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WIPJam@ CommunicAsia
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Hall 3 Conference Rooms G&H
Singapore Expo
10:30 – 5:00 pm

Sponsored by MoSync

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WIPJam After Party
Wednesday, June 16^th
6:30 – 10:00 pm

Brewerkz Riverside Point
30 Merchant Road #01-05/06 Riverside Point
Singapore

Sponsored by NAVTEQ.

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List of  activities/receptions/events/parties at CommunicAsia 2010

(Let us know about others so they can be added to the list)

Monday, June 14th

Canada ICT Partnering Forum and Marketplace 2010
Marriott Singapore, Ballroom, Level 3
3:00 pm – 7:30 pm
RSVP

NAVTEQ LBS Challenge Awards Ceremony
Shangri La Hotel, Azalea Room, 22 Orange Grove Road
3:30 pm Cocktail Reception/Contestant Showcase
4:30 Awards Ceremony

RSVP with name, company & # of Attendees

MobileMonday Singapore Party
Harry's @ Esplanade
8 Raffles Avenue, #01-05/07 Esplanade Mall
6:00 PM –...

Berlin is the mobile place to be for WIP in June:

• Droidcon last week (technically we were still in May)
• MLOVE ConFestival on the 23-25 of June
• And of course next week WIP's headquarters move to Berlin for a week, as Carlo comes over from the US to join me for Mobile Monday Berlin and our WIPJam at IT Profits/LinuxTag on the 9th! (There's still plenty of time to register and get your free tickets, so come join us!)

In addition to the Android App Store competition, Droidcon was also full of cool presentations (all available here) and I was able to interview Kerstin Monzel and Jonas Kollberg from Intel, who presented at the event and will be at the WIPJam next week, too.

While California was abuzz with the Google TV announcement, and Intel powered set top boxes, we chatted more about the mobile device side of things.

WIP:  Judging by the warm tweets welcoming Quake running at 120fps on Moorestown... Your presentation at Droidcon was quite popular!  What was it...

Calling Canadian MobileDevelopers - Join a GSMA OneAPI Hack-a-thon

The GSMA has put together a global initiative called OneAPI.  It's all about network APIs and making it easier for application developers to work with the operators - you only develop to OneAPI, have one set of T&Cs and get access to multiple carriers. 

The first pilot is in Canada, with Bell, Rogersand TELUS! And the first APIs open are messaging, location and operator billing.   We need YOU, the developers, to work it, play with it and tell us WHAT YOU THINK!  Other international operators will follow shortly.  So get in on the ground floor now!

Join us for a briefing session and stay to hack-a-thon with refreshments and prizes.

Sign up on the WIP website for a Hack-a-thon in these cities:

- Montreal:       Thursday, May 13

- Ottawa:          Monday, May 17

- Toronto:         Tuesday, May 18

- Vancouver:    Thursday, May 20

http://www.wipconnector.com/wipjam/oneapi

OR  Get started right away,...

On Wednesday, June 9, we'll be in Berlin to host a WIPJam at the IT Profits 6.0 event. Our focus is on "mobile profits" -- meaning we'll be talking about making money via mobile. But as far as specific UnPanels and Discussion Groups -- that's up to you! We're trying a new model for this event where we're asking the community what topics they're most interested in. So head over to the Call for Participation, and enter your ideas there. We'll take the best ideas and work them into our agenda, and we could even ask you to present or lead a discussion!

In addition, the 100 most interesting entries will win a free ticket to the event! After we close the call for participation on May 3, they'll cost €99, so get your entry in soon.

This is your chance to explore the areas in which you are most interested, and is an opportunity for you to lead the community as well. Whether you are a developer, designer, creative type or an entrepreneur, we are interested in your stories, experiences...

On Wednesday, April 21, 2010, WIP will host the first OneAPI Briefing Session in Toronto, Canada.  This is the Pilot Project to introduce OneAPI to Canadian Developers.  More briefing sessions will follow in May across major Canadian cities so stayed tuned to WIP Connector for future dates.

On April 21st, all the key OneAPI folks are in Toronto and available to give you a briefing and to answer YOUR questions.  In true WIPJam UnPanel fashion - in addition to our strictly enforce No PPT, No Panels and No Ties - you'll get the chance to hear from and interact with:

Speakers
- Graham Trickey - Senior Director, GSM Association, direct from London (volcano permitting)
- Lawrence Chinsam  and Greg Meyer -  Aepona, the guts behind the OneAPI

and from the Canadian carriers:
- Mike LaCouvee, Manager, Product Develoment, TELUS
- Renee Szuhai - Bell
- Saigin Govender - Rogers

Facilitated by:
Caroline Lewko, CEO, WIP

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Here are a couple of FAQs...

So what's this...

At our WIPJam at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona back in February, we held a Coding Smackdown in which four teams of developers had just a few of hours to come up with an application to see whose skills and tools reign supreme. Participants were tasked with building a connected media application to help WIP members interact. The constraints were—obviously—the time and that participants couldn’t bring any code into the event, just commercially available APIs and libraries, and their app had to run on multiple devices.

This was no mean feat! Four teams had signed up to the event, representing Enough Software, MoSync, Nokia and OMTP joined at the last minute by Simon Maddox, catching everyone by surprise by jumping out from the audience. They all stepped up to the challenge, taking on their wrestler-inspired nicknames (no one accepted to wear a wrestler's costume), and cranking out apps. While Enough was the winner according to a show of hands from WIPJam attendees, the results...

A big part of every WIPJam are the deep-dive discussion groups. In these, the main group breaks up for some small group discussion based around certain topics. Discussion leaders, with expertise and experience relevant to the topics, facilitate the talks, sharing their own experiences as well as drawing in those from other participants. Like every part of the Jam, they're built around community participation, not top-down lecturing or sales pitches. By bringing in everybody's knowledge and know-how, we're able to help each other grow and succeed.

Along those lines, we want to keep the great discussions started at our CTIA event going by posting some highlights from each one here, and giving attendees -- and the rest of the developer community -- the chance to comment and ask questions. We'll list the topic of each group, then based on notes from the discussion leaders, summarize some key questions, points and conclusions from each one. We hope they'll serve as a jumping-off point...

Thanks to our nearly 300 attendees, sponsors and speakers who turned out to our Jam in Las Vegas at CTIA! The event was a great success, with our audience representing a wide array of companies, interests and viewpoints. We managed to have lots of great discussion, interaction and education, and squeezed in plenty of fun as well, including our first annual paper airplane contest. We've got a rundown below of some highlights from the day's events, or you can check out the full agenda.

We kicked off the day with something new: some "Mobile Development 101" presentations covering some high-level basics of mobile development. At our CTIA events, we often get a lot of people who are just getting started in mobile, and we wanted to provide them with some quick sessions on some of the basic info to consider when developing for mobile. So we invited Robert Virkus from Enough Software to give an overview of platforms and operating systems and Raj Singh from Skyfire to talk about browsers,...

We are pleased to introduce our guest blogger this week.  Maryann Iannitti is the Manager, Intel Developer & University Marketing at Intel.  Intel is a lead sponsor of our WIPJam Session coming up on March 22, 2010 at CTIA Wireless.

Meet the Intel Atom Developer Program team @ WIP JAM CTIA Wireless 2010

The Intel Atom developer program has been designed to provide you with everything you need to develop and sell netbook applications. So, the question I get most often from developers is why netbooks? The netbook market is growing fast at 35 million in 2009 to 139 million in 2013*. Now more than ever, there is a rising demand for applications that have been designed for the netbook form factor and for the mobile, on the go audience. This new program is designed to address this very challenge and to provide you with the support you need to build and sell these applications. The program also provides OEMs and the ecosystem a framework to deliver great new applications directly to...

I’m officially declaring 2010 as the Year of the Mobile Developer!  I’m not the first to do so, but wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment so I wanted to put WIP’s weight behind it.  It’s not that developers weren’t recognized before in the mobile sector; but it’s truly the first year that developers have been embraced and respected as key members of the mobile ecosystem.  I hope it’s also the year that developers can take a more collective stand and give direct feedback to the bigger companies; and WIP wants to coordinate that effort.

The proof of the Year of the Mobile Developer is extensive in our key industry events.  CES had a good showing of developers this year with a variety of activities starting with AT&T’s Developer Summit starting off the week;  Mobile World Congress (MWC)pulled out all the stops with the new App Planet Hall full of exhibits, dev conferences and complementary passes to developers; and the upcoming CTIA Wireless  has its own version with App World, full...