TicketAssistant and EventArchive are programs that were developed as a result of several years of participation in the Greely Players Community Theatre group in Ottawa Ontario ( www.greelyplayers.ca ).  We produced a single 6-show run of a musical theatre production each year with around 300 seats per show. 

A few years back we decided to begin a reserved-seating ticket sales process. That way people would not have to wait in long lines to get seated. This decision, however, introduces a fair bit more work on the part of the ticket sales folks. Tickets had to be individually numbered. We needed to keep track of who bought which tickets and assign seating to people and groups. The simplistic paper-based system was difficult and error-prone. TicketAssistant was developed to make that process somewhat easier.

TicketAssistant has now been through several seasons of shows. It has evolved to include an Internet sales capability and many improvements aimed at making the ticket sales process as easy and reliable as possible. 

EventArchive has been developed to make the maintenance of a website easier. Our community theatre group has had over 850 people involved in various productions over the years. We wanted to be able to maintain an archive of all past shows and all participants in them - along with the roles and responsibilities each has had. And of course, we have a photo gallery for each past show. EventArchive simplifies the creation and maintenance of such as archive. It handles it's own photo resizing, and website upload. It identifies which files in the archive actually change when modifications are made, allowing only the required files to be re-uploaded to the website. (see the Past Shows link on www.greelyplayers.ca for an example).