keiala for conferences
As noted we just imported the conference schedule of the upcoming re:publica conference into keiala so that users can plan their sessions from their mobile phone and see who is attending which session.
I just tried it and it’s amazing. In 10 minutes I had my own personal conference schedule planned out. I simply joined all the sessions I want to attend. Now I can either look at only my own events to see my personal schedule, I can look at my friend’s events to see what they are up to and I can look at the public timeline to see all the sessions - just in case I want to change my mind. Great. And it all works from my iPhone.
By the way, the sessions are updated every hour - conference schedules change.
Other stuff that might be useful:
- people can comment live on their sessions
- if a lot of people join a session in advance that might be moved to a larger room
- the speaker can get direct feedback on their sessions