[I-mobile-u] WVU Mobile Web

[Dave Olsen]

Hello all-

First off, it's really great to see people working on the platform and
now having an area to ask questions and share. I know of a number of
schools that have picked up MIT Mobile Web and who are looking to
deploy solutions based on it.

During the summer I used the MIT Mobile Web code to build out a mobile
website for West Virginia University and it's available at
http://m.wvu.edu/. The code provided a great base. I've also released
the updates I've made to the code. Since I didn't really know if the
stuff on SourceForge was being monitored I ended up hosting the code
on GitHub at http://github.com/dmolsen/MIT-Mobile-Web/ (note the
directions in the wiki are for the original code and not my updated
code. really need to get back to it and update that part.)

Here is a list of the main changes I've made. I'm more than happy to
discuss any of them in more depth:

 - broke out standard text into a config file for faster editing
 - added support for sqlite
 - added PHP-based device detection and dropped WURFL
 - added a method to people and emergency to support sms interaction
via textmarks.com
 - modified the rss lib so i could set the feed in the main sections
instead of in the lib
 - the calendar now uses google calendar as a data source. we don't
have a web service or anything so i'm pushing .ics files to GC.
 - the map now uses google maps api and google static maps api since
we didn't have a dynamic map or mapserver option
 - we added the following sections: game day, hours (uses data from
the map), news, and youtube

I'm currently looking at implementing the following:

 - a shuttle schedule based on the Google Transit format since our
transportation group provides Google data in that format each week
 - support for jQTouch for more dynamic interactions & caching on the iPhone
 - proper support for phones like Android and Pre. right now i'm
lumping them into the smartphone category

I don't mean for what I've done to be a fork but maybe there's some
code that I've done that I can contribute back to the main repo once
that gets set-up. Again, really looking forward to participating in
the group and seeing what transpires.

PS - I'll be at Stamats SIMTech in Boston in November if anyone on the
list is going.

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