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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Proposals
are now being accepted for the development of FoodHub.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>As a Python/Django developer here at Ecotrust
I'd love to see some Django or other proposals come in.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">What is
FoodHub?</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">FoodHub is
an online directory and marketplace that makes it easy and efficient for buyers
and sellers of regional food to find one another and conduct business.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Background</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Recently, a
new category of buyers has become interested in purchasing locally or
regionally grown food. These larger-volume and institutional purchasers such as
public schools, hospitals, food service providers on college and corporate
campuses, and retail stores are increasingly assigning geographic preference as
well as other 'authenticity requirements' to their key purchase criterion along
with long-standing cost, quality, quantity, and delivery requirements.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">In response
to this interest on the part of both food buyers and food producers to find one
another and do business, Ecotrust is in the process of creating a web-based
wholesale-direct trading platform, FoodHub.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The full
Request For Proposal (RFP) is available at:</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.ecotrust.org/foodhub/">http://www.ecotrust.org/foodhub/</a></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Proposals
are due January 5, 2008</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Tim Welch</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Applications Developer</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Ecotrust<br></span></p>