[technology taskforce] ICANN 58 event mobi app vs https://schedule.icann.org

Justine Chew justine.chew at gmail.com
Sat Mar 4 04:28:49 UTC 2017


Hi Chris,

Thank you for your comments. That being the case, I shall just stick to the
browser-based scheduler then to keep up with changes, if any.

​Regards
,

Justine Chew
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On 4 March 2017 at 06:21, Chris Gift <chris.gift at icann.org> wrote:

> Appreciate the feedback on the meetings app. A couple of comments:
>
>
>
> ·         There were indeed two apps last November. We were beta testing
> a new vendor, comparing them to our existing vendor and solution;
>
> ·         We realize there are shortcomings with the existing app but we
> have a contract with them (to get favorable pricing) and will continue to
> use them until the contract expires – which is soon;
>
> ·         Please understand that we are constrained by the need to have
> an app that integrates nicely with our internal meeting scheduling
> application. As you might imagine we require a reasonably sophisticated
> meeting scheduler to work the hundreds of sessions per meeting and manually
> recreating that output on a mobile app just isn’t feasible, not with the on
> the fly changes we go through during the meeting! To keep the mobile up in
> sync with our internal scheduler it must be automated;
>
> ·         We realize that syncing schedules is an important request and
> one we want to satisfy. Hopefully sooner rather than later. We will keep
> you informed!
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Chris Gift
>
>
>
> *From: *<ttf-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org> on behalf of Justine Chew <
> justine.chew at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Friday, March 3, 2017 at 8:30 AM
> *To: *Judith Hellerstein <judith at jhellerstein.com>
> *Cc: *Technology Taskforce WG <ttf at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [technology taskforce] ICANN 58 event mobi app vs
> https://schedule.icann.org
>
>
>
> Hi Judith,
>
>
>
> Thanks for your reply and yes, it
>
> ​also clarifies
>
>  why there were 2 ICANN57 apps back in November.
>
>
>
> Unfortunate for us on the continued deficiencies in tools used for ICANN
> conferences. And I suspect the event mobi app may serve on-site
> participants' needs better than remote participants'.
>
> ​I was hoping we'd get to at least try CrowdCompass ......​ and yes, we
> should keep pressing.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Justine Chew
> -----
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 3, 2017 9:25 PM, "Judith Hellerstein" <judith at jhellerstein.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Justine,
>
>
>
> Yes you are correct. The event mobi app does not do that at all. It never
> has. This has been an issue from day 1. That is why they went with two apps
> last year, the sched ap and the event mobi one. That proved problematical.
> However, if your goal was to synch your sessions with your calendar than
> the browser which s usung the sched engine will do that.  It creates a
> separate calendar which can be imported into your ical and google calendars
> as well as others.  It is very good and also gets updated as new sessions
> are put into the main icann 58 schedule.  It is really too bad icann is
> continuing with this app.  The ttf last year did a review of apps and found
> some much better ones which we told the meetings staff but they have not
> responded. What we can do is to keep pressing them to either invest in an
> app that works or get a new one that works froml the getgo
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> Judith
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> Judith at jhellerstein.com
>
> Skype ID: judithhellerstein
>
>
> On Mar 3, 2017, at 2:55 AM, Justine Chew <justine.chew at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> The ICANN 58 event mobi mobile app doesn't seem to synch with the
> browser-based scheduling system @ https://schedule.icann.org/[
> schedule.icann.org]
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__schedule.icann.org_&d=DwMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=zS0x8pK8z0FnanGSXbXvoRVfpJzE1Xmo0ZZP9Gl3-rw&m=72sDf-To3Vr1owB3__4XZEdJqeV_x62GBDU8N9Y_r4E&s=nOsHTIVtxZY5hJy7MEnA7DYqA6QC4SViD2_kDRBY8y0&e=>
> -- as in none of the sessions I have earmarked for my schedule @
> https://schedule.icann.org/[schedule.icann.org]
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__schedule.icann.org_&d=DwMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=zS0x8pK8z0FnanGSXbXvoRVfpJzE1Xmo0ZZP9Gl3-rw&m=72sDf-To3Vr1owB3__4XZEdJqeV_x62GBDU8N9Y_r4E&s=nOsHTIVtxZY5hJy7MEnA7DYqA6QC4SViD2_kDRBY8y0&e=>
> appears accordingly in the event mobi app after I log in. The mobile app
> prompts me to again select the sessions I want to include in My Schedule.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Justine Chew
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