The problem is really the market and the functionality that the software provides. Yes real estate is a huge market but it is dominated by two types of brokers: 1. Small brokers with less than 5 agents. 2. large offices with hundreds or thousands of agents.
The small offices usally get free or very cheap web sites that contain listings from the MLS's (that is that database where all listings in a market are stored). These people could be a potential market for you but they are not going to contribute anything to the cause either in code or money.
The large companies have the budget to put these sites together using a staff of developers and web designers. The developers and designers that create these sites might use your code as as starting point and may or may not contribute to the project.
The other problem is the functionality of the software. It is very easy and inexpensive to create a web site that displays property listings. What people need in the real estate industry is a system that will save them time and reduce the number of times they need to enter property information in to all their systems.
These types of systems are what my company creates and we have been talking about open sourcing our apps. Feel free to checkout our site and contact me if you are interested in working together on extending your product with more functionality. www.datixres.com
I was diagnosed with ADD in high school about 12 years ago. They prescribed Dexedrine, which is similar to all the other ADD drugs. I found I was less creative and really did not feel like myself when taking the drugs. I got off them about a year after I started. I dealt with it by working harder at paying attention to what I was doing. Whenever I would loss focus I would try a shake it off and continue. Working at a job you like and coffee helps.
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Umm, that plane crashed. I would call that an apparent problem.
The problem is really the market and the functionality that the software provides. Yes real estate is a huge market but it is dominated by two types of brokers: 1. Small brokers with less than 5 agents. 2. large offices with hundreds or thousands of agents.
The small offices usally get free or very cheap web sites that contain listings from the MLS's (that is that database where all listings in a market are stored). These people could be a potential market for you but they are not going to contribute anything to the cause either in code or money.
The large companies have the budget to put these sites together using a staff of developers and web designers. The developers and designers that create these sites might use your code as as starting point and may or may not contribute to the project.
The other problem is the functionality of the software. It is very easy and inexpensive to create a web site that displays property listings. What people need in the real estate industry is a system that will save them time and reduce the number of times they need to enter property information in to all their systems.
These types of systems are what my company creates and we have been talking about open sourcing our apps. Feel free to checkout our site and contact me if you are interested in working together on extending your product with more functionality. www.datixres.com
I was diagnosed with ADD in high school about 12 years ago. They prescribed Dexedrine, which is similar to all the other ADD drugs. I found I was less creative and really did not feel like myself when taking the drugs. I got off them about a year after I started. I dealt with it by working harder at paying attention to what I was doing. Whenever I would loss focus I would try a shake it off and continue. Working at a job you like and coffee helps.
There is a company from Canada that wrote a Point of sale system in tcl/tk. The company is called Linux Canada Inc. at http://www.linuxcanada.com.
There is is another company that did the same thing but I have not been able to find the for about 1 year.
Good Luck
Bryan
Get a life get Linux