[iRail] New Project : Firstsight.be

Mon Dec 5 23:03:41 UTC 2011

Hey guys & Sacha,

This is really cool!

Maybe we should help translating the page into Flemish. Is there any one 
willing to do that?

Kind regards,

Pieter

On 12/05/2011 11:42 PM, Yeri Tiete wrote:
> I really love the project and it's something really cool.
> Awesome you had your first match today. :)
>
> Really eager to see what happens if it goes viral.
>
> I'd really suggest you to translate it in Dutch (and English) before 
> going all out on press and promotion though.
>
> But please do keep me/us in the loop with the progress of this.
>
> @iRail: also great example for a not-so-common use case we can show to 
> dataset owners
>
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> Kind regards,
> Yeri Tiete
> yeri at tiete.be <mailto:yeri at tiete.be>
> www.yeri.be <http://www.yeri.be>
> +32 (0)474/61.01.39
>
> On 05 Dec 2011, at 23:35, Sacha Schmitz wrote:
>
>> Hello there,
>>
>> I've been in contact for a month now with Pieter for a project that 
>> I'm currently developing. You can check it online (it's the 
>> beta-version, but still, we have started to make some promotion for a 
>> week now) @ www.firstsight.be <http://www.firstsight.be>.
>>
>> Me :
>> Sacha Schmitz, 23, Student at Solvay Brussels School of Economics and 
>> Management in Business Engineering in 4th year. Not a perfect geek 
>> though, but I really like writing some custom codes; I already have 
>> designed websites for customers, mainly in Drupal.
>>
>> My project :
>> Briefly, the website give the possibility to anyone to find back a 
>> person on who you had a love at first sight, wherever : in the 
>> street, in public transportation, in bar/clubs/restaurants/shops, 
>> libraries, etc. How ? The two persons need to create an announcement 
>> (for free and anonymously) and given the criterias they have entered, 
>> there's a sorting algorithm which will analyze all the announcements 
>> in the database and only returns those who have an enough percentage 
>> of matching. The algorithm is powerful but flexible : powerful to 
>> only return announcements which matches, but flexible in order to 
>> pass through user-stupidity (I've tried to reduce user input at the 
>> maximum (only selection through a list)). For instance, if the 
>> meeting took place in the street, there's a confidence interval of 
>> 500m. If the meeting took place in a public transportation, there's a 
>> confidence interval of two stops around the one selected, and so on !
>> That's for the first step ! I have other ideas, around this theme and 
>> for instance, I'd like to install a router in every tram/bus/metro in 
>> order to give people the possibility to chat with others which are in 
>> the same transport, I'd like to give users the possibility to find 
>> people that they secretly love in their class, in  their promotion, 
>> at their job, and so on.
>> I already have the support of one teacher at the ULB who would like 
>> to create a collaboration with the university and maybe my faculty 
>> (Solvay), but negotiations are in january/february.
>> Also, I'm preparing a negotiation with the Metro-newspaper to 
>> complete their "Kiss&Ride" section.
>>
>> How it works so far ?
>> It's been 2weeks that the website is online; one little week that we 
>> promote it and we already had more than 1300 visits, 60 users and the 
>> first match (today actually :-) ). The key of success for this 
>> project is that everybody knows it; this is the reason why we have 
>> asked to a director and a cameraman to film three promotion videos. 
>> The teaser of the first one is online (front page of the website). 
>> Indeed, the two people who had a love at first sight must know that 
>> this website exists, but also how it approximately works.
>>
>> Why iRail ?
>> Because I needed the data from the STIB at first, since i'm focusing 
>> on Brussels' youth for the first shot and I read Pieter's article in 
>> iRail's blog. I took the chance to contact him and here I am :-)
>>
>> What I'd need ?
>> Support of iRail community of course :-) I mean, if anyone is ready 
>> to work on this project, s/he's the most welcome, and in any way : 
>> coding, theming, project-leading, etc ! Also, I'd like to have it 
>> translated in English and in Dutch from French (in English, I can do 
>> it on my own, even if correctors are probably needed :-) ), but it 
>> has to be in an unformal-young way. If you understand french (which I 
>> hope!), you'll certainly notice how it has been written. I'd also 
>> like to have a promotion support; Pieter talked about a press 
>> release, this would be awesome for instance ! If we can form a kind 
>> of team around that project, we could have more weight in front of 
>> our negotiators (STIB, Metro-newspaper, etc).
>>
>>
>> I don't know how it works after my presentation, but don't hesitate 
>> if you have any question. You're free to contact me by mail, phone or 
>> skype : sacha.schmitz :-)
>>
>> Hope you'll enjoy it, I hope you'll spread the word, but mainly I 
>> hope you'll be part of the team :-)
>>
>> Cheers !
>>
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