Soonish

The 8th August is coming closer and closer and we eventually came to a conclusion what to do on that day. Last Week me and Christof sat down with a beer, talked about stuff, brainstormed and decided. Yes, we decided stuff. For example the decision that english should be the most important language during the event. The reason for that is that there will be at least one person who is not able to speak german (and there are other we don’t know if they do either).

We also talked about the agenda/programm. I still need to talk about it with some people who are involved but I can tell you this so far:

The event will start around noon (12pm) with some small talks. We base all on the practical use like how to use the SDK on the systems provided and we show a small first hello world. On this matter I can also tell you this: There is going to be a computer for each one with the SDK, Emulator and Editor pre installed. If you want to bring your own system that is fine but don’t ask me how your editor works .

After this first introduction (which should not take longer than two hours imho) we would like to actually DO STUFF(tm). For this we ask for your idea. Do you have a nice idea about a small project we could develop during the day (max 5hours)? The best would be one that covers a lot of aspects of the WebUI (like differnt views, multimedia playback, loading data from other places). If you have one, write it down and prepare what needs to be prepared (do we need to know about some WebOS-API or online webservice api to do that?). In case no one has any idea we have some as a back up.

To be able to do that we also decided that some of us are going to learn about special parts and APIs of WebOS so that we don’t waste time looking up to much stuff. If you are interested into one special part yourself you can also be our expert on that matter, too.

The end of the event should be an open discussion with all people about the different ideas on how to publish our awesome project. It will start with a short introduction on the Palm Store and the procedure you have to do to get your app up and if it takes very long we can just take it into a nice bar. The idea is that we’ve left the building before 7pm and learnt a lot.

Besides the “English Talking Language”-decision we have made two more decisions: 1. We want to make videos of the talks (including some expert talking a bit more about a certain part that is of further interested at the given time) and publish them later online. 2. As we won’t be able to accomplish a full blown up application in the few hours we have we would like to upload the state of our project and give it to the people out there under a “Do whatever you want”-Licence. If we do multiple projects we would like to do the same for all of them.

So far, so good.

On top of this we also looked up the address and I am going to prepare a nice map which you can access from the sidebar in a couple of days. I will also give you some more information about schedule and the “expertises” when I have talked back with all people involved. Expect all these information to be online before the end of the week. But don’t worry, as soon as all data is available I will also sent an email to each one of you.

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