[Imc-london] [Proposal] Workshop and meeting before Climate Camp

[jagmad at riseup.net]

> jagmad at riseup.net wrote:
>> Mobile reporting is now much cheaper. For example Virgin charges just
>> 30p
>> all day with a 25Mb maximum, which makes reporting text to the newswire
>> from a smartphone quite feasible and cheap.
>
> During the G20 a bunch of people had the dongles from 3, they were 15
> quid for 10GB transfer or something.  You could run a whole media centre
> on that (actually we have run a whole media centre on that).
> Interesting stuff.
>
>> That said, London site is currently giving '500 Internal Server Error'
>> when trying to access 'Publish' by smartphone but not by PC. UK site
>> publish is OK.
>
> Ok, thanks for the bug report - I'll be messing with the site some more
> tonight.  One of the features in this release is a new mobile site which
> is a lot lighter and easier to use on a phone.  Probably some of the
> server setup for the new code still needs to be done. Once it is, I hope
> that you like the new mobile bit,
>
> Yoss
>

Thanks for the mobile bit, looking forward to it. I was thinking more of
lone reporters roaming around than using a media centre. Mobiles are good
for urgent on-the-spot warnings and updates.

Doug.