Monthly Archives: February 2009
Last couple of links to look at before the big day…
First, have you checked out who else is attending via the sign up lists on the facebook event and linked-in?
Probably worth familiarising yourself with who says they are coming and see who you know, or whose name seems familiar.
And now for some more links that have appeared over the last few days.
Over on Russell Beattie’s [...]
More about the Hackathon
Over on the FaceBook event page wall, a question was asked what is the platform for the Hackathon?.
In case it is not 100% clear, you are free to develop on any platform; iPhone, Android, Symbian, Maemo, OpenMoko, Qt, Palm Pre, Mobile Python, Java etc.
As was mentioned here, we have allocated space at the venue for [...]
Network access at the event
Due to the generous sponsorship of Nebula we hope to have enough bandwidth on the day.
The exact details of how the network is configured will be detailed on the day (as details are still being finalised)
If you want to use a wireless connection, Vanha has one available (but remember that will be shared among everyone [...]
Are you ready for the challenge?
The people over on Google’s Android Team have heard of the upcoming MobileDevCamp here in Helsinki and have generously provided an Android Dev Phone 1 as a grand prize for the best application developed during the Hackathon.
Note: This is the fully working SIM unlocked handset!
We realise that developing something in a day (or an afternoon [...]
Hackathon update
We are working on an exciting announcement around the hackathon, stay tuned
Agenda updated
we have now confirmed the latest speakers. Details of the speakers are below.
Topic: Developing Android/iPhone game
Bio: Niklas Wahrman has a few years experience working with developing
mobile phone games and has been involved with titles such as Constantine,
Superman: Lex Luthor’s Payback and Crank. He’s a passionate independent
developer who recently released his own iPhone game Asterope, originally
developed [...]
Why we are asking you to sign-up?
If this is a free event, why are we asking you to sign up?
The primary reason is to make sure that we are able to ensure that there are sufficient budget allocated for refreshments (don’t want to repeat the LeWeb experience if we can avoid it).
Secondary reasons are;
make sure we have enough space [...]





