The 5th annual Over the Air will be held on Friday & Saturday, the 1st & 2nd of June at Bletchley Park – for two days over 600 mobile developers & designers will be based at Station X, hacking in the shadows of the WWII Enigma & Lorenz code-breakers, and hanging out at the home of Colossus the world’s first electronic digital programmable computer … we’re planning on launching the Alan Turing Centenary Year celebrations in style!

Image by Michael Dales – Digital Flapjack

The whole community is invited to contribute to the grass-roots workshop stream where attendees can roll up their sleeves and tinker with new platforms, operating systems, APIs & SDKs; and tutorial sessions that feature real business cases, new insights and a healthy dollop of inspiration.

On Friday evening there will be a series of inspirational Ignite Bletchley Park talks, for which the submissions form will be opening up soon.  Attendees are invited to stay overnight so that they can work on ideas, apps and hacks on the fly – to be entered into the various Hackday competition categories and demo’ed on the second day. It’s a great vibe of bean bags, gadgets, knowledge sharing, hacking & chilling.

It’s FREE to attend, other than a small £5 donation to charity (yet to be determined), and a breeze to reach from London Euston Station. Keep on top of the latest news by subscribing to our RSS feed or following us on Twitter.

Check out the video that our very own Matthew Cashmore made in 2010 (when the event was at Imperial College London) explaining what Over the Air is all about:

Hope to see you there,
Margaret, Matthew & Dan