Finish Your Hack Today

Today is the deadline for the submitting your iPhone App to the Hackathon. It 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 iPhone App doesn’t have to be perfect, just be enough that other people can learn from it!

Eligibility

The complete rules are on the Contest page. But in summary, your submitted iPhone 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. iPhone Web Apps are always eligible. In addition, please do not submit iPhone OS 3.1 or Jailbroken apps for the Hackathon.

Entry Deadline 1pm

All entries for the Hackathon Show should be submitted to the Hackathon web site at http://developer.yahoo.com/hacku/register . 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 the moderators think are “cool”. While you are waiting, help us rearrange the lunch room for the Show.

Each satellite iPhoneDevCamp 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 to ChristopherA@iPhoneDevCamp.org before 1:45pm PDT.

The Hackathon Show 2pm

The Hackathon Show will begin in the lunch room. 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 iPhone Simulator to demonstrate your App. Demos from iPhoneDevCamp satellites should be an ~3 minute video file.

We look forward to seeing your apps!

31 Sponsors. Pretty exciting. This year exceeded our expectations. Then again, I think everything iPhone-related has been about exceeding expectations. Since my first sponsor post, “Meet our Sponsors (part one)“, we’ve had ten additional sponsors sign up before the sponsor deadline last Friday. That means we have event money for t-shirts (which are doing this year now!), and additional giveaways for the Hackathon.

Thank you iPhoneDevCamp 3 sponsors, both old and new. Here’s a list of the additional iPhoneDevCamp 3 Sponsors:

iPhone in Action by Manning

http://www.manning.com/callen/

Appcelerator

http://www.appcelerator.com

FastMac

http://www.fastmac.com

Belkin

http://www.belkin.com

SiK

http://www.sik.com

AdMob

http://www.admob.com

Tapulous

http://www.tapulous.com

Tapjoy

http://www.tapjoy.com

Macworld

http://www.macworld.com

Hands-On Mobile

http://developer.handson.com/

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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!