iOSDevCamp 2010
August 20-22, 2010
PayPal, San Jose, California

We are pleased to announce iOSDevCamp 2010, the fifth not-for-profit iOS developer conference produced by the original iPhoneDevCamp all-volunteer team. What was originally planned to be ‘iPhoneDevCamp 4′ has been launched as ‘iOSDevCamp 2010′, to both match Apple’s new naming convention and to reflect the annual nature of our main event in California. This is a combined iPhone and iPad event.

We expect this to be the largest event yet, with over 500 attendees. Thank you to our lead sponsor, PayPal for again offering its great facility for our event. For those of you who attended iPadDevCamp, we will be using the same space, but PayPal is increasing the available rooms to accommodate additional attendees. Thank you, PayPal X Developer Network!

As a reminder, 100% of your registration fee goes to event costs. We are a not-for-profit all-volunteer group.

NOTE: This is not a training event. iOSDevCamp is for existing iOS developers and designers to build and demo new iOS apps within 48 hours, over our three-day event.

Who: Developers, designers, entrepreneurs for iOS.

What: 3-day weekend event, in the format of past iPhoneDevCamp and iPadDevCamp.

When: August 20-22, 2010

Where: PayPal (eBay) in San Jose, CA.

Why: We love the developer community!

How: It will cost a small amount to attend, with additional event costs offset by sponsors.

The event is inspired by BarCamp, SuperHappyDevHouse, and MacHack, to develop Cocoa Touch and Web-based applications for Apple’s iOS. This follows the previous iPhoneDevCamp events held at Adobe Systems in San Francisco, July 2007 and August 2008, Yahoo! in 2009, and PayPal earlier this year. Out-of-town guests are welcome.

Attendees will include iOS developers, web developers, UI designers, entrepreneurs 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 iOS.
• Migrate Mac OS X applications to iOS.
• Test and optimize applications for iOS.

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

We are committed to staying not-for-profit; all charges will go toward the production of iOSDevCamp, and the organizers don’t make a cent. The organizers are Raven Zachary, Dom Sagolla, Christopher Allen, and the incomparable Whurley. We are currently seeking:

• Your Registration
• Sponsors
• Keynote Speakers
• Hackathon Prize Donations

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

Many thanks to all those who presented this evening at the iPadDevCamp Hackathon!

I’ll write up with more detail tomorrow, but here is a quick list of the winners of various categories in tonight’s Hackathon:

• Coolest: Slot Machine
• Best Open Source: Media Shower
• Best Developer Tool: AQGridView
• Best Game: Tank Or Die
• Best Healthcare: Spot
• Best New Developer: Dice Pad
• Best Social: Un-bored Game
• Most Useful : Relay
• Best Web App: IuIPad

Sponsor Awards:

• Best use of PayPal APIs (sponsor PayPal): iConcessionStand
• Most Monetizable iPad App (sponsor MobClix): Airhawk
• Best Use of Web APIs (sponsor Apigee): NetFlix Authors
• Future of Publishing (sponsor Promote-a-Book): Autumn Gem

Special Awards:

• Accessability: Malen 21
• Retro: Boombox
• Most Alarming: P.A.D.

Honorable Mentions:

• Timelines
• DevScope
• Whack a Mouse
• Whorl’ed Champions
• Drift
• Design Scene
• Magic Window
• Executor

All entries for the Hackathon Show should be submitted to me by 1pm on Sunday. Please do not submit your entries twice, if you need to make a change contact me via Twitter @ChristopherA or via email at ChristopherA@iPhoneDevCamp.org. You can also see a list of current hackathon submissions. If there are more submissions then what we have time to demonstrate, submissions that offer source code will be given first priority, then submissions that were conceived and created at iPadDevCamp, and then those that the Judges think are “cool”. While you are waiting, help us rearrange the room for the Show.

Each satellite iPadDevCamp should have one or two iPhone Apps selected from their attendees to submit to the Hackathon Show. They should prepare a short ~3m video and email it or a YouTube link to ChristopherA@iPhoneDevCamp.org before 1:45pm PDT.

PayPal, Small Society, Dollar App, RPGnet, Chaotic Moon Studios, Flurry, iPhone Life Magazine, Funambol, Apigee, Griffin Technology, Mobclix, GTekna, Burstly, Urban Airship, Elance, AdMob, Pana.ma Voice Messenger, Unity Technologies, and InMobi.

This event is made possible by the generous contributions from our 19 iPadDevCamp sponsors. Thank you!

Coding during iPhoneDevCamp 2007

One of the best parts of iPadDevCamp is participating in the Hackathon—you have a huge opportunity to learn and grow your skills, get into the groove and flow of high performance development, and network with future colleagues that may help you solve technical challenges for years to come.

Join a Team, or Start One?

But for best results, be prepared. You should know if you plan on joining a team, or if you are going to try to recruit one. If you plan on joining a team, you should be able what skills you have to offer, or what skills you wish to stretch. If you are going to try to recruit a team, you should be able to articulate your ideas well, and know what skills you are looking for.

And of course you should be flexible—your great idea may not appeal enough to recruit a team this time, but maybe you can join another project where you can learn how to do your own project later. Don’t plan to work alone—the best part of the Hackathon is working with others as passionate as you are about the iPad.

Matchmaking and Concierge

If you need help forming a team, or finding one to join, I am here to help. I’ll be in the commons area starting Friday evening and during most of the conference, and I will help you find the people you need. As the teams emerge and everyone has found a place, I will also be acting as concierge to help you find solutions to problems that you encounter. Need someone who knows spherical trigonometry to make your app work? Let me help you find them.

The Hackathon Show and Contest

The deadline for the Hackathon Show and Contest on Sunday afternoon. However, your entry doesn’t need to be a complete app—find something undocumented and share it! Show us how you made something work! Create a cool demo of a feature we didn’t know about! Remember, your iPad App doesn’t have to be perfect, just be enough that other people can learn from it!

Prize Eligibility

Your Hackathon entries may be eligible for prizes if they demonstrate our ideals of Contribution, Sharing, Openess, and “Can Do” attitude. The complete rules for prizes are on the Contest page. But in summary, your submitted iPad App must not currently be available via the iTunes App Store OR if it is available, you must have source code available on a public website. Web Apps are always eligible. In addition, please do not submit iPhone-only or Jailbroken apps for the Hackathon.

Entry Deadline 1pm

All entries for the Hackathon Show should be submitted to me by 1pm on Sunday. Please do not submit your entries twice, if you need to make a change contact me via Twitter @ChristopherA or via email at ChristopherA@iPhoneDevCamp.org. You can also see a list of current hackathon submissions. If there are more submissions then what we have time to demonstrate, submissions that offer source code will be given first priority, then submissions that were conceived and created at iPadDevCamp, and then those that the Judges think are “cool”. While you are waiting, help us rearrange the room for the Show.

Each satellite iPadDevCamp should have one or two iPhone Apps selected from their attendees to submit to the Hackathon Show. They should prepare a short ~3m video and email it or a YouTube link to ChristopherA@iPhoneDevCamp.org before 1:45pm PDT.

The Hackathon Show 2pm

The Hackathon Show will begin at 2pm. Demos should be around 3 minutes, so practice your presentation before you get to the podium. We will have two overhead projectors set up so that we can transition from demo to demo quickly. You can also use a Mac with the iPad Simulator to demonstrate your App. Demos from iPadDevCamp satellites should be an ~3 minute video file.

We look forward to seeing your apps!

Every year as we prepare to gather for iPhoneDevCamp (and this year, for iPadDevCamp), we make our best effort to attract interesting keynote speakers to participate in the event. While the primary focus of the DevCamp is to bring iPhone OS developers together to demo cool and unreleased apps (most of which are developed _at_ the event!), we strongly believe that keynote speakers add to the overall quality of the experience for attendees.

Today, we are excited to announce our speaker lineup for iPadDevCamp. I think you’ll be pleased with the speakers – Bob Borchers, Chi-Hua Chien, Sean Byrnes, and Larry Tesler. Not familiar with all of the names? Read below and you will know all of them by their accomplishments…

Bob Borchers (Friday, April 16th, 6:30pm PT)
General Partner, Opus Capital
Bio

You will likely recognize Bob as the hands behind the iPhone from the iPhone intro videos in 2007. As part of the original iPhone team, Bob was instrumental in the development, launch and global expansion of the iPhone, iPhone OS, App Store and the launch of the iPhone 3GS. He left Apple in 2009 as Senior Director of Worldwide Product Marketing for the iPhone to join Opus Capital as a General Partner. Expect a fascinating talk on the origins of the iPhone, entrepreneurial opportunities in the mobile economy, and the explosive growth of iPhone OS – now on the iPad.

Sean Byrnes (Saturday, April 17th, 11:00am PT)
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder, Flurry
Bio

Having recently merged with Pinch Media, Flurry is the largest mobile analytics company in the world, with greater quantitative insight into the iPhone ecosystem than any company outside of Apple. Flurry CTO Sean Byrnes will be providing a fascinating and fresh look at iPad usage data in the two weeks since the initial product launch, and what we as developers can learn from this initial usage data. If you want to know what the half a million iPad users are doing with their devices, make sure to be there for Sean’s talk.

Chi-Hua Chien (Saturday, April 17th, 11:30am PT)
Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Bio

iPhoneDevCamp Alumnus Chi-Hua Chien from the Kleiner Perkins iFund will be returning for an informal “fireside chat” with attendees, providing an update on the iFund and its expansion to cover the iPad, doubling the fund size to $200M. He will also be hanging out during lunch after his talk to meet attendees and answer questions. Chi-Hua’s talk at iPhoneDevCamp 3 was a big hit with the attendees and we expect a similar reception at iPadDevCamp.

Larry Tesler (Sunday, April 18th, 10:30am PT)
Former VP of Advanced Development Group & the Personal Interactive Electronics division, Apple
Bio

Where does one begin when introducing Larry Tesler? A truly accomplished individual who has served as Chief Scientist at Apple, and who was instrumental in the creation of the Newton in the 1990s, as well as having a hand in HyperCard, QuickTime, AppleScript, and many other innovative Apple projects over the years. Larry will be giving an inspirational talk about the origins of mobile computing, his experiences at Apple, and his excitement surrounding the launch of the iPad. This is a talk not to be missed!

Four great keynote speakers, and we’re just over a week away from the event!

As with prior years, we intend to offer adjacent space for attendees and sponsors to sign up for BarCamp-style impromptu talks. We aren’t quite ready to open up the registration for speaking slots, but stay tuned!

We hope to see you at iPadDevCamp!

NOTE: This is not a training event. iPadDevCamp is for existing Cocoa developers and designers to build and demo new iPad apps over the three-day event.

Who: Designers, developers, and publishers for iPad.

What: 3-day weekend event, in the format of past iPhoneDevCamps.

When: April 16-18, 2010, 5pm Friday to 6pm Sunday.

Where: PayPal (eBay) Offices in San Jose, CA.

Why: We love the developer community!

How: It will cost a small amount, possibly offset by sponsors.

Please indicate your thoughts in our pre-registration survey.

The event is inspired by BarCamp, SuperHappyDevHouse, and MacHack, to develop Cocoa Touch and Web-based applications for iPad. This follows the previous iPhoneDevCamp events held at Adobe Systems in San Francisco, July 2007 and August 2008, and Yahoo! in 2009. 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 iPad.
• Migrate Mac OS X applications to iPad.
• Test and optimize applications for iPad.

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

We are committed to staying not-for-profit; all charges will go toward the production of iPadDevCamp, and the organizers don’t make a cent. The organizers are Raven Zachary, Dom Sagolla, Christopher Allen, and the incomparable Whurley. 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, Dom, Christopher and Whurley: info@iphonedevcamp.org.

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I love it when Google informs me of awesome new iPhoneDevCamp events. In this case, it is being organized by our friend Nate Eror from the Amsterdam trip.

Nate and team are producing a FREE event, the first of its kind in Houston.

You should go.

iPhoneDevCamp in Amsterdam was a big success, thanks to our hosts from iCE. The American alumni had an amazing time, and we will be writing more about that later. For now, enjoy this inspirational speech from iPhoneDevCamp sponsor / speaker / alum Mike Lee during the last day of the conference.

Before the clip, Mike tells us that he worked for three days on his slides and then threw them away. Instead he speaks from the heart about the nature of engineering, and the experience of Amsterdam. We pick up with Mike where he starts with task of manifesting cufflinks at 3 o’clock in the morning.

Being an engineer is not necessarily about knowing everything, it’s about knowing how to know everything.

Greetings to all our friends from the Netherlands. We hope to be back soon.