We had a total of 10 attendees, and it was definitely a success. We spent the day watching developer tutorials and helping each other out with various ideas. The best part that came from the meeting was the idea to create a WebOS Boston Users Group (http://www.webosboston.org). We’ve got a room set aside at MIT, which is very close to the Kendall/MIT MBTA station.

Thanks to everyone who attended.

More details to follow!

09:00 – Doors open
09:30 – Welcome session
10:00 to 11:30 – Intro to Pre development, SDK installfest, hello world, etc.
11:30 to 12:30 – Lunch (probably walk to a nearby restaurant)
12:30 to 14:30 – Open hacking, more talks
14:30 to 15:30 – Demo your app, etc. (Open for discussion)
15:30 to 16:00 – Open for discussion
16:00 to 16:30 – Cleanup
16:30 to Beer O’ Clock – After party at a local pub TBD

Hi,

Just a friendly reminder, I need replies to the E-Mail I sent out regarding the upcoming PreDevCamp. Please let me know if you’ll be able to attend or not. I’m keeping track of the attendees electronically.

I’ll keep an updated list within this post.

Christopher Barthle
Jeff Chasen
Joseph Crawford
Rich Farrell
Gary Katsevman
Bill Magnusson, Jr.
Angel Municio
John Murphy
Timothy O’Brien
Daniel Silverstein
John Tomawski
Vladimir Vuksan

Thanks!

@nebj00la

I repeat, PreDevCamp Boston 2009 is a go! The location is the Boston Public Library Mezzanine Conference room, on Saturday August 8th from 9AM to 4:30PM! Bring your laptops and SDK’s!

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.