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.

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!

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.

We are delighted to announce that iPhoneDevCamp alumni Joe Pezzillo, Jonathan Wight, Mike Lee, and I (Dom) will be traveling to Amsterdam to produce a one-night iPhoneDevCamp event prior to iCE Amsterdam ‘09.

November 25th, 2009
11am-4pm (with lunch break)
Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
Attendance Max: 200 people

This unique event will feature presentations from distinguished iPhone developers and businesses in attendance, and a networking opportunity for developers prior to the main iCE Amsterdam event. We’ll have space, power, and wifi to do as we please. Stay tuned to this space for more details as they emerge.

Special thanks to our sponsors PayPal and One More Thing.

See this special offer for iPhoneDevCamp.nl Alumni!

Hi everybody,

iPDC in Munich was a huge success [during iPhoneDevCamp 3], even though we could only host about 45 people at the venue.

Please check out our page including all videos and slides (in German language) at http://boinx.com/events/iphonedevcamp/

We also posted a short story about streaming the whole event using our own product BoinxTV: http://boinx.com/boinxtv/usecases/iphonedevcamp/

Greetings from Munich,

f l o r i a n

At tonight’s iPhoneDevCamp 3 Hackathon Show, 54 iPhone applications and related projects were demonstrated to a rapt audience of fellow iPhone Developers. After the show, the judges sequestered themselves to choose winners of the Hackathon Special Prizes, and honorable mentions.

What follows is the list of the winners, along with the text from their original submissions. We hope to post later this week more detail about the winners, what made them special to the judges, and also talk about some of the significant submissions that also deserve mention. If you were in the audience, we encourage you to share in the comments of this post what you liked about any of the Hackathon submissions. In the meantime, if you have any questions about the Hackathon (or wish to make clarifications if you are one of the winners) you can send email to the Hackathon Master-of-Ceremonies Christopher Allen.

Thank you everyone who participated in the Hackathon for your passion in developing for the iPhone, and for demonstrating our values of contribution, sharing, openness, and “can do” attitude that made this this the best iPhoneDevCamp yet!

Best iPhone Open Source

AR Kit

open source at http://www.iphonear.org

(Chris Haseman, Zac White, Charles Ruelle, Arshad Tayyeb, Sid Gabriel Hubbard)

An open source ui library for displaying location based data in spherical coordinate systems mirroring UI Kit on the phone. A list of CLLocation objects can be submitted and our library will handle drawing of the locations on screen.

Best iPhone Open Source – Honorable Mention

OpenFlow: a CoverFlow API replacement for the iPhone

open source at http://apparentlogic.com/openflow

(Alex Fajkowski)

A free, open source replacement for Apple’s private CoverFlow API. The initial release is simple, but it is also efficient and very fast, even on first generation iPhones.

Coolest iPhone Application

Avatar Wall

open source at http://tinyurl.com/avatarwall

Remember the thrill of seeing the Live App Wall at WWDC?

Now you can take that excitement with you everywhere, right in your pocket.

AvatarWall recreates the experience of the WWDC App Wall using the Twitter avatars of iPhoneDevCamp followers, and whenever one of them posts a tweet, their icon pulsates to help you more easily identify the source of the latest banter. Just like the app wall, the avatars are sorted by color and spread across multiple monitors, or, in this case, phones.

Now, when you encounter Mae West, she can ask you, “Is that 2500 people in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?”

Coolest iPhone Application – Honorable Mention

Tick Talk

http://idea.wirus.com

(Jot Kali)

Soon to be released on app store. Finally a piece of the future is here as seen in Sci Fi movies. The alarm clock wakes you up by speaking news headlines from the feed of your choice. ‘ Good Morning Sir …. here are the headlines ….’

The App also introduces a horizontal UIPickerView, which is far more space efficient than the current PickerView

Most Useful iPhone Application

CarPark

http://?

(Ramin Firoozye)

Have you ever gotten a parking ticket or forgotten where you parked your car?

Tell CarPark how much money you’ve put in the meter and set a user-definable alarm (through push notification service) to remind you to get back to your car before you get a ticket.

CarPark allows you to mark where you parked your car with your iPhone’s GPS and find your way back to your car (via integrated MapKit). It even lets you capture what floor, color-code, or section in a multi-story parking lot you parked in.

You can also save notes or take a picture of your surroundings (or rental car) so you can use it on trips.

With an iPhone you’ll never get parking tickets again.

Best iPhone Developer Tool / Helper

Mobtest

open source at http://dev.mobtest.com

(Peter Robinett, Jesus Fernandez, Lakshi Redd)

Mobtest is a web service for mobile application user testing. Developers can efficiently invite testers and run tests, while testers get to live on the cutting edge of mobile apps and contribute to testing apps. An iPhone library that developers can easily add to their projects lets testers easily submit screenshots and feedback as they test the apps.

Most Educational iPhone App

OER Commons

open source at http://www.oercommons.org

(Mark Graham, Don McConnell)

An iPhone interface to the Open Education Resource (OER) Commons website

Best Social iPhone App

Foodspotting Lite

open source http://? — info at http://www.twitter.com/foodspotting/

(Alexa & Seth Andrzejewski, Peter Lee, Warren Stringer, Aaron Bannert)

Foodspotting will be a visual food app that lets you find DISHES, not just restaurants: Foodspotters take pictures of foods they love, enabling Foodseekers to find whatever they’re craving and see the foods at any restaurant. While it will ultimately be powered by Foursquare-like competition and supported by restaurants and media companies who sponsor cravings and scavenger hunts, this lite version built during DevCamp makes it easy to post and browse food sightings using Twitter.

Best iPhone Game

Elftard’s Critical Fumble

http://elftard.com

(Anca Mosoiu, Jeff Jouppi, Joe McMahon)

Are you dead? Are you alive? The critical fumble will tell. A unique dice rolling application for roleplaying games.

Best iPhone Web App

iUI 0.30 & iUI iPhoneDevCamp Theme

open source at http://iui.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/music.html

(Sean Gilligan, Jeffrey Jones, Kimberley Sabo)

iUI 0.30 adds Hardware-assisted CSS Transitions for the slide animation and numerous bug fixes.

We are also adding theme support and have an iPhoneDevCamp theme developed and demonstrated in the Music Sample.

There are many team members that have contributed (particularly Joe Hewitt) see the project site. The list above is of people who worked on iUI at iPhoneDevCamp 3.

Best New iPhone Developer

Bubblo

open source at http://github.com/Annika-iPhoneDevCamp/Bubblo/tree/master

(Annika, Carlos)

Bubblo is a game of chance for the iPhone. Press a button or shake to play, and get either a crown (Win!) or a hairball (Lose).

Best Student iPhone App

CongLib

(students: Jason Dreisbach, Alexander Razo-Myers, Hoa Long Tam, Mayank Maheshwari)

open source at http://www.jtdreisb.com/src

Creating a iPhone native library catalog for the library of congress.

Best iPhone App Submitted by an iPhoneDevCamp Satellite

Amerigo

open source at https://netfiles.uiuc.edu:443/farivar2/www/AmeriGo.zip

(Reza Farivar, Shuyi Chen, Nicholas Hoyt)

AmeriGo is a game framework for exploring locations. Google Earth is used for constructing games such as scavenger hunts, field trips or exploring any set of map points.

It verifies that the player has reached a location within 10 meters, optionally poses a question to be answered and then guides her to the next location. New locations are unlocked as the player reaches each location and correctly answers the question.

Submitted from Urbana-Champaign satellite

Highest Potential iPhone Startup Idea (Prize sponsored by iFund)

Winner #1:

Nurse Brain

http://www.sharewheels.com/nurse_brain/v0.9.zip

(Ray Valdes, Mike Kirkwood, Yaofeng Wen, Rylan Valdes)

A communicator for nurses to hand-off important data about patients during shift change. Nurse shift exchange is a targeted area to improve healthcare. This app was inspired by the Kaiser Innovation teams, IDEO, and the nurses at Kaiser.

The team met this weekend and took Polka’s wireframes and comps to crank out a prototype version.

Winner #2:

OWLE Video Mount

http://www.wantowle.com

(Graham McBain, Harold B. Smith IV)

OWLE is a hardware mount for the 3G and 3GS. I’ts purpose is to bring traditional features of camcorders and cameras.

Best Use of iPhone Push Notification (Prize sponsored by iLime)

Z2Notify and Z2NotifyMe

open source at http://github.com/Z2Live/Z2Notify/tree/master

(Damon Danieli)

Z2Notify and Z2NotifyMe are Mac and iPhone tools that allow you to debug the Apple Push Notification service without a server.

Best iPhone Health App (Prize sponsored by Polka)

Chief Medical Officer

open source at http://chiefmedicalofficer.appspot.com

(Bess Ho, Myk Klemme, Jen McCabe, Chip Vanek)

An iPhone app for patient access to the Google Health web-based Personal Health Record (PHR) platform.

Technology Use: HTML, CSS, JavaScript (via Titanium Mobile framework), Python, Google App Engine, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, JSON, JQuery

Best Money Making iPhone App (Prize sponsored by Mobclix)

Getaround

http://singularityu.org/bloggers/2009/08/5-tips-to-winning-a-hack-a-thon-competition/

(Charles Du, Elliot Kroo, Anand Gupta, Jonah Williams, John Varghese, Sam Zaid, VJ Anma, Jessica Scorpio, Sarah Sclarsic, Bentley Turner, Sofya Yampolsky, Gregor Hanuschak, and Miguel Elasmar).

Getaround is a carsharing community that let car owners rent out their car to trusted drivers everywhere. Think zipcar + ebay.

Best iPhone App for Accessibility (Prize sponsored by Yahoo)

iSign

http://?

(Aramys Miranda, Hernan Pelassini, Dan Raju)

Opening up people accessibility on the iPhone by introducing a gesture based sign language.

Ironcoder (this year’s challenge: best app using core animation and audio)

Lander Code

http://?

(Dave Wilson)

A simple moon lander game that includes the source code and a lecture explaining how it’s coded.

We are pleased to announce that Chi-Hua Chien will be our Friday night keynote speaker. Chi-Hua is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, where he is actively involved in the iFund, KPCB’s $100 million iPhone investment fund. Chi-Hua will give a short talk followed by open Q&A with the audience on Friday at 6:30pm.

In addition, the KPCB iFund is sponsoring a contest during the Hackathon this year. The two winners of the Highest Potential Startup Idea contest will each have a lunch+pitch with KPCB at their office in Menlo Park, CA.

Bio:

Chi-Hua Chien joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 2007. At KPCB he focuses on investments in the iFund (mobile applications), consumer internet, and digital media infrastructure. Prior to KPCB, Chi-Hua worked with Accel Partners as a Venture Advisor and Associate focusing on software as a service, consumer Internet, and online advertising infrastructure. Chi-Hua was instrumental in Accel’s investments in AdECN (acquired by MSFT) and Facebook, while also working on the firm’s investments in BitTorrent, fbFund, Glam, Trulia, and YuMe Networks.

Previously, Chi-Hua was the Director of Marketing at hosted software provider Coremetrics, where he led the marketing and inside sales teams as the company grew from 20 to more than 200 customers. He also served as the company’s interim CFO through two rounds of venture funding. Chi-Hua’s prior roles include corporate development at Google, business development at start-up eCoverage, and investment banking with Morgan Stanley’s Technology Group.

Chi-Hua has an MS in Industrial Engineering, BS in Industrial Engineering, and BA in Economics, all from Stanford University where he was named a Mayfield Fellow and President’s Scholar. He also earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Follow Chi-Hua on Twitter here.

BREAKING NEWS: Nettwerk recording artist BT will perform at Yahoo! for the attendees of iPhoneDevCamp 3 on Friday, July 31st. This outdoor performance is a special treat for on-site attendees only, brought to you by our good friends at Medialets.

Brian “@BT” Transeau, known as a pioneer in the trance genre, has just shipped an iPhone App of his own called Sonifi. This app allows the user to control BT’s signature “stutter edit” technique and remix his latest single, Rose of Jericho.

We hope you’ll join us in Sunnyvale for this exclusive performance.

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