[meego-network-fi] Re: App for Summit program, also for the future
- From: Juha Ristolainen <juha.ristolainen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: meego-network-fi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 23:00:52 +0200
Hi,
I can help with Symbian^3 and Maemo 5 (/MeeGo) app with Qt Quick. Is
there an XML file already somewhere on the Internetz and does it
contain all the needed info? I could whip up a small demo over the
weekend.
Br, Riussi.
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Timo Härkönen <timop.harkonen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> 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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