Blake Burris journeys on the interweb

iPhoneDevCamp wrap

The DevCamp weekend in San Francisco was a great time for Apple fanboys, mobile geeks and web entrepreneurs lusting for the opportunity to extend their apps to new iPhone owners. I think it was also a test for the extension of the Barcamp brand (as factoryjoe noted). Barcamp, for many, has come to symbolize the “unconference” movement; a way to quickly mobilize people around common interests for the greater good of the community.

I talked with many paticipants who were unfamiliar with either “Barcamp” or variations on DevHouse and MashPit. After the weekend I expect most new to the fold will be converted to this way of open assembly and participation. Most were just happy to be around so many others interested in learning the ins and outs of getting web content to render correctly on iPhone. I for one, am holding out hope for a bit more access to core OS X services. For now, we’ll have to be content working through the viewport of iPhone’s Safari browser - which ain’t so bad as these hacks prove.

It’s interesting to read how traditional media represented the event their audiences. A few newspapers articles covered the event and I even managed to get a short quote in the first article

SF Chronicle & L.A. Times (I wonder how long those will be publicly accessible)

The Flickr pool is here and whurley should be announcing some videos posting soon.