Follow-up from today's meeting

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A couple of things to follow-up  on from this morning:

SMS gateway
ITEE already has one that we could use. Peter Sutton set this up for student feedback purposes a few years ago, and currently uses it to send out mid-semester results, etc. for students who register with him. All SMS to the number is redirected to a web page, which has a PHP script to deal with the incoming messages. The address is fixed, but it would be possible to alter the PHP. There is also a PHP interface for sending outgoing messages from the system.

Peter has no problem with us using this.

Another location-based game
The game/experience I mentioned is called Akoha. They have Play it Forward, what they call a  'social reality game', which uses cards to pass missions on from one player to another. The cards use QR codes to link back to the online representation of the game.

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