Category Archives: update

you 48hours, starting…

NOW!
So, the rules of the competition are;
You have 48 hours to build an application for one of the four platforms;

Nokia – Qt, Symbian & Maemo
Microsoft

Android
iPhone

The folks over at Nokia have “narrowed” their category down a little, in that the application must; use the Qt Module QNetwork, must have a social web integration and be [...]

Competition update

So, as the date draws nearer, we thought we should give you a heads up on a couple of things.
First, the exact details will be announced next Thursday (25th February).
Second, we have manged to get top of the line phones for all but one of the competition categories, so go back and start checking out [...]

Change of venue

We ran into some challenges to get a working WiFi system at Haaga-Helia, so rather than ask everyone to bring their 3G equipped laptops (and then watch the Pasila base stations collapse under the load!), we have moved to a new venue, which have assured us that they have working WiFi.
MobileDevCamp.fi is now taking place [...]

Sponsor update

In case you had not noticed the extra logo, Nexit Ventures has come on board as one of the event sponsors.
If you are not aware of them, Nexit Ventures is one of the leading Venture firms in the mobile space, and we are very excited that they are add their viewpoint to the events on [...]

Location is announced

We are very pleased that Haaga Helia have come on-board as our location sponsors.
This allows us to have a kick-ass main stage (to go with the excellent speakers we are lining up) and at the same time provide hacking and demo spaces.

A couple of hints as to the day’s themes

As the day is approaching and we are making progress with the speakers, we thought we would start to give some hints as to what we would be concentrating on this year at the event.
As part of this, this article on how the methods used for development on the iPhone currently is it’s own problem [...]

Outline for MobileDevCamp2010 is coming together

So, we have listened to all of the feedback we have received so far, and as we are now making progress with the plans for the day,we wanted to let you know what the current situation is.
Most importantly, we will be starting a little later this time (no-one wants to get up early on a [...]

Thanks to everyone who attended for making it such a great event

A big thank you to the sponsors who made this event possible, and to the speakers who provided such interesting talks.
The BarCamp and Hackathon sessions in the afternoon took a little while to get going but once they did, the participants all got a lot out of them.
In particular, it was really impressive what the [...]

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 [...]