[LCA2015-Chat] conference app...

[Chris Neugebauer]

On 8 January 2015 at 12:37, Anthony Towns <aj at erisian.com.au> wrote:
>
> It seems to work okay on Android, and is supposed to work on iPhone fwiw. I
> put in a map, some twitter and youtube bits, and a couple of graphics as
> well as the schedule, so it's not /totally/ bare. I only did the free/demo
> version, so it'll presumably stop working once 200 people download it. Or,
> well, 199 now...
>
> (The Guidebook site/app seems pretty great to me, except that it's not open
> source. It'd be $1750 (or more) per conference to allow unlimited downloads,
> though. That's only $3 or $4 per attendee though... If the conf organisers
> want to add to it or make it official, apparently I can add co-admins or
> something)
>
> Anyway, I think I'll find it useful so maybe others will too. If someone who
> /can/ program android/iphone apps to save their life wants to see about
> doing a similar thing but GPLed, that'd be cool too...
>

Michael Farrell wrote up a mobile HTML5 app that seems to point at the
JSON feed on linux.conf.au, so it updates every year:
http://lcamp.micolous.id.au/

If you want something Android native, I've written a basic
MIT-licenced Android conference app; it just needs data massaged into
the right format and a bit of awfully hardcoded schedule information
updated to work for LCA. I can offer pointers, but the code quality is
not great.

https://github.com/chrisjrn/oscon-2012-app/tree/oscon-2014

--Chris

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