Many thanks to all those who presented this evening at the iPadDevCamp Hackathon!

I’ll write up with more detail tomorrow, but here is a quick list of the winners of various categories in tonight’s Hackathon:

• Coolest: Slot Machine
• Best Open Source: Media Shower
• Best Developer Tool: AQGridView
• Best Game: Tank Or Die
• Best Healthcare: Spot
• Best New Developer: Dice Pad
• Best Social: Un-bored Game
• Most Useful : Relay
• Best Web App: IuIPad

Sponsor Awards:

• Best use of PayPal APIs (sponsor PayPal): iConcessionStand
• Most Monetizable iPad App (sponsor MobClix): Airhawk
• Best Use of Web APIs (sponsor Apigee): NetFlix Authors
• Future of Publishing (sponsor Promote-a-Book): Autumn Gem

Special Awards:

• Accessability: Malen 21
• Retro: Boombox
• Most Alarming: P.A.D.

Honorable Mentions:

• Timelines
• DevScope
• Whack a Mouse
• Whorl’ed Champions
• Drift
• Design Scene
• Magic Window
• Executor

All entries for the Hackathon Show should be submitted to me by 1pm on Sunday. Please do not submit your entries twice, if you need to make a change contact me via Twitter @ChristopherA or via email at ChristopherA@iPhoneDevCamp.org. You can also see a list of current hackathon submissions. 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 were conceived and created at iPadDevCamp, and then those that the Judges think are “cool”. While you are waiting, help us rearrange the room for the Show.

Each satellite iPadDevCamp 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 or a YouTube link to ChristopherA@iPhoneDevCamp.org before 1:45pm PDT.

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!

Coding during iPhoneDevCamp 2007

One of the best parts of iPadDevCamp is participating in the Hackathon—you have a huge opportunity to learn and grow your skills, get into the groove and flow of high performance development, and network with future colleagues that may help you solve technical challenges for years to come.

Join a Team, or Start One?

But for best results, be prepared. You should know if you plan on joining a team, or if you are going to try to recruit one. If you plan on joining a team, you should be able what skills you have to offer, or what skills you wish to stretch. If you are going to try to recruit a team, you should be able to articulate your ideas well, and know what skills you are looking for.

And of course you should be flexible—your great idea may not appeal enough to recruit a team this time, but maybe you can join another project where you can learn how to do your own project later. Don’t plan to work alone—the best part of the Hackathon is working with others as passionate as you are about the iPad.

Matchmaking and Concierge

If you need help forming a team, or finding one to join, I am here to help. I’ll be in the commons area starting Friday evening and during most of the conference, and I will help you find the people you need. As the teams emerge and everyone has found a place, I will also be acting as concierge to help you find solutions to problems that you encounter. Need someone who knows spherical trigonometry to make your app work? Let me help you find them.

The Hackathon Show and Contest

The deadline for the Hackathon Show and Contest on Sunday afternoon. However, your entry 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 iPad App doesn’t have to be perfect, just be enough that other people can learn from it!

Prize Eligibility

Your Hackathon entries may be eligible for prizes if they demonstrate our ideals of Contribution, Sharing, Openess, and “Can Do” attitude. The complete rules for prizes are on the Contest page. But in summary, your submitted iPad 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. Web Apps are always eligible. In addition, please do not submit iPhone-only or Jailbroken apps for the Hackathon.

Entry Deadline 1pm

All entries for the Hackathon Show should be submitted to me by 1pm on Sunday. Please do not submit your entries twice, if you need to make a change contact me via Twitter @ChristopherA or via email at ChristopherA@iPhoneDevCamp.org. You can also see a list of current hackathon submissions. 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 were conceived and created at iPadDevCamp, and then those that the Judges think are “cool”. While you are waiting, help us rearrange the room for the Show.

Each satellite iPadDevCamp 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 or a YouTube link to ChristopherA@iPhoneDevCamp.org before 1:45pm PDT.

The Hackathon Show 2pm

The Hackathon Show will begin at 2pm. 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 iPad Simulator to demonstrate your App. Demos from iPadDevCamp satellites should be an ~3 minute video file.

We look forward to seeing your apps!

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!