Jen 7:16 pm on March 21, 2014
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WordCamp Mobile App We put it on the…

WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Mobile App!

We put it on the GSoC Ideas list, and there are some students interested. I want to give them all the same feature set to respond to (most wrote proposals basically just porting the WC sites to mobile). Without going too crazy, and remembering this is a summer job for one college student, what would make sense to include?

All the info that’s on the WC site in standardized format (location/map, schedule, etc)
Ability to rate sessions/speakers
Follow Twitter mentions and official tweets in one stream (@wchogwarts + #WCHOG), and/or full tagregator stream
Push notifications (opt-in) based on organizer posts to [blog? a cpt? something else?] to notify of day-of time-sensitive things like lunch being served, closing remarks starting, lost laptop, etc.
Take the follow up survey once event is over
Check in/out of event?
Form to contact on-site organizers (emergency, safety, code of conductCode of Conduct “A code of conduct is a set of rules outlining the norms, rules, and responsibilities or proper practices of an individual party.” - Wikipedia, lost and found, etc)

What would like to do from your phone at a WordCamp?

#gsoc, #mobile, #wordcamps

Dustin Filippini 7:25 pm on March 21, 2014
Ooohh… I’ve been wanting this for some time. We are looking at making our own using AppPresser for this year. Here are the most important things I’ve thought of.
- Standard post types on the site
- Most importantly the schedule
- Location/Map should also be able to use geolocation so people can find their way around.
- More than just location of venue, add ability for other locations such as after party, suggested hotels, parking structures, suggested restaurants, or others.
- Push Notifications are one of the big things I’ve wanted. I think it should be a CPT rather than using something already in place like blog posts. I can see instances where I would want to push out a notification to all attendees, but not necessarily have it posted on the blog. But, an option (checkbox) on blog posts may be nice too.
- Contact to the organizers is a great feature too.
Marko Heijnen 7:26 pm on March 21, 2014

The idea I always had was to focus what you do on the WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. itself. Having the schedule which you can also personalize, seeing all session/speaker details. From the speaker view being able to read his tweets.

Also a view with current sessions is really useful.
When something changed/import info to send a push notification.

Something like wparmchair in the mobile app would be great. Other important things are news and a screen for important/useful information.

What I would not do is integrating contact and the survey because they fit best online. Also curious if we finally require WordCamps to send surveys. The same goes for checking in/out. For the people who use that we have Foursquare.
- Sudden ImpactWebDesign 12:47 am on March 22, 2014
  
  I agree with Marko. A WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. app should be unique from a WordPress app and should be somehow (ideally) connected to WordPress.tv in posting presentations, preferably streaming or live if possible, and with as high a quality as possible. I love WordPress.tv but often find many of the talks truncated or with sound that is barely audible. If WordCamp is a big deal, the talks should be supported, not just presented and done with. Some tying in WordPress.tv with a WordCamp app would rock. Especially if there were a way developers (such as moi) who couldn’t attend a WC half a world away could still participate online via a BuddyPress side-site or sub-domain. I don’t see where the harm or expense would be in supporting higher technical quality talks, greater developer participation possibilities, and increased outreach.
Valerio Souza 7:26 pm on March 21, 2014

The application would be for the organizer or the users?
- Jen Mylo 7:27 pm on March 21, 2014
  
  Attendees.
  - Valerio Souza 7:29 pm on March 21, 2014
    
    I am developing for WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Belo Horizonte.
    
    From what I understand, people want a map, means of contact, summary of lectures to not get lost which has each lecture.
    
    In addition to notifications posts, twitter, ability to buy and use the cell phone to checkin at the event.
Kat Hagan 7:28 pm on March 21, 2014

This is a great idea. The only thing I’d add to your list is a way to post photos directly from the app, and be able to browse everyone else’s photos.
- Marko Heijnen 7:33 pm on March 21, 2014
  
  The idea for posting is cool but there are apps what can do that better. We should not have this in the WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. app. Browsing on the other end would be great.
- Jen Mylo 7:37 pm on March 21, 2014
  
  Tagregator would take care of the browsing part.
  For posting, might just launch the wp app? In the future, attendees will have a role on the site rather than just having bought a ticket via paypal, so allowing day-of posting of photos woud be doable, but putting that right in the app might be too much for the summer.
Andy McIlwain 9:00 pm on March 21, 2014

Regarding push notifications:

Let the WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. organizers specify the post categories to include in the mobile app.
Andrey "Rarst" Savchenko 10:14 pm on March 21, 2014

Wi-Fi details. Also it should shout at people to turn off dropbox, will save organizers a lot of effort.
- Jen Mylo 11:04 pm on March 21, 2014
  
  Good idea!
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diegorojas 11:25 pm on March 21, 2014
Uhoh! This is awesome!

Organizing the WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. São Paulo I felt somethings that could help a lot:
- speakers doing a demo (trailer) video, to promote their sessions.
- a financial interface to organizers make the fundraising really public and easy to do visual datas for wordcamp’s global numbers (that´s should be useful for the WP Foundation too)
- And a “map” for the day sessions did it by the user, people should be able to do their own schedule and have some notifications from the app to where and what time should he need to be to keep the focus. I felt in the WordCamp acquaintanceship a little bit of distraction, causing the loss of some sessions.
regards!
Dee Teal 1:40 am on March 22, 2014

Our team member Aaron Rutley built one for WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Melbourne last year, it’s still available if anyone wants to pick ideas out of it – you can find it here http://wpaustralia.org/wcmelb, we loved the Instagram feed, it’s basically just a simple mobile site built in WordPress, so of course was easy for any of the team to edit.
Piet 4:14 am on March 22, 2014

An app definitely should have a way to contact other attendees. In Leiden (WCEUWCEU WordCamp Europe. The European flagship WordCamp event.) it was very difficult to get in touch with people you have known virtually only for a long time already. I guess that is the case with each WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more., so in my opinion an app should have something to facilitate that.
karenalenore 11:16 am on March 22, 2014

Oh yes please! Every speaker tends to offer their slides or supporting resources on a platform like slidedeck or githubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ and mentions it verbally at the beginning or end. Why not include a resources section for each presenter in the app with links to all the slides etc that presentation included so we can easily get to it all after the fact, even for sessions we missed?
Courtney Engle Robertson 4:46 pm on March 22, 2014

An organization of their slides, and possibly including their talks from WordPress.tv after the fact. I’d like to see it as 1 WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. app that gathers data from all of the WordCamp events, not a different app per event.
Morten Rand-Hendriksen 7:01 pm on March 22, 2014

Geolocation, schedule, rating and review, yes to all of this. Another feature that would be useful is some sort of basic social networking ability that allows attendees to quickly add each other to their contact lists:

Could be as simple as a list of attendees with credentials attached. I meet you at WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. and want to talk to you later. I open the app, find you on the list, hit a button to add you to my contact list + follow you on Twitter or whatever other social network you chose to share. As a bonus if I’d be able to add a note attached to your profile for myself that would be great. Basically a very stripped down version of Evernote Hello http://evernote.com/hello/

The initial goal for this app shouldn’t really be to meet all demands and serve all purposes. Rather it should be building a solid foundation for future development. Add in some key abilities and leave space for extensions when and where they are required. That way the app can grow and evolve with the requirements and wishes of attendees and organizers.
Ian Dunn 6:19 am on March 24, 2014
General features
- List/Map of upcoming WordCamps with an X mile radius of me
- Ability to star/pin/whatever upcoming camps to indicate that you plan on attending.
For all of the camps you’ve starred, these could be “day-of” features:
- Personal schedule listing the sessions I’ve chosen to attend, including time and location
- Venue floorplan
- Directions to the venue and after-party
- Take the end-of-event survey while everything is fresh in your mind
- Link to speaker slides to make it easy to follow along
V2:
- Find an attendee/speaker/organizer you want to meet (via GPS, if both parties opt-in to allow it)
- Get notified when a new camp is scheduled within X miles of me
Scott Bolinger 4:22 pm on March 24, 2014

Hi guys, we would like to volunteer AppPresser products, as well as some developer time to help make this app happen. We have already built most of these features including maps, ratings, push notifications, check ins, etc.

The cool thing is that it’s all contained inside WordPress, no need for a native app, so it’s easier to maintain and update. If you are set on a native app, that’s cool too, just let me know.

Thanks!
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