iOSDevCamp Colorado Springs 2013

It’s that time again! The fourth annual Colorado Springs iOSDevCamp will be on May 3 and 4, 2013.

The Event

iOSDevCamp is an informal un-conference where anyone is welcome and encouraged to present about anything relevant to iOS development. Colorado has a fantastic iOS developer community and these events are a great place to meet people, learn things, and have fun.

The event will be held at two different locations:

Friday Evening, May 3: Social meetup and planning for Saturday, 7-10PM. At the Enclave, 2121 Academy Circle, Suite 104, Colorado Springs, 80909.
Saturday All Day, May 4: The main event, 9AM-6PM. At Fluke Networks, 2075 Research Parkway, Colorado Springs, 80920.

Register Now!

This event is free, but we ask that you register so that we can plan the event. Sign up at our registration page so that we’ll know to expect you!

We Want You

You’re welcome to just show up and enjoy the event, but this is a participatory event, and we want you to help make it great.

You do not need to be an expert. iOSDevCamp attracts a wide range of skill levels. Presentations can be on any topic of interest to developers. Technical presentations are great, but so are topics like working with graphic designers, running a business, etc. Anything that might be useful or just fun for an iOS developer is fair game. We love getting new people involved, so don’t worry if you’ve never done anything like this.

There are two options:

Blitz Talks. A blitz talk is a short 5-minute presentation. You get 20 slides which advance automatically every 15 seconds. If you’ve never done a presentation before, blitz talks are a great way to start. Blitz talks are the only part of iOSDevCamp that is structured and planned.
General Presentations. As with blitz talks, these can be on any topic of interest to the group. Unlike blitz talks the format and length is up to you. Want to do slides? Great. Prefer a demo of code or of an app? Also great. Maybe you have some cool sample code— either yours or an open source framework you like— and you’d like to walk us through the code. Anything goes.

If you can help us out: Go to our signup page and tell us what you have in mind.

The following amazingly cool people have already signed up to do a talk (listed alphabetically…):

Tom Harrington
Matt Long
Bob Kressin
Matt Martel
Saul Mora
Stephen Moraco
Jaime Rae
Erica Sadun
Kirk van Gorkom
Justin Williams

Schedule

As an “un-conference”, the schedule is flexible and up to the participants. The following is a rough schedule:

Friday

7-10 PM, meet up, social hour(s), plan for Saturday

Saturday

8:30-9 AM: Doors open, coffee and bagels available

9AM-noon: Presentations, demos

Noon-1PM: Lunch (provided)

1PM-2PM: Blitz talks

2PM-3PM: Reverse Q&A panel

3PM-6PM: Presentations, demos

Sponsors

This event is free thanks to the help of our sponsors! Special thanks to:

2 months ago

Save the date

The next Colorado iOSDevCamp is in the works. The fourth annual Colorado Springs iOSDevCamp is May 3-4. Details and registration information to come, soon.

3 months ago

iOSDevCamp 2012 Winter Edition

Just in time for the Holidays! Join your fellow developers for a Winter Edition iOSDevCamp Colorado, November 30 and December 1!

This edition of iOSDevCamp Colorado will be held at Uncubed in Downtown Denver. There is plenty of free parking, and plenty of space for you to learn from your fellow iOS and Cocoa Developers.

iOSDevCamp Colorado is traditionally an informal unconference, with the schedule planned by the attendees. We’re going to go with a more prepared collection of sessions this time around. If you have something to share, feel free to send in your suggestion! We’re also going to have a handfull of lightning talks, short 5 minute talks supplemented by autoadvancing slides. Please join us, have a great time learning and sharing your knowledge with, and meeting the iOS Developer community!

Registration is Closed :(

But that doesn’t mean you’re not invited. Just show up to Uncubed for either or both the Drink up at Uncubed on Friday evening, or the camp on Saturday morning at 9am.

Prizes!!11!

We’ve been hard at work trying to make iOSDevCamp Colorado more awesomer, and we’re pleased to announce that we’ll be raffling off prizes!

iOS SDK Development by Bill Dudney and Chris Adamson
All The C You Need to Know by Bill Dudney
Test Driven iOS Development by Graham Lee
Status Magic by Shiney Development
Slender by Dragon Forged Software
ResourceHelper by HiddenMemory
Changes by BitBQ
Versions by Black Pixel
Kaleidoscope 2 by Black Pixel
Git Tower by fournova
AppFigures Premium Account
Developer subscription to WasabiSync by Random Ideas
Hockeyapp Basic plan by Bit Stadium
NSScreencast videos For Life from NSScreencast
An All You Can Feast Video Pack from iDeveloperTV
iTunes Gift Cards from our event sponsors

Thank you to our awesome prize sponsors!

Schedule

Friday November 30

7pm - ?: Pre-DevCamp drink up. Meet at Uncubed for the first FREE beer, and we’ll head to one of the many (or all) of the local pubs near by. It may be cold, but it won’t matter with all the awesome people you’ll meet. The alcohol will help too.

Saturday December 1

9am - 9:15: Opening Welcome

9:15-12pm: Sessions

What’s new in Core Data: Tom Harrington
BlueTooth LE: To Infinity and Beyond: Bob Kressin
Getting to Know and Love UICollectionView: Matt Long

12 - 1: Lunch

12:30 - 1: Lightning talks

Sign up to give a lightning talk!
How to Build a Backend in 5 Minutes - Justin Bergen
Trying to break my app with UIAutomation - Matt Henderson
Making iOS Apps for Dummies - Dave Batton

1 - 2: App TearDown

Signup when you arrive to have your app critiqued by a panel of iOS experts
Panel Member: Julia Johnston
Panel Member: Danielle Reubenstein of XcellentCreations
Panel Member: Dave Wiskus

2 - 5: Sessions

Everything you need to know about Passbook: Joe Keeley
RubyMotion: Colin Thomas-Arnold
Clean Code - The ObjC Version: Saul Mora

5 - ?: After Party at one of the main fine drinking establishments near Uncubed!

8 months ago