RE: [backstage] Developer jobs

2005-10-04 Thread Andrew Bowden
Obviously someone forgot to put that information on the jobs site. Looks like someone else was wondering, as I found that there's been a freedom of information request asking for the exact same information, in connection to a job application!

[backstage] A request

2005-10-04 Thread vijay chopra
Hi all, I'm new too the the backstage mailing list, but it seems to be the appropriate place to make a request to use BBC content for my final year degree project. What I would like to use are the sports scores feeds that power the football live videprinter and cricket latest scores (if such feeds

RE: [backstage] A request

2005-10-04 Thread Jon Steer
Title: Message Hi Vijay, the ECB has a feed for latest cricket scores - of course its not that busy just at the moment as I think it concentrates on England and English domestic games. http://www.ecb.co.uk/live-scores.xml Jon -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [backstage] A request

2005-10-04 Thread vijay chopra
That's great thanks Jon ( England Domestic scores are just fine to build a prototype, England have a tour coming up), now I just need to find a football feed, I think the BBC must have one too update their live videprinter, if not i'll have too look elsewhere. If they can't supply me with a live

RE: [backstage] A request

2005-10-04 Thread Ben Metcalfe
Title: Message Hello Vijay, Unfortunately we are not providing sports scores data via backstage.bbc.co.uk. This is due to contractual issues with our feed supplier which we are looking to resolve. Just a quick point on the latter part of your email: the Intellectual Property of the

RE: [backstage] A request

2005-10-04 Thread Ben Metcalfe
Title: Message Hi Vijay, Whilst the data would be "old" it's still bound by the rights of our data provider which will mean we will still have to get permission. I can try and find out whether we can get any old data for you, but I'm not sure how successful I will be. On the aspect of

Re: [backstage] A request

2005-10-04 Thread Graeme Mulvaney
Hi Vijay, I take it that you're a Computer Science major ? in which case why not write a small applet to fire off goal events, simulating a feed from the BBC site. If you have a look around, then you can easily get your hands on a fixture list for the season, and player stats for each team

Re: [backstage] A request

2005-10-04 Thread Richard Lockwood
And if you manage to write the applet to fire off Goal Events, could you maybe sell a copy to Huddersfield Town in the event of Pawel Abbott getting injured..? ;-) Cheers, Rich. On 10/4/05, Graeme Mulvaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Vijay, I take it that you're a Computer Science major ?

Re: [backstage] Ning!

2005-10-04 Thread Chris Walker
Kim Plowright wrote: Kim gives up idea of ever developing interesting BBC social software app, goes home... :-) I shouldn't worry - Ning is also idea thievery on an awesome scale. There's always a need for folk who have the ability to come up with an Original Idea. - Sent via the

Re: [backstage] A request

2005-10-04 Thread Graeme Mulvaney
You should be able to 'borrow'the datafrom one of the sportals, justmake sureyou don't get your Markov chains all tangled up in the process ;) On 10/4/05, vijay chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Graeme, thanks for the idea, I'm actually a Software Engineering student, writing an applet is a good