Thanks everyone for the responses! I unfortunately won't be at PyCon to discuss further.
So in terms of making this a real project, I will in the near future be prepared to take on the majority of the work of the application itself, but I've never worked on a large-scale open source project before and have no doubt there will be things that I'm doing inefficiently (which I want to be caught and corrected). Perhaps more importantly, I'm not as acquainted as I should be with bitbucket or github in order to organize the code and manage revisions. All of this is my way of saying I don't want to launch headfirst into a big project and waste everyone's time by making it difficult to contribute or give feedback while I'm learning that piece of the development process. In the next couple of months I will be working on these things and gearing up for some projects, one of which might be the beginning of a Pyramid-based ecommerce solution. In the meantime, if anyone is interested enough (and preferably has more experience than I do in the community) to talk further, please feel free to send an email to me directly to get in touch. On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Lance Edgar <[email protected]> wrote: > I hesitate to chime in because I haven't yet looked at Pyramid (though > it's on my list) and so don't know how much help I could provide, but FWIW I > am interested in the project. I've just started diving into Satchmo myself, > because I have a more or less immediate need to set up a shop. I've not > used Django before either, but *have* used Pylons (if that helps?) and in > general would prefer to become familiar with Pyramid next instead of > Django. Anyway I guess I've just got a +1 for the idea at this point, and > would be happy to help in whatever way I could. > > Lance > > > > On 3/3/2011 10:20 AM, Andrew Sawyers wrote: > > Eric, > Are you going to be at pycon? I’m interested – I briefly looked at porting > something to repoze back at PloneConf in Bristol....but gave up, as it was > a bit more then I was ready to chew. > > Cheers, > > Andrew > > > On 3/3/11 8:04 AM, "Brian O'Connor" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Eric, > > I participated very briefly in the development in Satchmo (one of Django's > ecommerce solutions) and I do have an interest in developng an ecommerce > solution with Pylons/Pyramid. That being said, I have an interest, but no > time (grad school + full time job + limited sleep). > > Maybe this is a general pyramid question, maybe not, but one of the best > features I thought Satchmo had was that the shopping cart provided default > templates, and each specific shop just had to define a new templates > directory, and override the portions they needed and they would take > precedence over the defaults. > > Is that going to be possible with a pyramid ecommerce solution? > > What did you have in mind for product variations and product attributes? > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Eric Rasmussen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I've recently been evaluating the practicality of developing an open source > ecommerce solution to handle products, customer accounts, shopping, and > business reports/data analysis. When I've been approached with this request > in the past, the conclusion is inevitably to use an existing solution > because of the time involved and the difficulties with PCI compliance. > > With Pyramid's built-in support for auth (which is surprisingly easy to use > with SSL compared to Pylons and repoze.what), the majority of the work would > be left to developing a solid model and templates, along with options to > configure or integrate payment processing solutions, tax rules, etc. > > Virtually all shopping cart solutions that aren't Google Checkout or Paypal > require the business to obtain its own merchant account and payment > processing account, and it would also be up to them to purchase secure web > hosting or secure their own servers to PCI compliance standards, meaning > this application wouldn't need to address a large chunk of PCI compliance > requirements. > > That being said, the amount of testing and work involved on this project > means it needs community support or it's doomed to fail. As a > Pylons-turned-Pyramid developer who works with small businesses, I'd find it > ideal to have it in Pyramid vs existing PHP and Python/Django solutions. Is > this something anyone else is working or has an interest in? > > Thanks! > Eric > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "pylons-discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "pylons-discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. 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