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SCHED the Mighty SXSW Scheduler (or The App I Built In 5 Days)

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I know a few people from Phoenix who will be presenting at SXSW. I searched on some names, and got no hits.

Is this handling just a sub-set of all of SXSW? Are names not searchable?

Oh, and is there source code one can glom? :)

It looks really sweet.

I just added panelist info to the db. The search currently only searches the event name and venues. I'll see if I can make it search panelists and the detailed description without putting too much pressure on the tiny server.

You can now search for specific panelists.

Great, thank you very much.

This is brilliant. This will be really handy for me, thanks.

What's SXSW? When I read "scheduler" I started trying to parse it as a locking scheme. "Shared eXclusive Shared Write? WTF does that mean?"

the user/pass nag thing is kind of annoying but this is a very cool implementation of a quick and simple scheduling app.

in fact, use the berkeley schedule for the data backend and i would switch to using this over the other hacked together schedulers available.

ps. i <3 hypem

I just disabled the alert that said "Please enter a username and password above first" when you clicked on an event without logging in. Now it just shows the event details.

The signup process is extremely simple. Type in a username, enter a password and it creates an account. I'm the first one to complain about needless signups but to make your own schedule and have it printable in a decent format, signing up is pretty much the best solution.

I just setup iCal export for your selected sched.org events. My username is 'chirag' so my schedule will be http://sched.org/sxsw2008/chirag and iCal URL will be http://sched.org/sxsw2008/chirag.ical

If you use Google Calendar, you can import this directly.

This is a very specific tool with a narrow market/target-audience and not meant to replace anything general like Google Calendar or Eventful.

As for usage, what I meant was at Berkeley a student made a homebrew app to help organize class schedules.

This is the database: http://schedule.berkeley.edu/

This is the app: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~amanb/makeSched/

Your app is the perfect interface if it can hook into the Berkeley schedule database.

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