Apoidea
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Apoidea

Hello everyone, you may remember I dropped by a while back concerning my cooperative management project.

The idea has evolved to building an open-source Enterprise Resource Planning application specifically for worker’s cooperatives. While most ERP software focuses on driving top-down directives, the goal of this project is to enable the cooperatives to work, make decisions, and resolve disputes more efficiently than basically any other type of company.

Current tech stack: Docker, postgres, nginx, SQLAlchemy, gunicorn, jinja2, Flask, Alembic, and Redis.

Please check out the repository documentation if this sounds like something you may be interested in. The docs include the foundational philosophy document called “Hierarchy by Consent” and there is also a template for an Articles of Incorporation that I intend to include as the first default document template in the software.

I’m still pretty early in the process but most of the tables are set up and I’ve made notes in the the classes explaining the requirements and workflows.

I’ve also got some issues started on Codeberg, mostly related to the front-end, which is where I need the most help at the moment. I will certainly be glad for help elsewhere as well.

It’s an open-source project so there is no immediate financial incentive. Part time contributors are certainly welcome.

There’s a discussion room on Matrix and here is the Repository.

Thanks folks

  • Juniperus@infosec.pubOP
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    18 hours ago

    Yeah I wouldn’t mind an experienced dev taking over the architecture, but I will proceed myself if that person doesn’t come along. If you were worried about it not being applicable outside the US, stuff like the eligible_1099 field could be converted into a “country_config” object or something like that. I’m already planning on supporting all currencies so it would make sense.

    In terms of modularity, I’ll have to think about it some more. I’ll spend some time looking into those projects and consulting about it with the LLM today.

    Now about that spreadsheet and reddit post. That’s not just something to consider, that’s a person to contact. I would love to see how their ideas have developed in the past 4 years. I’ll have to grab a burner today. Thank you!