Random Seminar

Introduction

This is a little application by which to run a "random seminar", over a teleconference or in-person. It lets you populate a list of participants, from which a "next" speaker will be randomly drawn. You then run a timer, which limits speaking time up to a present length. When that time's up, click "next" again and continue.

Participants are drawn "without replacement" until all participants have spoken. Then all participants are added back into the pool for another round.

There are some "cheats":

1. Select a participant and hit <return> to (nonrandomly) choose that participant as a speaker
2. Select one or more participants and hist <space> to toggle their spoken-yet status
3. Select one or more participants and hit or to remove that participant

To change the time limit, enter a new value in the limit: text field and don't forget to hit return.

Build and run

You'll need sbt.

Clone or download this repository. Within its top directory...

$ sbt
sbt:randomseminar> stage
[info] Wrote /Users/swaldman/Dropbox/BaseFolders/development-why/gitproj/randomseminar/target/scala-2.12/randomseminar_2.12-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.pom
[warn] There may be incompatibilities among your library dependencies; run 'evicted' to see detailed eviction warnings.
[info] Main Scala API documentation to /Users/swaldman/Dropbox/BaseFolders/development-why/gitproj/randomseminar/target/scala-2.12/api...
[info] Compiling 1 Scala source to /Users/swaldman/Dropbox/BaseFolders/development-why/gitproj/randomseminar/target/scala-2.12/classes ...
model contains 8 documentable templates
[info] Main Scala API documentation successful.
[success] Total time: 5 s, completed Oct 12, 2020, 9:06:52 PM

You can run the application directly with sbt:

sbt:randomseminar> run

Or you can break out with and run the script random-seminar which you will find in target/universal/stage/bin:

$ ./target/universal/stage/bin/randomseminar &

Either way, the application should pop up!