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| [16:26:58] | <ethanrublee[m]> | Hi all. Just discovered farmOS, starting a farm in Watsonville CA, and working on appropriate technology for small scale ag. |
| [16:28:55] | <ethanrublee[m]> | One question, is there an actively maintained CSA management or customer facing farm stand module, that would be an alternative to farmigo for farmers? |
| [16:30:43] | <ethanrublee[m]> | I see https://github.com/mstenta/farm_csa, I'll start digging there. |
| [16:35:22] | <mstenta[m]> | Hi ethanrublee - no there isn't |
| [16:35:33] | <mstenta[m]> | That module is abandoned and will not work with farmOS anymore |
| [16:35:35] | <mstenta[m]> | Unfortunately |
| [16:36:04] | <mstenta[m]> | History: farmOS actually came out of some work I did initially to build a CSA mgmt system in Drupal |
| [16:36:18] | <mstenta[m]> | But I long gave up on that and have focused only on the record keeping since then |
| [16:36:41] | <mstenta[m]> | I would love for someone to make a CSA module for farmOS though! We just need someone to take the torch! :-) |
| [16:39:09] | <ethanrublee[m]> | Sweet; I'm talking with https://www.farmgenerations.coop/, and they are currently developing a CSA frontend/backend system for farmers and I'm trying to see if it makes sense to build on top of farmOS, so really just getting started reading your docs and familiarizing myself with it. |
| [16:39:45] | <mstenta[m]> | Cool |
| [16:39:54] | <mstenta[m]> | Yea depending on what you have in mind I could see it either way |
| [16:40:22] | <mstenta[m]> | Really depends on whether or not you need production records to be tied to CSA records |
| [16:40:41] | <mstenta[m]> | That's always a nice idea... but whether or not it's a hard requirement might be a question |
| [16:41:09] | <mstenta[m]> | The CSA module I made originally provided things like pickup locations, member lists, newsletters, etc |
| [16:41:19] | <mstenta[m]> | So it was mostly customer facing stuff... not really tied to production records |
| [16:41:28] | <mstenta[m]> | But the idea was eventually you could link to harvest records etc |
| [16:43:29] | <ethanrublee[m]> | I think in the long run, it would be cool to get there, especially we're finding farms are loosing access to farmers markets and may need to switch all sales to e-commerce style fulfillment, so having tasks for filling baskets based on inventory would be great. It seems integrating sales/marketing data along with other farm records allows to optimize for profit on a meta level too... of course i'm sure you're thinking |
| [16:43:30] | <ethanrublee[m]> | about that. |
| [16:43:45] | <mstenta[m]> | Oh wait! This is the thing NYFC was building? |
| [16:43:51] | <ethanrublee[m]> | Yup |
| [16:43:54] | <mstenta[m]> | I spoke with Mike and Lindsay when they were just getting started :-) |
| [16:44:48] | <ethanrublee[m]> | Oh, cool. I just met Lindsay through the FS6 incubator. |
| [16:45:43] | <mstenta[m]> | Cool! So worth noting, we've also touched base with folks at Open Food Network and Local Orbit about similar ideas... (populating availability from farmOS harvest data) |
| [16:45:49] | <mstenta[m]> | Nothing has gotten started yet... but similar ideas! |
| [16:45:54] | <mstenta[m]> | I think a general framework that could be used in all those different systems would be the way to go! |
| [16:48:31] | <ethanrublee[m]> | On another side, I'm trying to start an low cost opensource electric autonomous tractor project, so looking at farmos, it might be a perfect place to integrate the autonomy tasks. So yeah, multiple touch points! |
| [16:49:24] | <mstenta[m]> | Oh cool! |
| [16:49:41] | <mstenta[m]> | You might be interested in chatting with ros-agriculture |
| [16:49:51] | <mstenta[m]> | (PS we have a forum https://farmOS.discourse.group) |
| [16:49:58] | <mstenta[m]> | I've been pushing the forum hard these days :-) |
| [16:54:33] | <ethanrublee[m]> | Ok, cool, thanks for the ros-agriculture tip. I'll check out the forum. |