Outreach Registration System

[kenlimmj]

Possible? Idea should be similar to the commenting system. Basically I'd like to set up a couple of terminals (could be a desktop, could be a roving tablet) at the front area of any outreach event. These tablets will collect names, email addresses, and a nice picture.

However just asking people to fill up a clean form itself is a bit sterile, because in a guest-book, you see everyone else who's signed in in front of you. So if we have a system that's real-time, as I'm keying in my information, I see an entry coming in on top from the guy next to me.

This should be integrated with the API itself, and not be separate, because then we can do a couple of things:

• Send emails automatically to follow up
• If we post live-lecture footage on the site, these people can be listed as being there
• We can track outreach events

Should also be able to work offline, i.e. I tether to load the page, then I disconnect, it detects I'm disconnected and proceeds to store everything to localstorage. Once I reconnect, it syncs the content over to the db. This is useful for places where internet connection will be intermittent.

[jethrokuan]

Move to the liberol repo

Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 14, 2013, at 11:13 AM, Kenneth Lim [email protected] wrote:

Possible? Idea should be similar to the commenting system. Basically I'd like to set up a couple of terminals (could be a desktop, could be a roving tablet) at the front area of any outreach event. These tablets will collect names, email addresses, and a nice picture.

However just asking people to fill up a clean form itself is a bit sterile, because in a guest-book, you see everyone else who's signed in in front of you. So if we have a system that's real-time, as I'm keying in my information, I see an entry coming in on top from the guy next to me.

This should be integrated with the API itself, and not be separate, because then we can do a couple of things:

Send emails automatically to follow up
If we post live-lecture footage on the site, these people can be listed as being there
We can track outreach events
Should also be able to work offline, i.e. I tether to load the page, then I disconnect, it detects I'm disconnected and proceeds to store everything to localstorage. Once I reconnect, it syncs the content over to the db. This is useful for places where internet connection will be intermittent.

—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.