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Show HN: A Google Calendar Door Sign

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Re: Show HN: A Google Calendar Door Sign

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Post by lifeisstillgood »

kimburgess wrote: post #26
bluthru wrote: post #3

There might be a market for an e-paper based version of this that shows an entire day or week of schedule.

There is. In fact there's a whole suite of products out there serving it. At the base level you have DIY solutions (small LCD's, e-ink etc) which are loads of fun to build and can work quite nicely for some scenarios. Another option that a lot of buildings are starting to use is iOS / Android apps along with a device in a wall mount ( https://eventboard.io/ et al). Cheap (ish), easily replaceable and upgradeable hard…

Wow. Impressive overview

One more thing - is there much movement on automated minute taking (speech to text as it were?). In terrible meetings my mind occasionally wonders ...

Re: Show HN: A Google Calendar Door Sign

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Post by kimburgess »

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #31
kimburgess wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is. In fact there's a whole suite of products out there serving it. At the base level you have DIY solutions (small LCD's, e-ink etc) which are loads of fun to build and can work quite nicely for some scenarios. Another option that a lot of buildings are starting to use is iOS / Android apps along with a device in a wall mount ( https://eventboard.io/ et al). Cheap (ish), easily replaceable and upgradeable hard…

Wow. Impressive overview One more thing - is there much movement on automated minute taking (speech to text as it were?). In terrible meetings my mind occasionally wonders ...

Cheers. I work in that industry, so a little involved.

Whilst not 'official' meeting minutes, for a personal record I jot down mind maps (generally on a tablet), however I know a few people that love these: http://www.livescribe.com/ for keeping a record.

Also, text to speech is text to speech. It's a pretty challenging problem with a single speaker and no room acoustics to worry about (headset mic) throw in a number of speakers and other sound sources and things get interesting. Even in courtroom environments where you have discreet audio feeds from each party AFAIK most places still use humans to create transcripts.

Re: Show HN: A Google Calendar Door Sign

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Post by 100timesthis »

nkozyra wrote: post #16
jrockway wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I were going to steal stuff from my office, I'd probably grab a couple of the 16-core workstations before disassembling the wall to get a $100 e-ink conference room schedule.

I assume he meant broadcasting current location. I don't think that's the actual application here anyway, but it's a real concern that thieves exploit via FB/Twitter announcements all the time. For the office, though, not really a concern.

yes, as in the webpage the first image shows:

"Alex is at: climbing west center (home calendar"

I think the problem should be solved earlier, not at the end location but much earlier: I don't want to find out that a person is unavailable when I'm there.

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