[iRail] New Project : Firstsight.be

Mon Dec 5 23:14:29 UTC 2011

Looks cool!! And the concept is awesome! This is like kiss n ride but +1 *
1000 times better (0 * 1000 is still 0 ). I'd be interested to help out at
the back-end. I've got limited times ahead of me because of examinations
and what not. But spark my interest and I'll see what I can do !

Kind regards,

Jan

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Pieter Colpaert
<pieter.colpaert at gmail.com>wrote:

>  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
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Yeri Tiete
> yeri at tiete.be
> 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.
>
>  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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