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Date
Aug 8th, 2009
Time
Doors open at 8am
Event begins at 9am
Location
We outgrew our previous space at the Sprint Campus!
"The Loft" @ Screenland Theater
408 Armour Rd,
North Kansas City, MO
The space is only about 5 minutes from downtown if you are not familiar with the area. Inside, it is huge, so it will easily be able to accommodate our group. The entrance is to the left of the lobby (I think it's actually 403 Armour rd?), take the stairs up and the loft is on your left. We'll be sure to have signs.
Cost
Free!
Registration
If you haven't registered yet, please do so here
Agenda
This is just a rough outline of the day
8am: Doors open
9am-11am: InstallFest
11am-4pm: HackFest (Application building, sessions, workshops)
4pm-5pm: DemoFest (and prizes)
We’re going to kick off the day starting by opening the doors at 8am, socializing, and eating some breakfast. Then, beginning at about 9am we’ll be using the main presentation area for a few sessions to ensure everyone becomes familiar with WebOS and gets the SDK installed. To make this process as smooth as possible, we encourage everyone attending to install the SDK and the Pre emulator beforehand. It’s free, simple, and you can find instructions at http://developer.palm.com/.
Once everyone is up & running, we’ll encourage people to break off into groups, build some apps, and present sessions on specific topics. If you have any app ideas and need additional developers, the main presentation area will be available to pitch your ideas to recruit others.
Towards the end of the day, we’ll have some time blocked off for groups and individuals to demo their apps to everyone.
Sessions
We need volunteers to lead various workshops & presentations. If you are interested in leading a session, please add it here or claim one that is nameless.
Taken
- SDK Installation & Eclipse Overview: William Clausen
- jQuery overview: Derek Gathright
- Mojo storage: Kevin Williams
- Community resources: Rick Boatright
- Porting Javascript Applications to WebOS: Rick Boatright (Would appreciate co-mods)
- Overview of Git / Version control software: Mike Gaffney
- Making your app sticky: Barbara Ballard
- Editing PNG graphics for your Pre UI elements in Fireworks CS4: Buck Sommerkamp
- Using Pre's gestures in your app: Barbara Ballard
Needing presenter/moderators
- Prototype overview
- Model-View-Controller:
- Pre rooting/hacking:
- "Best of" Homebrew apps:
- HTML5 overview & features:
- Eclipse Debugging:
- Javascript variable scopes:
- [your idea here]: [your name here]
What should I bring?
- A laptop
- A Pre, if you have one. For those that don't, Palm provides a Pre emulator in the SDK.
- Any routers, hubs, ethernet cables, power strips, etc… that you have lying around
- Writing implement
- Notebook (paper)
- Notecards
- Post-its
Coffee/Breakfast/Snacks/Lunch
- We will have coffee all day long (Thanks Scooters!)
- Pollenware is pitching in for breakfast snacks
- Little Springs Design is buying lunch
Miscellaneous Notes
- The event space does have wireless internet, but when a large amount of people all try to download a hefty SDK pack all at the same time, you never know what to expect. As a backup, we’ll have CDs and thumbdrives available with all the tools neccesary to the SDK & emulator installed.
- Networking - They have Wifi, but are unsure if it can handle 75 people hammering it all at once. Luckily there is an ethernet port we can tap into for additional wired connections and wireless routers. So whatever networking equipment you have lying around the house (wireless routers, hubs, ethernet cable, etc…), bring it as it may become useful.
- Coffee - We have coffee paid for and ready to be picked up, only problem is I live downtown and the coffee is at Scooters @ College & Antioch. So, with this many people, I'd imagine someone has to live near there. Shoot me an email if you can pick it up. DONE
- Projector - We have 3 4 projectors, but only 1 screen. So if anyone has another screen, please let me know. It will be useful for having multiple sessions going on at the same time. DONE!
- Snacks - I don't have a Costco/Sams card, but we have $75 to spend for breakfast & snacks (Thanks Pollenware!). If someone wants to go shopping for this stuff, I'll have cash to reimburse you. Let me know. DONE
- Whiteboards — if you're the sort of person who likes to team design on a whiteboard, and you have a portable, you might bring it. You can buy a shower board at a hardware store for about $10, it's 4x8 and makes a good whiteboard. They're white and coated with a slick plastic, about 1/4 of an inch thick. Usually the workers at the store know what you're looking for if you explain it.
Twitter hashtag
IRC Chatroom
#pdckc on Freenode
Sponsors
Adobe
Sprint
Palm
Little Springs Design
Pollenware
Screenland
Prizes
- Palm webOS books from O'Reilly Media
- A free pass to the Sprint Developer Conference. Oct 26th - 28th in Santa Clara, CA. ($250 value!)
- CS4 Web Premium ($1,700 value!)
Adobe was so excited about the turnout at the KC event they have given us a copy of the CS4 suite to giveaway. Aside from SF, we're the only city that has received this prize. Yes, this is the full version that comes loaded with:- Dreamweaver CS4
- Flash CS4 Professional
- Photoshop CS4 Extended
- Illustrator CS4
- Fireworks CS4
- Acrobat 9 Pro
- Soundbooth CS4
- Contribute CS4
- Adobe Bridge CS4
- Adobe Device Central CS4
- Version Cue CS4
Attendees
- Derek Gathright (@derek) - Web developer for social media startup. Skills are Javascript, PHP, SQL, Linux.
- William Clausen - Recent KU engineering graduate.
- Tom Jenkins @techguytom - Freelance Web Design/Development - X/HTML, CSS, jQuery, PHP
- Mike Gaffney @gaffo - Ruby and Java developer / consultant with Asynchrony Solutions in St. Louis - Java, Ruby, Javascript, Prototype, XHTML, CSS, Web Services, REST, etc.
- Rick Boatright (@rboatright) - old dude. Wiki sysop for [http://www.webos-internals.org], software designer, misc programmer Skills are design and team management.
- Buck Sommerkamp (@bucksommerkamp) - designer, developer, audio/video producer. Adobe User Group manager for KCDesignCore ([http://www.kcdesigncore.org])
- Brett Neese (@bnfmsgeek) - high school design intern for Little Springs Design. Excited for Pre/webOS and webOS development.
- Rick Terrill (@rickdt) - iPhone designer / developer (and co-founder) at Uproar, a mobile software startup. Hoping to port an iPhone app to Pre during DevCamp.
- Barbara Ballard (@barbaraballard) - founder of Little Springs Design a mobile design consultancy (apps, web, OS; all devices)
- Joel Buckingham (@bucklite) - Professional Services Software Developer. Experience with Java and Web Development and many of the related technologies (XML, JavaScript, XSL, HTML, CSS, JSE, JEE, etc…). Interested in learning more about mobile development.
