Re: ApacheBookStore.com

2014-10-14 Thread Rich Bowen
On 10/14/2014 10:55 AM, Pierre Smits wrote: With everything you have, of course, to consider whether the joy is worth the price. Presumably that's up to the people that want to run the store! :-) Mostly, I just wanted to be able to update the grossly outdated content on that site, when I sta

Re: ApacheBookStore.com

2014-10-14 Thread Pierre Smits
With everything you have, of course, to consider whether the joy is worth the price. Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM * Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Rich Bowen

Re: ApacheBookStore.com

2014-10-14 Thread Rich Bowen
On 10/13/2014 10:02 PM, Pierre Smits wrote: True, whether or not to pursue the exploitation of an e-commerce activity by The ASF is something that needs to analysed thoroughly regarding the fiscal and social implications. But, before such endeavour is undertaken the ASF could use the capabiliti

Re: ApacheBookStore.com

2014-10-13 Thread Pierre Smits
True, whether or not to pursue the exploitation of an e-commerce activity by The ASF is something that needs to analysed thoroughly regarding the fiscal and social implications. But, before such endeavour is undertaken the ASF could use the capabilities of OFBiz to showcase the books related to th

Re: ApacheBookStore.com

2014-10-13 Thread Ted Dunning
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:27 AM, jan i wrote: > On 13 October 2014 16:30, Pierre Smits 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 (

Re: ApacheBookStore.com

2014-10-13 Thread Roger Whitcomb
Here is a blog about non-profits and "earned" income. It is certainly possible (and common). The two big things to look out for are: - whether the goods sold are substantially related to the non-profit's purpose - and how much income is derived relative to other activities http://www.nonprofitlaw

Re: ApacheBookStore.com

2014-10-13 Thread jan i
On 13 October 2014 16:30, Pierre Smits 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, ba

Re: ApacheBookStore.com

2014-10-13 Thread Pierre Smits
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)

Re: ApacheBookStore.com

2014-10-13 Thread Rich Bowen
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

Re: ApacheBookStore.com

2014-10-12 Thread jler...@apache.org
And if not, at least show OFBiz books, if the ApacheBookStore gets updated We have some in the learning section at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/OFBiz+Related+Books#OFBizRelatedBooks-Learning As mentioned there, those sold by /Packt pay a percentage of the sales back to th

Re: ApacheBookStore.com

2014-10-10 Thread Pierre Smits
Rich, Why not consider the eCommerce solution of the Apache OFBiz project as a replacement for the wiki page? Regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM * Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Mon, O

Re: ApacheBookStore.com

2014-10-06 Thread Rich Bowen
On 10/06/2014 04:21 PM, Konstantin Kolinko wrote: 2014-10-06 17:13 GMT+04:00 Rich Bowen : 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 lin

Re: ApacheBookStore.com

2014-10-06 Thread Konstantin Kolinko
2014-10-06 17:13 GMT+04:00 Rich Bowen : > 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" -> ht

Re: ApacheBookStore.com

2014-10-06 Thread Rich Bowen
On 10/06/2014 02:55 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: Anybody know who manages/owns/whatever ApacheBookStore.com?... I suppose you noticed that "Added by" and "last edited by" on the front page point to familiar names? I did, but the signup pag

Re: ApacheBookStore.com

2014-10-06 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: > Anybody know who manages/owns/whatever ApacheBookStore.com?... I suppose you noticed that "Added by" and "last edited by" on the front page point to familiar names? -Bertrand