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BACT can commit $3000 to MIH seed money for this.

No - most MIH money that comes in online is not tax deductible although it does sustain the CiviCRM project. However, for donors who are considering larger contributions and who need tax deductibility - we can generally arrange this through our non-profit partner Progressive Technology Project.

I believe there has been some agreement here. Broadway By the Bay and its supporters would be willing to put up the remaining 4 to 5K to make this happen and get the ball rolling. I think something like 6k has already been pledged. If other development re-sources are required (servers, bandwidth, computers etc) BBBay may be able to help there as well. While I'm not super familiar with the Civi Code base, I'd be happy to volunteer to write some code myself, given some direction.

We are putting together our season for the 2013 year, and using another ticketing system outside of Civi is just terrible! It forces us to do double entry, and deal with additional surcharges for tickets.

In the event that there is some run over, we can participate in other fund raising exercises or contribute extra funding.

I'm not a huge fan of Fusion Tickets. We've tried it. The UI and the interface itself is terrible, but perhaps some of the backend logic would be able to be re-used. I haven't seen Fusion support subscriptions, which is really key for us.

I'd like to suggest the first two features:

* Seat Maps uploaded in SVG format (will enable jquery, node.js and jvectormap visualizations)
* Support for Subscriptions. The idea being a patron pays a discounted rate, but gets tickets to a block of shows or events

-Josh

would be great if someone can do an analysis / review of existing systems and how they handle various seating arrangements / configurations etc.

we tried checking and getting some info from fusion tickets, but their website and model (open source, but pay for access to latest version?) does not seem to give you a lot of info

i think as with everything else, the key lies in striking a balance between generalizations and meeting the specific use cases in a easy manner

lobo

As one of, if not the only magazine that adapted CiviCRM for subscriptions, The Monthly is also intending on adapting CiviBoxOffice with the seat map feature for advertising bookings.

Advertising bookings are basically the same as paid events. Also, advertising page plans (otherwise called flat plans) are a similar concept to seat maps.

The terminology is the only real difference I can think of: e.g. Event = Advertisement, Seat = Page or Ad Slot

I wonder if the word replacement setting in Civi work with this planned feature?

We have a great interest in CiviBoxOffice and I will organise a contribution to the MIH project.

Awesome!  I will have to start looking at fusionticket.

mnt_schred:

can u describe a bit more on what type of integration u did with fusionticket? can u share the integration code u created

lobo

Can you comment on where this is going?  Wondering if you are basically forking fusionticket, or is the intention to maintain patches to keep in sync as FT evolves?  I am only asking because FT is a big project on its own, and this version is in beta so its quality is somewhat unknown.  Sooner or later the question will arise, hey, can we get those latest FT patches into CiviBoxOffice?