Mobile Camp Atlanta at King Plow

Saturday, July 18th I attended Mobile Camp Atlanta 2009, an barcamp-style event held at the King Plow Center on Marietta Street. The topic of this unconference was development of applications for mobile platforms with most sessions focused on iphone. The King Plow center, a renovated plow factory (1902-1986) is a fantastic venue to host an event. Sponsors including Georgia Tech Research Institute provided a great breakfast spread with the best selection of fruit I've ever seen at any event. I appreciated the unconference hours, 8:30am until 12:30pm, so it was a good way to start off the weekend without taking up too much of the weekend. Perfect timing.

Web Entrepreneurs - The Next Wave

The July meetup of Atl Web Entrepreneurs was quite an event with around 110 attendees stuffed into the Hodges room in the Centergy Building at Tech Square. With so many warm bodies the Hodges room heated up to uncomfortable levels...which is another story in itself. The subject of the meetup was How Google Wave Changes Everything (or not)." In spite of the large crowd I managed to snag a great seat in the back next to a wall plug for my power cord. I spent my time divided between listening to presentations and following #awe posts on twitter. We saw a short demo of Wave, several presentations, and heard lively discussion about what wave is and isn't which I believe is yet to be determined. An unforgettable moment occurred half way through the meeting when @stephenfleming the new Vice Provost of Georgia Tech's Enterprise Innovation Institute showed up in shorts and t-shirt with fans from his garage to help cool down the room. Overall was a great meeting and I'm looking forward to the August meetup. July will be hard to beat.