SimpleTicket: Still Open Source (still great taste!)
I noticed a few comments from Ward and Vince regarding the status of SimpleTicket as an open source project. To Ward’s question, “…does this mean that SimpleTicket is no longer open source?” Absolutely not, we are committed to keeping SimpleTicket open source using the GPL.
To Vince’s answer, “…he took it back in house to develop.” The hard part about building software is deciding what to build. In the end we need SimpleTicket for our business and we must have certain features. One day I looked at the demo version and it looked nothing like the software we had intended, instead it was circa 1999 radio buttons. I proposed to the two most active non-Architel developers that they continue the project with their vision and we would continue a different project using our vision. They decided they would rather complain than to continue their own version of the project.
To meet our deadlines (we had missed our May deadline working with the community) we hired coders to complete the second version of SimpleTicket. Once it is released we would love to start building a community around the project. Ward, we would love to have you on board. But just as I said to the other developers, I don’t want you to waste your time on code that will never find its way into SimpleTicket. By working together we can make sure that we all get what we want. Go ahead and wait for the new code and if you like it and want to get involved please give me a call or send me an email.
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.