www.ifpeople.net
--
Show me the code!

This past week, Kapil took on GetPaid head on and has been making great
progress towards the Red Ochre release<http://plone.org/products/plonegetpaid/releases/0.1>!

An excerpt:

 from the admin screens you can now activate content types to
 be available as buyable, shippable. the admin pages have also
 switched out to a set of tabbed views from a single view.

 from within the plone ui navigation, for content types configured
 for it within the admin screens, you can enable an individual
 piece of content to be one purchasble, and edit its purchase settings.

Read complete update
email<http://groups.google.com/group/getpaid-dev/browse_thread/thread/f84cd8611da60bbb >.
The latest also includes work on the shopping cart. If you want to grab the code and check it out, check out the easy process thanks to the use of zc.building! The Getting Start
doc<http://code.google.com/p/getpaid/wiki/DevGettingStarted>explains it all.

For those of you anxious for the latest news, we will have a conference call this Wednesday, May 23 at 1pm Eastern for an update on the product's development. Please join us! Dial in to 605-725-3600 with
access code 69812 .
 
Social Source Fundraising

We realize that commerce is a serious need in Plone's toolkit. We have all been waiting for it to just "emerge" from the community, but unfortunately, it hasn't yet. So...we decided to fast-track that by
going beyond the volunteer efforts at sprints to actually fund development. Just as Open Source relies on a group of individuals to contribute to the whole, our "social source" funding model relies on
individuals, organizations, and businesses in the community to contribute the pieces that make funding possible.

You can seeour ChipIn widget on the site - www.plonegetpaid.com . Our
"Red Ochre" Release has a cost of $7,500, of which we have secured
$4,500 from sponsors already. Now we are pursuing more community
contributions to raise the remaining funds. If you would like to be a
sponsor or make a contribution, please check out our Sponsorship
page<http://plonegetpaid.com/updates/archive/2007/05/sponsor/become-a-sponsor>.
Thanks to Jon Stahl for getting out our fundraising letter to Plone
users list.

Sponsors include:

   - ifPeople
   - Object Realms
   - One/Northwest
   - Contextual Corporation
   - Totsie.com <http://totsie.com/>

Read more about our sponsors!
<http://plonegetpaid.com/sponsor/sponsors>   Become
a sponsor
today!<http://plonegetpaid.com/updates/archive/2007/05/sponsor/become-a-sponsor>