Ah, right :). To be fair, the app was of a standard I would probably expect from a volunteer-run conference but obviously it’s just data inputted into an app template really.Making a whole app for Wikimanias en generale would be pretty cool, but probably not cool enough to warrant the man-hours ;)JoeOn 28 August 2014 at 10:25:58 pm, Nkansah Rexford (nkansahrexford@gmail.com) wrote:
It likewise didn't serve any useful purpose for me. I just saw it on the phone, and thought, "what the heck is this doing here?"
Since it was branded as "official app", it appeared and i thought it is something interesting to the Wikimania team of which perhaps they would like to pursue.
I agree that it wouldn't be of any importance investing time in such an app.
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Given there were literally hundreds of paper calendars I think I looked at the app maybe twice throughout the whole weekend. It was really pretty, but slow and ultimately pointless once you’d put your chosen sessions into your own calendar (as I’m sure a lot of people did) or indeed just circled them on your programme.Creating an app is a big endeavour, creating a *good* app even more so. I don’t think it’s really necessary to do so.Joe
On 28 August 2014 at 09:32:30 pm, Nkansah Rexford (nkansahrexford@gmail.com) wrote:
I used the Wikimania Android app during the conference.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.eventspark.wikimania2014Obviously, it is not up to par with conference apps, like the Google I/O app.
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?
I think this year's event was the tenth Wikimania. Launching an app to celebrate that wouldn't have been a bad idea.
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.
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