Hi everybody,

iPDC in Munich was a huge success [during iPhoneDevCamp 3], even though we could only host about 45 people at the venue.

Please check out our page including all videos and slides (in German language) at http://boinx.com/events/iphonedevcamp/

We also posted a short story about streaming the whole event using our own product BoinxTV: http://boinx.com/boinxtv/usecases/iphonedevcamp/

Greetings from Munich,

f l o r i a n

What follows is the list of the winners, along with the text from their original submissions. We hope to post later this week more detail about the winners, what made them special to the judges, and also talk about some of the significant submissions that also deserve mention. If you were in the audience, we encourage you to share in the comments of this post what you liked about any of the Hackathon submissions. In the meantime, if you have any questions about the Hackathon (or wish to make clarifications if you are one of the winners) you can send email to the Hackathon Master-of-Ceremonies Christopher Allen.

Thank you everyone who participated in the Hackathon for your passion in developing for the iPhone, and for demonstrating our values of contribution, sharing, openness, and “can do” attitude that made this this the best iPhoneDevCamp yet!

Best iPhone Open Source

AR Kit

open source at http://www.iphonear.org

(Chris Haseman, Zac White, Charles Ruelle, Arshad Tayyeb, Sid Gabriel Hubbard)

An open source ui library for displaying location based data in spherical coordinate systems mirroring UI Kit on the phone. A list of CLLocation objects can be submitted and our library will handle drawing of the locations on screen.

Best iPhone Open Source – Honorable Mention

OpenFlow: a CoverFlow API replacement for the iPhone

open source at http://apparentlogic.com/openflow

(Alex Fajkowski)

A free, open source replacement for Apple’s private CoverFlow API. The initial release is simple, but it is also efficient and very fast, even on first generation iPhones.

Coolest iPhone Application

Avatar Wall

open source at http://tinyurl.com/avatarwall

Remember the thrill of seeing the Live App Wall at WWDC?

Now you can take that excitement with you everywhere, right in your pocket.

AvatarWall recreates the experience of the WWDC App Wall using the Twitter avatars of iPhoneDevCamp followers, and whenever one of them posts a tweet, their icon pulsates to help you more easily identify the source of the latest banter. Just like the app wall, the avatars are sorted by color and spread across multiple monitors, or, in this case, phones.

Now, when you encounter Mae West, she can ask you, “Is that 2500 people in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?”

Coolest iPhone Application – Honorable Mention

Tick Talk

http://idea.wirus.com

(Jot Kali)

Soon to be released on app store. Finally a piece of the future is here as seen in Sci Fi movies. The alarm clock wakes you up by speaking news headlines from the feed of your choice. ‘ Good Morning Sir …. here are the headlines ….’

The App also introduces a horizontal UIPickerView, which is far more space efficient than the current PickerView

Most Useful iPhone Application

CarPark

http://?

(Ramin Firoozye)

Have you ever gotten a parking ticket or forgotten where you parked your car?

Tell CarPark how much money you’ve put in the meter and set a user-definable alarm (through push notification service) to remind you to get back to your car before you get a ticket.

CarPark allows you to mark where you parked your car with your iPhone’s GPS and find your way back to your car (via integrated MapKit). It even lets you capture what floor, color-code, or section in a multi-story parking lot you parked in.

You can also save notes or take a picture of your surroundings (or rental car) so you can use it on trips.

With an iPhone you’ll never get parking tickets again.

Best iPhone Developer Tool / Helper

Mobtest

open source at http://dev.mobtest.com

(Peter Robinett, Jesus Fernandez, Lakshi Redd)

Mobtest is a web service for mobile application user testing. Developers can efficiently invite testers and run tests, while testers get to live on the cutting edge of mobile apps and contribute to testing apps. An iPhone library that developers can easily add to their projects lets testers easily submit screenshots and feedback as they test the apps.

Most Educational iPhone App

OER Commons

open source at http://www.oercommons.org

(Mark Graham, Don McConnell)

An iPhone interface to the Open Education Resource (OER) Commons website

Best Social iPhone App

Foodspotting Lite

open source http://? — info at http://www.twitter.com/foodspotting/

(Alexa & Seth Andrzejewski, Peter Lee, Warren Stringer, Aaron Bannert)

Foodspotting will be a visual food app that lets you find DISHES, not just restaurants: Foodspotters take pictures of foods they love, enabling Foodseekers to find whatever they’re craving and see the foods at any restaurant. While it will ultimately be powered by Foursquare-like competition and supported by restaurants and media companies who sponsor cravings and scavenger hunts, this lite version built during DevCamp makes it easy to post and browse food sightings using Twitter.

Best iPhone Game

Elftard’s Critical Fumble

http://elftard.com

(Anca Mosoiu, Jeff Jouppi, Joe McMahon)

Are you dead? Are you alive? The critical fumble will tell. A unique dice rolling application for roleplaying games.

Best iPhone Web App

iUI 0.30 & iUI iPhoneDevCamp Theme

open source at http://iui.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/music.html

(Sean Gilligan, Jeffrey Jones, Kimberley Sabo)

iUI 0.30 adds Hardware-assisted CSS Transitions for the slide animation and numerous bug fixes.

We are also adding theme support and have an iPhoneDevCamp theme developed and demonstrated in the Music Sample.

There are many team members that have contributed (particularly Joe Hewitt) see the project site. The list above is of people who worked on iUI at iPhoneDevCamp 3.

Best New iPhone Developer

Bubblo

open source at http://github.com/Annika-iPhoneDevCamp/Bubblo/tree/master

(Annika, Carlos)

Bubblo is a game of chance for the iPhone. Press a button or shake to play, and get either a crown (Win!) or a hairball (Lose).

Best Student iPhone App

CongLib

(students: Jason Dreisbach, Alexander Razo-Myers, Hoa Long Tam, Mayank Maheshwari)

open source at http://www.jtdreisb.com/src

Creating a iPhone native library catalog for the library of congress.

Best iPhone App Submitted by an iPhoneDevCamp Satellite

Amerigo

open source at https://netfiles.uiuc.edu:443/farivar2/www/AmeriGo.zip

(Reza Farivar, Shuyi Chen, Nicholas Hoyt)

AmeriGo is a game framework for exploring locations. Google Earth is used for constructing games such as scavenger hunts, field trips or exploring any set of map points.

It verifies that the player has reached a location within 10 meters, optionally poses a question to be answered and then guides her to the next location. New locations are unlocked as the player reaches each location and correctly answers the question.

Submitted from Urbana-Champaign satellite

Highest Potential iPhone Startup Idea (Prize sponsored by iFund)

Winner #1:

Nurse Brain

http://www.sharewheels.com/nurse_brain/v0.9.zip

(Ray Valdes, Mike Kirkwood, Yaofeng Wen, Rylan Valdes)

A communicator for nurses to hand-off important data about patients during shift change. Nurse shift exchange is a targeted area to improve healthcare. This app was inspired by the Kaiser Innovation teams, IDEO, and the nurses at Kaiser.

The team met this weekend and took Polka’s wireframes and comps to crank out a prototype version.

Winner #2:

OWLE Video Mount

http://www.wantowle.com

(Graham McBain, Harold B. Smith IV)

OWLE is a hardware mount for the 3G and 3GS. I’ts purpose is to bring traditional features of camcorders and cameras.

Best Use of iPhone Push Notification (Prize sponsored by iLime)

Z2Notify and Z2NotifyMe

open source at http://github.com/Z2Live/Z2Notify/tree/master

(Damon Danieli)

Z2Notify and Z2NotifyMe are Mac and iPhone tools that allow you to debug the Apple Push Notification service without a server.

Best iPhone Health App (Prize sponsored by Polka)

Chief Medical Officer

open source at http://chiefmedicalofficer.appspot.com

(Bess Ho, Myk Klemme, Jen McCabe, Chip Vanek)

An iPhone app for patient access to the Google Health web-based Personal Health Record (PHR) platform.

Technology Use: HTML, CSS, JavaScript (via Titanium Mobile framework), Python, Google App Engine, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, JSON, JQuery

Best Money Making iPhone App (Prize sponsored by Mobclix)

Getaround

http://singularityu.org/bloggers/2009/08/5-tips-to-winning-a-hack-a-thon-competition/

(Charles Du, Elliot Kroo, Anand Gupta, Jonah Williams, John Varghese, Sam Zaid, VJ Anma, Jessica Scorpio, Sarah Sclarsic, Bentley Turner, Sofya Yampolsky, Gregor Hanuschak, and Miguel Elasmar).

Getaround is a carsharing community that let car owners rent out their car to trusted drivers everywhere. Think zipcar + ebay.

Best iPhone App for Accessibility (Prize sponsored by Yahoo)

iSign

http://?

(Aramys Miranda, Hernan Pelassini, Dan Raju)

Opening up people accessibility on the iPhone by introducing a gesture based sign language.

Ironcoder (this year’s challenge: best app using core animation and audio)

Lander Code

http://?

(Dave Wilson)

A simple moon lander game that includes the source code and a lecture explaining how it’s coded.

Today is the deadline for the submitting your iPhone App to the Hackathon. It doesn’t need to be a complete app – find something undocumented and share it! Show us how you made something work! Create a cool demo of a feature we didn’t know about! Remember, your iPhone App doesn’t have to be perfect, just be enough that other people can learn from it!

Eligibility

The complete rules are on the Contest page. But in summary, your submitted iPhone App must not currently be available via the iTunes App Store OR if it is available, you must have source code available on a public website. iPhone Web Apps are always eligible. In addition, please do not submit iPhone OS 3.1 or Jailbroken apps for the Hackathon.

Entry Deadline 1pm

All entries for the Hackathon Show should be submitted to the Hackathon web site at http://developer.yahoo.com/hacku/register . If there are more submissions then what we have time to demonstrate, submissions that offer source code will be given first priority, then submissions that the moderators think are “cool”. While you are waiting, help us rearrange the lunch room for the Show.

Each satellite iPhoneDevCamp should have one or two iPhone Apps selected from their attendees to submit to the Hackathon Show. They should prepare a short ~3m video and email it to ChristopherA@iPhoneDevCamp.org before 1:45pm PDT.

The Hackathon Show 2pm

The Hackathon Show will begin in the lunch room. Demos should be around 3 minutes, so practice your presentation before you get to the podium. We will have two overhead projectors set up so that we can transition from demo to demo quickly. You can also use a Mac with the iPhone Simulator to demonstrate your App. Demos from iPhoneDevCamp satellites should be an ~3 minute video file.

We look forward to seeing your apps!

We are pleased to announce that Chi-Hua Chien will be our Friday night keynote speaker. Chi-Hua is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, where he is actively involved in the iFund, KPCB’s $100 million iPhone investment fund. Chi-Hua will give a short talk followed by open Q&A with the audience on Friday at 6:30pm.

In addition, the KPCB iFund is sponsoring a contest during the Hackathon this year. The two winners of the Highest Potential Startup Idea contest will each have a lunch+pitch with KPCB at their office in Menlo Park, CA.

Bio:

Chi-Hua Chien joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 2007. At KPCB he focuses on investments in the iFund (mobile applications), consumer internet, and digital media infrastructure. Prior to KPCB, Chi-Hua worked with Accel Partners as a Venture Advisor and Associate focusing on software as a service, consumer Internet, and online advertising infrastructure. Chi-Hua was instrumental in Accel’s investments in AdECN (acquired by MSFT) and Facebook, while also working on the firm’s investments in BitTorrent, fbFund, Glam, Trulia, and YuMe Networks.

Previously, Chi-Hua was the Director of Marketing at hosted software provider Coremetrics, where he led the marketing and inside sales teams as the company grew from 20 to more than 200 customers. He also served as the company’s interim CFO through two rounds of venture funding. Chi-Hua’s prior roles include corporate development at Google, business development at start-up eCoverage, and investment banking with Morgan Stanley’s Technology Group.

Chi-Hua has an MS in Industrial Engineering, BS in Industrial Engineering, and BA in Economics, all from Stanford University where he was named a Mayfield Fellow and President’s Scholar. He also earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Follow Chi-Hua on Twitter here.

Thank you iPhoneDevCamp 3 sponsors, both old and new. Here’s a list of the additional iPhoneDevCamp 3 Sponsors:

iPhone in Action by Manning

http://www.manning.com/callen/

Appcelerator

http://www.appcelerator.com

FastMac

http://www.fastmac.com

Belkin

http://www.belkin.com

SiK

http://www.sik.com

AdMob

http://www.admob.com

Tapulous

http://www.tapulous.com

Tapjoy

http://www.tapjoy.com

Macworld

http://www.macworld.com

Hands-On Mobile

http://developer.handson.com/

Brian “@BT” Transeau, known as a pioneer in the trance genre, has just shipped an iPhone App of his own called Sonifi. This app allows the user to control BT’s signature “stutter edit” technique and remix his latest single, Rose of Jericho.

We hope you’ll join us in Sunnyvale for this exclusive performance.

» Register Now «

Email press@iphonedevcamp.org for Press attendance.

That said, I am pleased to say that we have some awesome (and generous) sponsors this year. The sponsor deadline is Friday, July 24th – only a few days from now. As we’re likely to get a second batch of sponsors this upcoming week, I’ll be doing a second sponsor post later, updating you on the new additions.

I invite you to visit our sponsors:

Yahoo!

http://developer.yahoo.com/

Medialets

http://www.medialets.com/

DollarApp

http://www.dollarapp.com/

Small Society

http://smallsociety.com/

PayPal

http://www.paypal.com

AppSpace by ZAGG

http://www.appspace.com/

Twittelator Pro

http://www.stone.com/Twittelator/

Mobclix

http://www.mobclix.com/

Blinksale

http://www.blinksale.com/

iPhone Life

http://www.iphonelife.com/

Pinch Media

http://www.pinchmedia.com/

Wirefly

http://www.wirefly.com/att

Urban Airship

http://www.urbanairship.com/

Sugarcube

http://www.sugarcubesw.com/

iLime

http://www.ilime.com/

Greystripe

http://www.greystripe.com/

Tadow!

http://www.tadow.com/

EZ-Tracks

http://www.ez-tracks.com/

Offerpal Media

http://www.offerpalmedia.com/

DeviceAnywhere

http://www.deviceanywhere.com/

Push.IO

http://www.push.io

Andrew has been living by his wits for 21 years as a solo developer, and has some great stories to tell. He’ll also be demonstrating a few items for us on stage, starting at 10am.

Next up is the “Poster Child of iPhone Development” Steve Demeter (creator of Trism). Steve says, “I really owe it to Raven for encouraging me to quit my day job and go full time by myself at last year’s iPhoneDevCamp.”

Starting at 10:30am, Steve will be debuting his speech “Doing It Yourself”, in which he tells the tale of going live with the initial launch of the iTunes App Store. The lessons learned, as well as the experience of riding the coat-tail of Apple’s marketing machine, should make for an inspiring presentation.

If you haven’t already, please Register at Eventbrite. This is just the first in a series of announcements guaranteed to sell out the venue at Yahoo!

Three weeks from today on Friday, July 31st, hundreds of iPhone developers, designers, and entrepreneurs will descend upon the Yahoo! Headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, for 2 1/2 days of coding, sharing, learning, and having fun. iPhoneDevCamp, in its third year, is the second largest gathering of iPhone developers in the world – second only to Apple’s own Worldwide Developers Conference.

In the past two years, we’ve been able to rely solely upon sponsors for all of the costs to run the event. And boy, there are costs – from food to drinks to banners to badges to t-shirts to everything else that is needed to produce a conference. It’s not cheap, but we also don’t spend lavishly, either.

And here’s the thing… Do you know how much money ends up in the pockets of the organizers and volunteers? Zero. Everyone involved in the production of this event is 100% volunteer. All time, all resources, all effort put forth by the organizers and the volunteers is free. In fact, last year, some of the organizers ended up spending money out of pocket for certain expenses and never asked for reimbursement. We do this because we are passionate believers in the iPhone platform, our community, and this emerging (and exciting) new economy that is blossoming around Apple truly exceptional innovation with the iPhone.

So, as you contemplate the $50 registration fee this year, know that all of it, every single penny, is going to make the event a better event, and not into the pockets of any individuals involved in the production. And, should we by some fluke end up with money leftover from the event at the end – we’re going to ask the iPhoneDevCamp attendees to vote on where that money will go – be it a non-profit cause, micro-loans, or maybe even sponsoring students to attend WWDC next year. Who knows!

Think about the state of our economy in 2007 and 2008 and compare that to the state of the economy this year. Relying upon sponsors to cover 100% of the cost was a safe assumption the past two years, but not this year. We are attracting sponsors this year, and I expect a healthy number of them, but we simply cannot expect sponsors to cover all of the event costs in 2009. So, we made the decision to distribute the costs of running the event this year to roughly 50/50. Based on our estimated event costs and our desire for no more than 500 attendees, $50 was a nice, round number in that cost range. If we end up with more sponsors than expected, that means more amenities, more giveaways, and more prizes for the Hackathon than we has planned for.

The event is three weeks from today and we still have just over 300 tickets available. We had hoped that three weeks out (today), we’d have less than 200 remaining tickets. The primary purpose of this post is a call to action for all of you out there to help us fill this event in three weeks, and serve the needs of 500 members of our iPhone community.

What are you getting for that $50?

* All of your meals and drinks from Friday night until Sunday late afternoon. For most people, that’s more than $50.
* An iPhoneDevCamp badge.
* An iPhoneDevCamp t-shirt.
* Giveaways and prizes for the Hackathon.
* Knowing that your money helped to cover shared costs at the event, such as banners, equipment rental, etc.
* Whatever else we can afford based on attendance.

We hope to see you there. This is going to be a great event. Just think about all of the progress the iPhone platform has made since iPhoneDevCamp 2 last year. 60,000+ apps, iPhone OS 3.0, new powerful hardware. Imagine the possibilities at iPhoneDevCamp 3.

Register now.

We are thrilled to announce that Yahoo! will sponsor and host this year’s iPhoneDevCamp! Formed just a week after the launch of the original iPhone device, this independent group meets every year to promote the work of developers and designers for iPhone and iPod touch. The event will feature a large gathering on Yahoo!’s Sunnyvale campus, along with simultaneous Satellite events to connect developers around the world.

Yahoo! Inc. Sunnyvale, CA
July 31 – August 2nd, 2009
Cover Charge: $50

All fees will go toward the production of the event. iPhoneDevCamp is a not-for-profit organization, and Yahoo! is contributing the space, and event support throughout the weekend. We’ve been working behind the scenes with Yahoo! for weeks, to make sure there is enough space, power, and networking for approximately 500 participants. Although there will be no actual “camping,” (i.e. no tents on the Yahoo! lawn), participants are welcome all weekend, starting at 5pm on Friday and ending at 6pm on Sunday.

This is going to be a blast!  Check out some pictures of the space.

Registration via Eventbrite is now open.  (Please review travel information before registration.) See also additional Sponsorship opportunities, or contact Dom for Volunteer opportunities.

See us also on Upcoming.org.

Can’t wait!