Phil,

Most Open source projects are started by the person who has a need, when
you've developed the app and have some source code, folks may join in.
Rarely does a project get started in this fashion. Folks that can't code
and need something normally pay a developer to get the job started.

Not saying it can't happen but don't be disappointed if it does not.

Cheers,

Davidm 


On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 10:18, Phil Mattison wrote:
> My company recently launched a new online classified ad site
> (http://www.finderz.net) and I'm thinking of creating an open-source version
> of the software using PHP & MySQL. I've seen a number of classified ad
> packages on download forums, but most of them were either relatively
> expensive, fairly cheesy, or both. I'm sending out this message to gage the
> interest in developing such a package, and would like to hear from anyone
> who might be interested in participating on a volunteer basis. I can provide
> a fairly substantial code base to start from. This idea came to me as I was
> looking at phpbb.com, which is a really excellent PHP/SQL open-source forum
> package. I contacted the lead developer, who said, "We created phpBB because
> we believe in the principals of Open Source and we enjoy writing code that
> people can use. We all have day jobs and any costs involved in the project
> we handle ourselves." I figure there must be others out there of the same
> mind. I can provide web hosting etc. for the project. If anyone is
> interested I can provide substantially more detail regarding what I have in
> mind, though looking at Finderz.NET should give you a pretty good idea. I am
> located in the East Valley, Chandler area, though I suppose that doesn't
> necessarily matter.
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