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Want to Help Socialize OpenWorld?

Started by manalang · 9 months ago

OpenWorld is quickly approaching; it’s September 21-25, in case you don’t already know that.
You’ll recall that last year, we used Twitter quite a lot to socialize, meetup and broadcast the sessions. We used Craig Cmehil’s eventtrack side pro ... Continue reading »

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  • topperge

    10 months ago

    Well, here's my first contribution to the project(?). Anyone that wants to do anything with the sessions will need this data set. Its a list of all the sessions, date, start and end time, tracks, etc.

    No speaker info or session abstracts, but its a good start. Feel free to grab it from me at:
    http://matttopper.com/personal/oracle/sessions_...
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  • Jake

    10 months ago

    Thanks dude. I think this train may be stuck at the station though.

    I've added your link to the Oracle OpenWorld room on Friendfeed.
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  • Warren Baird

    10 months ago

    > Now, if only I could get a hotel room in the city and skip the 30 minute drive
    > up from the airport hotel where I’m currently installed. Ideas?

    check back at the OOW housing page *often*. a co-worker clued me in to a better hotel yesterday, and I managed to get moved from near the airport to hotel just a couple of km from Moscone... But it was the *only* open room at the hotel...

    I was contemplating writing a screen-scraper that'd check for better rooms every five minutes and notify me if it found anything - but (as is so often the case) the old-fashioned approach won first.
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  • Jake

    10 months ago

    Nice tip. Now, if only I knew where the housing page was . . .

    Maybe socializing OpenWorld should focus on getting me a better hotel room.
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  • topperge

    10 months ago

    You could always try couch surfing (http://www.couchsurfing.com/) I'm sure Uncle Larry would appreciate the cheaper prices. And being San Francisco I'm sure you good find some interesting people to surf with.
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  • Jake

    10 months ago

    I already know a few couches I could surf in the Bay Area, but I think I'm a bit too old for that. Anyway, this isn't about finding me a hotel in SF.

    Someone get us on track please!
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  • bex

    10 months ago

    you should chat with the aqualogic/BEA folks...

    At the "participate 08" conference in Chicago, they GAVE AWAY some iPod touches to the audience, pre-installed with some social apps to help folks get connected. It also allowed people to give feedback on a presentation during the talk, to say whether or not they liked a specific feature. Pretty cool...

    Its a tad late for open world... but what Oracle REALLY needs is a decent mobile tie-in to their online schedule builder...

    scratch that... first get a decent schedule builder... THEN make it social.
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  • topperge

    10 months ago

    I've long said that I need to write a conference planning and management app. Every single one I've seen is a pile. I don't think I've ever seen a schedule builder well executed.

    I know that Jake has talked to Chris Bucchere in the past about the app he built for Participate, he also used it recently for Ruby Nation here in DC. They are launching it as a platform available at: http://www.nowgetsocial.com/

    So what are some good ideas? Google released a new version of gears tonight that is location based but it too doesn't get down to a low enough level for a busy conference hall.

    I haven't even logged into the schedule builder yet, I wonder how hard it would be to scrape the data? Take that, merge it up with OraTweet, have the presenters claim their sessions and send live updates to them during their presentation. If they are brave enough I'm sure I could crank out a small Air app to have the messages pop up on the screen as they presented. Then again, I don't know that I would trust some of the people around here to put messages live on my screen during a presentation.
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  • Jake

    10 months ago

    The problem is that we rely on people to update whatever we use (Twitter) to collect the information. OraTweet is a non-issue, since it's inside our firewall, but it would be a nice scale test for Noel.

    I'm OK with the FF room, if that's all we have time to do. Maybe we should have started this thread earlier . . .
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  • Jake

    10 months ago

    Yup, as Matt mentions, I talked to Chris a few months ago, but more about his app than the iPod giveaway. Mix, although not as targeted at conferences, does most of the same stuff.

    Because I'm not in Marketing (remember?), I can't help with device giveaways. However, it does seem a bit pricey to give 40,000 anythings away.
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  • fuadar

    10 months ago

    Though i'm not much of a developer. i can chip in with whatever is needed at openworld . Video broadcasting doesnt work on non jail broken iphones . There will be plenty of twitter updates coming thru (I'm sensing a twitter crash ).
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  • Jake

    10 months ago

    Thanks for the offer. I doubt we'll crash Twitter, but if we did, that would be a feather in the 2.0 cap wouldn't it.
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  • topperge

    10 months ago

    If anyone is still working on stuff I have a beta to Zeep Mobile which allows SMS integration into apps. It wouldn't be too hard to come up with an app that takes the CSV from your OOW schedule and 20 minutes before one of your sessions sends you a msg about what the title is and where you're supposed to be going.

    I'd write it but my 4th week of 80+ hour weeks isn't going to let that happen.
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  • Jake

    10 months ago

    Sounds cool. I think we're going to have to go with OOW room plus Twitter, no geo-location. Time is short and so are resources. Not so bad, we tried.
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