[Dev-flock] SMS for oompaloompa party

[Lucy Mendel]

Good point. I'm adding the upc lookup right now. Even so (and since
maybe it's not as straightforward as i think), the sooner we know the
upc/product code on the chocolate bars we're selling the better.

What won't be straight forward is searching solr for companies called
"Hershey" so that we can hook up information from the upcdatabase, eg,
that some upc maps to "Hershey's Almond Chocolate Bar', with our
reviews and ratings. We don't have to do this by June 3rd, but the
sooner the better.

L.

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Christopher Pepe <cougarvt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Lucy Mendel <lucy at thoughtandmemory.org>
>> Date: Fri, May 30, 2008 at 9:13 PM
>> Subject: Re: Middle East - contest
>>
>> Will we be selling chocoalte bars that have a upc or barcode?
>
> If we know what bars we are selling we should submit the data to
> upcdatabase.com asap so that it gets into their database.
>
>
>> Even if
>> we make up our own product code we should make sure the product and
>> its code are in the database, with reviews and ratings, so that people
>> can SMS for that information at the party.
>
> The current upcdatabase connector either looks in our database (if the
> query is a node id), OR in upcdatabase (if the query is a EAN).
> Unless Lucy has added the logic it doesn't yet try to find that
> product in our database.
>
> ~Pepe
>