Thoughts on conferences

Posted Nov 24, 2011 22:44 UTC (Thu) by broonie (subscriber, #7078)
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Schedule apps that work offline are a very nice thing for people travelling to a country where they don't have mobile internet they can reasonably use (even if the conference has good WiFi the hallway track is often a different story). They can also more easily render well on a small screen with lower latency for moving from page to page than you might get with WiFi.

Thoughts on conferences

Posted Nov 25, 2011 13:16 UTC (Fri) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link] (1 responses)

Why would you need to provide a new one for each conference?

Why not provide calendar as a calendar file? What would you need beyond that?

Thoughts on conferences

Posted Nov 25, 2011 13:39 UTC (Fri) by broonie (subscriber, #7078) [Link]

Calendars aren't great as it's very intrusive to use them on a mobile device (as the conference gets mixed in with your actual appointments) and often the mobile calendaring apps aren't ideal for dealing with long form descriptions of appointments. That is a nice option to have, though.

Being able to share the same app between multiple conferences is of course good (and most of them actually do seem to use the same app).