It likewise didn't serve any useful purpose for me. I just saw it on the
phone, and thought, "what the heck is this doing here?"

Since it was branded as "official app", it appeared and i thought it is
something interesting to the Wikimania team of which perhaps they would
like to pursue.

I agree that it wouldn't be of any importance investing time in such an
app.

Rexford | google.com/+Nkansahrexford | sent from Smartphone
On Aug 28, 2014 10:44 PM, "Joseph Fox" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Given there were literally hundreds of paper calendars I think I looked at
> the app maybe twice throughout the whole weekend. It was really pretty, but
> slow and ultimately pointless once you'd put your chosen sessions into your
> own calendar (as I'm sure a lot of people did) or indeed just circled them
> on your programme.
>
> Creating an app is a big endeavour, creating a *good* app even more so. I
> don't think it's really necessary to do so.
>
> Joe
>
> On 28 August 2014 at 09:32:30 pm, Nkansah Rexford (
> [email protected]) wrote:
>
> I used the Wikimania Android app during the conference.
>  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.eventspark.wikimania2014
>
> Obviously, it is not up to par with conference apps, like the Google I/O
> app.
>
> Are there any plans to get an official app for use for subsequent
> conferences of Wikimania? Or sponsors who happen to be app developers will
> do us the honor?
>
> I think this year's event was the tenth Wikimania. Launching an app to
> celebrate that wouldn't have been a  bad idea.
>
> The app link above says "official Wikimania app", but not very official to
> me as was built by one of the sponsors of the event.
>
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