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We are thrilled to announce that Yahoo! will sponsor and host this year’s iPhoneDevCamp! Formed just a week after the launch of the original iPhone device, this independent group meets every year to promote the work of developers and designers for iPhone and iPod touch. The event will feature a large gathering on Yahoo!’s Sunnyvale campus, along with simultaneous Satellite events to connect developers around the world.

Yahoo! Inc. Sunnyvale, CA
July 31 - August 2nd, 2009
Cover Charge: $50

All fees will go toward the production of the event. iPhoneDevCamp is a not-for-profit organization, and Yahoo! is contributing the space, and event support throughout the weekend. We’ve been working behind the scenes with Yahoo! for weeks, to make sure there is enough space, power, and networking for approximately 500 participants. Although there will be no actual “camping,” (i.e. no tents on the Yahoo! lawn), participants are welcome all weekend, starting at 5pm on Friday and ending at 6pm on Sunday.

This is going to be a blast!  Check out some pictures of the space.

Registration via Eventbrite is now open.  (Please review travel information before registration.) See also additional Sponsorship opportunities, or contact Dom for Volunteer opportunities.

See us also on Upcoming.org.

Can’t wait!

We are pleased to announce iPhoneDevCamp 3, coming August 2009 and broadcasting from the San Francisco Bay Area.

The event is inspired by BarCamp, SuperHappyDevHouse, and MacHack, to develop Cocoa Touch and Web-based applications for iPhone and iPod touch. This follows the previous iPhoneDevCamp events held at Adobe Systems in San Francisco, July 2007 and August 2008. Out-of-town guests are welcome.

Attendees will include Cocoa Touch developers, web developers, UI designers, and testers, all working together over the weekend. 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 during the event.

Attendees will be able to:

• Create new applications for iPhone and iPod touch.
• Migrate Mac OS X applications to iPhone and iPod touch.
• Test and optimize applications for iPhone and iPod touch.

The event will feature:

• Simultaneous Events Worldwide
• Meetup Time on Friday with Refreshments
• Catered Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner on Saturday and Sunday
• Saturday Keynote (now accepting nominations)
• Open Mic for Questions
• Ad Hoc Sessions by Participants
• Late Saturday Gaming
• Sunday Keynote (now accepting nominations)
• Hackathon Contest
• Everyone Leaves with Something

Last year was an incredible success: the winners went on to do righteous things, and the sponsors saw tremendous growth. We doubled the previous year’s attendance:

We expect this year to more than double the size and scope of the event. In order to cover the additional overhead, we may need to charge a small fee (up to $50) for folks to book a spot at the event.

We are committed to staying not-for-profit; all charges will go toward the production of iPhoneDevCamp, and the founders don’t make a cent. The founders are Raven Zachary (who had the original idea), Dom Sagolla, Christopher Allen, William Hurley, and Blake Burris, with the honorable Chris Messina presiding. We are currently seeking:

• Venue
• Sponsors
• Keynote Speakers
• Donations

Note: Until we have a venue and a date, we will not be accepting attendee registrations, but all sponsors are guaranteed at least one spot.

To get involved with the above, please email Raven and Dom: info@iphonedevcamp.org.

We can’t wait to see what awaits us this year! For now, we’ll leave you with That Phone Guy:

I have been talking with a number of Japanese iPhone developers about running an iPhoneDevCamp in Japan, tentatively in Tokyo on the weekend of May 8-10. If you are interested in helping plan this event, or becoming a sponsor, we have started an english-language discussion list to allow international participation. You can join the list at iPhoneDevCamp Japan (English).

iPhone in Action Cover

A number of teams used the sample Interface Builder chapter from my book iPhone in Action: Introduction to Web & SDK Development at the last iPhoneDevCamp. I’m pleased to announce that the print version of the book is now available and should be shipping from Manning, Amazon, Borders, Barnes & Noble, etc.

I will be at MacWorld this week and raffling off copies of the book at Raven’s iPhone Intelligence Party on Tuesday night.

My co-author Shannon Appelcline and I have also started a blog where we’ll be posting links and updates to the book—add it to your favorite feed reader!

If you have already purchased the eBook, or used the Interface Builder sample chapter at iPhoneDevCamp and found it useful, I could really use your help in letting others know about the book. In particular, if you can post a brief review at Amazon of you experience with the book, it would be much appreciated. If you have an iPhone Developer blog, I can also send you a review copy of the book.

See you at MacWorld!

It’s only been a few weeks since the last iPhoneDevCamp (in Copenhagen), and now people are looking to repeat that success around the globe:

• Czech Republic
• Ireland
• Montreal

Looking to get started with your own community?  Take a peek at our Satellites page, or read the latest article on iPhoneDevCamp in Mac|Life magazine.

Now that the iPhone SDK license agreement NDA has been lifted, communities worldwide can teach, learn, write, and publish with greater freedom.  If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area next month, you can hear all about this at the O’Reilly iPhoneLive conference that Raven and I are helping to produce.

Harp App has shipped! The video above has a charming demonstration of the winner for Best Educational App at iPhoneDevCamp 2, showing off the multitouch features of Apple’s platform for only $1.99.

Ten (10) dedicated men and women have worked feverishly, in secret this past month on an iPhone app for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. All of us are unpaid volunteers.  Six (6) of us are iPhoneDevCamp alumni (*):

• Raven Zachary (Project Director) *
• Jason Grigsby (Project Manager)
• John Keith (Server Development)
• Lyza Gardner (Server Development, Design)
• Aileen Jeffries (Design)
• Jonathan Wight (Lead iPhone Development) *
• Dom Sagolla (QA, Community Development) *
• Mike Lee (iPhone Development, UI) *
• Louie Mantia (Design) *
• Tristan O’Tierney (iPhone Development) *

I think we may have achieved a record for the launch of such a complex app in such a short period, and many excellent features were dropped for lack of time. It was really fun to develop, knowing the power of features like Call Friends (which sorts your address book by key battleground states) and Get Involved (which uses CoreLocation to direct you to the nearest Obama Headquarters).  The app was designed as a means to donate your time in discreet segments — we call it ‘micro-volunteering’.

A huge portion of the code was taken from Jonathan Wight’s superb TouchCode repository, which won “Best Open Source” at iPhoneDevCamp 2 this summer.

We use Basecamp for bootstrapping, Subversion for revisions, Lighthouse for bug tracking (thanks entp!), Google Groups for our (stellar) Beta list, and Campfire for our engineering chat.  Check out our Facebook Group as well.

Special thanks to John Geleynse and Erik Lammerding at Apple for their attention and encouragement.

Help us make the app better by sending email to iphone@barackobama.com.  Use it to call your friends!  The election is little more than a month away, and your action can make the difference.

Something is rad in the state of Denmark: iPhoneDevCamp Copenhagen!

Fri, Oct. 3 - Sat, Oct 4, 2008
7pm Fri through Sat pm
Danish Technical University

The team has both a blog and a wiki all set up, with their first sponsor and looking for more.

Update: At capacity! Signups are now closed, but:

If you really want to come, and just got to know us too late, there still may be an opportunity to attend. You can put your name on the waiting list, and if someone removes their name from the list, we will fit you in. We can’t promise anything, though it is worth a try.

Response to iPhoneDevCamp has been overwhelmingly positive. Since last year, there have been several independently organized events using the name, and there are a few exciting ones coming up that we’d like you to know about:

Upcoming Events

• iPhoneDevCamp.nl
• iPhoneDevCampParis2

In addition, folks from iPhoneDevCampBoston and PhoneDevCampLondon have contacted us, looking for interested folks, and there is a call for iPhoneDevCampManila!

You are welcome hold a BarCamp-style event, using the iPhoneDevCamp name.  Our only request is that you contact us to go over publication advice and to remind your organizers to review the iPhone SDK license.  We’d love to list you here; all we need is your Wiki page (we recommend BarCamp.org).

Here is the Connect recording of the Sunday, August 3rd Keynote:

Neil Young > iPhone is greater than…

During the playback, you’ll notice some visual flutter on occasion.  This is a result of having to crop from one portion of the Connect video window to another, while our Satellites tuned in.  The audio should be seamless, however.  In the future, we’ll avoid having other video feeds showing while Keynote presentations are in view.

Learn more about Neil and ngmoco’s offer to incubate 10 apps for free.