PreDevCamp:KC Update

We’re exactly one week away from PreDevCamp and wanted to give you an idea of what we’ve got planned.  The organizers of PDC:KC have been meeting for a few weeks and our vision for the event is similar to a BarCamp/unCon/hackfest/StartupWeekend/etc… We have the facilities in place and enough smart people in attendance that we’ll be able to collaborate and share all kinds of ideas and experiences without the need of a rigid, formal structure.

We’re going to kick off the day starting at 8am with registration and getting things set up.  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.

A few other notes:

• The event space has 3 breakout rooms (capacity of about 10 people each) that will be available on hourly blocks for groups who either want to work on a project together or want to give a presentation on a specific topic.
• Attendees are on their own for lunch, but early on in the day we’ll take group orders for pizza, sandwiches, etc… and have them delivered.
• If you have any additional routers, hubs, ethernet cables, power strips, etc… we’d really appreciate you bringing them for those freak scenarios that always occur when you get a large number of laptops all in one place.
• 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.

To summarize, here’s the rough agenda for the day:

• 9am-11am: Give everyone the knowledge and tools they need to begin development.
• 11am-4pm: Build some kick ass applications
• 4pm-5pm: Wrap up the day with demonstrations of all the awesome stuff we’ve built

And as a reminder, the location for PDC:KC is
Sprint Concept Realization Center
6220 Sprint Parkway
Overland Park, KS 66204

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