Media Companion project goes open source (GPLv2 licenced Visual Basic .NET 2.0 code)
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As people reading the Media Companion forum, over the last few months I have had great difficulty finding time to continue development of this project. After much consideration I have decided that perhaps the best option is to make the whole project open source, and hopefully increase development of the program.

Following advice I have uploaded the code to CodePlex, the project can be found at http://mediacompanion.codeplex.com/ and will be licenced under GPLv2

I know that this is likely a busy time for most people but for those who have expressed a willingness to get involved I will be happy to add people to the project, there is no doubt a lot to do with perhaps the first order of business probably being to clean up the code and identify buggy areas. As a fairly mature project with little documentation in the code I dare say that a lot of explanations will be needed and I will try to make myself available as much as possible, especially at first.

People who are needed
A Coordinator, I have every intention of remaining involved in this project, but I would like at least one other coordinator to work with me. Ideally this role will be given to someone I am familiar with, perhaps someone who has made valuable contributions to either this forum, or MCs own forum.

Developers
Programmers familiar with Visual Basic .NET 2.0, prepared to spend a lot of time understanding many thousands of lines of code written in perhaps an unorthodox manner. As I have stated before, I am a completely self tought amateur programmer who is a little out of his league now.

Editors
Perhaps you have no programming skills, but would like to be involved. Editors can be involved in making the project pages look as good as possible, keeping the project information current, perhaps creating the wiki or just updating the RSS feeds.

For everyone else, perhaps you could sign up to codeplex and give media companion your rating, perhaps follow it. This interest will help attract developers to MC.

I am hopeful that this move will allow MC to grow and develop much beyond what I could accomplish on my own
Homepage for XBMC Media Companion, and XBMC-DB - seperate nfo files http://www.billyad2000.co.uk
Forums for XBMC Media Companion http://billyad2000.darkbb.com/
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FWIW, this is a program that I have used a good bit and in many areas found advantage over other competing products. where I ran into issues running this and other products together is that the NFO files would often "compete" and weren't shall we say standardized among them. Solving this, if it's still an issue, would be nice. I seem to recall the TV Show portion of this app worked pretty well for me.

Anyway, I truly hope that this project takes off and blossoms with additional help! I appreciate the amount of hard work that has gone into it thus far and really liked the end results when I used it. I also appreciate that you decided to go open source and bring others onboard when things just got to a point where you couldn't dedicate what you felt was enough time to it. IMO you've done very well and I hope that you learned a lot working on it - I for one really appreciated your efforts! Thank You!
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Just a word to point out that Media Companion is not dead - in fact it's more alive than ever.

Christmas seen Media Companion finally move to open source. There are already half a dozen developers signed up, and at least a couple of them are very active.

It will probably take a while to clean the code up and iron out some of the bugs, but I would imagine that in a month or two you should start to see some big improvements.

MC is being developed on CodePlex, and if anyone is interested in working on this project then we would be happy to see you.

http://mediacompanion.codeplex.com/

Billy
Homepage for XBMC Media Companion, and XBMC-DB - seperate nfo files http://www.billyad2000.co.uk
Forums for XBMC Media Companion http://billyad2000.darkbb.com/
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