Re: [school-discuss] auctioning open source software

[Daniel Howard <dhhoward@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doug Loss wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 16:23 -0400, Daniel Howard 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.
>
> http://www.phpauction.net/
> http://www.everysoft.com/auction/
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/bartertown/
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpnggpl/
> http://phplabs.com/scripts.php?script=Top%20Auction
> http://auto-auction.sourceforge.net/
> http://vendue.pingdynasty.com/
>
> This is what I could find.  I don't know anything much about any of these projects.  I suspect most
 of them are software for setting up online auction websites similar to 
eBay.  The auto-auction software
 seems not to be that, but it also seems pretty specific to automobile 
auctions.  I hope something here
 will help.
>

Yah, they're all online web auction apps, with nothing that addresses 
e.g., generation of bid sheets and onsite payment/credit card swiping, 
as required in a typical onsite school auction and included in the 
AuctionPay software.  Here's a flash movie demo'ing it, looks pretty 
comprehensive: http://www.auctionpay.com/events/event_software/flash.htm

I'm going to recommend that the PTA purchase this software as it really 
provides a turnkey solution, but hopefully over time, an open source 
alternative will arise.  I think a lot of schools would benefit from 
streamlining their fundraising activities, and I'm sure a lot could not 
afford packages like this one.

Thanks to all for the quick reply and info!
Regards,
Daniel