First Meeting Notes
This morning we held our first organizational meeting for SimpleTicket. We had problems with the recording so I am going to recap what happened here (and tomorrow on the podcast). Here are the details:
- This week AlexL will launch a new SVN (Collaboa)
- Each code contributor is to provide their change log to AlexL by COB Wednesday (he will work with each person to include their code into the current release).
- Each code contributor is to email their contact info to AlexL for inclusion in the developer directory.
- Once all of the current changes/edits/difs are included Giorgio will do a complete railsification, code cleanup and feature addition (RSS and tagging). This should take a week or two.
- Next week will hold our standing 10AM meeting on Tuesday to discuss features and/or bugs that need to be addressed. We will figure out how to address those in light of Giorgio’s work. Perhaps detail them and schedule their start dates.
SimpleTicket Conference Call
Starting next Tuesday (2/28/06) the SimpleTicket team will be holding a standing conference call at 10:00AM Con Bridge: 214.550.3540. The calls will last between 10 minutes and an 30 minutes as needed. We will be discussing the future of the project, ongoing initiatives, and division of duties. The calls will be open to anyone interested in the project.
Can’t make the call? Don’t worry, we will be recording them and will make them available via a public podcast we call the SimpleTicket Podcast. Oh and if you miss the call, but want to make a comment, suggestion or offer just record your thoughts (in an mp3) and insert them into the podcast.
Ubuntu 5.10 SimpleTicket Install
Ben at Benshead successfully installed SimpleTicket on Ubuntu 5.10 and blogged the instructions here. Check it out.
Online Demo of SimpleTicket
We released an online demo of SimpleTicket today. (the version online is a few revisions back - i.e. not the current Architel version, but it is close) Take a look at the instructions here.
SimpleTicket Target Market
The meeting with the MBA candidates from SMU went well. The first big question was who SimpleTicket customers were. Here are my ideas:
We believe that corporate IT departments are the primary user of SimpleTicket. IT Departments with between 1 and 30 internal IT personnel (companies with between 25 and 750 employees).
The 2000 downloads to-date are likely early technology adopters (very few corporate IT departments). We feel as though SimpleTicket will not support the workflow of most IT support companies. Most IT department will wait for the hosted version to be released so they can play with the online demo.