Hi Ben,
Ben Metcalfe wrote:
Moving forward, I’ve been trying to think about why this has happened –
I'm sorry to hear that there haven't been any submissions -- I was
really looking forward to see what people would come up with. As far as
we (the Expway EPG/ESG team) are concerned it was simply a matter of
time. We're continuously busy with a bunch of other things (of the kind
that make money) and simply never got around to doing anything for the
competition. It having taken place in the summer when a lot of people
are on vacation (in France at least) hasn't helped either, though I'm
not sure we'd have had time the rest of the year.
I'm not sure how this could be addressed. Maybe the goals of the
competition should be less ambitious? Re-reading the pages about it I
now realize that in fact there's no requirement for the system to be
complete, but that's the impression I got at first.
and my guess is that it comes to one of two possibilities:
* The TV schedule data we provided over-complicated and in an alien
format that was difficult to parse, or
I'm sure that it being TVA has made it difficult for some people (though
that wasn't an issue for us since we already know how mindboggling it is
and are almost used to it). I'm not sure what alternatives would be best
for the backstage community at large though. Damian Steer's been doing
cool stuff with RDF in there, could that be an option?
* The idea of developing around a BBC-led theme, even for a prize, isn’t
an approach that is of interest to the backstage.bbc.co.uk community.
Of course it's of interest, the BBC rocks! :)
--
Robin Berjon
Senior Research Scientist
Expway, http://expway.com/
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