In all approximately 20 people showed up for the Orlando Pre Dev Camp on Saturday.  There was a lot of excitement and a surprising amount of participation between the audience and presenters.  Furthermore a number of attendees remarked that the content our speakers provided answered many of their questions.  After the presentations, 6 developers stuck around for our Development Workshop to try their hand at writing an RSS Reader and despite very limited experience, the group was successful in completing their app!

Thanks to everyone who made this event a success, but especially to AECT @ UCF for letting us use their meeting space / supplies! We also want to thank all of our presenters, in particular the folks at Syntactix for sharing their knowledge with us. 

Also, the interest in setting up regular meetings was high enough that we have decided to investigate creating a Palm User Group.  If you have interest in either attending or contributing to this organization please contact either Kevin Rohling (kevin.rohling@sundriedsoftware.com) or Roy Marquez (roy.marquez@gmail.com) as we will be working together on this effort.  We hope to hear everyone’s feedback and suggestions on how we can improve and offer up a quality experience for the community!

Finally, if you would like access to the presentation materials, we are working on making them available online:

• Developing the Pre Experience (Greg Hrebek) Download Here
• Dynamic Memory Management (James Martin) Coming Soon.

Here are some of the pics of the meetup – more on their way!

Developers present at preDev Camp Orlando

Howdy, folks! Orlando Pre Dev Camp is gearing up for some good fun. It’s going to be a fun event, where we will:

• Watch streaming videos from other world-wide WebOS events, including the streams from the Palm Pre development team live from Palm HQ in Sunnyvale!
• Watch some great presentations
• Eat a free lunch of pizza and soda!
• Geek out with other cool software developers and discuss, discuss, discuss
• And finally we will program a simple app (TBD) in webOS and Mojo

Submit your app idea that you would like to work on in our Development Workshop!

Location: (map)

University of Central Florida
4000 Central Florida Blvd
Orlando, Fl 32816
Teaching Academy
Instructional Technology Lab, Room 321

Please RSVP: roy.marquez@gmail.com

Due to restrictions on room occupancy, if the response is high, we may have to make alternate arrangements.

Finally, for additional information or if you have a fun idea for the meeting contact either roy.marquez@gmail.com (@ricanchuloinfla)  or kevin.rohling@sundriedsoftware.com (@sundriedcoder)

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.