Could be useful to have a one-tap feature to add lectures/workshop to
the phone/googe calendar and maybe an alert system if there are
changes in the schedule. It could be app or just mobile version of
website :-)
2014-08-29 11:20 GMT+02:00 Chris McKenna <chris.mckenna(a)wikimedia.org.uk>uk>:
Given the huge range of structures a Wikimania
schedule can have, due to how
tied to the physical layout of the venue(s) it is as well as other reasons
(transport, food, culture, climate, themes, contemporary movement politics,
etc), and how different non-conference aspects can be (for an overlapping
list of reasons) I don't really see how useful a generic app could be?
On 28 August 2014 22:27, Joseph Fox <josephfoxwiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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 ;)
Joe
On 28 August 2014 at 10:25:58 pm, Nkansah Rexford
(nkansahrexford(a)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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On Aug 28, 2014 10:44 PM, "Joseph Fox" <josephfoxwiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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(a)gmail.com) wrote:
I used the Wikimania Android app during the conference.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.eventspark.wikimania2014
Obviously, 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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