Live stream site

[Jeff Carouth]

Howdy,

I pitched this idea to Brandon already, but thought I'd share it with you guys as well. At PyTexas, one of the speakers developed a small application to stream mentions on Twitter and conversations in the #pytexas IRC channel live. I'd like to do this at HTML5tx as well.

It's a Tornado application and the author (who is also attending our conference) posted it on Github so we could use it. The two things that need to be done are 1) branding the site for HTML5tx and 2) hosting the application.

The PyTexas version is up at stream.pytx.org, but it's not connected to either the IRC channel or the Twitter stream currently--I'm linking it for reference of general layout. I'll get you the information you'll need to mock up the actual tweets and messages if we want to use this.

Hosting...who set up the hosting for html5tx.com? Does that server support python? If not, what are our options?

And if we choose to do this, we need a display of some kind. At PyTexas they had a TV hooked up to a mac mini (I think) that displayed this in the sponsors room. Ideas? Anyone have a mobile large display?

Regards,
Jeff

[Brandon Satrom]

As for hosting, I set it up, but I'm not sure I trust them enough to host the stream site. Sam, Didn't you say you had some dedicated servers we could use? If so, do they have Python support?

I'll check with St. Eds on getting a TV screen for the reg area/lobby and get back to everyone

[Jake Smith (jakefolio)]

I think this looks awesome, but I'm not sure if IRC should tracked. I
feel the messages can flood in and definitely easy to lose context.

- Jake

[Sam Hooker]

My web server "currently runs Python 2.6, and 2.4.3."  This is officially, literally, everything that I know about Python.

I can set up a directory for it and provide FTP access; if anything needs to be installed on the server, I'll need specific instructions.  On that note, I only have access to a cPanel interface -- it's really just a web server, so I can't guarantee my hands won't get tied somewhere.

If any assets are necessary for the page itself, I can throw down the markup :)

Sincerely,

Sam Hooker
Creative Director
FrogSlayer Software Development
512-686-6328
sam.h...@frogslayer.com

[Jeff Carouth]

I assume you have a webserver running on this system? Unless they allow you to proxy requests to the Tornado instance, I don't know how we would make that work. We'd also need some way to install the Python Tornado package from PyPI. Perhaps your admin console allows you do that?

Alternatively, I can probably stand up a VM on my Linode account, but I don't necessarily want to host this indefinitely (as it would be recurring costs to me.)

Jeff

[John Teague]

I think Heroku will support it.

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John Teague

Avenida Software

512-517-7320

jo...@avenidasoftware.com

[Jeff Carouth]

Good suggestion, John. I'll look into it.

Jeff

[Brandon Satrom]

If we need something robust, We have some budget to pay for Heroku or pay you for using your Linode account, Jeff. I have an existing Heroku account we can work with, if needed.