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The BarCamp Brighton 3 Hackathon Challenge

Thursday, August 28th, 2008 (2 years, 5 days ago) barcampbrighton, barcampbrighton3 | No comments

We are running a Hackathon Challenge this year to keep you all busy over the weekend. The challenge is being set by our hosts at the Students Union. We thought we would detail the challenge here to give you a headstart – get your thinking caps on, prize and kudos for the winner!

John from the Students Union can explain the situation best:

“The Students’ Union is keen to improve its marketing of events & entertainments, general Union news/campaigns and Groups & Societies events across campus.

In both our bars we have 40” plasma screens that are rarely used. We could just connect a laptop direct to the screens and utilise Powerpoint or a similar presentation software to have scrolling/timed ‘adverts’ promoting any upcoming events and entertainments, but we feel that would just look a bit boring/old-hat & would ideally like to achieve a more modern/sexy solution that would be effective in marketing terms, whilst also helping to give a slight ‘lift’ to the bar environments.

There are commercial systems available (such as www.bigscreenonline.co.uk) , however they are very expensive (c.£4K per bar incl installation), and we simply can’t afford this, ☹

If possible, in an ideal situation we could really benefit from having a system whereby the screens could be connected to a laptop and have any combination of below possible (visible on-screen at the same time);

  • Allow maybe a small window to show TV (maybe Sky News or similar)
  • Have maybe a ‘portrait’ window that could show our latest posters advertising everything from Club-Nights, bands, comedy shows, Clubs & Societies events.
  • Another window showing/promoting food menu items, daily specials etc?
  • RSS feed?

If above is all too much for a small project, basically anything that could allow us to utilise the system to better promote all of above would be great!”

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