Hi,
Am 28.08.2014 22:31, schrieb Nkansah Rexford:
Are there any plans to get an official app for use for subsequent conferences of Wikimania? Or sponsors who happen to be app developers will do us the honor?
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The app link above says "official Wikimania app", but not very official to me as was built by one of the sponsors of the event.
I talked to two of the developers. Their business is (partially) based in London and they are a small start-up with a lot of passion, which made them a great partner and sponsor for this year's Wikimania.
They have in mind making the app open source but yet they still work on making a good living of the app and the services around it. They did indicate to me that they would be very interested in getting feedback, to further develop (improve) the app and provide it for free - unless it becomes open source one day - for future Wikimedia conferences.
I personally would love it if this could become reality. I do have the contact of one of the guys (Jon Sivak) and am interested to keep contact. Maybe this is part of what the Wikimania Committee can do in order to help local teams. I believe that things like these (along with standardised Visa invitation processes, centrally hosted registration and scholarship management tools...) should be provided centrally to each year's team.
/Manuel