[iRail] Commuters' strike

Sun Oct 31 07:02:30 UTC 2010

Hey,

If you want to make a *statement*, the date isn't well chosen, 15 november
is also dynasty day, so even without the "strike", there should be less
people using the train anyways.
I'm not a blogger but i can provide feedback (have an iPhone & iPad) and
it's easy to test it on unstable networks (I always have an bad reception on
the train :p).

I think you should think bigger than just a button for a virtual strike. In
addition to the chat where people can put random stuff, give users a channel
where they can provide feedback on the trains themselves. Give some standard
buttons (or a UIPickerview or <select><input>..</select>) they can quickly
press whether the traveller is happy with the train or not. For example, if
I'm on the train in the morning and I have for example no seats, i can pick
a negative status with the standard message "No seats" or "Train has delay".
Link the status messages to the trains and you can get a lot of statistical
information about the train, which you may be able to share with NMBS to
improve their service.

Kind regards,

*Ah-Lun Tang*

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On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 04:50, Yeri Tiete <yeri at tiete.be> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> jq needs a lot of improvements (do we have the spare time, in 15 days?) and
> will need optimisation per mobile device.
> Probably want to give users the option to return to the old interface as
> well for now.
> Due to jq's nature to load all pages (well, it's just one page), we need to
> test its performance over slow and unstable networks (gprs).
>
> We should have a fair user base to test new layouts as well. Any way to get
> a bunch of trustworthy beta-testers? Who'll provide us with feedback. And
> perhaps write blog posts about the new features/layouts/... ? :P
>
> I contacted Lenzo Robijn, the FB page owner of the commuters' strike to get
> in touch with us.
>
> Who will we proactively send to press release to? And it probably should be
> online somewhere as well (create PressRelease page on our wiki?)
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Yeri Tiete
> yeri at tiete.be
> www.yeri.be
> +32 (0)474/61.01.39
>
> On 31 Oct 2010, at 07:06, Pieter Colpaert wrote:
>
> > Hey list,
> >
> > I think Koen makes a pretty good point. We should show a button on the
> > mobile site for supporting a virtual strike. In meantime we should as
> > well release a new mobile webdesign based on jquery mobile (example
> > proof of concept here http://dev.irail.be/jq ), and go for a press
> > release.
> >
> > Proposal to press-release and thus what we should implement and
> > accomplish by then:
> > * On the 15th of November iRail will do a virtual strike. This means on
> > that day you'll be able to go to the site and click a button. This way
> > you'll show your support for a better national railway company with less
> > striking days.
> > * On the 15th of November the iRail team will be launching their new
> > interface which should be finger-friendly and optimized for iPhone,
> > iPad, android, symbian, and other mobile devices.
> > * iRail remains by the people for the people and is developing native
> > apps called BeTrains, which is already available for android and soon
> > for iPhone, Nokia devices, samsung phones and windows mobile.
> > * If any developer wants to use trainschedules on their website or
> > somewhere else, they can do that through the API: http://api.iRail.be
> > * iRail is a community project and anyone is welcome to help out on
> > project.iRail.be. There are a lot of interesting things about to happen.
> >
> > I really need your feedback on this one. Is this the right thing to do?
> > We should as well in some way work together with the facebook guys or at
> > least inform them that we're doing this. Can anyone contact them and
> > give them a link to this mailinglist post or maybe give them my e-mail
> > address? Anyone has any better/other idea that might be worth
> > considering?
> >
> > Thanks a lot and before I forget to mention it: this community rocks.
> >
> > Pieter
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 2010-10-30 at 07:43 +0200, Koen Delvaux wrote:
> >> Commutere strike initiative is doomed to fail:
> >> Bad communication, bad activism and too much effort demanded from the
> >> participant.
> >>
> >> BUT
> >>
> >> Idea for press release:
> >>
> >> Irail organises virtual commuters strike
> >>
> >> Besides the commuters strike, there is also a virtual strike. People
> >> who use the irail.be application daily to know if their train wil be
> >> arriving on time will see a "virtual strike" button in their
> >> application on the day of the commuters strike. With this button,
> >> users can express their desire to go on strike against the union
> >> actions of nmbs/sncb.
> >> The virtual strike has been organised on popular request of the irail
> >> users. The irail team expects that as much as 60% of their users will
> >> participate in the virtual strike.
> >> By organising this action, the team behind irail wants to express
> >> their sympathy with customers who are disgrunted by the latest actions
> >> from nmbs/sncb unions.
> >>
> >> If you think this is feasible I think it can get some press attention
> >> if we seed it. Details have to be looked up (is it on monday? Is it
> >> against unions or against sncb/nmbs? I didn't quite follow :))
> >>
> >> Greets,
> >>
> >> Koen
> >>
> >> On Oct 30, 2010 2:06 AM, "Pieter Colpaert" <pieter.colpaert at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>> Hi List,
> >>>
> >>> on the 15th of November some people got the idea of having a
> >> commuters
> >>> strike. The details of this are on facebook
> >>> (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=157172534318954) and enclosed
> >> in
> >>> this mail.
> >>>
> >>> My questions to our community:
> >>> * Do we need to do something as the iRail community?
> >>> * Do you have any ideas? We sure have to stay up: we can't let the
> >> user
> >>> experience suffer, but we can put a link on the results page.
> >>> * Can anyone bring me in touch (phone number, instant messaging,
> >>> email, ...) with the starter(s)?
> >>>
> >>> Any feedback welcome,
> >>>
> >>> Pieter
> >>
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