Fusion Ticket Solutions Limited is a small Company developing an Open-Source Event Ticketing Web Shop and Box Office application.  Initiated in early 2007 by Christopher Jenkins and derived from the now defunct phpMyTicket script, the first beta version of Fusion Ticket was released in early 2008. In spring 2008 Niels v/d Spek joined Chris as Developer and worked on the next beta release. Several further beta releases followed with the latest public release (beta 7.1) having been made available in autumn of this year. Following the departure of Chris the development has progressed thanks to the hard work and dedication of Niels with Mike Taylor, who joined the team in 2010, taking care of the more administrative tasks.

Fusion Ticket is Open-source software released under the  GPL3 license and available for use by the Community with a Registered User Base of over 4000. Although still at beta status, the software is used extensively in many countries. We provide support through a Forum, Live Chat, a dedicated IRC channel and a Wiki.

However work still needs to be done before the software can be confirmed to be suitable for use in a production environment.

To date we have largely relied on donations from our Community but these barely cover our running costs thus to carry out the necessary tasks to bring the software to Release Status we need further income. Quite apart from the time constraints placed on our small team, the tasks we propose to implement are outside the capabilities and experience of the in-house developers and will need to be out-sourced.

We propose to introduce a further step in our current testing. Releases to date have been tested mainly by making pre-releases available to VIP Donors who in return get access to additional Payment Handlers and the latest patches. Bugs that are found are reported on the Forum or documented on Mantis, our Configuration Control and Bug Tracking software.

Task 1: A formal test script will be written by a specialist Test Specification writer and subsequently applied to each Version before release. The Test Specification will need to be written in a manner that will allow deletions/additions to be made by a non-specialist to reflect changes as detailed on Mantis.

Task 2: Write and test a Plug-in suitable for both Android and IOS mobile phones that interfaces with the Fusion Ticket Control function (Ticket Taker) using the supplied Application Programming Interface (API) and sample code.

To complete these tasks we believe we need to raise £2500 over and above our normal income taking into account the fees we will need for specialist skills, the cost of the rewards and postage and the other administrative costs of running the Campaign. The tasks to be covered by this expenditure and an approximate time-line are shown in the graphic.

The Chart shown below shows the tasks required to implement the Funded Project. We are aiming for a duration of approximately three months, finishing early in 2014. Rewards will be finalized and ordered as soon as we reach our target and dispatched as soon as they are available.

Success in completing the Project to budget and to time is key to our future as a recognised developer of software for this segment of the market. It is vitally important to us to maintain our position as a source of good quality open-source software who responds to customer's requirements with secure and reliable code.

The 'Rewards' we offer are aimed at providing you with useful acquisitions that will add to your experience of Fusion Ticket. We hope you feel able to support us.

We offer 3 kinds of Rewards: