New UW Events ready for testing
A new version of UW Events is ready for testing although its not yet been prettied up. We have added upcoming.org and Facebook API features that lets you post to and retrieve events from Upcoming and pull from Facebook (Facebook doesn’t let you post). We also have profiles that you can maintain that will let you stick your cell phone number in there for SMS reminders at 15 min intervals. There are also custom streams for your events that might not make the main UW Events stream and you can subcribe to your stream (which is public) or hide it from people (but then you can’t subscribe).
Once we get some testing done we will polish it up and update the production version of UW Events. Then we will drop this Ruby on Rails app into Rubyforge for all to use and contribute to.
You will need a UW id to test and if you are interested in testing go to Events beta and give it a go. Let me know what you think. The data has been sync’d with the production version as of Monday so it is pretty much what you see on the production version. Around March 1st will start working on it again so you have until then to give some feedback.
