A MobileCampNYC3 event is being planned for November 15th, 2008. Sign up now!

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.

MobileCampNYC is bringing together mobile enthusiasts, explorers and professionals from the NYC metropolitan area to share the current state and their visions for the future direction of mobility. MobileCampNYC 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. (This was May'2007 - see MobileCampNYC2 for Nov'2007.)

Check out the TheRulesOfBarCamp to learn what to expect.

MobileCampNYC rocked! Thank you!

Thank you everyone who came to participate, to help with, and share an afternoon of intense and inspiring conversations, exciting workshops and thought-provoking presentations.

We also want to thank our sponsor Nseries for helping us realizing the event!

If you have presented something please upload your slides/documentation to our Google Group or link to it on this page.

If you have taken pictures or videos please share them and add the tag MobileCampNYC to it. For pictures on Flickr, you can add it to our Flickr pool.

We've also started uploading videos we shot at the event here on Google Video. Upload yours and tag it 'MobileCampNYC'

Again, we had such a great time organizing it and hope you found fresh inspiration, new friends, and a day - your day - to remember.

Sincerely, your orga-team Alexis, Beth, Indira, and Ritwik.

See more pics here: Flickr pool

See all images tagged 'MobileCampNYC'.

See all videos tagged 'MobileCampNYC'.

Latest news / Dashboard

If you or your friends have not rsvp'd by Friday 1:00 p.m but are still interested to come please contact us on Saturday at 804 338 4790 and we will try to figure something out for you. We want to accomodate anyone interested but have to manage it with the venue and food et cetera.
If you know you can not make it to the event on Saturday, please send us an email asap so we can open your space to the waitinglist. Thank you very much :)
Just to be on the safe side, we'll need backup DVI/VGA connectors for fellow Apple presenters. They tend to look like this. Let us know if you can help with this, thanks!

MobileCampNYC Precamping

A pre-camp meet&greet get-together on Friday evening.

When

Friday 18th of May, 7:00 - 10:00+

Where

MobileCampNYC Main

The actual day for sessions, workshops and overall joy :)

When

Saturday, 19th of May, 9:00 - 18:00

Where

Downtown Conference Center

157 William Street (NW corner of William & Ann Streets), 13th floor

Schedule

9:00 - 10:00 Breakfast (served)
10:00 - 10:30 Session-setup (adding your session to the grid) & Introductions
10:30 - 12:30 Morning Sessions and Workshops
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (served)
2:00 - 5:00 Afternoon Sessions and Workshops
5:00 - 5:30 Wrap up
6:00 - hit the streets and continue conversation

Participate!

For participation, please RSVP to mobilecampnyc@gmail.com with subject 'RSVP' including your name and contact data - specifically your mobile number - in the body. We will need it for announcing changes or very short-term updates. Think smartmobs.

Once we have confirmed your participation, please update this Wikipage to show how you want to participate:

Sessions: 30-minute sessions on topics of interest. Can be a talk, discussion, panel, or whatever format you want. Sessions will be scheduled live during BarCamp by writing your name and topic on the event grid. To offer or request a session topic, see our list below

Workshops: Up to 1 hour can be reserved to show and share with others what you are passionate about. Workshops are a lot of fun and we want to encourage you to conduct one. Workshops will be scheduled live during BarCamp by writing your name and topic on the event grid.

Promote the event: BarCamp grows by word of mouth (and word of blog). Tell your friends and people that you think will enjoy sharing a day with likeminded.

Record the event: For people who are unfortunate enough to attend this gathering can someone record the sessions and post them online? Blip.tv has no file size limit when uploading and you can even upload via FTP!

Please note that we are going to have a limit of 120 people to take part in this camp so RSVP while you can :).

Indira Vaidy
Ritwik Dey
Alexis Rondeau
Kevin Slavin
Will Turnage
Beth Mihalick
David Harper
Timo Arnall - My presentation is available as a pdf to download from here
Jonathan Swerdloff
Stan Wiechers
Rob Price
jonathan berger
Michael Sharon
Dan Melinger
Aaron Harmon
Mike Edwards
Laura Garcia
Kate Bauer
Nihal Mehta
Deepan Shah
Christina Ray
naveen selvadurai
Jose Marinez
Venu Moola
Dennis Crowley
Jason Nichols
Josh Knowles
Danielle Bailey
Jeffrey Ng
Jennifer Bove
Frederic Guarino
Albert Rosa
Paul Notzold
Arnaud Sahuguet
Evan Cordes
Ted Cohn
Sean Salmon
Rich Hauck
Emily Conrad
Jaime Dorado
Elana Langer
Crystal M. Ginn
Tikva Morowati
Leah Wechsler
Alex Bisceglie
Joe Gallo
Radhika Rai
Andrey Krishkevich
Benjamin L Bacon
Marlon Barrios Solano
Ralph Warren
Alicia Chong
Mouna Andraos
Sonali Sridhar
Isabel Staicut
Limor Garcia
Juha Pusa
Jason 'JZ' Liszkiewicz
Thomas Lowenhaupt
Karthik Ramraj
Molly Wright Steenson
Ilteris Kaplan
Erin Sparling
Arthur Eisele
Ace Racines
Par Lindhe
Marie Brattberg
Matthew Rodriguez
Troy Strike
Summer Bedard
Bonnie Sandy Sterling
Tish Shute
Alex Wright
Ryan Harper
Mike Rowehl
Matt Pelletier
Sean Pangia
Satadru Pramanik
Dean Collins www.cognation.net My private blog
Nicholas Mayo
Yong Wang
Bison Zhang
Richard LaBarca
Chris Muscarella
Marshall Sponder
Anjuli Ayer
Mark Mangan
Dave Winer
Otto Leichliter
Erik Schwartz
Nic Wolff
Allen Smith
Peter Tripp
Kathie Legg
Lubna Dajani
Kathie Dello
Liz Camps
Rob Sayre
Amit Gupta
Stan Schwartz
Koen Raybrook
Akemi Kazaki
Paul Johnson
Joshua Feliciano
Jaki Levy
Ray Weitzenberg
Ben Stein
Randy Loffelmacher
JooYoun Paek
Paris Marashi
Daniel Raffel
Stephanie de Bodinat
Jeremy Mims
Tony Bacigalupo
Dan Rink
Ron Brayer
William Wong
Hans-Christoph Steiner
Ran Tao
Jenny Chowdhury

Sessions (30 minutes)

Halfbaked - Entrepreneurial Improv Amit Gupta
Building a "Poor Man's SMS Gateway" using Symbian and Ruby - Jose Marinez, http://jmarinez.typepad.com
One World. No Borders. Few Rules. Growing & Managing Off Portal Mobile Communities - David Harper, Winksite
Hyperlink your world - Physical Hyperlinks and their application in the real world - Alexis Rondeau, Semapedia.org
Expression, participation, mobile phones, nazi's and public space. Who's own'n your physical spaces? We'll write a song on the spot from your txt messaging. Also I'll show how to build a mobile SMS gateway for projecting text messages from your mac - Paul Notzold - txtual healing
Nokia Mobile Web server: what it is, why it matters, what it can do, how it was built, how it works - Juha Pusa, Project Manager, Nokia Mobile Web Server
Mobile phone sharing in India - beyond the personal and private, across class lines, people share mobile phones. How do space and behavior guide this? - Molly Wright Steenson
Towards a Mobile-Friendly City - The .nyc top level domain promises a new set of domain names, a directory, and other features imagined for the wired Internet. Help configure it for our mobile needs. Start with a 10 minute overview by Tom Lowenhaupt then brainstorm on mobility and a geographic TLD. Preview.
Sydewynder an open-source mobile SMS application gateway written in Python for the Nokia phones. - Mike Edwards
People First. Join an effort to define a Mobile Bill of Rights and determine next steps. (Mobile Lifestyle Manifesto) - David Harper, {Alexis Rondeau}, Lubna Dajani (Add your name here if you would like to help lead this session.)
Metaverse and The Mobile Space: Intersection or Inclusion - Tish Shute Ugotrade and Otto Leichliter - robotics, mobile space and metadesign. (Add you name here if you would like to help lead this discussion)
MUPE: Multi-User Publishing Environment - Another Nokia project, MUPE offers a platform for rapid development and deployment of multi-user mobile apps. - Josh Knowles
Mashup your phone with GPS. If you have a server you can launch a mobile, location-aware app. - WHERE.com

Workshops (60 minutes)

Topics You Would Like to Hear About

Please add your suggestions below

Design & Usability of mobile websites
Social implications of ubiquitous systems.
Mobile gaming
Mobile convergence
Presence
Mobile usage in other parts of the world: India, China, Japan
The mobile bill of rights - A manifesto of free mobility
Near Field Communication - Technology and applications
Google has facts. Cities have secrets. - How can we unfold mobile storytelling?
An Icebreaker game to get people at the event to know each other
- How about swap phones with the person next to you and try to send an sms back to your own phone. See how many people succeed in a minute. They can then talk to the other person about how awful mobile UI is - Cool idea :) Alexis
Linux-based mobile devices
Mobile Processing
Open platforms, standards, and protocols as base of a free mobile world.
Metaverse and the mobile space: intersection or inclusion?
WURFL and WALL - practical use and experience deploying

Since we are looking forward to interesting people, projects, research and demos in the world of mobility, please understand that this is not a forum for corporate pitches.

Blogs

Search for MobileCampNYC on Technorati

Volunteers

Yes! We would like to have your help in preparation and on-site. Please add yourself to the list if you want to volunteer for things like reception, in-room tech support, WIFI infrastructure setup.

in-room tech - satadru
documentation - Crystal

Planners

Hi there, we are Indira, Ritwik, Beth and Alexis.

The core team is available at mobilecampnyc@gmail.com.

You can also subscribe to our Twitter stream for last minute updates.

Tags for flickr, delicious, ma.gnolia, technorati etc.

Please use the tag MobileCampNYC for content related to this event.

Flickr photos Please make sure you release your photos under a suitable license such as creative commons.

Google Group

Located at http://groups.google.com/group/mobilecampnyc we will use it as our workspace to share discussions, files et cetera.

Mobilized!

We just learned about the exciting Mobilized! unconference taking place on the 5th & 6th of May at Eyebeam and PTU Brooklyn. We are looking forward meeting up there to trigger discussions and ideas that we can delve deeper into at MobileCampNYC . Since this is all about the mobile community we encourage everyone to participate in both events.

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