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Re: [school-discuss] auctioning open source software



Hmm. Freshmeat has few entries but this one caught my eye:

http://www.everysoft.com/auction/

On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 17:18 -0400, Mark Rauterkus wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Yes, this (an open-source auction software package) is a great need.
> We have a big service auction for our church and use closed code
> software. :( Building an open-source solution would be a wonderful
> addition to the tool box and could be a valued asset to many
> organizations.
> 
> What about the Social do-good folks, whatever that name is??? They
> love to go to gala events -- and -- love to do a bang-up job when
> everyone's watching. Perhaps they would be a good place to seek coders
> or else have one there put it out to their lists.
> 
> 
> 
> On 8/7/06, Daniel Howard <dhhoward@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Folks, is anyone aware of open source software that could do this for a
> > school that is having auctions for fundraising?  If not, we should put
> > it on someone's list, if fundraising is not an important part of school
> > technology, I don't know what is.
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> > "We are looking at a software called AuctionPay that we hope to use.  We
> > used this software for our last auction, but only the terminals for
> > swiping credit cards during the night of the auction.  Using all
> > components of this software will allow us to enter auction items, bid
> > numbers, bid sheets, and will link family information for ease in
> > checking out, in addition to tracking rsvp's.  It also can link to our
> > website.  The AuctionPay representative (who is not in Atlanta) can do
> > an on line demonstration and give us 14 days to try it out.  The cost of
> > the software is $1,595 and goes up September 1^st , so I'm hoping we can
> > set up the demo during the first week of school and have those last
> > couple of weeks in August to try it out before the price increase."
> >
> 
> 
> 
> Ta.
> 
> Mark Rauterkus     Mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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