Re: [96attendees] Please stop killing trees with pre-printed agendas

Christian Amsüss <c@amsuess.com> Fri, 22 July 2016 17:42 UTC

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On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 03:35:40PM +0200, Lucas Jenß wrote:
> On a tangent: Are the IETF iOS and Android apps open source, so that
> bugs one encounters may be fixed?

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 01:50:33PM +0000, Andrew Allen wrote:
> The app isn't available for all platforms and just like we don't allow
> document formats for IDs that are only supported by a specific or
> limited number of document reader applications we shouldn't require
> that attendees have to use a smartphone that is supported by the app.

This might be an adaequate occasion to point out that the official app
is not the only way to use the schedule. The schedule is available in
rfc 2445's iCalendar format, which can for example be consumed by the
generic conference schedule app giggity[1].

Best regards, and thanks for the nice week
Christian

[1] https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=net.gaast.giggity

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