[meego-network-fi] Re: App for Summit program, also for the future
- From: Timo Härkönen <timop.harkonen@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: meego-network-fi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 19:01:59 +0200
2011/2/9 Jarkko Moilanen <jarkko.moilanen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Hi,
>
> Some time ago some of us (smoinen in the front) suggested that we would
> provide Summit program in such format that mobile apps can use it. That
> means perhaps mostly XML. Correct me if i'm wrong. Anyway, timoph and I
> discussed this more today at Program Task-force meeting. What we need is
> that a) someone or few deves to define loosely what needs to be done and
> how, b) creates simple server app that can be included to our server
> infrastructure somehow (this app might also run independently). The server
> app (let it be called now as AgileProgram) would use XML as base format and
> from there it could be transformed to any other needed formats. This would
> be a great small project for a few developers. Timoph can correct my
> technical mistakes and such.
>
> Those who got interested about the mobile program app before could form the
> initial team. Benefits of doing this would be: a) it would serve us at
> future events (hopefully there will be more than just this event), and b) we
> can generate the program where ever needed in multiple formats. Or is this
> some sort of reinventing the wheel? Any thoughts?
>
>
Yep. the idea was to have an xml file that describes "everything" in an
event from name and location to program schedule. The client side (website,
mobile app or whatever) visualises the data using the xml. The benefit of
this that the data needs to be updated on in one place and all client have
the latest version.
One of the design goals with this is that it would be useful for any summit
like event. So the first and perhaps the most important thing is to define
the xml format.
One other thing to do at some point is an graphical editor for these xmls.
-Timo
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