Prior Art

[Trent Shipley]

On Wednesday 2005-03-23 07:17, Derek Neighbors wrote:
> All,
>
> I noticed a thread on Ticketmaster replacement among other things.  I
> just happened to stumble across an interesting project as it relates to
> the work you are about to embark upon while reading my Freshmeat RSS
> feed this morning.
>
> One of you might want to check out phpMyTicket[0].  You might be able to
> build off their work or take parts of it for a starting point.  I have
> not looked at it in any way shape or form other than the description. :)
>
> [0] http://www.phpmyticket.com/en/
>
> -Derek

1) For the sake of clarity:=20

As far as I know there is no plan to start a ticketing project.  The event=
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planning project is still the front runner.

I expect to suggest (more formally) that those interested in starting a=20
development project hold a contest to pick the project.  I plan to put=20
together a proposal for a "ticket marketing engine".

I will put up a draft Open Office Presentation in the next few days.


2)  I did a search on SourceForge.net for "ticket ticketing reservation". =
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Most items were for customer service and help desk trouble tickets.  Howeve=
r,=20
I think I ran across phpMyTicket (and did not look at it). =20

A search on "market financial exchange" also did not result in anything too=
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promising.

I have glanced at http://www.phpmyticket.com/en/ .  The problem is that=20
phpMyTicket is (or seems to be) what I call a stand alone, do it yourself=20
solution.  It is NO threat to Ticketmaster (in my opinion).   Of course, it=
=20
will be useful to reverse engineer mature, successful solutions like=20
phpMyTicket.

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Here are some teasers from the OOo Presentation under construction.

The =E2=80=9COpen-Ticket=E2=80=9D Project: toward an extensible n-tier mark=
et engine for=20
reserving and selling tickets.

Open-Ticket will be a =E2=80=9Cmarket engine=E2=80=9D that automates sale, =
distribution, and=20
purchase of tickets.

Open-Ticket Vision:
A market facilitation system for reservations and tickets.
(A market engine if you will: think NASDAQ or Ticketmaster internals.)
Connects venues, promoters, resellers, and retail consumers.
Open interchange formats and GPL software.
N-tier, configurable, emergent, extensible.
Coop or peer-to-peer Ticketmaster competition.