Alpha Release Update: Code, Funding, and Call

Show me the code!

This past week, Kapil took on GetPaid head on and has been making great progress  towards the Red Ochre release! 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. 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 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 see to the right our ChipIn widget on the fundraising. 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. 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