Re: ApacheBookStore.com

[Rich Bowen]

On 10/14/2014 10:55 AM, Pierre Smits wrote:

With everything you have, of course, to consider whether the joy is worth
the price.


Presumably that's up to the people that want to run the store! :-)

Mostly, I just wanted to be able to update the grossly outdated content 
on that site, when I started this thread. Alas, I'm still not getting a 
response from anyone that can actually do this.


--Rich




Pierre Smits

*ORRTIZ.COM *
Services & Solutions for Cloud-
Based Manufacturing, Professional
Services and Retail & Trade
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On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Rich Bowen  wrote:


On 10/13/2014 10:02 PM, Pierre Smits wrote:


True, whether or not to pursue the exploitation of an e-commerce activity
by The ASF is something that needs to analysed thoroughly regarding the
fiscal and social implications.

But, before such endeavour is undertaken the ASF could use the
capabilities
of OFBiz to showcase the books related to the works of the Apache Projects
(without opening it up to take in orders). This could assist (in a unified
way) in branding the products of the Apache projects. And this can be done
by (delegated to) any interested contributor within any project. And
thereby achieving that the list of books is more up to date than it is
today.


What we have encouraged in the past is for people/companies to set up
their own stores and welcomed any donations that they wished to make back
to the Foundation from profits. We've never really entertained the notion
of an official store.



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Re: ApacheBookStore.com

[Pierre Smits]

With everything you have, of course, to consider whether the joy is worth
the price.

Pierre Smits

*ORRTIZ.COM *
Services & Solutions for Cloud-
Based Manufacturing, Professional
Services and Retail & Trade
http://www.orrtiz.com

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Rich Bowen  wrote:

>
> On 10/13/2014 10:02 PM, Pierre Smits wrote:
>
>> True, whether or not to pursue the exploitation of an e-commerce activity
>> by The ASF is something that needs to analysed thoroughly regarding the
>> fiscal and social implications.
>>
>> But, before such endeavour is undertaken the ASF could use the
>> capabilities
>> of OFBiz to showcase the books related to the works of the Apache Projects
>> (without opening it up to take in orders). This could assist (in a unified
>> way) in branding the products of the Apache projects. And this can be done
>> by (delegated to) any interested contributor within any project. And
>> thereby achieving that the list of books is more up to date than it is
>> today.
>>
>
> What we have encouraged in the past is for people/companies to set up
> their own stores and welcomed any donations that they wished to make back
> to the Foundation from profits. We've never really entertained the notion
> of an official store.
>
>
>
> --
> Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen
> http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon
>
>

Re: ApacheBookStore.com

[Rich Bowen]

On 10/13/2014 10:02 PM, Pierre Smits wrote:

True, whether or not to pursue the exploitation of an e-commerce activity
by The ASF is something that needs to analysed thoroughly regarding the
fiscal and social implications.

But, before such endeavour is undertaken the ASF could use the capabilities
of OFBiz to showcase the books related to the works of the Apache Projects
(without opening it up to take in orders). This could assist (in a unified
way) in branding the products of the Apache projects. And this can be done
by (delegated to) any interested contributor within any project. And
thereby achieving that the list of books is more up to date than it is
today.


What we have encouraged in the past is for people/companies to set up 
their own stores and welcomed any donations that they wished to make 
back to the Foundation from profits. We've never really entertained the 
notion of an official store.



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Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen
http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon