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
Precamping: Friday 18th of May
MobileCampNYC: Saturday, 19th of May
Where
Downtown Conference Center
157 William Street (NW corner of William & Ann Streets), 13th floor
Schedule
- Precamping Friday 18th of May
- 18:00 - ? Meet and Greet (Location for this is still to be decided. Suggestions? How about roping off part of the tables area at the South Street Seaport?)
- MobileCampNYC Saturday 19th of May
- Filling in presentation slots. First come, first serve!
- Kick-off and breakfast
- Morning sessions
- Lunch (will be served)
- 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
- 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.
Please note that we are going to have a limit of 100 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
- Jonathan Swerdloff
- Stan Wiechers
- Mike Bukhin
- Rob Price
- jonathan berger
- Christian Rauh
- 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
- Randy Makiej
- Arthur Eisele
- Ace Racines
- Par Lindhe
- Marie Brattberg
- Matthew Rodriguez
- Troy Strike
- Summer Bedard
- Bonnie Sandy Sterling
- Tish Shute
- Alex Wright
Sessions
- Halfbaked - Entrepreneurial Improv as seen here
- 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 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
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?
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.
Workshops
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.
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.
