The project starting an integration of Taler in Odoo has been submitted to NLNet for funding, I should receive feedback in about 7 weeks!
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Congratulations @Nemael! TOPS made it to the first open call.
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Incredible! I’m waiting on a call to make a Memorandum of Understanding, and after that the project will start concretely!
I’m looking forward to this development 
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This is pretty cool.
Is there a plan to also include basic cash exchange functionality similar or compatible with the Taler Cashier app?
Since Odoo has a pretty good PoS integration, it could become a good option to bootstrap a cashless payment solution for a music festival or so, with Taler only used as local tokens and no real bank integration necessary.
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There is no plan for that feature within the original proposal.
Implementing Taler’s cash exchange features would be great, and it would fit Odoo’s software seamlessly.
I don’t think Odoo is the best software for the use-case you are proposing, but it’d be nice to have the option available anyway!
I will definitely include this feature in a potential future proposal for the software!
Edit: Now that I think more about it, I believe this feature would greatly empower in-person communities who would like to learn and use Taler, and I would like to reaffirm that I want to push on this feature in a potential future development of the add-on (it is hard to project as the add-on doesn’t exist yet, but I’ll keep that in mind 
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Hi @Nemael
I’m an Odoo OSS developer and interested in the Taler project.
With the recent attack on the us payment infrastructure, I became aware how vulnerable our payment infrastructure is. As I understand the Taler project is addressing these issues e.g. privacy, security.
What is the current state of your integration? I am curious of how Taler works and testing it with Odoo would be the perfect match in my case.
Do you have a board where you share your progress on the project?
The ForgeFed (also NLNet funded) does a good job at visiblity: https://forgefed.org/
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Hello @janikvonrotz
The Taler project is indeed a great protection for privacy, security from bad agents, and I find auditability to also be a strong feature to strengthen the payment infrastructure.
My integration’s current state has not made much progress yet. I am in the process of making a prototype, unusable currently, but I plan on working on it further before making a first commit on its public repository https://codeberg.org/Nemael/tops. I don’t have more available information in the form of a board or other.
I would love to know more about your testing case, what is the context you would like to try this add-on in?
The ForgeFed federated tool is a very interesting and strong tool. The project is currently constrained into Codeberg, but I would love to push for a bridge towards ForgeFed, and finally make a step forward to get the infrastructure to have my own instances. The federated website hosting from a repository looks very interesting to me.
As a side note, I found and went through your blog, and I enjoyed many articles, I definitely bookmarked some of the techy articles
Has there been any progress on this? The Codeberg repo sadly hasn’t seen any updates either.