Mobile web in Django!

Tim Fernando,
Project Manager, Mobile Oxford

Lightning Talk - PyCon Atlanta

21 February 2010
 From: Oxford, UK
*By the way, this is a Google Map. So it’s Copyright Google etc. Google, please don’t sue me for being lazy in a
lightning talk and using this in my presentation instead of a CC one. I love Google, we all love Google. Yes!
“Quaint”
MOLLY
Who’s Molly?
Who’s Molly?
It’s not a person.
Who’s What’s Molly?
 Who’s What’s Molly?
1. A girl, a woman, esp. a lower-class one; (occas.) a
prostitute. Cf. MOLL n.2 Now chiefly Irish English.
- Oxford English Dictionary
 Who’s What’s Molly?
1. A girl, a woman, esp. a lower-class one; (occas.) a
prostitute. Cf. MOLL n.2 Now chiefly Irish English.
- Oxford English Dictionary
 Who’s What’s Molly?
Molly is a soon-to-be Open Source project
designed for large organisations [Universities] to
deliver a range of services to its mobile device
users through a central point.
Why should I care?
It’s cool
As far as we’re aware, it’s the first
project to use Django to provide
services specifically for mobile
devices.
 We would like to make it a ‘real’
community project.

Also it would compete directly with

commercial proprietary products.
 Mobile/Pervasive computing is
arguably the highest growth area in
the industry.
Oh, and yes you can have a pony.
m.ox.ac.uk
 Key feature:

Designed to work on *any* web capable phone

*Mostly. Windows Mobiles still get “dumbphone” version.

 MAPS
Multiple geo sources,
Open Street Map,
HTML5 etc
 CONTACTS
LDAP, screen scraping
 LIBRARY SEARCH
Z39.50 (library protocol),
OpenStreetMap, 3rd Party GIS
 Universal Search
Regex pattern matching for ISBNs, Bus Stops and
interfaces with our Google Search Appliance.
Realtime Information
 Also, it’s pretty much all RESTfull
So you can write platform specific apps, or reuse data from Molly
Please talk to us!
@mobileox
mobileoxford@oucs.ox.ac.uk
http://m.ox.ac.uk

Tim Fernando, Alex Dutton

Mobile Oxford