On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 08:56:46PM +0000, Derek Nowicki wrote:

The app is up in the stores for testing now if you want to install it. I'm on mobile so I don't have the links, but you should be able to find it with a search for "scale conference". The developer name is Knowiki Apps.

Instead of writing all of this code for guidebook, why not contribute to the mobile app? I think we could beat every feature guidebook has and then some.

I can send the repo url to anyone who wants to contribute.

I'm all about that... but I did it because 3 days before the conference the app wasn't ready and so Ilan asked if I could write some automation to populate Guidebook using their new API because we were about to have a conference with no mobile schedule options at all.

As I said, if it's goinna be ready for 2019, I'm happy to see my code get deleted.

Building upon the both/and approach, the CSV de-auth specifically is also something that might be useful to other teams since the XML feed has some HTML embedded with assumptions about its use for the electronic signs displays, if that de-auth is not too complicated of a change. (I assume it's just some permission flag?)

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 3:17 PM, Lori Barfield itdirector@gmail.com wrote:

i downloaded derek's app. looks like a lot of work went into it. thanks, derek. :-)

i'm on android. is it also available in the apple store?

for purposes of a full discussion, and not trying to talk anybody in or out of anything, we should consider that the API update phil is asking for isn't something that would be unique to SCaLE. sometimes a dev team is just waiting for someone to request a feature before they're willing to take the risk of releasing it. (i dimly recall our working with them many years ago on bumpy new features.)

...lori

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All,

Sorry about the delayed response folks, I've been swamped with finals and going out of town and so forth.

Lori,

Thanks for the positive feedback! The app is indeed available in both app stores. Here are the links:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.knowikiapps.SCaLE

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scale-conference/id1340573731

Phil,

Sorry we weren't able to hook up before SCaLE, I could have used your help meeting the deadline. We couldn't get the app 100% before SCaLE because only one of the several volunteer devs I had actually ended up contributing, everyone else ghosted. If you'd like to contribute that would be great. There are lots of cool things we can do with this app. We barely scratched the surface with what is possible. Also, don't throw out that guidebook script, some of that code might be useful for the app. Qt Quick lets us integrate objects from a bunch of languages like C/C++, Java, Objective C, JavaScript and Python (and some others I cant remember rn).

**The app is developed using a cross-platform framework so we have one code base for everything. In fact, the app will run on OSX, Windows and Linux (and look almost exactly the same) if we wanted to offer it up to people. All that would be needed is to compile and deploy. Here's the repo:

https://github.com/KnowikiApps/scale-conf-app

If you find any issues or have feature requests you can submit them here (or just email me):

https://github.com/KnowikiApps/scale-conf-app/issues

I've had a lot of fun building this app and I really hope you all want to move forward with it. I'd love to see some challenging feature requests and beat Guidebook.

Best,

/Derek Nowicki Knowiki Apps 818-262-9565/

On 3/16/18 3:17 PM, Lori Barfield wrote:

i downloaded derek's app.  looks like a lot of work went into it.  thanks, derek. :-)

i'm on android.  is it also available in the apple store?

for purposes of a full discussion, and not trying to talk anybody in or out of anything, we should consider that the API update phil is asking for isn't something that would be unique to SCaLE.  sometimes a dev team is just waiting for someone to request a feature before they're willing to take the risk of releasing it.  (i dimly recall our working with them many years ago on bumpy new features.)

...lori

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Most of the code is JavaScript and QML which is a json-like declaritive language. QML is pretty easy once you get the hang of it. The broad strokes are already in place so a lot of the work is just adding new features and a lot of that can be copied and pasted. The mobile-specific code I take care of and any C++ that is needed.

The schedule data comes from the same source as the sign data. We have API endpoints on the server for announcements and other data. We're not doing the backend but we can request any changes we need.

If you want, send me an email with your experience and interests so I will know what tasks I can send your way. Include your github handle and I can add you as a contributor. If you live in the LA area I'd be happy to meet up for a hack session to get you started.

Julio and I have been having a lot of fun with this project so the more the merrier.

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Derek

From: Phil Dibowitz

Sent: Monday, March 19, 9:56 PM

Subject: Re: [Scale-planning] Guidebook automation

To: scale-planning@lists.linuxfests.org

Very cool, thanks for all the info. Mobile app development isn't my strong suite... nor is C++ for that matter. Throwing together a few hundred lines of python is very different from developing on a full blown app. :) Will it need syncing, or does it just wrap the webpage for showing the schedule? If the former, my script can probably be adapted for any such needs. -- Phil Dibowitz phil@ipom.com Open Source software and tech docs Insanity Palace of Metallica http://www.phildev.net/ http://www.ipom.com/ "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss