It is so useful and cool, but I think you should have three versions and charge for two of them.

1. Free, limit of certian features or the ability to add an X amount of photos, but still the same, smooth application. Must have powered by logo at bottom. In this way people can fall in love with it. 3 themes included.

2. $10.00, full application for personal or non-profit use. Must have powered by logo at bottom. 4 themes included.

3. $25.00 - $50.00, full application for commercial use. Ability to remove the powered by logo at the bottom. 6 themes included.

Interesting idea, I never thought of charging for the application itself. I think if I ever made a profit off Zenphoto, it would be by providing a hosted service using Amazon's S3 or the like for storage. That would also require a lot of server horsepower, but if I had subscribing users, it'd be worth it.

But on that note, I think zenfolio ( http://www.zenfolio.com ) does a much better job. I like their service... I'll at least stick with open source for now, and continue to take donations.

[b]Trisweb wrote:[/b]

Quote:Something I strive for is making a product so good, so useful, so "cool" that people want to throw money at me for it -- and to then give it away for free. I truly believe that putting the customer and the product first will result in the greatest benefit to me, even if that's only through the friends I make in the process. :-)
All I can say, trisweb, is WOW!!! What a wonderful expression of the best principles of open source development. The essence is a desire to give something back to this economy which allows us, as individual developers, to make a reasonable living, as determined by the quality of the work which we do.

I salute you, my friend!

Lee Eschen

I downloaded 1.0.6 and FTP'd it to my server, did the setup and went to go to admin. I got the following repeating error message:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /mnt/w0713/d48/s25/b0288033/www/ashgrovevisualarts.com/zenphoto/zen/kses.php on line 429

Any thoughts on what happened?

Oh, and by the way, a very HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone here. May it be a year of incredible success for ZenPhoto.

Lee Eschen

I did finally get it to go into admin, but now at several different points in admin, I am getting errors, but always at kses.php on line 429. I'm thinking this is likely a real bug. Happy New Year all!

Lee Eschen

Ive made a lot of custom modifications to zenphoto 1.03, should i upgrade and make all my modifications again, or just wait till 1.1?

I hate it when someone calls an application OS and then limits it to personal use only. i think it completely defeats the spirit of open source. Luckily zenphoto is GPLed, so we dont have to worry about it changing (unless its rewritten from scratch).