Hack and they shall come! (Seattle Mobile App Hackathon Apr 16 2011)
Are you a Hacker? Interested in HTML5/Javascript Mobile based apps, or even looking to transcend beyond that? Located in the Seattle area (or want to travel to this OMG event?!) Then look no further! This event is nearly SOLD OUT! So it is best to act now!
So what is this exactly?! I’ll steal little snippets from the official site and registration site!
Mobile App Hackathon (@mobilehackathon) is a hacker event for new and experienced developers working on mobile apps. Experienced coders can show off their mobile apps while new app developers will learn from the best.
The hackathon is the first in a series of mobile development events brought to you by the AT&T Developer Program and will include talks from members of the PhoneGap and AppMobi platform teams, Sencha and Apigee. You won’t want to miss this opportunity to show off your app or learn how to create great ones.
To keep up-to-date on AT&T Developer Events, please sign-up with the program here.
Wow, that sounds pretty cool right? At a high level it can be summed up as:
Hacking. Mobile. Good food. Awesome prizes.
Yea, but let’s not over-simplify things, I know you verbose types want to know some of the HARD details! Like…
Presenters!
| Jesse MacFayden | Joe Monastiero | Sam Ramji | Jeff Barr | James Pearce |
| PhoneGap | AppMobi | Apigee | Amazon | Sencha |
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| Jesse MacFadyen is a senior software engineer at Nitobi, specializing in presentation layer programming for Rich Internet applications. Jesse has developed large scale applications in PhoneGap, JavaScript, Flash/Flex/Air, .net, and Silverlight. As a major contributor to the PhoneGap open-source project, he is passionate about bringing device level functionality to multiple mobile devices through simple web-tech APIs. Jesse has also created the open source project GloveBox to enable the use of fixed positioning and touch scrolling on iOS + Android devices Click here for Jesse’s Blog |
Joe Monastiero is co-founder and vice president of business development for AppMobi, bringing with him 20 years of management experience. Prior to AppMobi, he co-founded Intervideo, where he was responsible for sales, marketing and business development activities and helped drive over $30M in software revenue in three years. | Sam’s spent over 15 years working across enterprise software, product development and open source strategy. Currently VP of strategy at Apigee & board member at the CodePlex Foundation, Sam works deeply within the developer, open source and social app communities to create a healthier, more productive ecosystem. Prior to Apigee, Sam led open source strategy across Microsoft and was a founding member of the AquaLogic product team at BEA. In his spare time, Sam enjoys the great outdoors, spending time with the kids, and bacon. | Jeff Barr is a senior web services evangelist for Amazon Web Services. Jeff is focused on furthering awareness among software developers of the opportunity to innovate and build businesses using Amazon Web Services. In this role, Jeff travels, speaks, blogs, and conducts virtual events. | James is a technologist, writer, developer & entrepreneur who has been working with the mobile web for over a decade. He is Senior Director of Developer Relations at Sencha. Previously he was the CTO at dotMobi and has a background in mobile startups, telecoms infrastructure and management consultancy. He speaks extensively on the topic of mobile web development, and has written books for both Wiley and Wrox. |
As you can tell, that’s very possibly a major Formatting Fail.. but that’s okay – It definitely gives you the gist of things :) But by now I’m sure you know, few things are more important than.. the Agenda!
Agenda!!!
| 9:00AM | Registration and Breakfast + Networking |
| 9:30AM | Dev Environment Setup Help |
| 10:00AM | Kick-Off – Platform Lightning Talks |
| 11:00AM | Lunch is Served!!! |
| 12:00PM | Coding Starts |
| 6:00PM | App Submission Deadline |
| 6:30PM | App Demos |
| 7:15PM | Content Winners Announced |
| 7:30PM | Drinks! |
And let’s not forget, after the Hack-A-Thon is over, everyone will demo what was worked on, gather feedback and hand out prizes for audience favorites!
Whoa! This sounds cool! So where do I sign up?!?!
I don’t think it can be any clearer than that, right! Hooray! But I guess it may be important to have the rest of the details in one place:
- When:
- Saturday, April 16, 2011 from 9:00 AM – 7:30 PM (PT)
- Where:
- F5 Offices
401 Elliott Avenue West
Seattle, WA 98119 - Who:
- Hackers, Mobile App, Developers, Ninjas, Gurus
- Why:
- Because it rocks! And you’ll enjoy it! (Oh, and did someone say NETWORKING?!??! :))
- Where do I sign up?
Well, there it is, the whole scoop and ready for you to rock this out! I hope you get in a slot before it fills up! Enjoy it, it’ll be a blast!
