Web-Schedule

[kaku]

Hi all. I was hoping that I could get some feedback of what everyone thought about the web schedule. Things you'd like to see changed or added, any bugs you found or problems you had, comments of how awesome it was, etc.

Also, did anyone happen to use the custom schedule feature at all? How were your experiences with it if so?

I'll list the things that will be fixed soon that were mentioned to me at the con, but if you have anything else you'd like to add feel free!

• 12-hour format (am/pm) in the time heading column
• Descriptions when viewing an event
• Ability to always see the table headings when scrolling around

There are more things planned, of course, but those were the most mentioned.

Thanks,
Kaku

[angelsinthewindow]

What Might be nice is if we could have it where you click what you want to see and the discription came up instead of putting it all on one page since it would take up a lot of room. Also, color codeing would be nice as well, Red for 21 and up, Blue for 18 and up, white for the rest... so on. It might make it easier to see then instead of just a thick box. And I think that Staff should be able to go in and change it if needed, at least more then one person if not all staff. that way if times change, we can get it up there fast. It would also take stress off for the one person programing. All in all, it worked pretty well I think.

[kaku]

What Might be nice is if we could have it where you click what you want to see and the discription came up instead of putting it all on one page since it would take up a lot of room.

Thanks for reminding me! The plan was to have the description become a tooltip on the event link, so if you hovered your mouse over the event, it'd tell you what it was about. I have some other possibilities in mind, but they're more 1.1+ features, so we'll stick with the tooltip idea until then

Also, color codeing would be nice as well, Red for 21 and up, Blue for 18 and up, white for the rest... so on. It might make it easier to see then instead of just a thick box.

This was already done, actually. There just weren't that many 18/21+ events

And I think that Staff should be able to go in and change it if needed, at least more then one person if not all staff. that way if times change, we can get it up there fast. It would also take stress off for the one person programing. All in all, it worked pretty well I think.

This is already a feature and was used during the con. I remember Bang Bang Neko wanted their steampunk panel moved to main events, so we did. Then they wanted it back in the original panel room, so we changed it again. All within the space of about 45 seconds.

Thanks for the input! <3

[angelsinthewindow]

Another thing that I think would be good is if we had something to where it will bring you to the time that it is at the point your looking at instead of people trying to find what time it was. that way you don't get confused like I did.

[kaku]

Another thing that I think would be good is if we had something to where it will bring you to the time that it is at the point your looking at instead of people trying to find what time it was. that way you don't get confused like I did.

There was a unanimous decision to find some goodwill alarm clocks and set them alongside the monitors

On point: there was a bit of ad-hock discussion about how we could do something like what you're suggesting, or other ways of truncating the display as the con progressed. I'm sorry I didn't think of it before, as in hindsight this is an issue that I should have foreseen and dealt with somehow ^^;

[Legoman]

I don't think too many people knew about the custom schedule.

[kaku]

I don't think too many people knew about the custom schedule.

It was never really advertised to the public at large (no: "HAY GUYS NEW SCHEDULE" topic) so it not being a known feature isn't really surprising. I was just hoping that those who had happened to notice it would send me some feedback on it or how to improve it

[Mr Silmero]

Everything that I would have liked fixed is already listed so I would like to say-


I had this always running on my Droid and it worked just fine, thanks for making it and having it up.

[Lady_Savant]

I think it was a great idea and with the tweaking you purpose will be a wonderful addition to all of the cool stuff at MEW in the coming years. Great work! I wish that I had remembered to bookmark it on my phone.

[kaku]

Thanks, Mr Silmero & Lady_Savant I'm glad it was useful. I must say it feels really cool to know that something I coded is being used and that in general people liked using it. Yay ego boost!

[Runa]

gee, I feel all old-tech here... I'm the panel manager for 2010, and I was thinking of doing the old-fashion type of "schedule of the Gods" in which you put up a grid on a wall or display panel thing and use post-it notes to show what's happening when. This way no one has to scroll thru the list - all is visible in one fell swoop. Also changing time/location of events is as easy as moving a post-it from one square to another.... 
HOWEVER, having computer monitors makes it all shiny modern, so we can do that instead (and save a few dozen trees). Perhaps a projector to display the data on a wall??? At least for ONE of the views of the schedule that's set to current time at top of screen. The one that people scroll thru won't be on the wall... just a thought.

Also, might as well post a schedule template on the website for all to see. Yes, it's empty now, since no one has scheduled anything, but as soon as people send me info, I'll be starting to generate the ever changing schedule - and of course will submit monthly updates. Since it's blank, current version is simple: listing of all the rooms across the top and listing of various times vertically. The actual hours of the con will be determined as soon as I see what people are considering for times for panels. I'm willing to schedule super-early/super-late panels if that's what people volunteer for. Of course, if everone says they want their panel at 5 PM, well, that is NOT going to happen, but at least we'll have some sort of amorphous schedule forming itself as the weeks pass by rather than a day before th econ schedul popping up on website...

[kaku]

Plans are already drawn up for most of the first paragraph of yours, Runa ConSchedule is looking to get some loving soon...ish. The website is still pretty barren and I'd really like to see it fleshed out with stuff before devoting time into ConSchedule again.

The second paragraph is something I was interested in implementing as well, but it may require tweaks to ConSchedule. It is both fortunate & unfortunate the ConSchedule is its own entity separate to the site, but integrating it into the site is one of my goals (though I think GKMachine has been working on this).

Keep poking me about this and hopefully in a little time I can at least get you a private-access (well, admin/panel-scheduler access) schedule to start posting to.

[Runa]

consider yourself poked, Kaku 

[Kitsune]

Runa, Me and you should probably have a talk at the next meeting to figure out what you want and what we have and how to make those two lists the same in the most efficient way possible.

[Runa]

Runa, Me and you should probably have a talk at the next meeting to figure out what you want and what we have and how to make those two lists the same in the most efficient way possible.

cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeck
As soon as next mtg is actually scheduled, um, yeah. Also, actually having a list of available panel rooms (I think we have 3 panels, a video room, gaming, art/exhibitors/workshop, main events and library?
So far, my spreadsheet is equivalent to a blank schedule listing times for the 3 days since no one has given me panel info yet! Of course, the Video/AMV person will be setting his schedule soon, but that's about it. I did scrape from the forums info on some panels that peeps were discussing, but did NOT receive responses from the panel proposers as to what exactly they wanted for the panel. So a schedule showing "nothing happens" is right about what I've got. I suppose I could schedule in "Staff nap time"