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!)

This is a quick list of last night’s winners:

Sponsored Categories

Best New Developers

Sponsored by Millennial Media

Angie & Maggie Wang (Decisioneer)

“Just crazy enough it might work”

Sponsored by The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT)

Doggy Play Date

Best Crowdsourcing App

Sponsored by Mirego

Social Music Player

Best Shopping App

Sponsored by Retailigence

Gift2Go

Best Use of Betable APIs

Sponsored by Betable

Real Money Slots

Best Use of Storify APIs

Sponsored by Storify

Storied

Best Use of PayPal APIs

Sponsored by x.commerce & the PayPal X Developer Network

dlivr

Best Use of eBay APIs

Sponsored by x.commerce & the eBay Developers Program

ClotheMe

Special Categories

Best Sacrifice to the Demo Gods

Commentary

Best Come Back

iMemorial

Iron Coder

Robert McNally (ArciemLib)

Most Ambitious Developer

Andrew Dudney (UNRMapViewer)

Best Open Source

CSSApply

Best Developer Tool or Library

CodeFlow

Most Innovative

Swat Gestures

Coolest

Turntable.FM

Best User Interface

MyBank

Best Hardware Hack

Tug-a-Bot

Best Web App

Mashboard

Most Useful

Practice, Practice

Best Health

Rock and Run

Honorable Mention: Health

ErgoMinder

Best Performance

4sight

Best Audio-Visual

VeeJay Mixer

Best Accessibility

BeeLine

Best International

WhirlyGraph

Best Promise

EyeCode

Best Satellite App

Jawbreaker

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!

Streaming live video all weekend via Ustream.

See also: Live from Canada.

Oh, and we are spinning music Turntable.FM right now.

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.

Award-Winners

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.

Sponsors

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.

Founders

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!

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:

• 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 Emory Al-Imam. We are currently seeking:

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

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

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This two-day, intensive workshop will include Joe’s sessions on “3 Hello Worlds in An Hour” and “Appitalism” as well as the classic “Top 10 Tricks for New Cocoa Developers”.

Joining us also will be Dutch programmers Joris Kluivers, Glenn Wolters, Elger van der Avoird, and the incomparable Casper Koomen. A special guest from Germany, Kristijan Kolak joins us to discuss his experience with cameras, video, and of course Xcode.

See the entire program for iCE Amsterdam, and register right away.

This year, we have a special, all-encompassing prize for iOS Developers Camp:

HiGrid App Challenge

€30,000 prize money is available! Just submit your idea about a new location-based app, and you could win € 2,000, € 5,000, or € 7,000!

We are looking for creative and new ideas or concepts that make use of the HiGrids Mobility Platform with all kinds of data on traffic, cars, people, etc. Just use your imagination what this Platform can support and submit just your own idea.

Entries are invited in three categories:

- Mobility, Business, and Productivity
- Social Networking and Communication
- WILDCARD

The registration form will lead you step-by-step through the procedure. And the terms and conditions will stipulate that all participants will retain complete ownership of their ideas.

Important dates:
March 5, 2011 Closing date for registrations
March 8, 2011 Nominees present their idea/concept/app to judges at iCE Amsterdam
March 8, 2011 Prize winning ceremony at Appsterdam Mobile Party and VIP dinner

Hope to see you there!

iOSDevCamp 2010 is being held at the PayPal headquarters in San Jose, California. The address is: 2161 N 1st Street, San Jose, CA 95131.

The entrance to PayPal Town Hall faces N. 1st street. Do not use the main PayPal entrance.

Map: http://tinyurl.com/iosdevcamp2010map

PUBLIC HOURS

Free and open to the public on Sunday, August 22nd, 2-6pm ONLY, for the Hackathon demos and Awards Ceremony. All other times require a $50 registration fee and badge.

PARKING AND TRANSPORTATION

Here are directions to the San Jose complex from all the major highways:

Parking/transit/freeway:

Hwy 87 From South San Jose:
-Head northwest on CA-87 N 0.9 mi
-Take exit 9A toward N 1st St 0.4 mi
-Merge onto Charcot Ave 0.2 mi
-Turn right at N 1st St
the parking lot will be on your right; the entrance to PayPal Town Hall faces N. 1st street

Hwy 101 : From San Fransisco:
-Take 101 South towards San Jose
-Exit onto De La Cruz Blvd/W Trimble Rd
-Continue to follow W Trimble Rd 1.2 mi
-Turn right at N 1st St
-Once you cross Charcot, the parking lot will be on your right
the entrance to PayPal Town Hall faces N. 1st street

Hwy 880 from Fremont:
-Take 880 South towards San Jose
-Take the Montague Expy Exit
-Keep right at the fork to continue toward Montague Expy and merge onto Montague Expy
-Turn left at E Trimble Rd
-Turn left at N 1st St

Hwy 880 from Santa Cruz:
-Take 880 North towards San Jose
-Take exit 5 for Brokaw Rd
-Turn left at E Brokaw Rd
-Turn right at N 1st St
-Make a Left at Katrina Ct
-The first right will be the PayPal parking lot – the entrance to PayPal Town Hall faces N. 1st street

Hwy 280 (from North or South):
-Take the exit onto CA-87 N
-Take exit 9A toward N 1st St
-Merge onto Charcot Ave
-Turn right at N 1st St

Public Transit to PayPal:

CalTrain :
- Take Cal Train to the Mountain View station. Exit and transfer to the VTA Light Rail. Take VTA south to the Karina stop (a 30 min ride). PayPal is located directly across the street from the stop.

VTA :
- Take VTA to the Karina stop (a 30 min ride South from Mountain View or 30 minutes North from Santa Teresa). PayPal is located directly across the street from the stop.

See you there!

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.

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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!

]]> http://www.iosdevcamp.org/2010/04/14/thank-you-ipaddevcamp-sponsors/feed/ 1 http://www.iosdevcamp.org/2010/04/08/the-ipaddevcamp-speaker-lineup/ http://www.iosdevcamp.org/2010/04/08/the-ipaddevcamp-speaker-lineup/#comments Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:12:32 +0000 Raven Zachary http://www.iphonedevcamp.org/?p=598 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!

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