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#21
This has now been updated to work better both without an account (plan is just saved locally) and when network connections are poor (loads much faster now).
#22
Heh, I ended up scraping the data myself before seeing your post, but it's now scraped and all imported into the interactive planner!
#23
Ooh, excellent, should be pretty trivial to scrape that data and put into interactive form.  Any reason that schedule is not linked from the Fanime page, or announced anywhere?
#24
Update:  Video programming data is now complete, planner mode now works, feel free to jump over to http://fanime.info put in a username and password (if an account does not exist, it simply auto-creates one), and start planning your Fanime!

The planner mode seems to work fine on IE, FireFox, Chrome, and the Android mobile browser, if anyone could give it a whirl on an iOS browser, it would be nice to know if it works there as well.
#25
Video Programming / Interactive Program Schedule
May 23, 2013, 10:02:16 AM
Interactive Program Schedule

URL: http://fanime.info/
Status: Complete!

So, in some previous years Fanime has had an online program schedule, and I've generally found it really handy to tweak it to a color-coded schedule of what I may want to see that I can pull up on my phone (e.g. http://thesilentb.com/fanime/index.2011.html from 2011).  So, last night I spent a couple hours and put together most of the tech for one, which I plan on completely finishing tonight.  Anyway, I thought others might also like such a thing and benefit from it, so I'm sharing it here, and also hoping others may help fill in the missing data.  Right now it's set to a wide-screen, open edit mode where anyone can help fill in the schedule (note: this mode only works well in Chrome, and kind of in IE, not at all in FireFox), I'll switch it to a more compact "planner" mode this evening so we can start marking what things we're interested in (and get an output like the example from 2011 which you should be able to pull up on your smart phone during the convention).

Current plan/schedule for development of this evening:
Definitely going to have:

  • Done! - Video programming data entered
  • Done! - Planner mode (viewable on IE/FF/Chrome and mobile browsers; enter a name to view plan, or name+password to edit plan, where editing is simply clicking any time slot to toggle it between normal (white), want to see (green), maybe see (yellow))
Stretch goals:

  • Done! Non-video programming data entered
  • Done! Ability to toggle which rows show up on your planner
  • Time/zoom controls (so whenever you look at a plan page it just shows -1 hours to +4 hours around the current time, not the entire thing)
  • Info/notes pages (allow people to leave a (public or private) note about any event, fill in event info, and, by default, this page will just be populated by a Google search for the event term (most useful for video programmming))

Anyway, if you're interested in using this, let me know on the forums here, or get in contact with me.  If you're a staffer and have access to a spreadsheet with all of this data already and could send it my way, that would also be awesome =).

  Jimbly
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#26
Schedules: Loved the digital schedule!  Make it interactive? Though I know the printed schedules were missed, and are a necessity for most people, I loved the digital schedule (the "Gridtacular" one).  Previous years I printed out the pocket schedule before the con, and highlighted things I wanted to see, which wasn't too bad, but slightly annoying especially now that I don't have a good printer.  This year I was able to just use the grid schedule, do some trivial HTML editing to highlight the boxes of things I was interested in, and access it from my phone at any time, and it was much more convenient (especially with the links to descriptions of things available at my fingertips).  Adding in functionality so people could toggle the color of individual blocks and hide rows they're not interested in would be a nice addition so the general masses could have a similar thing as what I enjoyed (my schedule ended up looking like this - worked great on a smart phone - http://thesilentb.com/fanime/ ).