[Noisebridge-discuss] Free point of sale project contributions and requests for participants

[William Heath]

Do you have any hardware we can borrow/use to work on this project?
-Tim

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Jonathan Lassoff <jof at thejof.com> wrote:

> Encapsulated within <
> f08ddf990903191522k9dfa42fya1a6ac7ef6d70c89 at mail.gmail.com> on Thu, Mar
> 19, 2009 at 03:22:02PM -0700, William Heath <wgheath at gmail.com> wrote:
> > From: William Heath <wgheath at gmail.com>
> > To: NoiseBridge Discuss <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
> > Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Free point of sale project contributions
> and
> >       requests for participants
> >
> > Hi All,
> > I contributed a bar code scanner and receipt printer the last time I was
> at
> > noisebridge.  I also contributed a biology book.  I am curious if anyone
> > would be interested in teaming up with me to find the best opensource
> point
> > of sale solution with hardware etc...  There are a few I know of with
> high
> > potential:
> >
> > openbravo pos (They incorporated tiny pos into there offering)
> > adempiere (Incredible opensoure ERP/MRP system)
> >
> > I still lack a cash drawer.  Anyone have one?  Point of sale has always
> been
> > a passion of mine and many, many, many people need this help.  We must
> > combat the onslaught of quickbooks!
>
> I'm generally interested in this. My local corner-store owner and I got
> to talking about what a racket the commercial POS solutions are. So, we
> started playing around with some POS hardware he had around the store
> occasionally, and we're interested in setting up some sort of home-brew
> solution in his store for fun.
>
> At least we found out that the tower/pedestal VFD signs are plain
> serial: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thejof/3158583417/
>
> Cheers,
> jonathan
>
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