Good morning, Palm Pre World!

We’ve already done a broadcast with Jason Phillips, regarding development on the Palm Pre.

We’re broadcasting a similar interview every hour on the hour with another developer here at the Palm Pre Dev Camp.

AT 1PM We are broadcasting a talk by Eric Marthinsen of Agile Commerce. The topic is MOJO: It’s Sources and Inspirations, where Eric talks about where Mojo came from, how it is similar to and how it differs from other frameworks used for application development

More talks coming tomorrow, we’ll put them online asw e schedule them.

Hi everybody,

After a very successful Palm Pre meetup in New York a couple of weeks ago (Forbes article http://tinyurl.com/krkvep), BlueSwitch is now hosting the preDevCamp in New York City! It’s going to be a fun event, where we’ll

• program a fun app (TBD) in webOS and Mojo and watch some streaming videos from other world-wide WebOS events, including the streams from the Palm Pre development team live from Palm HQ in Sunnyvale!
• have a few speakers of our own, including Eric Marthinsen of Agile Commerce, which authored the FlightView app in the App Catalog
• eat pizza and subway sandwiches, drink beer and soda
• compare iPhone, Android and Palm Pre development, with a look at each environment
• geek out with other cool software developers and discuss, discuss, discuss

Anyone with a fun idea for the app for the hackathon, drop me an email at michael @hhht blueswitch dahhht caahhhm or meghan, same domain.

BREAKING NEWS Eric Marthinsen will be leading the Hackathon here in New York! Get ready for some serious coding, folks. He don’t mess ’round, people!

Also: despite being the newest entrant into the mobile platform space, the Mojo application framework carries itself with an air of maturity that belies its true age. In a special talk, Eric will describe the key aspects of Mojo development and demonstrate how it is based on the solid foundation of tools web developers use already. Don’t miss this, it’s going to be GREAT!

BREAKING NEWS Welcome to Alex Cone and CodeFab, the premiere Mac/Cocoa development shop in New York City, who will be sponsoring Saturday’s food and drink! Hungry and thirsty developers everywhere salute you, Alex!

Check out the video from our Palm Pre Meetup at BlueSwitch on July 17!

www.blueswitch.com/palmpremeetup

Here’s the SCHEDULE  –

Friday Night  — 7pm – 10pm

Intro, general discussion of the marketplace and opportunities by Michael Prenez-Isbell, and an install-fest where we get your Windows, Linux or OSX box up and running with the webOS/Mojo development environment.. Hey, it’s Noo Yawk, y’doowhuch yagotta do.

You didn’t know that dowwuch and yagotta were words? They are downtown!

Saturday — 10am to 6pm

We work on our hackathon  project in the morning, then snarf some serious New York Pizza. Then in the afternoon we’ll chill with some some streaming videos from Palm HQ and other sites around the world! Eric Marthinsen will be there to take us on a deep dive of underlying Mojo and webOS structure. Bring deep pressure suits, we’re going ALL the way down.

Sunday — 10am – 4pm

The hackathon blazes forth in all its glory,  to completion. Subway sandwiches and beer and soda at noon! More streaming videos in the afternoon and a Surprise Speaker! Meaning we don’t know who it is yet, but one is coming!

More details to come, so watch this page!

We’ll be meeting at:

BlueSwitch

61 Broadway

14th Floor Conference Room

New York NY 10014

Take the 4,5,6,2,3 to Wall Street stop, A to Broadway/Nassau stop, 1 to Rector Street stop. We’re on Broadway a couple of steps from Wall Street, a couple of doors south of Trinity Church on the same side of the street.

More details to come!

BlueSwitch and Michael Prenez-Isbell are proud to announce that they are hosting the New York City preDevCamp!

The event takes place Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday morning-afternoon. BlueSwitch is hosting Friday and Sunday, and Michael Prenez-Isbell is personally hosting on Saturday.

The event will be hosted on the 14th Floor at BlueSwitch HQ in NYC, 61 Broadway down near the Wall Street stop on the 4,5 and 6 trains.

Watch this page for forthcoming details!

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Michael Prenez-Isbell

Director for Mobile Development

BlueSwitch

I just released a post on whurley.com entitled “Phone Warz: Revenge Of The Palm?” discussing how ever since I helped pull together iPhoneDevCamp with Raven Zachary and Chris Messina back in 06, Ive been hawking the other manufacturers looking for a legit challenge to the iPhones throne; secretly to have another event.

Anyway, I was discussing this whole scenario with @Giovanni and @DanCrumb this weekend, and we had quite an amusing round of what-ifs. We had so much fun bumpin our gums, we decided to up the ante. Today @Giovanni, @DanCrumb and I (@whurley) are launching preDevCamp 2009.

The event will be held in around 60 cities around the world exactly one week after the U.S. release of the Palm Pre. Since the phone is Linux+WebKit, development should be easy for us to share the love. Tell your friends. Invite your neighbors. Weve got satellite events lined up in over 30 cities around the world. If you want to enlist, visit the website and tell us your city. If theres not a leader in that city, then you just got promoted.