The federal state Schleswig-Holstein startet a Call for Concepts. They asked cooperations of companies and non-profit organizations (both must be from Schleswig-Holstein) to send them project sketches. UNI:CODE (IT collective) and Wandelgut (non profit organization which also runs the Tante Wandel foodcoop) submitted a proposal for the further developement of the Foodsoft. The proposal was created in a hurry and without the feedback from this community but in the hope of obtaining funding for the some bigger development tasks of the Foodsoft.
The Jury selected this proposal. It is now possible to submit a proper funding application until April, 29th.
During a Call with @yksflip we identified the following tasks as priorities for funding:
On May 30th it will be decided which project will receive funding. If the Foodsoft funding application will be selected we want to achieve the project goals together with the Foodsoft community. We plan to merge everything into the upstream project instead of maintaining another fork.
In your application for funding, please include a request to fund development of user documentation, especially targeted at new users with admin roles / permissions. For example, descriptions or explanations of what Financial classes are and examples of how to apply them. The existing video introduction is good, but it could be extended to include initial configuration (by admin users). A flow diagram of the typical order processing steps would be good.
Thanks for the great software. Our food coop is growing well in Nelson, New Zealand and we have introduced Foodsoft to another food coop in the north of New Zealand; these people have adopted Foodsoft, so it’s a good platform but probably limited a little by lack of user and admin documentation. Thanks again.
Do you know the documentation at https://docs.foodcoops.net?
The German one is the most detailed (still incomplete, and concerning the slightly different foodcoopsat fork we use in Austria) but we could use it as a base to extend the English one. Switching between versions in documentation would also be a good feature.
Wow, I didn’t know of a food coop outside of Europe which uses Foodsoft!
