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    3131- 23:00 - Code! 
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    33 As a lot of people were sick, were excused or were experiencing traffic problems (the team really should learn how to use public transport  ) we started late and we did not respect the schedule at all. Louis de Decker started of by showing the !BeTrains for iPhone application. It looked great and user-friendly. It already shows the right train information and even implements the same chat-with-people-on-your-train functionality like BeTrains for Android. I hope he will reply on this e-mail with some screenshots. We were unanimously excited about his progress and we hope to see more soon. We expect an official release before the end of this year. 
     33As a lot of people were sick, were excused or were experiencing traffic problems (the team really should learn how to use public transport  ) we started late and we did not respect the schedule at all. Louis de Decker started of by showing the !BeTrains for iPhone application. It looked great and user-friendly. It already shows the right train information and even implements the same chat-with-people-on-your-train functionality like !BeTrains for Android. I hope he will reply on this e-mail with some screenshots. We were unanimously excited about his progress and we hope to see more soon. We expect an official release before the end of this year. 
    3434 
    3535The second presentation was held by me (Pieter). 
    3636Points worth mentioning: 
    37 - We got a new logo for both BeTrains and iRail! Thanks to OlivierGuiard who joined the iRail team 
     37- We got a new logo for both !BeTrains and iRail! Thanks to OlivierGuiard who joined the iRail team 
    3838- We need more design people. Our design atm is not one to be very proud of. To be fairly honest, it’s ugly. Think you can do better? Think you know someone who can do better? 
    3939- We got a proof of concept with jquery mobile here: http://dev.iRail.be/jq 
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    4646- We might start an non profit organization to back our project. This way we can legally accept tasks from other companies and we can accept donations/investments. We got some offers which we might accept to implement and optimize public transport site plugins. 
    4747 
    48 The third and last talk was about !BeTrains for QT (= maemo, symbian, meego, …). Tim Besard is doing an awesome job. His approach is at this moment to first write a very good back-end (something that accepts requests and talk with the API). Writing front-ends is another specialty. He could show us a 0.1 version of a maemo front-end which was quite nice and promising. We will implement a chat-system, like in other BeTrains apps as well. We hope Tim will post some screenshots for the rest of the world. Recently we started development on a samsung version of BeTrains: BeTrains for Bada. If you have a bada-phone let us know and we’ll keep you informed as a test-user. 
     48The third and last talk was about !BeTrains for QT (= maemo, symbian, meego, …). Tim Besard is doing an awesome job. His approach is at this moment to first write a very good back-end (something that accepts requests and talk with the API). Writing front-ends is another specialty. He could show us a 0.1 version of a maemo front-end which was quite nice and promising. We will implement a chat-system, like in other !BeTrains apps as well. We hope Tim will post some screenshots for the rest of the world. Recently we started development on a samsung version of !BeTrains: !BeTrains for Bada. If you have a bada-phone let us know and we’ll keep you informed as a test-user. 
    4949 
    5050The last subject of the evening was discussing the iRail API after we released the new draft one month ago. We came up with this: 
    5151- A demand for JSON output. This is no problem and I will implement this asap. (=ticket #29) 
    5252- Need for a unique Id for a station. At this moment it is not clear whether Gent Sint Pieters, Gent SP, … are in fact the same stations and it’s hard for a client developer to know that. Therefor we will link all stations with a unique Id. This Id will be similarly constructed like the Id of vehicles, for example: Be.NMBS.Station.123* We need liveboards! (Arrival/Depart boards) 
    53 - As we are excited about the chat functionality of the BeTrains applications we will adopt this in our official API soon. It will be at api.iRail.be/chat 
     53- As we are excited about the chat functionality of the !BeTrains applications we will adopt this in our official API soon. It will be at api.iRail.be/chat 
    5454- For the xml part it would be nice to have XSD’s 
    5555- When doing xml API request I want to see some eye-candy. Please implement an XSLT 
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    5858Misc 
    5959- We need to make a clear distinctions between people who actually use the API and people who develop the API. 
    60 - BeTrains.com will be directed to our servers and there will be a BeTrains .com/.mobi site soon. 
     60- [[http://betrains.com|BeTrains.com]] will be directed to our servers and there will be a !BeTrains .com/.mobi site soon. 
    6161- We need to be more visible on facebook 
    6262- http://project.iRail.be is not sexy at all. Is there a way to change the theme of a trac?