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Bike Collective Profile

[Updated: 2025-10-4]

Chair of Positive Spin (2013 - current)
- Lead reorganizer 2012 - 2013
Bookkeeper - using GnuCash
DevOps - Software Developer & System Administrator
- YBDB Fork
  - Some Features
    - Highly configurable
    - Customizable and built-in transaction types, e.g. storage transaction with EAB capability
    - Sign-in / Sign-out; hour tracking
    - Volunteer and Membership benefits
    - Reports
    - Etherpad (global and individual)
    - POS / Bookkeeping - exporting GnuCash
    - CRM - Constituent Relationship Management
    - Email List Connector - e.g. Mailman
    - Intuitive transactional record keeping vs shopping cart
    - Optional interest survey, Safer Space Agreement, waiver, etc.
    - Multiple Locations
    - Runs equally well on old and new computer systems: IBM PC 300P Desktop (1gb sdram); Dell Inspiron 8600 Laptop (2gb DDR 333 Memory)
    - Easy to use interface for volunteers with an easy learning curve.
    - Real software for real Community Bike Shops. Tried, tested and trued!
- BikeShopi - Bike Shop API
  - Actively used in production by Positive Spin since Spring 2022
  - Designed to streamline bike shop operations, inventory, and service tracking
  - Plans underway to offer as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform
- FLOSS Software list and demos
  - Test Bike Collective Software
  - Develop Docker Containers
  - Maintain list
- Presenter @ Bike!Bike! Southeast 2016 in Richmond, VA
- Presenter @ Bike!Bike! Southeast 2017 in Alexandria, Virginia
  - 2017 Presentation: Libre (FLOSS) Software for Bike Collective Shops
    - PDF version
    - editable ODP version
- Presenter @ Bike!Bike! Everywhere! 2021
  - Video - https://archive.org/details/bbe-2021.20-en and https://archive.org/details/bbe-2021.20-es
- Presenter @ Bike!Bike! Everywhere! 2022
Wiki Administrator with access to backend
TheThinkTank Administrator

Contact me: Jonathan Rosenbaum

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 **** Easy to use interface for volunteers with an easy learning curve.
 **** Real software for real Community Bike Shops. Tried, tested and trued!
+** [https://shop.positivespin.org BikeShopi] - Bike Shop API
+*** Actively used in production by [https://positivespin.org Positive Spin] since Spring 2022
+*** Designed to streamline bike shop operations, inventory, and service tracking
+*** Plans underway to offer as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform
 ** FLOSS [[Software]] list and demos
 *** Test Bike Collective Software
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 ** Presenter @ [[Bike!Bike! Everywhere! 2021]]
 *** Video - https://archive.org/details/bbe-2021.20-en and https://archive.org/details/bbe-2021.20-es
+** Presenter @ [[Bike!Bike! Everywhere! 2022]]
 * [[Special:ListUsers/sysop |Wiki Administrator with access to backend]]
 * [https://lists.bikecollectives.org/postorius/lists/thethinktank.lists.bikecollectives.org/ TheThinkTank Administrator]
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 [mailto:Jonathan%20Rosenbaum%3Cjr@bikelover.org%3E?Subject=BikeCollective%20Wiki: Contact me: Jonathan Rosenbaum]