OFS Users

Hi,

My name is Kenzie Googins and I am the Meat and Deli Coordinator at Eat Local Sudbury, Sudbury, ON. We are a local food grocery store focused on selling items grown, raised and produced within 150miles around the city. We do have items from outside that range (dry grocery goods) that we sell. However those are always organic and fairtrade as…[Read more]

I have previously been involved in a couple of small private coops and I would like to be involved again. My interest in open source solutions lead me here. I see that there is not much going on in the site and I wonder if I could be of assistance in any way.

I am a blogger and filmmaker and would love to get together for some interviews and…[Read more]

Hello — I’ve been running a food coop in Brisbane, Australia but we’ve been relying on a very labour intensive Google Spreadsheet. I recently moved and want to set up a new coop in my new area but I cannot do it without finding some decent software as the spreadsheets were so difficult to manage! Is OFS still active / being developed?…[Read more]

Excellent question.

Since there are major differences in handling of data between the older LFC and newer OFS systems, the migration process is fairly manual. You will need someone with some expertise in MySQL, so they can edit and apply queries during the migration. The recommended process is something like this:

Create a parallel OFS software…[Read more]