CSA Bof @ DrupalCon DC 2009
Intro
* Alex from CT family members in CSA
* Steve from Denver from Growing Venture Solutions, about to join a CSA, wants to work on an urban gardens website
* Kevin (me) CivicActions / Toronto
* Sam from Raleigh NC, will work with his farmer on his website
* Aaron from NH in Boston, shareholder, just finished Omnivore's Dilemna, sister has Brookfield farm in Amherst MA
* Shaun from Boston, local food movement, The Food Project
* Benjamin Melancon, Agaric Design Collective, People Who Give a Damn, Fiscal sponsor
* Mitchel UFL, gift economy in Gainesville, Edible Landscaping Project, Sustainable __ County,
* Joel, Seattle, Jewish Intentional Community, Urban Kibbutz, buying half a farm,
* Gregory Heller, investment product, "eat your dividend", $2500, context spaces patterns
* Kevin, Hawaii, used to own a CSA, curruntly working with former farmworkers in California who are now doing CSAs, CA Alliance of family farms, working on an install profile
* Chach, works at a science museum, also working on a project called Local Biology, to learn about the things that grow in the place that they live,
* Colin, works with Drupal coop in Oakland, likes food and making websites
* Stacey, Portland, lots of CSAs, involved in CSAs, front and backyard scale
* Name?, Santa Cruz, consumer of awesome food
* Abiji , background in landscape architecture, founded website called Planetizen, interested in stories about IT related to local food
* Derek (didn't get information)
Feature Brainstorm
* map of where crops are ready across the country
* shared recipe database
* Multilingual--high hispanic population
* subscription management module
* share swapping and share splitting--consumers sharing a box, trading a box.
* blog
* ecommerce, purchasing shares and other products
* volunteer signup
* events
* multimedia
* donations
* member relationship
* blog/newsletter
* disintermediate the relationship between the shareholders (cut out the middleman)
* which local groceries and restaurants include
* geo stuff
* restaurants, farmers markets and other places to buy shit
* pickup points
* farm
* facebook integration
* semantic web to pass this info back and forth between the sites
Potential collective projects
* coordinate a CSA drupalcamp
* Collect user stories from farms
* wiki page with good CSA websites and drupal websites
* g.d.o. group (done!)
Comments
hey
I created a discussion topic by accident... I thought it would post to the main page like your entry here, that didn't happen though...How do you create a new entry like you did with this?
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hey Alex, click "create discussion" on the group's sidebar menu.
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Existing CSA Websites + feature list
I spent several hours researching resources for CSA websites and added them to the wiki page. I am in the process of visiting CSA web sites and compiling a list of found features with linked examples. I will post another wiki page for a feature list with examples. I add Drupal sites to the existing list as I come across them.
---- Update ----
A feature list with examples was posted 3/16. I incorporated the Feature Brainstorm. Some features have many examples and others have few or none. If you add a feature make sure it isn't duplication of a feature by another name. If it is a related feature, add a "see also". The features could become part of a selectable installation profile, see http://drupal.org/project/packgr .
Installation profiles
The feature list is off to a great start! I made a few minor additions and am waiting on feedback from some farmers.
Also, I think there needs to be some discussion about which bundled solution makes the sense. Spaces (http://drupal.org/project/spaces) and patterns (http://drupal.org/project/patterns) looked like good alternatives as presented at the Drupalcon. I'm not sure which are mutually exclusive. I imagine the following criteria as being relevant:
* breadth of support/familiarity in developer community
* maintainer activity
* ease of maintenance
* ease of site installation
* hosting requirements for installation
* upgrade path support
I'm in the process of evaluating these different solutions and I'd be curious to hear what those of you who have experience with these modules have to say.
Let's not wait
IMHO, if we wait for Patterns or Install Profile API, we won't get anything done. Let's start making a demo asap with as little discussion about how to do it as possible.