360iDev – The Community is strong!
I’m biased, obviously. I like competition, but hate johnny come lately type stuff that dilutes the market without providing benefit to the community/customer. I hate seeing an event fail, I hate seeing a business fail, it sucks, 360|Conferences is slowly climbing out of bootstrap and into slight profitability, I know the pain of having no [...]
360iDev – Worth every penny and more
You see events that cost over $1000, and think (at least I do) “what will I be getting out of this conference? Will it be worth $1000? Will I be wasting my money?” I especially have those thoughts as someone who doesn’t have a company expense account to draw upon. But even in my days as a cube monkey I felt weird when I’d return from a conference and 1. have to make up what I learned to report back to my boss, and 2. submit expense reports, etc for thousands of dollars of company money.
What about when a conference has an early bird price that takes $550 off the price? I mean the savings in the early bird price is more than the actual cost to attend 360|iDev.
Why do events, with similar formats as 360|iDev cost so much? They’re “enterprise” meaning nothing but they want to milk attendees (who are typically on the company’s dime) for as much as possible.
These events are obviously not aimed at indie developers. Ever wonder if you get 2-3x the value? They’re not 2-3 times the length, or the number of sessions, or anything else that would be a good metric, so what’s the difference?
360iDev – Call For Papers Open
November is a long way away. I know that.
BUT once accepted, speakers can tweak their topic to their heart’s content, so long as it’s not a complete “Oh well it was this, and now it’s this completely different thing”
The call won’t be closing any time soon either, so there’s no rush.
The way it works (for those of you that haven’t spoken before) is this. You email us with your idea, answering all the items outlined below. That’s it :)
After we close the call for papers, we’ll make selections.
Haven’t spoken at 360|iDev before? it’s easy. We’re probably the most low pressure event around, and we love having new people from the community present. Many of our highest rated presenters, started out as attendees, then decided to share what they knew with the community.
360iDev – What to do when you arrive
We’re not GDC, or WWDC. There’s no waiting in a mile long line to get in, there’s not sea of thousands to wade through to get your badge. What there is, is 3-4 people working the registration desk. You can pick up your badge all day Sunday if you want to avoid the rush. If [...]
360iDev it’s not what you get, but what you take away
We’ve talked about ‘Who attends 360|iDev’, and I’m sure we’ve covered some of this before too. But I think it bears repeating.
360|iDev, is as much about what you take away, as what you get when you’re there. And NO I don’t mean SWAG.
When you leave 360|iDev on Wednesday you:
Leave with new friends. Friends you’ll stay in touch with online in between conferences, and reconnect with at the next 360|iDev
Leave with new projects. You met a great developer that you want to collaborate with, and a new game is born! (Just ask Keith and Natalia about teaming up with David Whatley on geoSpark)
Leave with new employees/employers. You’re hiring, or looking for work. Odds are good you’ll leave with resumes, or actual new hires/new employers.
Leave inspired. You’ll get home, jazzed about new techniques you learned, new concepts you picked up. New ideas you talked about over beers. With a keynote by David Whatley, a Wednesday General Session by Mike Lee, it’ll be heard to walk out uninspired!
Leave 6 months ahead of the curve. You’ll get home and start working on things that others won’t be thinking about for months. New libraries that haven’t hit the mainstream yet, new ways of writing code, new frameworks, etc. You’ll be ahead of the pack when they finally catch on to what’s going on.
Leave with new apps that just need to be cleaned up and submitted. The Game Jam (Sponsored by Touch Arcade!) is the birthplace of games like Hippo High Dive, Gravity Sling and more. Whether you’re a game developer already or not, attend the game jam. It’s Tuesday night thru Wednesday morning, and you won’t regret it. You’ll leave with more than you came in with Tuesday night, we promise.
As an iDeveloper (You know what I mean.) you have a lot of choices; iPadDevCamp the weekend after, Voices that matter in Seattle, etc. All things being equal, compare what you get from each and see what makes sense for you to attend. If you don’t agree it’s 360|iDev… Let us know. You won’t get as much technical content, community, and fun from any other event, really.
CHeck out the schedule, description of sessions, and of course, the awesome speakers list!
Register now!
360iDev – Last call for volunteers. Help out – Get in for free
We’ve already accepted most of the volunteers we need, but we need about 3 more. This is your last chance, if the price of a ticket is keeping you from attending, trade some time for a free pass. We need help during registration, and with the filming of sessions, not that hard. In exchange you [...]
360iDev Touch Arcade Game Jam
Have a game idea you’ve been saving for when you have the time? Maybe you need to learn cocos2d first to do the game you want. Maybe you have too many other things going on, but the moment you have a few hours, it’s on.
Well, the Touch Arcade Game Jam, is for you :)
Starting Tuesday night, after the evening reception, we’ll be locking (Not really) anyone who wants to into a room at Ebay to crank out code all night long, 12 straight hours, through the night.
Touch Arcade is sponsoring, and will keep you hydrated, fed, and loaded up on Toblerone and Red bull.
When everyone else comes back to Ebay Town hall for the Wednesday General Session (Mike Lee, ya’ll) the Game jammers will be done, and ready to show off their creations.
Whether you’re a game developer right now or not, the game jam is the best place for you to try it out.
3 days to write an app? p-shaw! In Denver we saw something like 15 games demoed. Some made it to the app store shortly after, some are still being worked on for future (soon) release.
Come learn from experienced game developers first hand, in person.
The Game Jam is open to any 360|iDev attendee. Make sure you have a power cord :)
Register now!
360iDev speaker chat archives
If you haven’t been joining us on the weekly speaker chats, well you should be ashamed :) BUT you’re not out of luck. We record them.
Just click the names below to listen in on the great chats we’ve had leading up to 360|iDev San Jose.
These chats have been incredible! The speakers freely sharing what they’ve learned, and more. It’s great!
Brian Robbins
Collin Donnell
Mike Berg
Nathan Eror
Owen Goss
Rod Strougo
These chats, are simply amazing. You’re not gonna get this level of access to these speakers anywhere else but 360|iDev, unless you kidnap them, which we don’t condone :)
360iDev speaker chat – @nattylux
Join us this wednesday for this week’s 360|iDev speaker chat with Natalia Luckyanova of Imangi studios.
Natalia has a ton of great info and wisdom to share on surviving the app store (the topic of her session at 360|iDev by the way), so you won’t want to miss this chat.
Bookmark this link.
We’ll be chatting Friday the 26th, at 12pm Mountain time!
If you haven’t registered for 360|iDev, there’s still time and space left, but I wouldn’t wait around! Register now!
360iDev – Speaker Chat tomorrow! Owen Goss
We met Owen at the first 360|iDev, he’s a great guy, and subscribes to the same transparency model we do, writing awesome blog posts about his experiences writing and making a living on his apps. Even though he couldn’t make it to 360|iDev Denver, he spent the night on Skype doing the game Jam remotely! Talk about dedication to the cause and community!
Join us tomorrow, noon MDT. Bookmark this link
If you haven’t booked your ticket to 360|iDev, you’re doing yourself a disservice. Your career will thank you, seriously. Register now!
See you tomorrow on the chat!
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