Aktionsschwarzfahren

[PaulFree14]

'If yes, you should probably buy a ticket for now.'

add Information about Ationsschwarzfahren

some info here: http://schwarzstrafen.tk/

[PaulFree14]

...as a side note: Aktionsschwarzfahren in ICE is a bit tricky if you hope to continue the protest over longer distance.
I have been 2 times doing that and they refused to fill out a ticket incl. a bill. Wanting to call the cops instead...
but 2-3 stops are possible. And if you don't need to go far, one stop might be already enough

[ghost]

There's also the Roter Button Aktion, which dates back to the 70s (or even before that?) in the region of Ruhrarea, this is for Osnabrück (different region but same message: http://osnabrueck-alternativ.de/tag/roter-button/

Btw, nice project! I initiated a small fork at https://git.ng0.infotropique.org/ticketfrei-nrw/ for NRW/VRR region specific additions.
Or you think we could maintain a bot that is not region-specific and only gets region specific through the hosted location + account it posts from?

[b3yond]

Hi :)

this project is intended to be non-region specific. We added a few default options which are valid for Nuremberg; they should work in other regions too, but if they are not fitting, people should be able to change them easily.

... yes, we should document all of them^^

[b3yond]

It would be pretty hard to get all the config data and keywords only from region specific automatic data; but we could write a setup script, which asks the hoster for certain data.

Currently it is necessary to take care of the bot a bit, it requires some skills to use it. For example you need command line access to install and run it. You need to edit several config files.

We can work to make it easier, but it will never be truly trivial, I'm afraid.

A web interface is definitely planned to make administration easier, though. Maybe we can host the bot for other cities?

the hardest part of running a bot like this is the community building anyway. You need people to report controllers. without the people, this code is worthless. But yeah, we're working on an easily copyable campaign, too.

[ghost]

Currently it is necessary to take care of the bot a bit, it requires some skills to use it. For example you need command line access to install and run it. You need to edit several config files.

I intend to package it for GNU Guix and GuixSD, where I would also like to add an setup.py to make installation easier (found none iirc last time I looked at the code), and let starting be handled by a shepherd service.

[ghost]

We added a few default options which are valid for Nuremberg; they should work in other regions too, but if they are not fitting, people should be able to change them easily.

Maybe we could create a folder structure with region specific default configs? For example for NRW we have multiple Public transportation unions, the largest being VRR, and locally you have smaller ones organized in the VRR that handle one/multiple districts - EVAG, BoGeStra, Vestische, etc
If the bot reacts to all the keywords I already started working on for VRR it will be messy. VRR is: Ruhrarea + parts of the Rheinland region before Cologne and including Düsseldorf + parts of Netherlands: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verkehrsverbund_Rhein-Ruhr https://www.vrr.de/imperia/md/content/service/tarifinformationen/anlage_2_verbundraum_jan_2017.pdf

[b3yond]

default configs are not really helping, when people have to edit them anyway. pretty much unnecessary work.

If you want to package it though, nice :) There is no setup.py yet, but it should be easy to write something with the steps from README.md.