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.

Check out the TheRulesOfBarCamp to learn what to expect.

Event details

When

Saturday, 19th of May

Where

Downtown Conference Center

157 William Street (NW corner of William & Ann Streets)

Floorplan can be found here, subway directions are here

Schedule

• Friday 18th of May
  • Meet and Greet

• Saturday 19th of May
  • Morning sessions
  • Lunch
  • Afternoon sessions
  • Awards and Wrap up

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

• 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.

Please note that we are going to have a limit of 100 people to take part in this camp so RSVP while you can :)

1. Indira Vaidy
2. Ritwik Dey
3. Alexis Rondeau
4. Kevin Slavin
5. Will Turnage
6. Beth Mihalick
7. David Harper
8. Jonathan Swerdloff
9. Stan Wiechers
10. Mike Bukhin
11. Rob Price
12. jonathan berger
13. Christian Rauh
14. Michael Sharon
15. Dan Melinger
16. Aaron Harmon
17. Mike Edwards
18. Laura Garcia
19. Kate Bauer
20. Nihal Mehta
21. Deepan Shah
22. Christina Ray
23. naveen selvadurai
24. Jose Marinez
25. Venu Moola
26. Dennis Crowley
27. Jason Nichols
28. Josh Knowles

Sessions

• 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
• Racoon Mobile Webserver - Running Apache on mobile phones. Will Turnage

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
• Linux-based mobile devices
• Mobile Processing
• Open platforms, standards, and protocols as base of a free mobile world.

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.

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.

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.

Sponsors

Nokia Nseries

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.