[AG-TECH] Automated room booking.

[Ivan R. Judson]

Cool.

Do you have a pointer to that system?

--Ivan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Osland, CD (Chris) [mailto:C.D.Osland at rl.ac.uk]
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 10:12 AM
> To: 'judson at mcs.anl.gov'; Tom Coffin; Lisa Childers;
> s.booth at epcc.ed.ac.uk
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> Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Automated room booking.
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>
> I imagine that Stephen will base it on the system that Edinburgh
> developed for the SuperJanet ATM-then-ISDN video conference
> systems, which is widely used in the UK.
>
> Just a guess.
>
> Chris
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ivan R. Judson [mailto:judson at mcs.anl.gov]
> Sent: 11 February 2002 14:12
> To: Tom Coffin; Lisa Childers; s.booth at epcc.ed.ac.uk
> Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Automated room booking.
>
>
>
> Hey Stephen,
>
> Good idea.  I'd like to see a couple of alternatives to the NCSA
> scheduler,
> so people can get some experience with different things.
>
> What are you thinking about using to build this? I'm only
> curious, it really
> doesn't matter.  As far as I know the current NCSA scheduler is in windows
> web scripts, I forget the names/acronyms.  Something PHP'ish, perhaps like
> MRBS (http://mrbs.sourceforge.com//, which is based on
> webcalendar) would be
> nice, easy, and if tied in right easy to use.  I've got code to make MRBS
> present the web pages in the appropriate time zone for the client
> (but store
> all entries in UTC/GMT [er, something]).
>
> Let me know if you want the code.
>
> --Ivan
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov]On
> > Behalf Of Tom Coffin
> > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 7:58 AM
> > To: Lisa Childers; s.booth at epcc.ed.ac.uk
> > Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> > Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Automated room booking.
> >
> >
> >
> > you may want to also coordinate your
> > efforts with George Estes at NCSA.
> > They have a really nice scheduler started.
> >
> >
> > At 06:44 AM 2/11/2002 -0600, Lisa Childers wrote:
> >    >Stephen,
> >    >
> >    >Its great that you're jumping in and having a go at this problem!
> >    >
> >    >I'm very interested in seeing your work.  Please let us know
> > when you have
> >    >something up and running.
> >    >
> >    >Regards,
> >    >Lisa
> >    >
> >    >On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, S.Booth wrote:
> >    >
> >    >> On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, S.Booth wrote:
> >    >>
> >    >> >
> >    >> > The AG framework is potentially very useful for short ad-hoc
> > meetings but
> >    >> > the current booking mechanism is not really set up for this.
> >    >> > It would help if any bookings for a venue showed up on
> the virtual
> > venue
> >    >> > page, and even better add booking information to the
> doors in the
> > lobby
> >    >> > so people can see if a room is free before entering. This
> > will help
> > with
> >    >> > the newbie problem (speaking as a newbie myself)
> >    >> >
> >    >>
> >    >> I'm going to have a go at adding automated room booking to
> > the virual
> >    >> venues server. All the hard stuff (authentication, DB
> access etc) is
> >    >> already in the server so it should not be too hard.
> >    >>
> >    >> I'm planning something very simple, a booking page that lets you
> >    >> view existing booking or select a room, start time and
> > duration. And add
> >    >> a listing of todays bookings to the to room descriptions
> > and the room
> >    >> entry.
> >    >>
> >    >> If anyone else is working on something similar let me know.
> >    >>
> >    >> 				Stephen
> >    >>
> >    >>
> >    >>
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> >     |epcc|
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> >
> > ___________________________________________________________
> > Tom Coffin .......................... tcoffin at ncsa.uiuc.edu
> >
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