Up for a bit code-breaking with your code-making?
The 5th annual Over the Air will be held on Friday the 1st of Saturday the 2nd of June at Bletchley Park - for two days up to 600 mobile developers & designers 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 programmable computer....we're planning on launching the Alan Turing Centenary Year celebrations in style!
Over the Air is a unique tech-agnostic event for and by the developer community, featuring technical workshops 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. Last year we explored the themes of security and encryption, and this year we'd like to make a strong connection with Alan Turing's legacy.
On Friday evening there will be a series of inspirational Ignite Bletchley Park talks, which we invite the community to make proposals for. 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 hack-a-thon competition categories and demo’ed on the second day. It’s a great vibe of bean bags, gadgets, knowledge sharing, hacking & lots of good geekery.
It's free to attend, other than a small £5 donation to charity (yet to be deterimined), 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.
Hope to see you there,
Margaret, Matthew & Dan
WhyMCA hackday in Bologna – Feb 4th
On 4th of February 2012 in Bologna reality is going to be hacked. WhyMCA, in collaboration with Microsoft and Nokia, is proud to announce the first Italian hackaton focused on interaction between mobile and reality.
It has been 3 years since Ricardo, Alfredo, Andrea and Paolo (who many of you will have met at OTA10 and OTA11) founded WhyMCA in Italy as a Mobile Barcamp where professionals and passionate can meet together in an informal event. Since 2009 lot of things have changed and their main focus has moved on to mobile developers and designers - resulting in two developer conferences, four happyhours about cross-platform topics (from mobile gaming to in-app monetization and OpenData) and the first Italian mobile hackathon.
Now the team are ready for the next challenge: Hack Reality, a hackathon where attendees have the opportunity to create hacks on real stuff, mixing together mobile devices with controllers (Arduino, OpenPicus, Netduino), Augmented Reality (Wikitude), games (LEGO MINDSTORMS, Kinect), 3d printing, domotic systems and more. Everything will interact, everything will go mobile, everything in just one day.
The aim is high and tickets have sold out, but we thought you might enjoy watching what more than 80 Italian developers and designers will come up with at the CNR of Bologna on the 4th February.
Visit their site http://www.whymca.org and stay tuned!
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Riccardo Bosio: @ riccardobosio |
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Alfredo Morresi: @ rainbowbreeze |
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Andrea Piovani: @ andreaaa_p |
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Paolo Sinelli: @ pasine |
Mark the Date – June 1st & 2nd, 2012
We've booked a date for the 5th annual Over the Air, so get it in your calendars now!
Boistered by enthusiastic cheers of approval, we'll once again be holding the event at Bletchley Park, launching the Alan Turing Centenary year celebrations in style...
Mozilla Festival discount for OTA Attendees
The Mozilla Festival — Media, Freedom And the Web is on it's way to London town, and Dees (@cyberdees) is offering attendees of OTA11 a 50% discount when you choose the Student & Partner Community Member option when registering to attend.
The event will be held at the fantastic Ravensbourne College opposite the O2/Millenium Dome during November 4-6. Think 400+ developers, designers, journalists and kids looking at the Future of Journalism...
And you gotta love their byline: "Less Yak, More Hack"!
Power of One discount for OTA Attendees
As an attendee of Over The Air, the organisers of the Power of One Conference are offering a special 50% discount, just use the code OTA when booking at http://p0wer0f1.com (yes, the newsletter said 20% - it's now 50% FTW!)
Power Of One is a celebration of a tipping point. The power is now with the small agile organisation that through technology can change the world. This one day event is designed to motivate and inspire entrepreneurs and developers.
The event will be looking back at past experiences of starting tech businesses from scratch and looking forward to new possibilities and opportunities that abound, and will help you find the best ways to get your ideas heard and how to get funding to turn them into reality.
Tickets are only £99 + VAT (minus 50% with your discount code), which includes the conference, plenty of coffee, food, and a party at the venue after the talks with free beer.
You will also be one of the last people to set foot inside the iconic Battersea Power Station before it closes for long-term for redevelopment.
Audience Vote – The results are in!
....drum roll please....
The winner of £1,000 cash awarded by the most important people at the event (that's you) - is Stephen Nicholas for QuickeR.
(Read Stephen's blog post about his entry)
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And that’s a wrap.
It's taken us a couple of days to catch our breath - Over the Air 2011 was a truly amazing gathering of creative and talented developers, informative and passionate speakers, and companies that are wonderfully supportive of the whole community. Not to mention the weather. Wow, the weather! (An October record apparently)
It's exactly this buzzing combination of community & creativity & energy that makes all of the hard work that goes on behind the scenes absolutely worth it. When I see that first stream of attendees arriving at the registration tables, I always think "it's yours now, my part's done".
In fact, we hit a new record ourselves: over 600 people came to the event over the weekend, with nearly 500 with us for lunch on Friday. For any of you that were at the Friday evening Ignite Bletchley Park talks, I think you'll agree that an epic amount of pizza was consumed as well! The head-count in the Mansion at 2:00 am (which doesn't include those in the Marquee or in tents on the lawn) was 120. Amazing.
Although OTA11 was free to attend as always, we did ask attendees this year to make a small donation to the Bletchley Park Trust, and we're thrilled to announce that we managed to raise (at the time of writing this post) £2,293.77 on their behalf. (Please note that the National Museum of Computing is a separate charity, who would very much welcome your support as well.)
We're also chuffed that the BlueVia team chose OTA11 as the time and place to not only debut their new BlueVia t-shirts, but also to launch ConnFu (which is still in closed beta).
There is an Over the Air Group Pool over on Flickr, if you've taken photos, please add them there.
Many of you have taken Instagram shots, like this glorious view of sunrise over the tents on the lawn taken by mdales - we hope you upload those as well.
We've asked all of our speakers to upload their slides to Slideshare and tag them ota11 and overtheair; as well as adding them to Lanyrd.
Feel free to add stuff to our Facebook Page as well.
For those of you who missed it, you may want to check out the Twitter feed to get a feel for the goings-on.
Blogs
Adam Cohen-Rose's Workshop Session Notes at OTA11
Ubelly's Interview with Lyza Danger Gardner
Ubelly's write-up of Day One at Over the Air
Simon Judge on Over the Air and Kirin
Caroline Mockett's blog post about attending OTA11
Stephen Nicholas on his QuickR entry
Giorgio Venturi on Cracking the User Experience at OTA11
Ashley Burton's OTA11 Mobile Web Notes and Wrap-up
Dan Murphy's post on the Pearson Blog
Novoda on their Wearable Build Status Bot
Andrew Savory on Over the Air 2010, 2011
Tom Hume on Andrew Betts' talk about the FT iPad web app
Tom Hume on Open-sourcing Kirin at OTA
Franco Papeschi on One Day at Over the Air
Dale Lane on his competition entries at Over the Air 2011
Dale Lane on using BlueVia APIs
Media
photo by spiritquest on Flickr
Forbes - Bletchley Park Coders take on the Mobile World
BBC Internet Blog - Camping in a Digital Public Space: Over the Air 2011
The Fonecast - I'm no developer, but I still fell in love with Over the Air
Huffington Post - Hackers get Hired at Bletchley Park
TechCrunch - Mobile devs need to get to Over the Air this week
Guardian Apps Blog - London to become mobile centre of the world - for a week
Video
David Vella's "hastily put together video" on Vimeo.
Bill Thompson's Ignite Talk on YouTube
Terence Eden's Ignite Talk on YouTube
Podcasts
Audio report - The Fonecast - Interview with Dr. Sue Black, Daniel Appelquist & Paul Johnston
Thank-you to our amazing Sponsors
Over the Air 2011 would not have been possible without the financial support of these amazing companies who 'get' what we are all about.
But they don't just help us cover the costs - they run excellent informative workshops, bring out their dev teams to really dig in and help-out the overnight hackers, share lots of goodies, and donate absolutely brilliant prizes to the Hackday competition.
We owe them all a very big THANKS!!
OTA11 Hackday – Audience vote
The OTA11 Competition Entry Form
The OTA11 Hackday competitions have now opened and the entry form is live. Your submission needs to be made by lunch at 13:45 so that the judges have time to discuss all of the entries before the live demo's at 14:50.
Mobile apps, mobile web, mobile widgets, mobile device hacks... pretty much anything with a mobile spin is welcome. If you've gotten a brain wave for something that doesn't quite fit - let us know about it anyways, we have an 'other' category for just that purpose.
The demonstrations slots will be 90 seconds - that's right 90 seconds. You have a short time to show us what you've built so go straight for the good stuff. The Marquee will not have wifi, so if this is a crucial part of your hack - let us know in advance so we can set up with a hotspot.
You will be called on stage one at a time to show your stuff, after which the judges will leave to deliberate.
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