If you want to host a Mobicamp in your town, just drop me a line. I’ll send the PSD and answer any questions you might have. If it’s close by, maybe I’ll drop by!

Important Stuff:

• Mobicamp will be held on 5/29/2009 from 5-10PM in the Hodges Room at the ATDC at Georgia Tech (3rd floor). Address is in the side bar.
• I suggest parking in the Centergy parking deck located behind the ATDC (it’s cheap and near by)
• Bring a photo ID so we can make sure you really signed up
• Dinner and Drinks will be provided

Rules:

• Participate! Give a session or help someone else give theirs
• If you arrive 7PM or later (you’ll miss a lot) you have to sign in at the security desk
• Please listen to the security folks
• No soliciting, please

That’s right. Mobicamp registration is open until 5.22.2009. Hop on it folks. This Friday is the last day to sign up (it’s already packed!) for Mobicamp.

EDIT: T-Shirts are first-come, first-served for attendees.

Here’s the official schedule for Mobicamp:

5:00PM - Arrive, sign in & mingle

5:30PM - Eat dinner

6:00PM - Warmup chat in Hodges room

6:15PM to 10:00PM - Mobisessions!

All available spots to Mobicamp are now reserved. After speaking to the folks at the ATDC, I’ve decided to open up an additional 15 spots. Sign up here.

Many thanks to our sponsors for making this possible.

CS Students - Try out for Apple’s Cocoa Camp! The May 3, 2009 application deadline is fast approaching. This is a great opportunity for up-and-coming engineers as it’s a good way to meet folks at Apple and learn a lot about Cocoa development. More info.

If you are selected, you will spend a week at Apple Inc. headquarters in California learning to build iPhone applications using Cocoa. This will be a lab-style environment with both lecture and exercises including hands-on training activities led by Apple engineers. The session will take place week of August 17, 2009.

Apple will provide:
* roundtrip airfare to/from school or home,
* hotel accommodations,
* per diem for food expenses, and
* transportation to/from the hotel to Apple activities and events.

Mobicamp is a barcamp. This means that although it’s a very informal gathering, it’s important for attendees to participate. For example, you could give a short session (sessions are on the order of 10 minutes or so) on some mobile tech you’re familiar with or help someone else give a session. Engage with other Mobicamp attendees — community and entrepreneurship are a big part of Mobicamp’s vision.

Mobicamp’s agenda is approximately (more detailed timeline w/ times and such coming soon):
- Arrive at ATDC @ 5PM
- Mingle
- I’ll talk about Mobicamp and introduce all of the sponsors who made it possible (it’s not cheap!)
- Signup for sessions
- Sessions/breakouts
- Dinner and more mingling
- More sessions/breakouts
- Head home at 10PM infused with > knowledge about mobile tech and a deeper rolodex of cool folks

Please note that while Mobicamp itself is free for attendees (thanks to the sponsors on the right), parking at the ATDC is not. There are a few spots around surface streets but I usually park in the Centergy (sp?) lot behind the ATDC. I think it’s one dollar per hour and they do take Visa/Mastercard.

mobicamp needs help to maintain free attendance. We hope to have 5 sponsors at $300 (food is expensive!). Since return7 is sponsoring mobicamp, we only need 4 additional sponsors. The money will be used to pay for:

1. Event hosting at ATDC
2. Dinner for attendees
3. Printing (sponsor’s logos on a poster board, name tags for attendees)

We know times are tight but we believe the investment in the Atlanta community is well worth it. What do sponsors get besides helping create a great new event for the Altanta startup community?

1. A logo on this website under the sponsors section. Logos will go above the return7 and ATDC logos.
2. I will speak briefly about your company before the event (to thank you, of course!). If you have any specific info you would like me to tell attendees, please let me know ahead of time.
3. Your logo on the sponsors slide in the main room at mobicamp while there is no presentation (i.e. before the event and at dinner time)
4. A spot for your logo on the poster board outside of the main room
5. Lots of <3 from mobicamp attendees (namely, the people you helped bring together and feed). You never know, you might pick up a client or ten by helping mobicamp.

Want to help out? Please email amro@return7.com.

The Wireless Technology Forum hosts approximately 25 events per year related to wireless and mobile. They recently created a new group focused around wireless applications — a good fit for many of the folks attending mobicamp. I’ll be at the April 9th meeting to talk a little about mobicamp and listen to a talk on iPhone apps given by a gentleman from Autotrader.com. I hope to have someone from the WTF give one of the sessions at mobicamp and some additional folks from the WTF will attend to meet some of the great talent we have in the Atlanta community as well as participate at mobicamp. Haven’t signed up yet? Go go go!

I’ve just received confirmation (thanks, Lance) that the first mobicamp will take place on Friday May 29, 2009 from 5-10PM at the ATDC at Georgia Tech. Dinner will be provided.

Great! Wait, what the hell is mobicamp anyway? mobicamp is a new, annual unconference in Atlanta centered around mobile technology and its impact on the day to day life of average users. It is aimed mainly at software developers and students, but is open to anyone with interests in the mobile/wireless space.

We’ve lined up one technical talk on iPhone. We’d love to have one of the folks at google speak about android. These talks will be short (< 10 mintes), then we will begin the free-form unconference stuff.

mobicamp is not a vendor show so don’t try to pitch your services or you will be asked to leave. There is, of course, one exception to this rule — sponsors.

mobicamp needs 4-5 sponsors to remain free for attendees. Please email amro@return7.com if you’re interested in sponsoring mobicamp. You’ll get a logo on the sidebar of this site as well as a couple of minutes to address the crowd prior to the event. Please see the sponsors post to get info about the mobicamp sponsor package.

Want to sign up? Click here. Spots are limited to the first 100 signups. If you register but later find that you cannot attend, please inform me via email at the address above.