== Description ==

In Spain and other places, the number of "Grupos de consumo" is increasing steadily. These are asociations of people that join their shopping baskets so that they can order their food directly from the local farmers, taking into account ecological, social and other criteria.

This increase in number opens the possibility of coordination between the groups, but this must be done in a way that respects each groups' right to choose and its workflow. Many groups have a long tradition and in many of them the tasks are rotate among all members equally, with many non-technical people managing web tools.

Our proposal is karakolas: a web application for management and coordination of "grupos de consumo" that grows with the use from several of these groups. In order to give these groups all waranties:
- we release the code as free software
- we offer information and support for those groups that want to use their own installation of karakolas
- we design our code so that it can talk to other similar applications (such as aixada), or to other installs of karakolas, so that managing your own data in your personal installation of your favorite software is not an obstacle for coordinating with other groups.

== Dependencies ==

The project is a web2py application, uses jquery, jquery-ui, several light jquery libraries and corefive filemanager: http://labs.corefive.com/projects/filemanager/ and it also depends on latex. 

== Install ==

You need to install latex, a web2py-compatible web server and database (apache + postgresql is fine), then web2py itself and the rest comes bundled. Please ask, we'll be glad to help. There's also a test site that you can use to try out karakolas if that's all you need...

== Copyright and license ==

(C) Copyright (C) 2012, 2013 Pablo Angulo and Isidro Jiménez
This file is part of karakolas <karakolas.org>.

karakolas is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as 
published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the 
License, or (at your option) any later version.

karakolas is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public 
License along with karakolas.  If not, see 
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.



