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What is a MobileCamp?

A BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. Check out the TheRulesOfBarCamp to learn what to expect.

A MobileCamp is a mobile technology themed BarCamp. They aim to bring together mobile enthusiasts, explorers and professionals to share the current state and their visions for the future direction of mobility. A MobileCamp hopes to support the many voices helping to unlock the potential of a truly digital life. Topics may include - but are not limited to - mobile gaming, entrepreneurship, social mobility and presence, near field communication, physical hyperlinking, mobile storytelling, the importance of open standards, protocols, and platforms, linux based devices, and mobility on other continents.

In May 2007, the first such event, MobileCampNYC was held in New York City.

What was MobileCampSF?

MobileCampLA was the first MobileCamp to be held in the Bay Area. The logistics were as follows:

When

Saturday, 3rd of November, 9:00 - 18:00 PST

Where

Swedish American Hall
2174 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94114

Pictures from MobileCampSF:

A MobileCampSF Recap

Some sessions held at MobileCampSF are listed below. Feel free to add your session if we don't have it listed!

• Hyperlink Your World - Alexis Rondeau

• One World. No Borders. 3 Billion Connected People. Claim Your Piece. - David Harper
  Dave Harper, CEO of Winksite, a suite of tools to immediately create and support mobile communities, gave an hour-long session sharing his experience on what it takes to scale mobile applications to 189+ countries and over 5 million hits per month. After providing tips and tricks on mobile advertising and mobile SEO, Dave showed and explained QR Codes and their real-world applications using a plethora of examples. People got really excited about this and again, ideas were bounced back and forth and were discussed far beyond the session.

• halfbaked.com - Entrepreneurial Improv - Amit Gupta
  Each team selected 2 random words and got 20 minutes to come up with - and pitch - the next mobile killer application! Besides having the very nice side-effect of making people play and interact, the resulting mobile startup ideas ranged from outrageous to VC-fundable. After every team presented their startups' product, revenue model, marketing plan, tagline and logo the most promising one was selected. Judges included Jed Stremel (Head of Mobile at Facebook) and Doug Garland (Exec-in-residence at Kleiner Perkins, former SVP Mobile at Yahoo!).

• MegaPhone Demo and discussion - Dan Albritton
  Dan Albritton from playmegaphone.com gave the first workshop in the morning showcasing their mobile real-time multiplayer game engine. MegaPhone is an interactive installation where any cellphone becomes a game-controller by placing a phonecall. Within 1 Minute Dan had the crowd punching their phone-keypads ("Peow-peow!P-p-p-eow!") to score and shouting into their mics ("Grabgrab! Grabgrabgrab! Grab!") to reach the Top 10 of the game. After an overview of the underlying technology and showcases, the group went into a long conversation on creating new applications of the project.

• Mobile Processing - Francis Li

• Case Study: Kyte - How can this service be improved to meet the needs of bloggers? - website and mobile version

• Mobile Security Threats (Real? Hyped? What?) - Fabian J. Oliva

• What is the Killer Mobile Social Networking App? - Jordy Mont-Reynaud

• The New Walled Garden. Header Crippling Carriers & Transcoding Services. - Nigel Choi & David Harper

• Mobile Payments: Showing Value to Overcome Consumer Doubts. - Kenneth D. Kruszka

Blogs

Check out these links to some of the blog coverage of the event!

• amitgupta.com
• wordpress.com
• nelz.net
• wapreview.com
• thisismobility.com
• mobilemammoth.com

Selected Quotes

• "What a great event, it was a BarCamp - a user driven un-conference with no spectators, where everyone is a participant."
• "I would agree with Dennis that the best session was probably the session on transcoding nuances that Dave Harper and my co-worker Nigel Choi led."
• "I got a chance to fondle an N810 tablet for an extended period of time. It was very satisfying.”
• "Thanks also to Nokia, whose sponsorship provided great food and a perfect venue in the beautiful and architecturally significant Swedish American Hall."

Organizers

MobileCampSF was organized by Indira, Ritwik, Andy and Alexis. Please feel free to join the Google Group for ongoing discussions, questions and feedback.

Sponsors

Nokia Nseries

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mobilecamp TV

We are going to broadcast Pix & Vids LIVE from mobilecamp SF to this website!
All attendants are invited to contribute. Either click on 'Produce' below the tv or simply capture a picture/video on your cellphone, attach it to an email and send it to:
mobilecamp@kyte.tv

Are you blogging about mobilecamp SF? Simply click 'Embed' to get this TV channel onto your Blog.

This is the URL to the mobile-WAP site:
http://mobile.kyte.tv/mobilecamp

Mobile Site

We have setup a mobile site which you can use to check on details and updates on the fly:
Type in http://winksite.com/mobilecamp/SF in your mobile browser or use this QR Code to access it directly

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