[iRail] Report Meeting 7/12/2010

[Koen Delvaux]

Hi list,

Themobilerevolution.be just published an article about the iphone release of
irail. If you guys would take 2 minutes to each leave a comment, that would
further drive traffic
http://www.themobilerevolution.be/2010/12/09/irail-team-lanceert-betrains-for-iphone/
<http://www.themobilerevolution.be/2010/12/09/irail-team-lanceert-betrains-for-iphone/>
Greets,

Koen
@kodel <http://www.twitter.com/kodel>
www.del-mot.be
0478482111



2010/12/8 Pieter Colpaert <pieter.colpaert at gmail.com>

> Dear iRail enthusiasts,
>
> Yesterday we have had our first general meeting as an NPO (=vzw/asbl).
> This implies we had to do some common procedures which will be described
> hereafter:
>
> 0. ATTENDEES
>
> (in random order)
> Joris Timmerman
> Yeri Tiete
> Pieter Colpaert
> Mathias Baert
> Arnaud Vanhoeke
> Louis Dedecker
> Christophe Versieux
>
> 1. THE STATUTES
>
>  Every meeting should be documented by someone whom's verbosity is more
> than average and whom's ability to interpret each and every grunt or
> glance exceeds normality. In our community however we've noticed a lot
> of verbosity and a lot of interpretation capabilities. Therefor, for the
> next three years, we've elected the best one in our circle: me.
>
>  Organisations need someone who take care of the finances. This means we
> need some with a good eye for precision, someone who is strict and
> honest. As I cannot do everything myself, we have elected Christophe
> Versieux to do this for the next three years. His first task will be to
> open a bankaccount in our name.
>
>  Yeri Tiete will be our president for the first three years of our
> organisation. His first task is to put down the statutes on the grifie
> (I have no idea how to translate that properly).
>
>  I, Pieter Colpaert, will be your vice-president. This means, if Yeri
> accidentally gets hurt in a terrible accident, I will be able to take
> over the president-seat for the next general assembly.
>
>  If you've missed the PDF which contains the statutes as we agreed upon
> the 7th of December, you can find it here:
> http://lists.rootspirit.com/pipermail/irail/2010-December/000314.html
>
>
> 2. THE COPYRIGHT AGREEMENT
>
>  New members will sign a contract which is adapted from the FLA of FSFe.
> It allows us to defend you in name of the iRail vzw/asbl and it helps us
> keeping the iRail code healthy. You, however, still have full control
> over the code and you will get a vote in the NPO (vzw/asbl).
>
> 3. THE PLAYBOOK
>
>  No, this is not a Barney Stinson production, it's the new blackberry
> platform! Joris Timmerman (joridor), one of our founding members, showed
> us around what his work in progress was. It sure looked promising. If
> you come to our next general assembly in February, where you will be
> able to become member, I'm sure Joris will be happy to let you
> experiment on a Blackberry Playbook yourself.
>
> 4. THE IPHONE
>
>  We decided to postpone the iPhone application 2 weeks ago. We had a
> pretty intense discussion about whether we should release it or not. The
> application, BeTrains for iPhone, is mainly focused on chatting. You can
> easily find train schedules, but no realtime data is provided however.
>
> Voting: all 7 attendees said release it. This convinced everyone:
>
> We are just a group of enthusiastic people who want to be creative with
> these data and technologies. As we think the iPhone application made by
> Hafas is pretty neat, we will not focus on yet another app that does the
> same thing yet a little bit differently. If we make it clear to all
> journabloggers that this app is focused on being something totally
> different and should not be compared with the HAFAS application, we
> might end up with good feedback on how to create an awesome social
> environment for railwayusers.
>
> 5. CHAT/SOCIAL API
>
> The iphone client will come with chat functionality. It's the same
> chatserver that is used by BeTrains for Android and thus other
> clientdevelopers might want to implement it as well. As we might
> implement favourite synchronisation from desktop website to BeTrains
> applications we thought that for a longterm plan we will switch to an
> open-source framework to do it. The shortterm plan is to use
> BeTrains.com/api as the social API. Louis' first task as founding member
> is to document his API properly.
>
>
> 6. NEXT MEETING
>
> The next meeting will be at the beginning of February. For now we will
> agree on the second.
>
>
> For at least another 3 years yours,
>
> Pieter Colpaert
>
>
>
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