Please join us for this special August 2010 meeting

Date: Wednesday August 18th, 2010
Time: 6pm
Location: Steady Rain
Prizes: Software licenses, books, and more!

Presentation Topic: DotNetNuke Mobile Hackathon Kick Off
Speaker: Joe Brinkman, DotNetNuke Corporation
Distinguished Guest: Chris Hammond, DotNetNuke Corporation

Meeting Sponsor: Refreshments provided by Engage Software

Important Notes:

As you may have noticed above, the meeting will not be held in Creve Coeur this month. We'll be meeting at the Steady Rain offices in Soulard. It will also be held on a Wednesday instead of a Monday! These changes were made for this month only and are to accommodate more attendees and our out of town guests.

What is a Hackathon?

From the Hackathon website: "Hackathons are developer events with a goal of increasing developer knowledge on a specific technology aspect in a casual, collaborative environment. They are also designed to encourage participation by people who are not familiar with the technology, basically providing them with an immersive quick start."

Ok, what about THIS Hackathon?

The "Mobile DotNetNuke" Hackathon focuses on building mobile applications that interact with DotNetNuke.

From the Mobile DotNetNuke Event Announcement: "The basic premise of the Hackathon is this, we want to help stimulate your minds into doing some mobile development for DotNetNuke. To do that, we are going to be presenting a sample DotNetNuke mobile application, an application that will run on the Android Smartphone OS. We will be demonstrating how you can use some common development tools such as Appcelerator’s Titanium Developer to get up and running on developing mobile applications that interact with DotNetNuke and work on various mobile devices."

Helpful links:

Getting started with Appcelerator Titanium, Chris Hammond
Accelerating Mobile Application Development, Joe Brinkman

Do we have to code all night?

Well, you can if you want, but you'll probably want to do it at home! The meeting is the typical user group meeting length, and serves as a both an introduction to mobile interaction with DotNetNuke and as an orientation and a kick off for the Hackathon. The idea is to figure out what your project is at the meeting, and for you to work on it on your own over the next week. The submission deadline is tentatively scheduled for August 26th.

Participate Online

The meeting will be streamed live from the DotNetNuke.com website.