[I-mobile-u] WVU Mobile Web

[Andrew J Yu]

Hi Dave,

Welcome to iMobileU!

And, thank you for sharing your experience with the MIT Mobile Web code base. I just checked out your mobile site and it's awesome! We welcome your contribution to this project.

I hope to be able to post the source code for the MIT Mobile Web 2.0 very soon, so it would be great if we can combine some of the things that you've done.

Cheers,

Andrew
P. S. I will send out another email shortly to propose a time for our next conference call.

On 10/27/09 4:30 PM, "Dave Olsen" <dmolsen at gmail.com> wrote:

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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