2010 February

360iDev – Wiki

February 26, 2010 By John Leave a Comment

If you saw the announcement of BOF sessions, you know we have a wiki we use for the ad hoc stuff around the conference.

We updated the wiki for one more bit of ad hoc. Activities.

If you’re planning a trip to the mothership or hitting a specific bar one night, or a movie on Wednesday or lunch on Saturday before the conference, whatever. Post it on the activities page of the wiki.

This way folks looking for the fun, can find it easily ;) It truly does suck to have to hunt for fun :)

On the main page of the wiki is also a few links for hotel searches in the area. If you missed the room block, shame on you, but we don’t want ya sleepin’ on the street, so check those links for other options.

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360iDev – Birds of a Feather sessions

February 24, 2010 By John Leave a Comment

For those that don’t know what a Birds Of a Feather session is, it’s basically an ad hoc session organized by attendees or speakers, or anyone really for that matter (sorry can’t walk in off the street, gotta at least be an attendee).

Maybe it’s a Sci fi meetup or how to best create app icons, or a round table chat about the benefits of core data… whatever you want, literally. We’ve got a wiki set up with a BOFs page.

Simply go edit the page with your topic and your name. Then promote it of course. Once the listing is populated we’ll make noise too.

BOFs will take place from about 6:30 – 7:30. There’s time to enjoy the appetizers and beer and Rockband, then hop into a BOF, before heading to points unknown for the rest of the evening :)

It’s not too late to register, 360|iDev is coming up fast, don’t miss the most awesome collection of community awesomeness in one place, register now!

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360iDev – Recorded Speaker Chats

February 18, 2010 By John 5 Comments

If you haven’t been able to join us for the last few speaker chats, you’re missing out. They’re great sources of information and a great way to get to know the speakers before 360|iDev.

Take a listen/watch.

Collin Donnell

Mike Berg

Nathan Eror

We’ve got plenty of chats still to come, so don’t miss out!

Make sure you register for 360|iDev before the next price point! Save some money! Register now!

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360iDev – Publishers, books, authors oh my.

February 17, 2010 By John 1 Comment

We haven’t really made much noise about this, but thought it was time to do so. We’ve got some awesome friends in publishing! What other event will you have O’Reilly, Manning, and Apress raffling books, giving away goodies, etc. Where else will so many authors of so many books be under on roof?

I think it’s a testament to the awesomeness of the iPhone developer community that so many publishers are

1. publishing iPhone books, and

2. coming together to support an event that brings the community together.

360|iDev isn’t owned, or financially supported by any publishing companies or anything like that, we don’t favor one company’s authors over another. That’s how it should be, and our publishing partners seem to agree.

W hope that our relationship with these awesome companies grows stronger as we do more events with them!

At 360|iDev we’ll have books and authors from these great publishers

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360iDev speaker chat – Brian Robbins!

February 16, 2010 By John Leave a Comment

Join us today at 12pm MST for a fun chat with speaker, Brian Robbins.

Ask him about starting his own Indie Game company, about game creation, etc. Whatever you like.

These speaker chats are a great way to get to know our speakers before 360|iDev!

Bookmark this link

See you later today!

Haven’t registered yet for 360|iDev? You’re missing out. Whether you’re a game developer, app developer, iPhone related business owner, or just someone who likes the iPhone and iPad (yeah we’ll definitely we talking about the iPad), there’s no better place to meet people in your field than 360|iDev! Register now!

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360iDev Speaker apps highlighted

February 12, 2010 By John Leave a Comment

We’re just starting this initiative, so keep an eye on the apps page for frequent updates.

I’ll admit, this idea wasn’t ours, but we love it. We tell you often how incredible our speakers are, and their bios typically tell you about some of the apps they’ve built, but not always.

So from now on, and going back retroactively, we’re going to maintain a 360|iDev speaker apps page. We’ll organize it by last name, and indicate under the speakers name their “Class” ie. San Jose 2009, Denver 2009, San Jose 2010, etc. so the page will grow. It’ll be a place where attendees can see the calibre of our speakers, and hopefully a place our speakers can get a bit more exposure for their apps. We’ll display the app icon, name, and link to iTunes.

Hopefully this will help attendees and potential attendees (and even sponsors) realize the awesomeness of our speakers. They’re pros! and deserve as much recognition as we can give them!

Check it out.

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360iDev – In Pictures

February 11, 2010 By John Leave a Comment

I posted about what you do and don’t get, and we’ve done more posts than I can count on the overall vibe, and the parties etc. So I wanted to take a minute to just post some pictures of the past 360|iDev events. I grabbed these off of flickr. The technical content you get at 360|iDev is beyond compare, truly, feel free to ask anyone who’s attended, but that’s just part of the story. The rest is the community of iPhone developers geeking out, sharing stories, code, forming companies, finding work, etc.

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What you won’t see or get at 360iDev

February 9, 2010 By John 2 Comments

It occurred to me, that it might be a good idea to make it clear what does/doesn’t happen at 360|iDev for those who might not know.

There are little to no marketing sessions. When we have sponsored sessions, we try to make that as clear as possible, so you know what you’re getting.
There is not a speaker green room. You’ll have the same access to speakers as anyone else. They’re hanging out, attending sessions etc. No Pre modonnas here (aside from Wiskus LOL), and if there are, they still can’t hide.
There are speakers who want to be there. Our speakers aren’t paid to be there (well, we do cover hotel room, but that’s it). We don’t invite celebrities or treat one speaker better than the rest, etc. If they’re on the schedule it’s because their topic was awesome, and they wanted to present it.
There is not such a large group of people that you feel like a tiny fish in a big massive pond.
There is no WebOS, or Android. I’m sure they’re great, we don’t hate those technologies, but they have no place at a conference for iPhone Developers
There are no private parties that you’re not welcome to attend. There’s 1 party each night, everyone is welcome!
There are 40 sessions focusing on iPhone OS development. (i.e. iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad. That’s it, no Mac desktop development, nothing else)
There are no extra fees to attend. Sunday Hands-on Training – Free to all attendees. Parties at night – included in the price (actually sponsored)

If you haven’t registered for 360|iDev, you’re missing out. This is a quote from past speaker Jake Behrens, “@360iDev Thank you! The conference put my life in a direction I never imagined I’d be in. You rock!”

That’s high praise and exactly what we’re trying to do. We want to be an event where great things can and do happen, and we think we do a pretty good job of that :)

Filed Under: Announcements, Community, Geeking Out, Hands-On, Pricing, Reasons to Come, San Jose Tagged With: 360|iDev pricing, awesome, Community, Game Development, Hands-On training, Hurry Up, San Jose

360iDev Speaker Chat – Collin Donnell

February 8, 2010 By John Leave a Comment

Join us tomorrow for the next 360|iDev speaker chat. Collin Donnell is a 360|iDev Alum, having presented at all three conferences so far (Including San Jose ’10)

Tomorrow you’ll be able to ask Collin anything you like. He’s got plenty to share, you can also ask him the going exchange rate for pizza’s to freelance pay :D

Bookmark this link, tomorrow 12pm Mountain Time.

If you haven’t registered for 360|iDev, you’re missing out. We’ll be talking about things, that will be huge in 6 months. And of course if iPad development interests you, well we’re probably the first conference that will have hands-on the device and sessions geared towards this new exciting device. Use this link to register, help Collin get an awesome room at the Marriott

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360iDev – Volunteer to help out and get in free

February 8, 2010 By John 2 Comments

We realize that the economy still a little suck-tastic. As you may know we try to keep our events as cost effective as possible, 40 sessions, Sunday hands on. Hotel block pricing to help lower the cost of staying near the event, etc.

Sometimes it’s not enough, we get that. Back in September we experimented with having volunteers. We’ve had temps at past events (360|Flex San Jose ’07 and Seattle) and while that works ok, we tried to reduce the need, because that helped keep our costs low.

BUT

We’ve realized, time and again that we still need manpower at certain points, and in fact we’re planning to increase our need (More on that later).

Registration is a bottleneck, whether it’s just Tom and I, or my wife Nicole, or anyone else who pities us in our time of greatest need.

SO…

We’d like to open the call for volunteers. Obviously locals are preferred but anyone is welcome to apply. It’s simple, we need about 8-10 volunteers. In exchange for a few hours a day of time, you get a free pass to the conference and when we don’t need you, you’re free to attend sessions etc. We can’t cover hotel/airfare etc. Just admission to the event.

If the price to get in the door is outside your budget for whatever reason, this might be the perfect opportunity for you.

Here’s what you need to do.

Email us at info (AT) 360idev (Dot) com

We need:

Your Name

Why you’d like to volunteer

Your background in iPhone development

That’s about it :) You need to be able to commit to Sunday thru Wednesday and be at Ebay by 7:30am each day.

Our needs aren’t over the top or anything. We need help making the badge pickup/registration process faster. We hate having to delay the keynote in order to hand things out, etc.

We’re hoping to get some sort of basic videography set up for each room. As volunteer you’ll be in charge of starting and stopping the recording for that room, and telling the speaker when he/she has 10 and 5 minutes left. That’s it. After each session, you’ll have to bring the camera to us to offload the video, that’s it.

We’ve got a schedule worked out, so no one will be working all day every day.

We’ll be making volunteer selections the week of March 15th. Spread the word, the submission window isn’t open long!

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