Sharon, if you find it, please let me know.
I agree that it might be better to focus on seeds...at least at first. Once we get a rhythm going to it (assuming we do) and we get the hang of the seed trade, then maybe we can introduce plants in at a later time, possibly as a separate exchange.
If it's JUST seeds, I might be able to volunteer to be the organizer, but I'm open to other volunteers putting their hat in the ring once we figure out the logistics.
People have been pretty good at establishing who gets what in threads where a single person is offering items up. The trick is combining multiple lists of things and getting a fair trade going between many people. I'm going to work on a form or coming up with some sort of logistical way of handling this. I will also try to create forms for other, foreseeable needs, such as forms/notices to people who forgot to mail something in, etc.
One idea I'm currently thinking of is that we have a 'database' (for lack of a better description at the moment) of all of the different available seeds by different people. Someone could go there, view a list, find the items they want (maybe by checking checkboxes?), suggest a trade (memories of Monopoly game trades are coming to mind to me right now
), and if there is an agreement, a brief 'trade form' could be filled out, 'signed' by each person, and then submitted to the database which would then mark those items as spoken for off of the respective lists. (
@dave is either cringing or chomping at the bit now as he reads this and realizes there is probably going to be another programming challenge involved here
).
Thoughts?
