[iRail] NMBS is making their own iPhone app.

[louis de Decker]

Hey Bart and Koen

@Bart, thanks for the precision, I do understand the point about the 
open-source philosophy in its general way.
Working for a private company who's not really keen on sharing its 
project sources, I must admit I'm not used to opensource, but you know, 
objective-c is a new thing for me, I might as well embrace a new 
philosophy at the same time :-)
What I was questionning was how putting it opensource in the current 
time frame  (small one) and ressources we have (me) would make the 
project go faster.
So just to be clear: I'm ok to go opensource, my only concern is to 
deliver the app fast.

@Koen I'm cheered up :) You're absolutely right about us focussing on 
the users rather than the features race. I'm curious to see how the 
users will actually use the chat.

sleep well guys,
Louis


> hi Louis,
>
> I suppose Pieter tries to make a point: opensource/community software 
> is better then other. it probably will be better then the sncb/nmbs 
> app. Later on, when we actually know its better, Pieter will most 
> likely write an article that opensource is the best way of making 
> software.
> and he will use your program as an reference.
>
> You don't need to see this as a bad thing. you are going to make a 
> better app then the sncb/nmbs, you will feel good about that, you will!
>
> Bart
>
> 2010/10/22 Louis de Decker <louisdedecker at gmail.com 
> <mailto:louisdedecker at gmail.com>>
>
>     Hey guys
>
>     I'm having an interesting day, everything began quiet good this
>     morning, but as the hours passed by it became more and more
>     shitty. I actually did spend 6hours fighting at work getting some
>     rootkits/viruses off my computer, went home and learned about the
>     sncb app... I wonder what's gonna happen tonight, mayby my
>     appartment will burn down :)
>
>     So I was discussing it with Christophe, we surely will have some
>     interesting aspects about the app that the sncb won't have (mainly
>     the chat feature), it's so pitty they will have some publicity
>     about their release before us.
>     What I plan to do this weekend :
>     -migrate all my php scripts to the irail server
>     -setup my app so it runs from the new server
>     -continue the debugging of the most important things
>
>     Pieter, I've added you in my gmail talk thinggy, my skype account
>     is louis.de.decker
>     You're talking about putting the project opensource, actually I
>     don't understand how this is going to fasten the pace of the
>     development as I'm apparently the only iphone dev here (or not?),
>     and it'll be quiet difficult for somebody else to go into my code
>     (or work in parallel) . The php scripts are ready so normally
>     there isn't much to do on that side.
>
>
>     Have a nice evening,
>     Louis
>

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