Rgbtrade is a web-based market place for the Rainbow Trading economic system: based on ecological and social principles such as energy, recycling, fairness, transparency and responsibility. It is a tool for sustainable development. Rgbtrade-0.30 was released at august 22, 2008 and is the first stable release of Rgbtrade. It is available for free download.

Features

It features the following:

• English and Dutch languages available (new).
• Registration of participants
• Ad posting system: both requests and offers.
• Groups and Categories for the ads. Category management system
• Transfer of RGB-money to other participants
• Transparent browsing through all participants balances and transfers
• Message system to contact participants by email without disclosing the email address
• Yearly reset of the balances of all participant. This Year Total Balance itself will be remembered.
• No Admin panel. No Administrator will be in charge of the system. It should be self-maintaining

Planned Features (2008-2009)

• Exchange of ads between installed instances of the Rgbtrade system, hence forming a network.
• Enable transfers of users on different systems
• Total system balance view (to relate to other systems)

Requirements

The requirements to run Rgbtrade are:

• PHP/MySQL web hosting environment. A normal (linux-based) virtual hosting ISP service should do. (GD Module Enabled, Safe Mode irrelevant)

License

The software is available under the GPL, a Free Software License.

Download

The current version is a development release. Its intended audience is future developers and future users. It is not working fully. We are working on that. By publishing development releases, we hope to speed up development and get some user feedback earlier in the process.

Rgbtrade is available for download at Sourceforge.net

If you run in errors you are invited to contact me (form is below) , ask a question in the quiet help forum or check out the latest development version with Subversion.

Get Better Code with Subversion

SourceForge offers us the latest code versions with the Subversion (svn) tool. The command is, if you know how it works:

svn co https://rgbtrade.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/rgbtrade rgbtrade

It is updated on a day-to-day basis, and once you have it going, updates with a single command. It won’t overwirte your current configuration files.

Forums

The Forums are also available through SourceForge. Currently there are 3 forums:

• Help, for users who have a problem
• Open Discussion, for whatever you want to say, feature requests, announcements, etc.
• Developer Forum, for those activily involved contributing to this project

Mailing Lists

The Rgbtrade-test mailinglist has been started in November 2007 to support a small team of testers. You can visit the archive at https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=rgbtrade-tester or subscribe by sending an email to rgbtrade-testers-request@lists.sourceforge.net with subject subscribe.

Both English and Dutch will be used here, probably.

Lead Developer

Barry Voeten, aka Ichnaton, is lead developer for this project. You can mail him through the contact form.