food & co-ops meet open source in portland, or

From Portland Indymedia: Co-ops making history! World’s first open-source POS system at People’s Food Co-op:

This past weekend People’s Food Co-op in SE Portland made history. During a conference with tech and IT folk from co-ops around the country these über-geeks assembled and successfully rang out items on the world’s first entirely free, open-source point-of-sale system. A point-of-sale system (or POS) is the software needed to run a cash register and manage the pricing of all the items in a store.

Let’s face it, I like food. And I live in a housing co-op. And I’m a new convert to the church of open source. This article is way cool and signals the slightested tightening in corporate control. Woo hoo!