Please don't kill this in bureaucracy and complicated systems

Hi Gunnar,

Yeup, no bureaucracy here, this group is serving two important purposes here,
1. Shout it out what you know about developing an Online Marketplace
2. Lets devise a business model

The business model work definitely looks too extensive, but remember, when the business actually starts, most of the complications are translated into code and are just managing the process that was mapped through the business model in the planning stages.

Look at yourself now, your enthusiasm and Drupal community participation from Denmark puts you in a prime position to lead the initiatives branch in your country, plus the localized version (Danish) of the portal, not only you use your profound Drupal skills, thus, you add value to the process while benefit the community at the same time. Its a matter of understanding what is being built here, if it was a simple marketplace, why didn't it emerge before, no its not complicated, yes it is a true open business model!

So let's get down to action and realization resulting in mapping of the process and codification of the system!

Fouad Riaz Bajwa
FOSS Consultant
FOSSFP: Free and Open Source Software Foundation of Pakistan

Yes, I think the success of this market place will lie on its simplicity, same for our operations. It will all be magic inside ;-).

I'm equally thrilled to read all these posts in the last couple of days, remember the ASN paper Gunnar? I feel we are getting one step closer.

Talking about Denmark, We are collaborating with a few folks in a very interesting project, one of the key person is also from Denmark whom we can connect you with. As the project is huge, we will first need to get some ideas on the implementation approach from this marketplace group perhaps then we can build a mocked up prototype to get the fundings required to build the real thing.

With that in mind, I'm thinking we can actually practice the art while we are building the system. this will only work for managed project not bidding projects, however it should help to smooth out the processes and give us some best practices.

Jenny Hsueh
http://ondemand-network.com