Meeting Ticker

http://tobytripp.github.com/meeting-ticker/

by chaostheory • 17 years ago

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uggedal• 17 years ago

Trying it out to see if it will help us have shorter and less frequent meetings.

Raphael• 17 years ago

Alternatively, leave this open throughout the day to see how much money you've earned.

cubicle67• 17 years ago

Alternatively, leave this open throughout the day to see how much money you could've earned, but didn't because you're reading the internet.

patio11• 17 years ago

Yay for business models that decouple money earned from hours worked for the sake of working hours. After I get 3.0 of my app launched the website won't suddenly throw a FatalLackOfButtInChairException, even if I'm e.g. sleeping or on a date when I could be working.

sho3• 17 years ago

IMO Github made a mistake in allowing this kind of personal web page. It's very nice and all but has nothing to do with their business.

jrockway2• 17 years ago

What do you mean? Github hosts git repositories. git repositories are a great way to manage your website. github charges you money to use your own domain name for your github website, but lets you try it out for free.

The github pages concept adds value to your subscription, which seems like something that's very good for their business. Seeing this page is like free advertising for Github. "Wow, I could have a page like this too. Wow, I can manage it with git. Hey, only $7/month to get private repositories and my own domain name for this site. <buy>."

sho3• 17 years ago

Actually, the site at the top of the thread is free: tobytripp.github.com. You only have to pay if you want the CNAME support, as you suggest, but this example is not of that. So I suppose it adds value to the free subscription, yeah.

But .. is it really worth diluting the brand, and diverting the team's attention? I have seen personal articles on a username.github.com blog which have nothing to do with code. Someone seeing the site via one of these avenues for the first time would come away with the impression github is a free blog provider. And, amongst other things, they are!

And what happens when people start, saying, hosting large media files? It might not have happened yet but it will. Then one of them gets slashdotted, the site slows to a crawl, and the team's running around putting out fires caused by some free service which doesn't have anything to do with version control, just "adds value" to having an account on that site.

Well, I guess they've thought all this through and decided it's in their interests. I was just surprised, is all.

tjogin• 17 years ago

It's called "building a community". And that is very much central to their business. It seems they are doing quite well at it, too.

jasongullickson• 17 years ago

Brilliant, I can't wait to use this (or rather... I can).

dasrecht• 17 years ago

Very nice approach. But it scares me to start this ticker when i look at the meeting schedules in our company ...

rntz• 17 years ago

Nice app.

However, it assumes certain things about the size of the font displayed, without which it displays incorrectly. And guess what? In my case, it assumes wrong. Bad web design.

lallysingh2• 17 years ago

Indeed, it didn't work for me in the latest Chrome or IE.

dugmartin• 17 years ago

Nice. I was told by an ex-Disney exec years ago that they implemented the exact same thing for high level meetings there. I can't imagine what a one hour meeting there costs.

davedevelopment• 17 years ago

I knocked one of these up a while ago, used a stylesheet that's supposed to be good for an iphone, I haven't got one to try myself.

http://www.davedevelopment.co.uk/meetingclock/

rman666• 17 years ago

Doesn't work in IE6!

pclark• 17 years ago

reminds me of "a meeting without an agenda is a chat"

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