We Are Moving!
We're moving.
We are moving in two senses of the word.
- We are changing our organization name from Open Table to JetMesa, and as a result,
- We are changing our domain name and moving to a new server.
New Domain name
Our new domain name is www.jetmesa.com.
Reasons for the change
There was just too much name conflict over "Open Table" with other organizations. Primarily, OpenTable.com, which provides a restaurant reservation service, was tromping us on Google search results. OpenTable.com did not ask us to change our name (they didn't even send us an e-mail), so there was no legal pressure to do this. I personally use OpenTable.com, primarily when I am out of town, and will continue to do so.
The pressure here was that when we Googled "open table", we got back a kazillion or so responses... and our first hit was something like a billion (maybe not, but it wasn't on the front page).
JetMesa gave us something like four hits to compete with on Google. This is a Good Thing.
Another technical reason for the changes is that we cannot use reverse domain name notation for our packages. The java compiler does not allow us to name packages org.open-table.whatever, the dash is illegal. So we have been pushing code out with org.opentable.whatever... bad form. With com.jetmesa.whatever our problem is solved.
Moving Slowly
We are now in the process of moving the entire web site and code base over. We have the SVN repository moved (see the SVN page for the details) and are in the process of migrating the code over to the new package structure. As we do this, we are refactoring the code to take advantage of some of the things that we learned the first time through.
Licensing Changes
We are also modifying our license. Starting with this migration, we are going to change the license structure to resemble the MySQL model. Basically this means GPL for open source projects, but paid licensing for commercial use. We'll have more up on the new site.
We will not be changing the licensing for the older code - if you downloaded it already, you can continue to use it as before.
Help Wanted
Okay, I've been trying to set up a TRAC server for two weekends now. FAIL! I'm getting stuck on the DB install and... ugh. If you have experience installing Trac on CentOS, and would be offering to help an old programmer out, would you please drop me a line? [ michael*jetMesa.com ]
And, as always, if you want to get more involved in the project, drop us a line - we're excited to know who is using this software and how.
Kind regards,
+Michael Riecken