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. wino kredyt mieszkaniowy sprzedam mieszkanie sprzedam bilet
In May 2007, the first such event, MobileCampNYC was held in New York City.
MobileCampLA was the first MobileCamp to be held in the Los Angeles metro area. The logistics were as follows:
When
Sunday, 28th of October, 9:00 - 18:00 PST
Where
Culver Events Center
11934 W. Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90066
Some sessions held at MobileCampLA are listed below. Feel free to add your session if we don't have it listed!
- 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 - Alexis Rondeau
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 ("Zombie Hook-up") to VC-fundable ("Car Watch"). After every team presented their startups' product, revenue model, marketing plan, tagline and logo the most promising one was selected. The winning team was completely speechless when we gave each of them either an N95 or an N800. The unpacking of the boxes ensued immediately and everyone was flocking around the devices. In total we gave away 10 devices in this session (including the very cool panel of judges).
- 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.
- Presence and status in a mobile world: Or “why don’t I just turn my phone off when I am busy” - Discussion session lead by Ed Simnett focused on presence in an almost always on world. How do IM style presence Twitter and Facebook style status, text messaging and mobile email combine (oh yeah, I forgot- making phone calls)? Is lowest common denominator interoperability enough to manage the high value situations? Are we destined to have identity defined by phone numbers, or will IP-based identity break that linkage? How useful is a combined PC and mobile solution? What are some obvious technical barriers to delivering always-on mobile presence? What are the most valuable dimensions in which to extend presence (where, when, what)?
- Mobile phones are changing the face of news and redefining the meaning of 'newsworthy' events. Any person holding a phone anywhere in the world is a potential reporter. Lets imagine the impact of a global, grass-roots AP, constantly feeding live, real-world data from local people. gilad :: indigi-net.org
- The concept and applications of presence and VOIP communication using Skype and Gizmo via mobile phones.
Blogs
Check out these links to some of the blog coverage of the event!
Selected Quotes
- “The schedule was spontaneously filled with tech talks by several noteworthy names that I should have had the forethought to jot down.”
- “There was a lot of very interesting discussion on an array of topics that I'll be covering in the next couple of days.”
- “I went to MobileCampLA last Sunday. I had a conversation with Astra, a graphic design artist from Cal Arts. When I told her about my N95's 5 MP camera, she seemed surprised how big that is. We got into a conversation about possibilities of the video recorder and how great movies could be made, regardless of medium.“
Organizers
MobileCampLA 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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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/LA in your mobile browser or use this QR Code to access it directly