[Street] [Tech] Texting to find nearby demos...

Reed Underwood fb at occupyboston.org
Fri Nov 11 12:49:26 EST 2011


I thought I'd mention a system I set up for this sort of action.
It uses SMS to direct people to distributed groups. It takes text
messages like the following.

To find a nearby demo:
near 700 atlantic ave

To find a "tagged" demo nearby (where "myaffinitygroup" is some tag your group agrees on):
myaffinitygroup near 700 atlantic ave 

To check in at a given address:
at 700 atlantic ave

To check in at a given address with a "tag":
myaffinitygroup at 700 atlantic ave

There are a couple of other commands. If people are interested, I can
pass along the number for testing. I can tweak the search algorithm to
prioritize distance/group size/whatever. At the moment, it only understands
addresses in Boston and is alittle finicky about address format.

-R.
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