On 13 October 2014 16:30, Pierre Smits <pierre.sm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Rich, > > How about drop shipments directly from the publishing party, if they can > handle that? That way no inventory would be required. > > With OFBiz The ASF can take the ordersin (not only for books, but also > promotion stuff like t-shirts, banners, buttons, etc), accept the payment > (credit card, etc) and send the supply order to the party handling the drop > shipments. > Technically I am sure OFBiz can handle it, but how does this work with our non-profit status, I am not sure we can freely sell goods without paying taxes. rgds jan I. > > Best regards, > > Pierre Smits > > *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* > Services & Solutions for Cloud- > Based Manufacturing, Professional > Services and Retail & Trade > http://www.orrtiz.com > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > > > > On 10/10/2014 12:07 PM, Pierre Smits wrote: > > > >> Rich, > >> > >> Why not consider the eCommerce solution of the Apache OFBiz project as a > >> replacement for the wiki page? > >> > > > > That could be cool - you mean, selling books directly and giving profits > > to the ASF? How would we handle shipping/inventory? > > > > Anyways, I haven't heard back from anyone that handles that site, and I > > don't have the cycles to pursue it, but it sounds like a good thing to > try > > to do, if someone wanted to take that project. > > > > --Rich > > > > > > > > Regards, > >> > >> Pierre Smits > >> > >> *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* > >> Services & Solutions for Cloud- > >> Based Manufacturing, Professional > >> Services and Retail & Trade > >> http://www.orrtiz.com > >> > >> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > >> > >> On 10/06/2014 04:21 PM, Konstantin Kolinko wrote: > >>> > >>> 2014-10-06 17:13 GMT+04:00 Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com>: > >>>> > >>>> Anybody know who manages/owns/whatever ApacheBookStore.com? > >>>>> > >>>>> On the front page: > >>>>> > >>>> 1. "ASF Committers may add new items to our inventory or edit the item > >>>> descriptions." -> contact e-mail address > >>>> > >>>> 2. Last line on the front page: "Contact Administrators" > >>>> -> > http://www.apachebookstore.com/confluence/oss/administrators.action > >>>> > >>>> An interesting effort, but the site looks somewhat outdated and > >>>> unmaintained. The latest listed books are from year 2008. > >>>> > >>>> Thanks. I totally missed those. > >>> > >>> Yes, it's completely unmaintained, and we have several project websites > >>> that link to it. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > >>> http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon > >>> > >>> > >>> > > -- > > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon > > > > >
