A 360|Conferences event
Having trouble with your code? Maybe need some design feedback?
This year we’re launching the 360|iDev labs. Labs work like at WWDC and other events, our awesome speakers have agreed to hang out in the new lab area and help our attendees.
The lab schedule is below the regular schedule. Take a look.
We left a few spots open for drop in lab help.
We how the labs will be a great way for the community to grow and he each other.
Show your love and support of 360|iDev with our (mostly) new badges. Got a blog, these fit real nice like in a sidebar :) No blog, scale ‘em down as a twitter avatar.
Let everyone know you’ll be at the only iOS developer conference created for the iOS developer community. Oh and of course, the only one with over 50 sessions, 40 speakers, and free hands-on training :)
Just save-as and away you go!
Well another WWDC has come and gone, my liver survived, mostly. Hope yours did :)
As always WWDC is a week of crazy parties, sessions, more parties, sessions, a beer bash, and a few more parties. And thrown in in-between, meeting new folks, and re-meeting folks you already know.
Of course the nights were packed with parties, some open to all, others not so much. I can’t say what those parties are like, but this post seems to sum up who was at those parties and what they were like. I attended awesome parties aimed at developers and open to all, like the really really fun push.io party! and others by folks like Mobclix, iPhone Alliance, SFMacIndie, and more. WWDC Parties are a ton of fun, and a valuable experience in and of themselves, I wish I had more of me to attend the ones I missed!
This year like last, i opted to not buy a WWDC ticket and simply attend parties and be around all week. I don’t write much code now, so why take a ticket from a dev who really wants to be there for sessions? Didn’t make much sense.
Being outside also gave me time to hide USB drives around for our annual (3rd annual if you can believe that!) WWDC USBHunt. All but 1 drive was found/claimed. The last drive was found or at least moved, but not claimed. Seems to happen to 1 drive a year. Odd.
Other than the missing drive, the USBHunt was a huge hit, no drive was in the wild for more than about 30 minutes, not bad! Having $600 worth of software from awesome indie devs doesn’t hurt one bit! Congrats to everyone who found the drive, and hope to see you in September!
I’ve got to come up with something bigger for next year!
If you haven’t booked your trip to denver this September you should probably get on it. We’re still about 4ish months out, but have already sold more than 50% of our tickets. This is shaping up to be the biggest 360|iDev ever.
Well WWDC is just around the corner… like literally, it’s next week! There’s lots of 360|iDev goodness to be had if you’re around SF. If you haven’t bought your ticket, stop by and find me (usually at the starbucks next to Moscone) for a 30% discount ticket!
I’ll also have lots and lots of moo cards, with 15% off codes on them if you aren’t able to register right there on the spot with me. Sorry to get the 30% you gotta buy it right there during WWDC.
So what can you expect to find on the drive if you find one? Well thanks to our pals Double Encore we’ve got 5 shiny silver USB drives that we’ll be hiding. When you find one, come trade it in for a 2gb Santa Bot. We were gonna hide Santa bot, but were worried they’d be too easy to spot, and we’d find them in the clutches of San Francisco hobos not Apple Developers :) SO find the Silver, come claim Santa Bot :)
So what’s gonna be on Santa Bot? Lots!
Each one will have a free pass code for 360|iDev 2011 (Value: $599)
Thanks to the awesome and supportive indie iOS dev community, we’ve got a ton of app promo codes available, and some some free eBook codes. (Value: $188)
Check out what we’ve got in store (so far).
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Terminology (and Terminology Ph) (iTunes Link) | |
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Stereomatic (iTunes Link) | |
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News Anchor (Mac App Store Link) | |
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Cloud Pull (Mac App Store Link) | |
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ScoutTrail (iTunes Link) | |
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Lock Screen V2 (iTunes Link) | |
| Flashlight (iTunes Link) | ||
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Funeral Notebook (iTunes Link) | |
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Clock Radio (iTunes Link) | |
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Onetime (iTunes Link) | |
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Geronimo (iTunes Link) | |
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Calc 12c (iTunes Link) | |
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Wild Fables (iTunes Link) | |
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myLight (iTunes Link) | |
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Monkey Business (iTunes Link) | |
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Code for 1 free eBook | |
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Inner Ear (iTunes Link) | |
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Swivel (iTunes Link) | |
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Property Evaluator (iTunes and Mac App Store) | |
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Galcon for iPhone and iPad (iTunes Link) | |
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FoodCombo (iTunes Link) | |
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Plane Finder HD (iTunes Link) | |
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Objectify (Mac App Store) | |
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Disc Golf Scorekeeper (iTunes Link) | |
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Mathemagics (iTunes Link) | |
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Equalizer (iTunes Link) | |
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The Bond Mixology (iTunes Link) | |
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Colorflys HD (iTunes Link) | |
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Photo Lapse (iTunes link) | |
Of course it’s on! I’ve been a bit pre-occupied with getting 360|iDev going, so this is a late start, but it’s definitely happening!
Going to WWDC this year? I’ll be hiding a few (Probably 4) USB drives packed with promo codes (Devs, if you have some codes you’d like to share, see below) and a free pass code to 360|iDev 2011 this September.
Last year all but one drive were found and claimed. I think a hobo picked up the missing one. We’ve done this a few years now, and it’s always fun, and there’s always a great turn out of folks trying to find the drives.
I’m trying to think up a few more things to put on the drive to make it even more interesting, but more on that later.
Supporting Indie Devs
Every year we do the scavenger hunt, we ask the indie dev community to throw in some promo codes. Not only does it make finding the drives a bit more interesting, but it helps give a little promotional boost to indie devs, which is a huge thing for us, we want to help in any way we can with getting the indie community more exposed. If you’ve got an app in the app store and want to contribute a few codes, let us know. The more the better. Just before WWDC we do a post outlining what’s on the drives, so it’s a great bit of exposure.
Do you go to a local cocoaheads meetup? If not you should, they’re a great way to meet up with other developers. Maybe in your neck of the woods it’s NSCoderNight, or come other variation, but if you’re not meeting up with and sharing a drink (beer, soda, even water if that’s your thing) and talking about code, you should be.
As if hanging out with other devs wasn’t enough, you also have a chance at winning a free pass to 360|iDev 2011. We’re more than happy to offer all cocoaheads and other user group type meetups two passes to 360|iDev 2011. All we need is an email from the organizer with what city the group is in.
If your group hasn’t done this, email us and we’ll get you set up. All we ask in turn is help spread the word about how awesome 360|iDev is. There’s always a catch, and as far as catches go, that’s not too bad, right?
Don’t miss out, get your cocoaheads meeting hooked up with 2 passes to give away, raffle, sell at auction, whatever. Of course we also have a 15% discount for all other members to use if they want.
We’ll see you in September!
Why do we want volunteers?
Obviously having free workers are a bonus, but one of our main reasons for having volunteers is to provide a way for those that absolutely cannot afford the conference to be able to have a way to join us!
Give us your new graduates, those that were laid off, and those without 2 nickels to rub together!
We feel that having volunteers from the community, is better than giving away free tickets for nothing. Why not help support the community by working the registration desk or helping film sessions?
The point behind 360 conferences is to have an affordable event that the majority of people can come to!
The ability to need and have volunteers helps make that desired outcome of affordability even more possible for even more people to come! Plus it’s a great way to help out community members who need it.
If you just want to save a few bucks you don’t necessarily fit the bill. Think of those less fortunate than you! We’re is always tossing out discount codes, watch the blog and the twitter account!
What do I need to do if I’m a volunteer?
We need everyone to stay in the hotel – due to complication with other volunteers at other conferences, we can’t risk traffic, over sleeping etc… Chat with us if this is an issue.
What do you get to do?
We really want you to get something out of the conference! We want you to have fun and learn a ton!
If you think you can hack it – apply by emailing us with all the information below. (info AT 360idev DOT com)
Name:
Email:
Local: Y/N
Phone Number:
Where are you in iOS development? (apps in the store? Just learning? etc)
Reason for wanting to be a volunteer:
Availability Sat?
Availability Sun?
I slaved away all easter weekend to create this… ok no I didn’t :) But I’m no less happy to give everyone a nice big document to read and highlight. Ok maybe not highlight, but you can do that in preview!
Any how, you’ve seen the schedule, now you’re wondering what those titles mean? Should you go to “Networking and Web Services with iOS” or “Put a bird on it: Prettifying User Interfaces with Core Graphics and UIKit”? Now you can read the description of the sessions and get a better picture of how awesome this line up is.
Download the session description PDF here.
Don’t miss out. This is the only 360|iDev this year, and it will sell out! Register now!
So we’ve gotten a ton of great comments on the post yesterday about the iOS community Magazine idea.
I’ve created this form for those who’re interested to sign up for updates.
Here’s what it’s looking like right now.
What we need
We need someone or 2-3 someone’s who can build an iOS (and possibly Mac Desktop) app that will house this venture. I know this is a volunteer effort, but the ideal solution is someone who can knock this out and be done, and not spend 4 months plodding a long. The sooner we’re live the better for all :)
Ideally it’d be able to pull in content, and not require a monthly submission to Apple to and hopeful approval. If there’s to be a web component, I’d like them to share the content.
Writers to start writing :) I’d love to have a first issue mostly ready to go by the time an app is finished.
Of course everyone involved will get credit, and when a subscription model works out, free subscriptions :)
Yeah there’s some print stuff, but really. Print IS dead. At least for magazines.
This idea started as a joke, about a way to build an email database for conferences, but the response was really surprising. Then it got me thinking. There actually isn’t (that I know of) a magainze (online or off) dedicated to the iOS developer community.
There’s awesome blog projects like iDevBlogADay that we have no interest in competing with, and really wouldn’t since the goal is different. BUT there’s no single place to get top quality articles ON and ABOUT development. That’s (it seems) about to change!
So consider this our formal announcement of intent (whatever the hell that means). As we work on 360|iDev 2011 (which you should definitely attend!!) we’re gonna start working on this new idea. There’s a few things to iron out but below are the details we’ve got.
That’s it for now. Leave a comment with your idea for a name, and if you’re interested in contributing, email us at info AT 360idev DOT com.
We’re looking to get this bad boy launched ahead of 360|iDev 2011, so if you’d like to help get it off the ground, we’d love your voice to be a part of it!
