Delegate Schedule Requirements Motivation:- We would like to give delegates a way to organise their conference schedule
- Also provide reminders for each delegate?
Should include:- Title/abstract
- Time
- Location
iSilo – used at EPAC’04 iSilo is a cross-platform Freeware application- Geared to document storage
- ‘Like PDF only smaller’
Palm, PocketPC, Windows Mobile, Symbian etc.Similar in functionality to PDFRequires a download to the deviceI found it difficult to use at EPAC’04 on Windows Mobile
Scheduling at EPAC06 We desire:- Simple system
- Automatically driven from the conference data
- Standards-based if possible
- Free if possible
- Cross-platform
- Does not require much work by the delegate
The Target Platform!
Extensions to My Schedule Functionality - To Screen
- To PDF (via print)
Extend to include:- Data output
- iCal files
- Subscribable iCal URLs? (dynamically – perhaps a duplicate problem here)
- Different searches
My Schedule Search Ideas Full download of complete programmeDaily downloads – Mon, Tue….Field searches, e.g.- All orals
- By classification, author etc. (fields)
- And/Or keyword searches, e.g. ‘FEL’ & ‘DESY’
- Combinations of the above!
‘My Schedule Suggest’- Take keywords from delegate’s contributions, and suggest papers which match them – rank in order of most matched keywords
- Choose top 10, top 20, top 100 etc.
Implementability?
iCal – RFC2445 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar
- Is more or less a standard for Calendar/Events booking
- Defines Events, Actions (To Do’s), Journals Items, and Free/Busy information
- (related to vCal) – used more or less interchangeably
- Sample Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object:
Breaking Down a Simple Event
A More Complicated Example
Used by a LOT of Software – Cross-Platform Windows (XP etc.)- Outlook (native/plugin)
- Mozilla Calendar
- Sunbird/(+Portable)
- Thunderbird/Lightning
- Lotus Notes
- Novell/Ximian Evolution
Mac OSX etc.- iCal (native)
- Mozilla Calendar
- Sunbird
- Thunderbird/Lightning
Hot to Get Data Onto Your Device (In Theory!)
InDiCo .ics Files – but only for whole event (not individual)
Windows: RemoteCalendars http://remotecalendars.sourceforge.net/Works great – except have to replace webcal:// with http://- Same file location (on web), but just different URL start – seems not to care!
- A bit of a pain with other calendars – have to remember to edit the link when subscribing
- Manual updates
iCalShare – www.icalshare.com A central (public) location for shared calendars- Can’t think of a reason NOT to publicise here (other than inviting spam etc.)
- But can publish on our own server – SPMS, website etc.
www.eventful.com – another one!
Want to be really geeky? Can use hCalendar format to publish calendar information in xHTMLhttp://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar Can then use GreaseMonkey script to automatically convert published data on webpage to link to .ics files….For serious geeks only!!!
Proposal for EPAC06 Retain Schedule -> Screen and Schedule -> PDFAdd generation of .ics files- Download to file
- Publish to website (static/dynamic?)
Now For a Bit of Fun – Finding Your Way to EPAC Motivation- Help delegates find their way to the hotel
- Maps are not exciting enough!!
Use GPS!
Coordinate Systems WGS84 is the standard lat./long. System used by commercial GPS.The format is very simple, e.g.- -3.207616,55.947072 is the Sheraton Hotel in Edinburgh
- Basic navigation (you are 1km away and need to go north)
- Navigation software for drivers
Getting the Hotel Coordinates UK Postcode is accurate to ~5 buildings / 20mwww.streetmap.co.uk does coord conversions in the UK
GPS Unit Upload Depends on unit; I know aboutUsed Freeware to do conversionsDelegate uploads files using their unit uploader softwareCan also make available Speed Camera data for those with car navigation software
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