April meeting topic

Sun Mar 20 19:31:02 2005

I have had my share of ticketing issues and can confirm that most of the event
planers who use a ticketing system HATE ticket master, and the alternatives are
non-to-good either!

Quoting Trent Shipley <tshipley@deru.com>:

> Alan
> 
> Do we have a presenter or topic for 7 April?
> 
> 
> It would be nice to compliment Joseph's presentation on J2EE with 
> presentations on other enterprise frameworks.
> 
> Namely GNUe (Python) and Mono (VB.net and C#).
> 
> http://www.gnuenterprise.org/
> http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page
> 
> 
> Hijacking the meeting for EPP/PEP discussion/debate/fight is also a real
> 
> possibility.
> 
> (Note to self, EPP alternatives include a ticketing and reservation
> project 
> Arenas and promoters HATE Ticketmaster and tickets.com.  DIY ticket
> solutions 
> exist, but are not satisfactory.  What they would like is competition
> and 
> national scope.  A free n-tier ticket and reservation system might spark
> 
> competion.  A participatory peer-to-peer [or co-op] market with
> enforcible 
> regulatory controls [provision for fraud prevention] might be
> perfect.)
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