Archive | April, 2011

Google Summer of Code 2011 Proposal – Eventpress

Eventpress is a proposed event management system which can be unobtrusive and provide a simple event publishing means or be very detailed and create complex nested events which can interact with a community. It borrows inspiration from software such as Autodesk Maya, GIT and redmine. It will be a wordpress plugin, following the trend of bbPress and BuddyPress.

Maya Hypergraph

The problem I wish to solve is that of creating events which interact with a community. That community could be members of Wordpress, bbPress (standalone or plugin), buddyPress or all of the above. By using a highly modular and object oriented structure, an event author can create very simple or very complex events with the same framework.

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PocketShip at FITC!

PocketShip at FITC

PocketShip is a unique game which allows players to join a communal experience on a projector (or any other display) by visiting a site with their handheld device. Visiting pocketship.dyndns.org presents an app-like interface where users customize a spaceship then fly their ship around a shared environment with other users, with the occasional mini-game to spice things up.

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