518708 - Add opt-in (or Twitter tweet) public notification on start of streaming

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Websites :: air.mozilla.com, enhancement)

Description

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Air Mozilla should have some sort of opt-in public notification service that lets me know when streaming will begin before an event airs. 

Currently, those whom are external to MoCo are unaware of the broadcast schedule.

For simplicity, all this needs to be is a python script on icecast that is ran on live broadcasting that sends a tweet (twitter.com/airmozilla) to those following. 

Other notification choices can be explored as well.

What do you think?

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

In the meantime is there any public schedule of live broadcasting?

Comment 2

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Noticed as of Feb 22nd weekly update meeting - "...are looking into how we can use Air Mozilla to make it as open and interactive as possible"

Any chance of picking this up?

Comment 3

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Possible approach: 

Bash script that parses icecast.mozilla.org/status.xsl ... i.e.,  (curl -X STATS icecast.mozilla.org/status.xsl) [1] and checks if it's live or not

If it's live, (curl -u username:pass -d status="Air Mozilla is Live @ air.mozilla.com" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

[1] Will need auth

Comment 4

[Andy Kochendorfer]

Platform deprecated.