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:

• 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.

Join me, Dom Sagolla, and the world’s toughest programmer Mike Lee as we team up with the original Joe Pezzillo in Amsterdam’s Westergasfabriek on March 7th and 8th, as a part of iCE Amsterdam.

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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!

Many thanks to all those who participated in this weekend’s Hackathon at iOSDevCamp 2010.

As always, we wish to reward those who demonstrate our values of:

• Contribution: by assisting the commons, offering value, and in general by being useful.
• Sharing: by offering help, sharing code or expertise, or by assistance in testing or debugging.
• Openness: by asking good questions, by answering them, by being open to people and ideas, and by making source code available.
• And of course, by demonstrating a “Can Do” attitude.

55 Hackathon teams competed on Sunday afternoon, many of whom had never met before the previous Friday evening. The winners are:

• Coolest App: SuperRover “Want to control a Lego Mindstorm NXT rover with an iPad over bluetooth? There’s an app for that!”, by Zac B, Charles D., Max W. and Jonathan R. Honorable Mention: Optical Cabinet by Andrew Pouliot and Brian Chapados.
• Best use of PayPal API: PayFace “PayFace is an app that uses facial recognition to pay anyone who has a PayPal account”, by David Bello. Honorable Mention: PayKids by Eli Stone, Andrew Stone and Ollie Wagner
• Most Innovative: iEurope “iPad Europe travel app for children. It’s a 360 panorama of different countries with music/sound changing as a different country appears in the app”, by Amy Wang, Ivan Torres, Scotty Allen and Daniel Pasco.
• Most Useful App: Coverage? “Got Signal?  Coverage? is a universal cell phone carrier map browser – overlaying AT&T, Sprint and Verizon coverage maps”, by Chris Dunphy & Cherie Ve Ard. Honorable Mention: iRecoveryWatch by Mike Sax, Dantha Manikka-Baduge, Muthu Nat, Consuelo Griego, John Varghese and Hoa Long Tam
• Most Monetizable: LexStudio . “Produce a live event, send streaming video to a wide audience and switch between multiple video inputs, all from an iPhone”, by Alex Bratton, Zach Ullevig, Matthew Knippen and Joe Carroll (all from LexTech).
• Most Accessible: Accessible TableView Library “Open source library to make table-view apps more accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired” by Michael Patrick Ellard.
• Best Hardware Hack: Geesel “Easel for the iPad, with articulating arm on a stainless steel axel which adjusts easily to your preferred viewing angle” by Michael Madson.
• Best Game: DIODE, “An ah-mazing game for iPad” by John Ellenich and David Liu. Honorable Mention: xTanks by Eddie Chen and Todd Powers.
• Best Social App: SocialPong, “Crowd-sourced classic Pong on the iPad — use your iPhone or any web-based device to help change the speed and direction of your team’s paddle!” by Anna Billstrom and Stacie Hibino.
• Best User Interface: HabiTimer, “Unique interface for local notifications that trigger flexibly throughout the day. Use for medications, diet, work break reminders…” by Robert McNally.
• Best Open Source: DragKit “DragKit is an opensource framework to help developers implement drag and drop within their app. DragKit also allows for drag and drop between applications that implement the framework” by Zac White, Barry Burton and Andy Mai. (source)
• Best Developer Tool: Bugaboo “Bugaboo is tool for debugging web apps on iOS devices”, by Ishan Anand.
• Best Upcoming Developer: Unreal Model Viewer “Loads Unreal Engine Model files and displays the animation loops for each of the characters/monsters”, by Andrew Dudney (and his father Bill Dudney).
• Best use of Web APIs: Flickr Photo Map, “Explore the world through Flickr photos.  Drill down to any location, filter by tags and usernames, explore your world”, by Tyler White. Honorable Mention: CoverCake by Sujee Maniyam.
• Best Web App: FlicPic, “An app for viewing photos from Twitter on the iPad.  Uses iUI and CSS transitions to create a compelling user experience”, by Mike Xu, Isaiah Carew, Joshua Mauldin, Nicole Lazzaro, Sean Gilligan, James Harris and Erik Bryn. Honorable Mention: PhotoPic, by Adam Tow.
• Ironman Award for Most Helpful Developer: Max Weisel, who contributed to many different projects and also demonstrated the amazing USB Sync.
• Best Sacrifice to the Demo Gods (or “Even Steve Jobs sometimes can’t make the wifi work”): Audio Tunes by Thiago Jackiw, Andrew Prasetyo, Jon Bardin.

Many thanks to the sponsors for many of the awards, including:

• Paypal
• Mobclix
• Apigee
• and many more smaller prizes were donated by our other sponsors.

The iOSDevCamp team also wishes to thank all the other teams that demonstrated their creativity and innovation: PintuPower, BeatSquare, DIYBuddy, AppCinema, ParkU, Spanish Touch Trainer, Lightning Sale, JiraPad, LiveTrip, PanicAlarm, TweetWall, iScavengerHunt, Wrapping Scroll View, iTranslator, Audiolizer, iPhoneDisassembly, iCharger, Telephone Game, Footie Fingers, iSpeak, Transom, What’s Happening Now, Kitchen Elf, Howl-o-gram, Actors for Netflix v2, Musicians Teleprompter, Intersect, Styletto, SugarRace, PromoCodesEX, LightStalking Library, Best Remote, iPhod and Griddler.

(If you have any corrections to info or links above, please contact me at ChristopherA@iPhoneDevCamp.org.)

Day one of iOSDevCamp is wrapping up, but the fun doesn’t have to end! Here are some of the highlights of the night that we streamed and recorded on video.

Dom, Raven and Christopher opened up iOSDevCamp with the general info, and even a surprise visit from the CTO of PayPal!

You can also check out the interview we did with PayPal’s CTO Scott Guilfoyle when he showed up at the event.

Once everyone got hacking, we had some talks in the Fireside rooms at PayPal HQ, including a pitch session hosted by Andrew Stone.

Even PayPal’s Chief Architect, Edwin Aoki, gave a talk about the App Store process for developers.

Be sure to tune into the livestream tomorrow for more talks!

The fun has already kicked off at iOSDevCamp here at PayPal HQ, but for everyone who’s not able to make it, we’re going to be streaming video live this entire weekend powered by Ustream. To tune in, check out the video below, or go to the “Live” page and watch live.