[iRail] Report Meeting 7/12/2010

Thu Dec 9 11:28:16 UTC 2010

Hi List,

We had a good meeting (even if I arrived late), it's so much easier to 
talk some things out in live than through email.
Pieter, thanks for the meeting report.

I'll document the chat api asap (hope to get this done by this Wend max) 
so other developers can play with it.

I activated the app in the appstore, and it is now available : 
itms://itunes.apple.com/us/app/betrains/id403631462?mt=8
(or by typing betrains in the appstore search box :))
Koen, kan you use this link in the article ?

Louis

Le 9/12/10 10:56, Koen Delvaux a écrit :
> 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/
>
> Greets,
>
> Koen
> @kodel <http://www.twitter.com/kodel>
> www.del-mot.be <http://www.del-mot.be/>
> 0478482111
>
>
>
> 2010/12/8 Pieter Colpaert <pieter.colpaert at gmail.com 
> <mailto: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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