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  Jim

  9 months ago

  Will definitely take a look. As an aside, the regular OW schedule builder app is absolutely horrendous - given all the great tools and smart UI people that Oracle has, it's a real shame. I know it's outsourced, but I bet tons of big-5 or isv partners would have actually payed oracle to let them write them a much better app, on the Oracle stack, provided they could plaster their logo all over it.
  
  Oracle had a captive audience of 40,000+ attendees, what a way to MISS a chance to excite them with a real hands-on experience
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  Jake

  9 months ago

  I think this is great fodder for Oracle Listens :) I haven't been able to use the Schedule Builder, but I've heard similar complaints.
  
  Maybe next year, after all, the OOW social experience was through a third party in 06, 07, and this year it's through Mix. These things take time.
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  topperge

  9 months ago

  Thanks guys, but as you know, I'm a bit of a perfectionist and just ran out of time. My day job has had me working overtime. I think the alert system will help out a ton. I know I've always pulling out my laptop trying to figure out where I'm heading next.
  
  I'll probably be hanging out in the OTN Lounge / Unconference area during the day and cranking out code. If anyone wants to help out I'd be more than happy to open up the source repository. Its written on MySql and Rails with a bunch of off the shelf gems and plugins.
  
  I'm hoping to add Open Microblogging (http://openmicroblogging.org/) support to the site so people can connect up their air apps to see whats happening. I think this will be the first Rails app that supports the standard.
  
  If anyone has any questions or problems drop me an email at support@collok.com or collok.uservoice.com .
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  Jake

  9 months ago

  We should sit down with Rich and Raimonds, the two Rails guys I know in the Oracle sphere.
  
  What about a hackathon session at the Unconference? You could book a couple sessions for anyone interested. Let me know, since I'll be onsite as soon as I arrive to move my geek-speak session.
  
  Or you could do a hackathon after hours somewhere cozy with wi-fi?
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  topperge

  9 months ago

  Oh and I just found my first bug, its fixed ;-) Hopefully no one noticed.
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  Dan Norris

  9 months ago

  Congrats, Matt, on the launch! Guess I know what you'll be doing next week since I know you can't stand having things out there that aren't ready :). Luckily, I'm pretty sure the bars have wireless in SF.
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  Dan Norris

  8 months ago

  BTW, during OOW, the Collok reminders helped keep me on track. That's a chore considering my easy ability to get sidetracked by shiny objects, etc. The SMS messages from schedule builder were worthless and kept sending me URLs to visit which was not welcome (you've seen my circa-1995 phone, right?).
  
  Anyway, thanks for getting the site live before the big event--it helped me and I look forward to future versions!
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  Jake

  8 months ago

  Agreed, the SMS reminders were very timely, especially when I got caught up in a conversation between sessions.
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  topperge

  8 months ago

  Glad I could help guys, for now work has stopped on it due to a lack of time. But know knows maybe Marius can hire me to replace the schedule builder next year ;-)
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  Jake

  8 months ago

  Time is always an issue, so I like the open source approach, which I think you started already. After a year of feature development and a few conferences for testing (ODTUG, Collaborate), by next OOW, Collok could be pretty awesome.
  
  A good story too, since it would be a community built app.
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  Marius Ciortea

  8 months ago

  I agree with Jake, Collok would be a pretty good story, if we can't help improve our current offering. And Matt, your hired!
  
  Marius
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