Latinoware 2013

Latinoware participants will be able to enjoy this year’s event with support from TelaSocial dashboards. What is the experience? it uses large TV appliaces but it is far from the idea of a TV and broadcasting. To start with, the actual TV appliance is placed in the vertical position and a layout arrangement brings a number of Web features that can inform real-time updates and what’s happening in the social scene. This is the second year that the technology is used as a solution for communication at Latinoware.

This year’s experience was tailored around 3 main goals. Quality — the experience is 24×7 and designed to work synchronously with data-sources. It incorporates a calendar grid system that is tied to Latinoware’s data-source calendar using web services. Voice — a live Twitter streaming channel creates an experience that improves participation and information sharing for important updates — it engages participants and support teams in the same page, thus solving communication gaps between what’s happening in the online and the physical. And accountability, which means the goal to monitor trends and changes and to understand how these trends can be shown to users in order to improve the event. As an example, when a talk schedule is changed, the system can highlight the change with overlay effects over the grid calendar plus it can also dispatch a message to users using the the social network  dashboard.

For developers

The system is based in the Web model and each terminal is comprised of a large TV appliance and a small computer with a Linux stack. Above the Operating system, there is a modified Gecko engine — thus TelaSocial is powered by Mozilla [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/powered-by.html]. The above layer is the application system with layout and components based in Web standards such as HTML5, CSS, DOM, and more.

The system conveys the use of web standards and modern web practices in order to improve the experience in community spaces — it gives voice to local communities and aims to highlight awareness on important and constructive events. For more information about telaSocial please visit the project’s web site at www.telasocial.com