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Custom Module Support
December 01, 2011, 08:20:16 pm
My name is Chris Muenzer, I'm with the Broad Street Food Pantry in Columbus, OH.  I have developed a custom Civicrm module that we use to manage clients in the pantry.  I am now looking to hire a vendor to take over maintenance of the module and to host our database.  Basically, since I don't have the time to do it myself.  Does anyone know a company that might be interested in this type of work?

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Re: Custom Module Support
December 02, 2011, 07:10:59 am

hey chris:

can u please ensure that whoever takes over the module releases it under an open source license.

Would be great if you can publish the code on gitorious or github so other food pantries can potentially see and reuse what u've built. Can you post a small description of what your module dos and how?

thanx

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Re: Custom Module Support
December 04, 2011, 06:48:18 am
Lobo,
The module uses the Civicrm API as a go between from the Civicrm database and a simplified front end.  This includes reading the client's drivers license, editing client information, checking the client in, printing a form for the client to sign, and managing a queue of all the clients waiting to use the pantry.  The calls are done in a combination of PHP and JQuery.  Most of its built off of other other source code.

Getting the code released I something I would like to see done.  But I really don't know the best way to go about doing that.

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Re: Custom Module Support
December 04, 2011, 09:36:39 am

Its fairly easy, a few steps are:

1. create an account on gitorious.org or github.com

2. Add a readme.txt file to your module describing what it does /  feature set etc

3. add an open source license (GPL v3, AGPL etc) and copyright to your files

4. Publish the code on your account created in 1

5. Do a blog post on civicrm.org describing what you did. This lets other folks know and potentially reuse your stuff

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