I love this iOSDevCamp 2011 Highlights video, produced by our host PayPal, because it features almost everybody.
478 attendees — over 78 contest submissions — with unprecedented sponsorship and co-operation! Thanks for a great time, and congratulations to all who participated. (Special shoutout to those who traveled from Brazil, Japan, and India!)
We had 78 Hackathon submissions for iOSDevCamp 2011 yesterday, of which we showed 57 in the Hackathon Show.
This is a quick list of last night’s winners:
Sponsored Categories
If you are one of these winners, could you update Christopher Allen (@ChristopherA) with any corrections, what website you wish us to link to, and please remember to put the names of your team on that website.
Thank you to 24k Logos, Apress, eBay, FastMac, Gelaskins, GEAR4, GitHub, Griffin Technology, IK Multimedia, InMobi, iPhone Life Magazine, Manning, O’Reilly Media, PayPal, Push.IO, TapJoy, TheyMakeApps.com, Twilio, Waterfield Designs, and ZAGG for generously donating prizes to the Hackathon contest. We greatly appreciate your support!
NOTE: Removed live stream link, as the event is over.
Streaming live video all weekend via Ustream.
See also: Live from Canada.
Oh, and we are spinning music Turntable.FM right now.
Every year, we gather the brightest—and often undiscovered—iOS developers in the world. We provide them with a weekend of unlimited bandwidth, space, power, food, and friendship. This is the pattern of success.
Before iOSDevCamp gets started again, July 15-17 at PayPal HQ in San Jose, allow me to inspire you with a few
Tales of Woah.
Meet Jessica Scorpio. She founded Getaround, along with Elliot Kroo and Sam Zaid at our event in 2009. “20,000 lines of code, 2 days, and just 4 hrs of sleep later,” her team won Best Money-making App in our 2009 Hackathon Contest.
Getaround recently won Techcrunch Disrupt NYC. Brilliant work, Jessica!
Meet Alexa Andrzejewski. She wrote to me in 2009 just before iPhoneDevCamp 3, asking if I could help her find a team of developers, and I convinced her to attend. She recruited a team, signed them on the spot, and set about in deep focus to build a functional design. For their efforts and slick demonstration, “Foodspotting Lite” was awarded Best Social iPhone App.
Alexa and Foodspotting are now in their second year, funded to the tune of $3 million. Cheers to Alexa, Ted, and Soraya—may you dine well always.
Meet Joe Hewitt. His entry IUI at the original iPhoneDevCamp in 2007 won the Best Open Source award. That was also the month that Joe’s company Parakey was purchased by Facebook.
The creator of Firefox and Firebug also built the mobile Web version of Facebook AND their iPhone App. He recently left that company to work again in the service of software developers worldwide. We love you, Joe.
Meet Tristan O’Tierney. In 2008, he went full time with Tapulous and helped sponsor iPhoneDevCamp 2. I invited my friend Jack Dorsey to the event, and his one piece of feedback was this: “I was really impressed with that fellow Tristan. He appreciates good design.”
Two months later, Tristan and I (along with eight other volunteers) produced the Official Obama ‘08 iPhone App. A few months after that, Tristan was working with Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey to create the first version of Square—as a co-founder.
Meet Mike Lee. The co-founder of Tapulous joined me on stage to kick off the event in 2008. Mike also helped create the Obama ‘08 iPhone App, and later built the Apple Store App. Last year, Tapulous was sold for an undisclosed fee to Walt Disney Company.
Mike is now organizing Appsterdam.
Meet Neil Young. The founder and CEO of ng:moco:) accepted the first iFund grant. They announced the ng:moco:) Labs project in our keynote in 2008.
Neil’s company was bought for $400 million by DeNA last year.
Meet Steve Demeter. The creator of Trism attended our first iPhoneDevCamp, and asked me if anyone was working on native code. This was in 2007, before the SDK or the App Store. Steve spent the entire weekend investigating iPhone development, and the subsequent months writing Trism all by himself.
As a result, he was able to ship a kickass game on day one of the App Store. Summer of 2008, at the second iPhoneDevCamp, we encouraged him to go full time with his company Demiforce on game development.
During our third camp in 2009, he was our Keynote Speaker and told the tale of a lifetime of sacrifice until he found our community. We salute Steve, an Apple Developer poster child.
Meet Sudha Jamthe. She was the moderator for my panel at the first-ever Twitter Conference in 2009. As part of Developer Relations at PayPal and to promote their brand-new API services, Sudha sponsored iPadDevCamp in April 2010. She selected iConcessionStand for the Best Use of PayPal API Award.
iConcessionStand went on to win the Grand Prize at the PayPal X Developer Challenge last year. Sudha is now a strategist at PayPal, hosting her third consecutive iOS Developer Camp this summer thus becoming our most generous sponsor of all time.
Meet Raven Zachary. The Founder of iOSDevCamp (previously iPhoneDevCamp), had the idea for this event in 2007 before iPhone even shipped. He reached out via Twitter to find a place to hold the first event and I was lucky enough to be listening at the time. Raven’s positivity and Open Source ethic inspired me and the other founders to band together for an unprecedented collaboration.
A year later, just after our second camp, he directed the creation of the Obama ‘08 for iPhone app for the Obama Campaign, recruiting a ten-person team comprised largely of camp alumni. That app remains one of the most successful free apps ever to hit the App Store, and resulted in a personal phone call from Steve Jobs to Raven.
Raven is now President of Small Society, one of the world’s most sought-after iOS user experience and development agencies, and he serves as an advisor to both Urban Airship and Apperian. Small Society just celebrated its second anniversary by donating a large portion of revenue to charity. Bonne chance, Raven! It is an honor to work with you.
Meet Christopher Allen. Our Event Concierge is co-author of the SSL standard. His roots in MacHack inspired our approach to the Hackathon Contest. Since the first event Christopher has published the introductory iOS development book “iPhone in Action,” and produced five card games for iOS including Reiner Knizia’s Money. He currently is founder of Alacrity Software.
Meet Whurley. The CTO of Chaotic Moon collaborated with NewsCorp to create The Daily in record time. This app, the first of its kind and a pioneer with in-app subscriptions, is about to reach one million downloads.
Meet Christopher Messina. His influence as creator of BarCamp inspired our “unconference” format. Since the first event, Chris has remained an Open Source advocate, helping to create OAuth and many other initiatives.
Meet Blake Burris. His company Dynamo Labs was the first recipient of the fbFund, Facebook’s $10 million grant fund.
My name is Dom Sagolla. After helping to create Twitter in 2006, I co-founded iOSDevCamp with these five men in 2007. We produced the event in 21 days, from first tweet to first seat. After joining the alums to build Obama ‘08, I founded DollarApp, wrote the book “140 Characters“, and co-founded stealth mode Swagger Inc. in San Francisco. I’m now a professional speaker, and travel around the world to talk about these experiences and help start local communities of support for app makers.
I write to you because now is the best time to go independent and aim for success in the Apple App Store. We’re all here to support you. Join us, July 15-17 at PayPal HQ in San Jose for iOSDevCamp 2011!
iOSDevCamp 2011
July 15-17, 2011
PayPal, San Jose, California
We are pleased to announce iOSDevCamp 2011, the sixth not-for-profit iOS developer conference produced by the original iPhoneDevCamp all-volunteer team. What was originally called ‘iPhoneDevCamp’ has been launched as ‘iOSDevCamp’, to match Apple’s new naming convention. 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: July 15-17
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 last 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:
The event will feature:
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 Emory Al-Imam. We are currently seeking:
To get involved with the above, please email Raven, Dom, Christopher and Emory: info@iphonedevcamp.org.
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