Seattle MindCamp 5: Unleashing Creativity and Community Building

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Seattle MindCamp 5

"Seattle Mind Camp is an “unconference,“ in the style of Bar Camp or Foo Camp."

Links associated with Seattle MindCamp 5 are available on delicious:

http://delicious.com/jwalsh/mindcamp

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=mindcamp&ss=2&ct=6&s=rec

Agenda - 2008-11-22 (Saturday)

12:00PM - Introduction and games

Sessions background

Back to back

Ask questions about favorite applications, good ideas, embarrassing things.

Mapping by locations

Place self relative to current location in downtown for current location and location where born.

Organize self by characteristics

Group by the following personal characteristics:

Technical

Employed | Entrepreneur


Creative

Rock, paper, scissors

Start by selecting a partner. Whoever loses becomes the cheerleader for the other person.

Winner: http://twitter.com/deinos

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12:45PM - Lunch

Salads and chicken. Bottled water.

13:45PM - Session preparation

14:15PM - Exploring intersections

Open discussion on the way that community and technology intersect.

How to create community? How can communities be sustained? How activities like MindCamp create a sense of community by increased exposure to the same set of people as a trust building exercise.

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15:00PM - Indie iPhone / mobile dev

People from:

http://www.tweetsville.com/ http://www.appsafari.com/games/1018/tap-tap-revolution/

Interface builder.

How to build iPhone application.

Interface builder uses standard MVC approach (i.e., the "V").

Ensure you have an NDA if you're not the developer.

Using location or accelerometer is a

Some of the Seattle XCoders SIG seattlexcoders.org

MacDev

Best audience for iPhone applications: 18 - 36yo women

Good motion capture for links on iPhone store to a video: ScreenFlow is the best application for capture of application work-flow.

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16:00PM - Beyond civilization / tribes

How are people creating communities on-line?

When creating data that is available to multiple social groups, what are the general types of data does one not display to diverse groups (e.g, politics and religion).

Is access to on-line communities increasing tolerance of those different.

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17:00PM - Objective C and iPhone development

Presenter: http://twitter.com/kinkadius

In order to work with Objective C, as used in iPhone development, Headfirst Design Patterns in order to be correctly informed about MVC.

Interface builder is the core tool.

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Author: Jason Walsh

j@wal.sh

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