THINGS TO UNDERSTAND
* you will save time, dollars and hassels using Glean to represent your ideas rather than trying to DIY
* supporting glean supports tradelink.org development
* it costs far less to support glean users than tradelink, as such no support or assistance is provided to open source users.
* users who contribute code back to tradelink.org can join an open source mailing list to share patches and discuss improvements.
IN SHORT
* glean is better for everybody, the vast majority of the time and better for vast majority all of the time.
* you can't believe in open source without supporting it, which means using glean.
* if you're super hard core and want to do awesome OSS stuff, go for it but share your results back. IF YOU GET IT AND WANT TO CONTINUE :
https://code.google.com/p/tradelink/wiki/TradeLinkBuild
MORE INFORMATION :
* http://faq.tradelink.org
* glean user questions http://community.tradelink.org
* private contributor forum : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tradelink-users