Page 2 Stage Goes Open Source

[Chuck58]

I think it's a great idea, if you can write code or know people who can. I can't even do HTML myself.

I haven't messed with this Page2Stage in a long time and don't remember much about it. If I had any suggestions, I'd say give it the simplicity of Movie Magic or Sophocles.

[ScriptNurse]

Happy little geeks ... I'm very familiar with them, having written some stuff in PHP myself.

The codebase for P2S is C++ and Visual Studio, nearly as I can tell. On the Windows side, there's not a lot to be done as I don't believe that anything's really broken with it. It would be nice to create a version for Linux as there's no screenwriting program available that's native to Linux, with the possible exception of Celtx, whose interface I'm not fond of.

[uncle_al]

Don,

This is usually handled by a bunch of code-happy geekboys over on SourceForge... at least, that's how I've always seen it done.
Just for ****s and giggles, I downloaded the source archive; I haven't taken a look at it yet, so I don't even know what language it was written in.
If there are enough code warriors here to make it a venture worth doing, then I say go for it, and may Whomever have mercy on your souls.

Cheers!

Al B.

[ScriptNurse]

The original author of Page 2 Stage has licensed the source code as Open Source. I am considering starting an Open Source project to continue the development of Page 2 Stage with the following two goals in mind:

1. Make 2 versions ... Windows and Linux.
2. General cosmetic clean-up and usability improvements to the user interface.

This entails a lot of work and a team of developers would need to be assembled to work on the codebase.

Is this something I should even do?