MobileDevCamp Dallas

MobileDevCamp is an expansion in scope of iPhoneDevCamp held in San Francisco in July.

The Dallas DevCamp follows a successful weekend in San Francisco where 400 particpants created 50+ apps. This event for developers targeting the small screen with open web standards on iPhone, WebKit-based Symbian, Opera, and Windows Mobile.

About

MobileDevCamp is an upcoming gathering, inspired by BarCamp, SuperHappyDevHouse, and MacHack, to develop web-based applications and optimize web sites for mobile devices - including iPhone . It is a non-commercial event, organized by volunteers, with attendance free to all. By the completion of the weekend event, a number of mobile-ready web applications and sites will be launched. The event will be held at ______________ (TBD - got a space for 200? ping me AIM: cocoaradio). Out-of-town guests are welcome too.

Attendees will include web designers, developers, testers; all working together over a weekend to improve the web experience for mobile devices. Development projects will include both solo and team efforts. While some attendees will wish to work solo during the event, we encourage attendees to team up, based on expertise, to work in ad-hoc project development teams. All attendees should be prepared to work on a development project or lead a session during the event.

Participants will:

• Create new web applications for mobile devices.
• Optimize existing web sites and applications for mobile devices - including iPhone.
• Migrate Dashboard Widgets to web-based widgets for iPhone.
• Test and optimize web sites for a variety of mobile devices

Details

Updates

Follow MobileDevCamp on Twitter for event updates.

2007-7-17 (Blake): New organizers added (JimYoung, Kinan Sweiden, and Christopher Allen), Scope expanded from iPhone-focused to "MobileDevCamp" for all mobile devices. Participants: 32

2007-7-13 (Blake): iPhoneDevCamp Dallas proposed iPhoneDevCamp for Texans and anyone able to travel to Dallas, 1st prize sponsored by Viewzi Attendees Participants : 21

Organizers

The instigators (creators) of iPhoneDevCamp include Blake Burris, Jay Fichialos, Jim Young, and Kinan Sweiden

Roles:

For more information on BarCamp roles, please visit the Building Block Roles for BarCamp page.

MC: BlakeBurris

Sponsorships: Blake Burris & Jim Young

Logistics & Facilities: Jay Fichialos

Hackathon: Christopher Allen & Kinan Sweiden

Promotion:

Resources

For iPhone specific developers, there is an ongoing iPhone developer community discussion list. This is a good place for technical discussions as well as place to recruit team members for the Hack-a-Thon.

Please visit iPhoneDevCampLinks for iPhone-related resources and links.

Sponsors

We are actively seeking sponsors to help cover amenities, prizes, and meals - and a venue. All sponsors will have their logos printed on the sponsors banner and will be thanked during the event. Sponsoring a BarCamp event is not about lead generation, it's more like a donation - you're supporting the effort by supporting the attendees.

Please contact Blake Burris if you are interested in being a sponsor (blakeburris at gmail)

Facilities / Venue suggestions

Please add any space you have or can get with your name that is a possibility for hosting around 200 people Fri-Sun. We'll review options as we have a better grip on the size of the group.

Adobe offices in Richardson (Matt Bendiksen), Big in Japan's office @ Infomart (Alex Muse), ...

Meal sponsors

We are estimating that each meal will each run approx. $2K, based on 200 attendees

Awards sponsors

We are looking for hackathon awards sponsors. Donated items must directly tie-in to either the iPhone or development for the iPhone. Example awards include iPhone accessories, iTunes Music Store gift cards, and web development software licenses.

Developer Prizes

Participants in the iPhone hackathon will be eligible for prizes

Confirmed prize sponsors: Viewzi (iPhone),

Participants

Add your name and details in order below

1. BlakeBurris, producer, CocoaRadio
2. ChristopherStJohn, Entrepreneurial Engineer, Architectonic, DayTripr
3. AdamKeys, Software developer and lover of syrup, The Real Adam
4. MattHollingsworth, Mac convert, serial eater, taker of pictures NontrivialExercises
5. Chris Griego, Front-End Architect, RD2, Inc.
6. BrandonCotter, Viewzi
7. Kinan Sweidan, Ximda
8. Blake Elshire, Front-End Architect, RD2, Inc.
9. RobertFiccaglia MotivePath - plan to continue work from San Francisco
10. Daniel Larsen, Software Architect / Developer, iPhone apologist
11. Christian Postier, Cisco Network Engineer Stunt Man
12. Alexander Muse
13. Scott Bauer, Code Samurai at Big in Japan
14. Mike Vincent, Princess of Darkness
15. Peter Gornell - evangelist/project manager
16. Bill Erickson, New Media Entrepreneur
17. Cody Marx Bailey, himself
18. Jonathan Wight - dude
19. giovanni gallucci - social media consultant
20. Christopher Jones, crjones.us
21. Matt Bendiksen - indie developer
22. Bill Good - developer
23. Kent McKeaigg- Learning Developer
24. Jim Young, Jambo
25. John Bantam, Dallas Web Builders
26. Darcy Brown, DBCP and he who is number 26
27. Josh Handel, Passvault, Developer/Architect & Rails convert.
28. Jonathan Miller, Miller-Interactive - Interactive Media Designer/Developer (front end)
29. Benjamin Morin, Software Developer and iPhone enthusiast
30. James Kersbergen, iPhoneJedi
31. Dave Forbes, Software/Web Application developer
32. Matthew Cave, Technical Director, Agency.com
33. Tom Nelson, pair of threes
34. JP Dubois, designtastesgood.com