Well, I’d like to call the Portland preDevCamp a success. Ten people showed up throughout the day and the event went as planned! Special thanks to souk for making this all happen!

Jordan Gensler

Where

Souk

322 NW 6th Avenue, Suite 200
(between Everett + Flanders)
Portland, Oregon 97209

When

Arrive at 10 AM, starts at 10:15, Ends at 5:00 PM

Cost

Free! Donations are highly appriciated and help pay for the location!

What to Bring

Be sure that you have your laptop with the SDK and ready. You should also bring your pre. Don’t worry if you don’t have one, the SDK has a nice emulator. I also reccomend that you read this:http://predevcamp.org/2009/08/04/im-going-to-predevcamp-and-i-am-bringing/

Registration

If you have not yet registered, you may do so here:http://portland.predevcamp.org/registration/

Food

We are planning on getting Pizza, Donuts, Cupcakes, etc. but feel free to bring snacks or a lunch!

The Plan

10:00-10:15 – Arrive

10:15-11:00 – Welcoming

11:00-12:00 – Installing Session

12:00-1:00 – Lunch

1:00-4:00 – App Development Time

4:00-5:00 – App Showoff

Notes:

Wireless internet will be available, but we will provide CD’s and thumb drives with the SDK for those of you who haven’t installed it yet.

If you have a friend who may be interested that’s great, bring him, bring his mom, bring his family! Everyone is welcome!

The location we are at is being paid for by your donations, so please donate, every amount helps!

Special thanks to Souk for the venue and much help!

Here are the details as of this morning. They are all subject to change.

Where

322 NW 6th Avenue, Suite 200
(between Everett + Flanders)
Portland, Oregon 97209

When

Arrive at 10, starts at 10:30, Ends at 5

Cost

Free! Donations are highly appriciated and help pay for the location!

What to Bring

Be sure that you have your laptop with the SDK and ready. You should also bring your pre. Don’t worry if you don’t have one, the SDK has a nice emulator. You should also bring snacks and a lunch, or plan on walking to a nearby restaurant for lunch. I also reccomend that you read this: http://predevcamp.org/2009/08/04/im-going-to-predevcamp-and-i-am-bringing/

Registration

If you have not yet registered, you may do so here: http://portland.predevcamp.org/registration/

Food

Coffee will be available as well as a small kitchen with microwave, etc. Feel free to bring snacks or a lunch. You could also walk to a local restaurant.

The Plan

10:00-10:30 – Arrive

10:30-11:00 – Welcoming

11:00-12:00 – Installing Session

12:00-1:00 – Lunch

1:00-4:00 – App Development Time

4:00-5:00 – App Showoff

Notes:

Wireless internet will be available, but we will provide CD’s and thumb drives with the SDK for those of you who haven’t installed it yet.

If you have a friend who may be interested that’s great, bring him, bring his mom, bring his family! Everyone is welcome!

The location we are at is being paid for by your donations, so please donate, every amount helps!

Well guys, I’m trying to pull this all together but help is always appreciated. If you ware interested in helping please send an email to jord...@gmail.com and I’ll be sure to get right back to you.

We are currently desperately in need of people that have experience with the SDK and are interested in helping. If you can help just email me.

Well guys, we finally have an organizer for the Portland PreDevCamp! I am currently looking for a venue and will be sure to post updates the minute that I have them!

Jordan Gensler

I just released a post on whurley.com entitled “Phone Warz: Revenge Of The Palm?” discussing how ever since I helped pull together iPhoneDevCamp with Raven Zachary and Chris Messina back in 06, Ive been hawking the other manufacturers looking for a legit challenge to the iPhones throne; secretly to have another event.

Anyway, I was discussing this whole scenario with @Giovanni and @DanCrumb this weekend, and we had quite an amusing round of what-ifs. We had so much fun bumpin our gums, we decided to up the ante. Today @Giovanni, @DanCrumb and I (@whurley) are launching preDevCamp 2009.

The event will be held in around 60 cities around the world exactly one week after the U.S. release of the Palm Pre. Since the phone is Linux+WebKit, development should be easy for us to share the love. Tell your friends. Invite your neighbors. Weve got satellite events lined up in over 30 cities around the world. If you want to enlist, visit the website and tell us your city. If theres not a leader in that city, then you just got promoted.