Thinking about adopting MERCI for a Institute of Technology kit lending system

Hi guys,
firstly congrats on Merci. Im not a DRUPAL user but I've found it very easy to create a prototype MERCI based site using your modules. Well done.
I would recommend that you consider taking a look at the LEIHS project (http://code.zhdk.ch/projects/leihs). It is an open source resource booking system and we almost adopted here in my institution but backed away from it as its based on Ruby on Rails (Im not a fan). That said the system has some great features that may act as a good source of inspiration for the MERCI team.

Best of luck with future development. Do you have a roadmap or planned dev schedule?

Thanks

Daniel