Countdown clock for events

[jbenito]

I write to you under indication of Merethe Olafsen: I developed a  
>>> very
>>> dummy countdown for conference, it consists in a cgi used to manage
>>> the clock and the clock itself.
>>> In this way, during a conference, the chairman can show a display  
>>> with
>>> the clock to the speaker in order to respect the time of a talk.
>>> The cgi to manage is here:
>>>
>>> http://sdb-server.cern.ch/cgi-bin/manage-clock
>>>
>>> and the clock to show is here:
>>>
>>> http://sdb-server.cern.ch/CARE/clock.html
>>>
>>> I wrote this tool as a test for a CARE workshop, but now seems that
>>> many people are interested in a tool like that and they ask to me if
>>> is it possible to use it or to customize it with the logo of a
>>> conference.
>>> The last request is from Merethe.
>>> The code now is running on a machine that is used for totally
>>> different tasks (I used such machine because there is a web server
>>> running and because the clock was a kind of test).
>>>
>>> My request is to move this code to the official Indico structure and
>>> Merethe told me that you are in charge to manage Indico.
>>> I think that the script is very dummy and can be easily improved
>>> giving the possibility to change logo and to provide more control to
>>> the chairman.
>>>
>>> Do you think that you can implement such clock in indico?
>>> If you want, I can give you the source code of my script, but I'm  
>>> sure
>>> that when you see how it works you are able to rewrite it from  
>>> scratch
>>> (in a better way, I wrote it in half a day).
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>> Cheers
>>> Emanuele

[jbenito]

This is an example of how to do it

[jbenito]

Should we do this? there are many sites that provide this service online.