Student slave power...
For what it is worth, I have just spent the past academic year
(2004/2005) with five final year students (in multimedia) from London
Metropolitan University. They had to produce an "interactive CD" to
promote my business (I am a tai chi instructor).
We had a contrac
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Sent: 08 September 2005 01:14
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I know this conversation has now ended, but I'd just like to briefly
suggest that subsequent projects be promoted around Computer
At 08:36 +0100 8/9/05, Paul Martin wrote:
Well, I'm not sure about that one. I'm on an Electronics & Software MEng
course and it's far from hard! Each year I get more and more free time, and
talking to CS students the only reason why they end up working for longer is
because the university hasn't
e this off the Web.
Paul
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> > departments in Universities around the country.
> departments in Universities around the country. Students often have
> more time, are looking for projects that they'd enjoy hacking around
You're kidding right? Students at Edinburgh (and the system is afaik the
same at most unis) are timetabled for an average 60hrs of class and
study a w
I know this conversation has now ended, but I'd just like to briefly
suggest that subsequent projects be promoted around Computer Science
departments in Universities around the country. Students often have
more time, are looking for projects that they'd enjoy hacking around
with and are loo
Me too!
I don't get out of bed for anything less than a G5 Dual Processor &
Cinema Screen Display
cheers
Jonathan Chetwynd
Accessibility Consultant on Learning Disabilities and the Internet
29 Crimsworth Road
SW8 4RJ
020 7978 1764
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I'd like to just add another voice to the call for XML feeds.
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that the in
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For my part,
all the interesting things I came up with were very AI related, which meant they
were really just ways of procrastinating from working on my dissertation and
commercial-type stuff, so I couldn't legitimately justify spending the time on
it. I think in general this
I'd like to just add another voice to the call for XML feeds. It's much
easier to parse with the abundance of libraries. Also, off-topic, but any
chance of the Weather feed (XML aussi) being added? The GNOME-UK team
would like to use it.
Stephen
Ben Metcalfe said:
> * The TV schedule data we prov
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From: "Ben Metcalfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sorry bit of a long reply.
* The idea of developing around a BBC-led theme, even for a prize, isn't
an approach that is of interest to the backstage.bbc.co.uk community.
I quite liked the idea, although it did feel a
I'm writing to let you know that the inaugural backstage.bbc.co.uk
competition hasn’t gone as well as I had hoped. In fact, at the time of
sending this we haven’t received any entries at all.
Ouch! Much as others have said, time is a factor. A number of the
forums/websites that I use tend
I was hoping to get something in but other stuff got in the ways and
I'm still not a very good coder. TV-Anytime is just to difficult for
me to parse, I really needed simple RSS style feeds or an easy-to-use
parser.
On 01/09/05, Steve Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 01/09/05, Ben Metca
It does seem like a lot of people
have had a lack of time.
Personally I didn't find it too hard to parse the listings, although it
could have been easier with a simpler format. I think I have made it
clear that developing something around a BBC led theme isn't really a
problem for me :)
I
On 9/1/05, Jonathan Chetwynd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I believe the TV schedule concept isn't that exciting, but just mightbe with access to sound, picture and motion files, perhaps an onlinemixing console? there are excellent versions online that work withfixed files jellify BBC content
XML
On 01/09/05, Ben Metcalfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * The TV schedule data we provided over-complicated and in an alien format
> that was difficult to parse,
This was the clincher for me I'm afraid.
I'm great at coming up with ideas, but am not the world's best coder.
And when I do hack so
I was hoping to enter; indeed, I got about 1/3 of the way through my project but
sheer lack of time and expertise has got in the way.
The main problem was parsing the XML. I'd developed the beginnings of the
interface, and I was about to approach parsing the XML. Unfortunately, I ended
up writing
Ben,
I'm concerned at the hype around the use and provision of text, and
the failure to engage users of other media, by releasing under
published copyright (commons type) restrictions as advertised by the
BBC. Even with text the BBC seemed to be trying to be pretty
restrictive on copyrigh
I think as is the case with many people it all comes down to time unfortunately.As someone else mentioned, I assumed you would be inundated with really cool stuff and that my offering of a couple of weekends here and there just wouldn't be up to scratch. I guess I'll have to rethink.I also agree w
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 02:57:34PM +0100, David Tattersall wrote:
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>Also - it's not the most enticing theme. TV schedules have been done
>before really. If you perhaps gave a goal - for example a project that
>gradually learns what TV somebody likes and suggests programmes that
>a
Personally I was quite interested in the competition, however holidays
and chaos at work have meant no time to come up with an idea let alone
work on it.
Tim.
On 9/1/05, Ben Metcalfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
> Dear all,
>
> I'm writing to let you know that the inaugural back
(Note to self: enter competition.)
In my case, the problem is three-fold:
* The TV schedule data we provided over-complicated and in an alien
format that was difficult to parse,
That's the first problem. Parsing through two files, one containing
program descriptions and the other containing
.uk
*Subject:* [backstage] backstage.bbc.co.uk TV Schedule competition
*Importance:* High
Dear all,
I'm writing to let you know that the inaugural backstage.bbc.co.uk
competition hasn’t gone as well as I had hoped. In fact, at the time of
sending this we haven’t received any entries at all.
backstag
Hi Ben,
Ben Metcalfe wrote:
Moving forward, I’ve been trying to think about why this has happened –
I'm sorry to hear that there haven't been any submissions -- I was
really looking forward to see what people would come up with. As far as
we (the Expway EPG/ESG team) are concerned it was sim
Ben
The intention was good! I hope that you will persist in looking for ways to
encourage independent developers to make use of the TV-Anytime data.
My guess is that people need more time to come up with interesting
applications.
- there's quite a steep learning curve for TV-A newcomers.
- Co
Title: backstage.bbc.co.uk TV Schedule competition
Hi,
Point 1 is probably most pertinent for me! I'd have
preferred a simple XML list like:
How to start your own
country
2130
2200
30
must like bleb.org :-)
Also - it's not the most enticing theme. TV schedules have
been done befor
Title: backstage.bbc.co.uk TV Schedule competition
Dear all,
I'm writing to let you know that the inaugural backstage.bbc.co.uk competition hasn’t gone as well as I had hoped. In fact, at the time of sending this we haven’t received any entries at all.
backstage.bbc.co.uk is very much abo
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