[I-mobile-u] current state of development?

[Andrew Yu]

Hi Rajeev, et. al.

Thank you all for joining the iMobileU mailing list.

Some time during this week, I will have a formal email to kick off the  
iMobileU Initiative as well as adding others to the group. I've been  
meaning to send out an email, but the current projects here at MIT  
have been keeping me busier than usual.

Hopefully, the formal launch of the Initiative will allow me and  
others to gather additional resources to spend more time and focus on  
the objectives of the iMobileU Initiative in the near future.

~~~

To answer and comment on Rajeev's question:

1. "So, we are wondering if there are any plans to release any later  
versions of the MIT project?"
Absolutely. We have been making progress in improving the MIT Mobile  
Web with new features, modules, and functionalities that we plan on  
sharing in the next release. We hope to do this in early July.

2. templating system, rss, configuration service, Android/G-Phone views.
Rajeev, could you share with all of us in more detail what your  
intention for each item is? We would love to collaborate and include  
any improvements into the project.

As for the Android/G-Phone version, we had ours up and running at http://m.mit.edu 
  since January as a beta. (Please go to the MIT Mobile site using  
your Android device). The UI is based off of the iPhone user interface  
and it is about 90% there. We anticipate that there will be more  
WebKit based mobile browsers appearing in the market (e.g. Palm Pre,  
more Android devices, Nokia S60 devices, etc.), so we do plan on  
expanding the WebKit version. (more details to come later)

The Android version was not included in the version 0.9 build, but we  
hope to be able to release it for July.

Cheers,

Andrew
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On Jun 23, 2009, at 12:09 PM, Rajeev Cyrus wrote:

> Greetings.
>
> We (UMN - Jaws) have been working with the 0.9 release of the "MIT
> Mobile Web Project" and are starting to reach a point where we are
> thinking about extending the system.
>
> In the interest of being able to contribute back to the project we
> want to make sure we will not be reproducing any work or diverting too
> far from what everyone else is doing/has done. So, we are wondering if
> there are any plans to release any later versions of the MIT project?
>
> What we want to start work on:
> Implement a templating system
> Tweaking the RSS service
> Creating a configuration service.
> Building Android/G-Phone views.
>
> Also we'd like to touch base with any interested party to discuss how
> this project is developing for other institutions.
>
>
> thanks
>
> -Rajeev Cyrus
>
>
>
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