Hi Justin,
Thanks so much for all the effort you've put in this far. I'm with drsmartz. Have you considered opening it up as an open source project? It would be a good way for the community to help itself. Bugs could be fixed fairly quickly.
The only way I'd be interested in paying a monthly fee is to also have a premium data feed included in the price, so that I don't have to rely on the free feed being reliable. Otherwise, I would go with a traditional pay once for the software version (with minor fixes included and major upgrades being included for a period of time afterwards).
Thanks again. Please consider the open source model. Many of us would be willing to pitch in.
Regards,
John
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Originally Posted by drsmartz
Justin - have you ever considered running the MOS calculator as an open source project? I know amongst your 6000 users that some know Excel at a professional level. Probably some of THOSE people would be willing to maintain the XLS as part of a team, posting updates to this site.
The construction of the XLS is crystal clear to me, and I have successfully made adjustments to it to improve my results (adding more sites for alternate sources of data, etc). Perhaps your efforts, whatever you have time for, could be in managing the team and ensuring maintenance and quality control of the XLS rather than doing the grunt work of the XLS itself. That's the beauty of open source - you contribute what you have time for. And when you get in a time crunch, likely someone else from the team will be able to pick up the slack.
All we'd need is a group of folks to sign up, and a collaboration tool we could use to coordinate versions of the XLS. Some people would update the XLS, and others, if they wanted to pitch in but don't know Excel that well, could still contribute by testing the XLS and posting bug reports.
I've never started an open source project before - anyone know of good web-based tools to handle versioning and bug tracking?
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