Sources and rough ideas

[karthik]

GitHub: Query the API to show top repos, most active, new, most collaborative etc.
Twitter (we could summarize activity like this: http://inundata.org/tweetnest/)

[karthik]

Check ins at the space with whatever doohickey. Just a quick notification that fellow x is now in space y.
More granular data for the spaces working group.

[katyhuff]

IFTTT (https://ifttt.com) could be a good way to pull in everyone's tweets and git repo pushes and stuff, to output to a single (rss?) feed.

[karthik]

[karthik]

Another idea: I'm always curious where people are traveling and what meetings they're at. So for those of us that enable locations on our tweets, it would be great to have it show up on a map on the dashboard. And if more than x people are in the same city, maybe something in the human friendly (Ios lockscreen message that @brittafiore mentioned) in the dashboard ticker.

[katyhuff]

I'll bet you could do that with the twitter trigger with ifttt
On Oct 8, 2014 1:16 PM, "Karthik Ram" [email protected] wrote:

Another idea: I'm always curious where people are traveling and what
meetings they're at. So for those of us that enable locations on our
tweets, it would be great to have it show up on a map on the dashboard. And
if more than x people are in the same city, maybe something in the human
friendly (Ios lockscreen message that @brittafiore
https://github.com/brittafiore mentioned) in the dashboard ticker.

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[bmcfee]

Pulling a couple more ideas out of the soup of the last few days:

• Stock-ticker crawl of git commit hashes
• Multi-panel and/or rotating views. Maybe a tweet map for 30s, then top repos for 30s, etc
• A slide-show view of research posters/slides/figures/etc. Any member can add or delete contents to a git repo that contains the slideshow contents, and the display code will pull them back down and update automatically. Ken Burns zoom effect optional.
• Another slide-show input for memes/photos/funny stuff. This worked really well at UCSD for community-building and/or teh lulz

[bmcfee]

Existing code base for the UCSD kiosk is at https://github.com/alexras/kiosk . It might be worth forking, or at least looking through for inspiration.

[karthik]

@katyhuff

I'll bet you could do that with the twitter trigger with ifttt

Right, but the way I understand IFTTT, you log in and authorize specific services. But you can't authorize activities for accounts that you don't have access to (e.g. mine). So the better choice might be something programmatic where a script reads off a list of Twitter handles (assuming we make this an opt-in) and then queries (from a CL app with its own API keys) the last tweet, then retrieves location, and adds to a map at regular intervals.

@bmcfee Nice! Yeah I figured there are a bunch of implementations already that we could begin hacking with.

[katyhuff]

@karthik right you are. forgot about that.

[bmcfee]

Side note: the twitch module in the repo I linked above was original meant for simulcasting video game tournaments during social hour. (This is of utmost importance.)

However, I think it gives us the wormhole functionality for free, if each center has a camera and twitch/ustream/justin.tv/whatever account that we can hook in.