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360iDev 2011 – Session descriptions!

April 25, 2011 By 2 Comments

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!

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360iDev 2011 Schedule is almost done!

March 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment

We’re hard at work on the schedule. In fact the first draft is about half done. Once we get it filled, we’ll have a few folks take a look at it, then it’ll be posted!

As we’ve been going through the submissions we’ve noticed a few things about 360|iDev 2011:

  • Lots more developer content. In the past we’ve easily seen a more equal split between, design, development and business. But this time it’s easily 80% development topics. Not sure what that means, are more indies merging and so there’s less business topics of interest? Are indies doing well enough that there’s less interest in business topics and more in development?
  • A lot of newer speakers submitted topics. That’s awesome. There’s definitely the typical list of rock stars who’ve become staples of 360|iDev, but also a lot of newer folks. New to the community, or new to speaking.
  • As the call for papers opened and closed, tickets sold like hot cakes. We’re already about 1/3 sold out. That means in the next few months leading up to WWDC and then 360|iDev we expect this 360|iDev to sell out.
  • This 360|iDev will be heavily focused on developers, and the iOS community, so whether you made the WWDC cut or not, you’re not going to want to miss this (only one this year!) 360|iDev.

We ‘re handling the selection differently this time too. Since we had so many submissions (over 100) we decided to  try a bit more objective selection process.

 

We made two columns in the spreadsheet, and hid the name, email and twitterID of the submitter. The first round was based just on the title and description.

It was a simple 3 way vote. “Yes”, “No”, and “Maybe”

After that, we unhid the identifying information and went thru again, same 3 options. The “yes-yes” sessions are currently being dropped into the schedule. Then we’ll look to the “yes-maybe” and “Maybe-yes” sessions. Lastly if there’s room, the “Maybe-maybe” sessions.

 

We decided to try this option to be objective as possible and select sessions that were the most interesting based on just the subject matter.

 

So… all that said, we’re close to announcing the schedule and it’s the agenda of the week, so stay tuned!

In the meantime, register now! Save a few bucks!

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360iDev 2011 – Call For papers open!

February 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment

It’s that time! Got something you want to share with the iOS community? Here’s your chance! Submit a talk or three to 360|iDev 2011!

The submission window will be open until noon on March 4th. Don’t dilly dally. You can submit as many session ideas as you like. We prefer new fresh cutting edge stuff, no sloppy seconds from other events, etc.

Sometimes we select 2 topics from 1 speaker, so don’t worry about submitting just 1 or anything.

LASTLY. If you’re submitting a team presentation (that’d be you and 1 or more other folks) we can only provide 1 room per presentation, so you’ll have to share, or split the cost of the second room.

OK, go submit your topics!

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360iDev 2011 – Dates and Location Announcement!

February 7, 2011 By 1 Comment

See you in Denver, in September!

We’ve been working on finding the right place to hold 360|iDev here in Denver and think we found it. The Crowne Plaza Downtown. Yeah, DOWNTOWN.

We know the Austin location was not right downtown, so getting around was a cab or shuttle ride, and a kind of pain in the ass. SO we’re right downtown. 2 blocks off the 16th St Mall, tons or bars and restaurants, and lots to do!

We’ll be updating the Hotel page with details and the room booking link today or tomorrow, but the dates (September 11-14) and location (The Crowne Plaza Downtown) are 100% locked in!

What’s next?

  1. Hotel page. As soon as we have the booking information we’ll update the page. We got an awesome room rate for attendees, that INCLUDES in room internet!
  2. Call for papers (I’d suggest you check this site Wednesday morning, just sayin’)
  3. Creative junk! We’ll be coming up with the (actual) logo, sticker, etc so stay tuned, it’s gonna be sweet! Don’t think the shirts won’t rock this time!

What’s this mean to you?

Well mostly it means, if you didn’t buy the faithul ticket already, it’s gone. Sorry we told you, the moment we lock in the details that ticket goes away. Starting now, and for the next 3 weeks, the early bird ticket is on sale. This ticket will be the last chance to save some coin. If you’re not sure it’s gonna be worth it, ask around.

If you’re wondering why September, I’ll tell ya. We’re only doing 1 360|iDev this year. That’s it, just the one. We’ll be packing the awesome of 2 into 1 bad ass event. We’re waiting until after WWDC so that we can all talk about the awesome stuff we’re working on, that’s likely to be NDA until then. Plus early September in Denver is awesome. Great weather, great time of year.

See you in Denver!

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360iDev – From Game Jam to Appstore

August 31, 2010 By 1 Comment

The Game Jam, is a great time. It’s also an awesome place to create a game that will someday be up on the appstore. Case in point Star Fighter X2 By our pal Dan at Manic Gaming. This game started out life in the Game Jam, as a prototype. Now it’s in the app store!

The Game Jam started in Denver 2009, and we’ve continued it ever since. In San Jose 2010 The Touch Arcade Game Jam saw a ton of awesome games being worked on, developers collaborating, sharing their knowledge and skills, to help each other out.

The Game Jam brings together developers of all skill levels, to collaborate and build games or learn game theory. Many developers with little experience in game development use the Game Jam as a launch pad to quickly ramp up and leave the next morning with a firm understanding of Game Dev. Touch Arcade, our awesome sponsor in San Jose did several posts about the experience.

To take part in the Game Jam you have to be an attendee, register now!

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360iDev – So… 360|Mac?

May 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Interesting times, no?

It’s sad to see Wolf close up C4. Sad to see Apple basically snub it’s nose at the mac desktop crowd.

Makes me wonder if (I’ve entertained this thought a few times) there should be a 360|Mac? Aimed specifically at the desktop app builders, bringing the same great content (Maybe more/better parties) the iPhone community has come to expect.

Nothing is firm, this is more just my thinking out loud post. I do love Mac desktop apps, I do think it’s a bummer that Apple is focusing all of WWDC on the iPhone.

What do you think? Point your mac dev friends to this post. if there’s interest, let’s do it.

Remember, this fall. 360|iDev Austin.

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360iDev – In Pictures

February 11, 2010 By 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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360iDev – Volunteer to help out and get in free

February 8, 2010 By 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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360iDev – USB Drive materials

October 12, 2009 By 1 Comment

we’ve collected a few more presos, as always, it’s not all of them. :) Some speakers just never give ‘em up. If there’s something you want that’s not in the archive, harass the speaker :) we encourage it.

This archive is the entire thumbdrive, it’s 160mb. From now on what we’ll do is only provide the files that are new or changed since the conference started, but this time we didn’t plan on that, so you have to DL the entire package. Sorry about that.

Hope to see you in San Jose!! The Call for papers is going to open soon, and registration is open for those early birds that want to grab the lowest price possible!

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360idev – it’s a wrap

October 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I don’t even know where to begin, trying to wrap up the conference. David does a really great job of capturing why we do what we do, read it. It’s worth the read, but here’s a few of the many gems of why I love doing what I do.

We’ve raved on this blog about the speakers already, so I’ll wrap that up with, EVERY SINGLE ONE WAS AWESOME! That’s really all there is to say. Special thanks to David Whatley, not only did he agree to speak at the last minute, but also stepped up to moderate a frakkin’ awesome lunch time panel on “The App Store” that inspired us to make sure panels are a bigger priority in future schedules.

We had a really great time, Tom and I both agree, the 4 days of actual conference make up for the 5 months of looking for sponsors, selling tickets, dealing with hotels, etc. It’s so amazing to be with such an incredible brain trust, exchanging ideas, talking opening about troubles and successes in iPhone development.

So much cool stuff happened too, that the mind wobbles, whether it’s every attendee getting a Mobile Sketchbook, courtesy of Apress and Dean Kaplan, or Aurora Feint Releasing Open Feint 2.1.

Our official sponsor, Apress provided 30 some odd books for our raffle, and Ebags (Local Denver Company!) provided 5 backpacks as well. The raffle is our way of encouraging attendees to participate in session surveys, and it works. We had a ton of submissions and since each submission is an entry in the raffle, those who submitted for each session they attended had awesome odds, and it showed.

We also got to experience what will now be a full fledged feature of the conference. The Game Jam. Mad props to Noel for throwing it together. I admit I was little unsure whether 1 night was enough to roll out a game, even a rough one. Turns out it’s enough time to turn out several.

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