Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Technology question: Meal system

[Sheryl Faria (sefaria]

hi catya,

we use a drupal-based system, written by our former neighbor, tim mensch. 

it works great, simplifying common meal communication (announcement and 
signups, with a cook-specified signup deadline)  as well as accounting. of 
course it's tweaked to our community's preferences. we've had it modified a few 
times since its original unveiling. it also serves as a reservation 
system/calendar for our great room and sitting room.

downsides: it's not been easy to find a programmer for updates and bug fixes. 
it's quite stable though, so we don't need that help very often. we've hired 2 
i think over the past few years, and they've been great, but they move on to 
other projects. there don't seem to be a giant number of drupal programmers out 
there - or maybe it's the small size of this particular job that's the problem.

ask me more if you're curious, catya. 

sheryl faria
pleasant hill cohousing


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Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 11:00:52 -0500
From: Catya Belfer <catya [at] pobox.com>
Subject: [C-L]_ Technology question: Meal system
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If your community does something great with technology to handle meal
RSVP etc, tell me about it?  Once upon a time there was a drupal
module created, but it's very out of date now and my community could
never get it working.

(As a cook, this makes me crazy.)

? ?? - cat

Catya Belfer ? - ?www.catya.org
Technical Director ? - ? www.cohousing.org
Cohousing in MA! ?- ?www.mosaic-commons.org