A new site using Open Food Source has recently begun to accept orders in Colorado State. Originally taking orders with a Square marketplace, Farm2TableTradingPost.com converted over to OFS and had their first order cycle on January 24. Focusing primarily on meat sales, the Trading Post finds Open Food Source software well-suited to their unique business…
Roy Guisinger
Open Food Source: From orphan to federation
The following article was contributed to opensource.org by Roy Guisinger as part of their series for Open Food Week, published on November 19, 2014 at http://opensource.com/life/14/11/open-food-source-orphan-federation. In the local food movement, open source principles are very much like the open pollinated seeds that farmers keep to grow next year’s crops. When farmers use their own…
Logo Contest
Don’t miss our logo contest. We yet know when we’ll be judging or what the prize will be, but we really feel the old-barn logo needs a facelift. If you’re a graphic artist, or have an interest in working on this part of the project, please get in touch with us. For details, check this…
OFS Website Upgrade
The new openfoodsource.org website [this site] is now posted live and running WordPress on the production server instead of an old hacked version of FredCMS. This will allow greater ease in providing information and managing our community involvement. Hats off and many thanks to Ethan Young for starting this process!
Completion of Open Food Source v1.0.0
This morning marks the long-awaited completion of OFS-v1.0.0, which has been delayed for want of a few basic features that made it difficult to use previously. While it is still not perfect – what is? – it can now stand on its own. Included with this new release are the following features, and many more:…
Co-operation Among Co-operatives
The sixth of the seven guiding principles of Co-ops, is Co-operation among Co-operatives. “Co-operatives serve their members most effectively and strengthen the co-operative movement by working together through local, national, regional, and international structures.” Last week, the CLFC Board of Directors & the Food Security Research Network arranged to have Roy & Caryl Guisinger from…
Website update
We have just created a WordPress front-end for the OFS website to make it easier to maintain. Previously it was managed by a customized form of the FredCMS. While this is still only in development on our test server, if anyone finds it, Welcome to our new site!
