Attendee Updates

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[edit] Attendee Update #1

Hello.

You've registered for iPhoneDevCamp-Austin, a satellite event for the larger iPhoneDevCamp taking place concurrently in San Francisco. There is no cost to attend this event.

If you haven't been to our wiki yet, here's its URL: <http://iphoneaustindev.com/>. All information about this DevCamp is posted there (including these Attendee Updates). Please check that you are on the registered attendee list.

We are being hosted by the fine folks at Conjunctured. They are a new co-working facility in East Austin, 1309 E. 7th Street, Austin (2 blocks east of I-35).

Our initial agenda, as posted on the wiki, is: <http://iphoneaustindev.com/index.php/Austin_iPhoneDevCamp_2>.

  • Friday August 1:
    • probably starting 7pm:
    • Informal reception/mixer, in a downtown bar TBD but probably downtown (set the tone for the weekend)
  • Saturday August 2:
    • 10am until Conjunctured locks the place up
      • Some intro presentations (Objective-C, iPhone, 5,280' view of API)
      • Some intro presentations (Objective-C, iPhone, 5,280' view of API)
      • SF Video feed: Intros / "Keynote"(?) / hackathon pitches
      • BarCamp-style "unconference" - attendee share-and-learn.
      • iPhone hacking & Hack-a-thon projects (BYO-Mac)
  • Saturday August 3:
    • 10am until 2pm
      • More BarCamp-style "unconference"
      • Continued iPhone hacking & Hack-a-thon projects (BYO-Mac)
    • 2pm (?)
      • Demos of contest apps?
      • Deadline for submitting hacks for consideration for entry in SF contest.
    • 4pm (?)
      • SF Video feed: SF hackathon show - demos of their hacks
    • 7pm (?)
      • SF Video feed: Awards for hackathon entries.


One of our organizers has had some T-shirts, polos and hats made to commemorate the DevCamp. He will be selling them at his cost to manufacture. Please consider buying one or more of them.

As you can no doubt tell, your organizing committee is an informal group of volunteers for a non-existent shadow organization coordinated by iPhone Wi-Fi email. Please feel free to float ideas or suggestions to the team at: <iphonedevcamp-austin@DDG.com>. (Of course, in the best open source fashion, we will suggest that you take that issue and run with it.)

Finally, we're glad you're coming.


Andrew, Chris, David, Jim, Steve and Tom
iPhoneDevCamp-Austin Organizing Committee
iphonedevcamp-austin@DDG.com

César Torres and David Walker
Conjunctured.com

[edit] Attendee Update #2

Gentlefolk,

Things are proceeding apace. Your organizing committee is feeling very good about how the DevCamp is coming together.

DevCamp Agenda:

DevCamps, by their nature, are loosely scheduled affairs. And ours is no different. We are breaking our formal program into 2 tracks: Web Apps and Cocoa Apps. Tom Myer and Steve Stedman are going to lead discussions of using the iUI Web App library. Chris Cooley and myself are going to lead the Cocoa programming effort. Because we are mostly beginners on this platform and many of our attendees are beginners, we felt that this was a good level to pitch our presentations. (Chris Cooley and Jim Hillhouse both have some significant experience programming Cocoa and iPhone apps.) Because this is a DevCamp, feel free to wrest the floor away from our speakers for more in-depth discussions.

Cocoa Track (applies to both Cocoa and Cocoa Touch):

1) A step through Apple's Currency Converter tutorial. Bring your Mac and step though with me. (Donoho)
2) A guided discussion of drawing 2D in Cocoa. (Donoho)
3) More advanced app development discussion. (Cooley)
4) Free wheeling Cocoa question and, hopefully, answers session (Cooley and Hillhouse)

Web App Track:

1) Discussion of the iUI library. (Myer and Stedman)
2) Build a Web App Using iUI. (Myer and Stedman)

Logistics:

Through the generosity of Conjunctured, we are not charging admission. We will be providing drinks and breakfast tacos. To cover those expenses, we do request a modest contribution. Our "wild assed guess" is that it will cost upwards of $7.50 per attendee per day. We will be on the honor system.

Friday Night Pub Crawl:

Basically, we're all going to meet at Conjunctured at 7 PM and then walk 2 blocks to Nuevo Leon for drinks and, if you wish, dinner. Further pub destinations will be determined "on site".

Start Time:

We have to start sometime on Saturday and Sunday. We like to sleep in too so we've decided to open the doors at 10 AM. Unless you want to help us set up, don't be punctual.

NDA Club:

"The first rule of NDA Club is, you do not talk about NDA Club!"

There is a lot of discussion in the press and on mailing lists about Apple's NDA that covers the iPhone SDK (a.k.a. NDA Club). Our policy is simple: we assume that no one is covered under the NDA and we will restrict our formal discussions to tools and techniques available to the public. Many aspects of iPhone development are disclosed by Apple's introduction events/keynote presentations. We have links to videos of those presentations on our wiki. There is a great deal of good information on how to develop for the iPhone in those videos. I'll, personally, be reviewing those videos. That said, the DevCamp organizing committee is not the NDA Club police. How you interpret the NDA is up to you.

Summary:

We're all looking forward to the DevCamp. Its going to be a lot of fun.

Andrew, Chris, David, Jim, Steve and Tom
iPhoneDevCamp-Austin Organizing Committee
iphonedevcamp-austin@DDG.com
My iPhwn: (512) 750-7596. Call with any problems.

César Torres and David Walker
Conjunctured.com

P.S. In particular, Jim Hillhouse deserves a special thank you from all attendees. He has done the most work in setting this DevCamp up.

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