I finally got round to adding a few more photos from my trip to London last August. I know they’re a little late, but some of these I took are rather nice. Hopefully I’ll be a bit more organised with future photoshoots 
I took about 150 photos then, and although I won’t put them all up on Flickr, I’ll try and get quite a few. Hope you like them.
Jordan
The first Preston Tweetup (organised by the folks at the Preston Blog) has been dated for Tuesday 17th March at the New Continental pub. You can buy tickets via Eventbrite and the first 50 people get a free drink!
The event should be really good, as Preston is alive with ‘twitterers’ and there will be quite a few more there than at GeekUp Preston, so it will be interesting to see the non-technical peoples’ take on the web. There’s going to be a discussion about how the web can be used during the 2012 Preston Guild. It will be really interesting.
See you there!
The open source movement is spreading quickly – there are better scripts, dedicated users, and the spirit of OS is overwhelming. You can practically find decent software for anything. However, the one thing I have never been able to find is an open source script as feature-filled and as easy to use as Basecamp.
Now, that’s not surprising when you consider that Basecamp is created by a company who invests thousands of dollars into development of it each year – but the prices to use it are extortionately high for personal developers and non-profits. In the usual case, you could Google for a bit and find some great solution which you can host yourself and is being actively maintained by the developers. But in the case of project management, there is only really ActiveCollab – and that went commercial a few years ago.
There was a fork of it – ProjectPier – however it appears that development is running slow and is nowhere as developed as it’s original software – never mind Basecamp. The only other software packages for this are outdated and have poor user interfaces. I’m sure that with a bit of inspiration, the open source community can start something which is just as good as Basecamp, but comes with no price.
Any thoughts on this idea?