January 19th, 2010

• Introductions and background from attendees of the meeting.
• Breon Nagy will be speaking on: "The Platform: More than just an app."
• Peter Pascale will be leading a panel discussion with Android developers.
• Dan Syrstad (alphamixr.net) - Alphamixr - an addicting word scramble puzzle game.
• Robert Green (batterypoweredgames.com) - Android game developer with multiple titles, including the popular Light Racer games (think Tron light cycles).
• Justin Grammens (mobilevidhub.com, trickiwikitrivia.com and the Mobile Twin Cities App) TrickiWiki - a 21st century trivia game with the story behind the trivia. Mobile VidHub - a one-stop, custom-brandable mobile video application.

December 15th, 2009

• Introductions and background from attendees of the meeting.
• "What's Newz in Mobile"
• Ian Schwartz of Studio Zero Seven will present on "The basics of rooting an Android based device."
• Justin Grammens of Recursive Awesome will present on the Mobile Twin Cities Android application he presented at Minnebar

November 17th, 2009

• Sponsored by Verizon Wireless
• Demo of Droid by Breon
• DEMOLicious! - A meeting full of mobile demos by local companies.
• Lisa Foote - MixMobi
• Julian Reytel - Sudden Deals
• Robert Green - 3D Light Racer
• Aaron Kardell - iGarage Sale
• Gangadhar Sulkunte - hLog
• Michael Valentiner - Pitchr
• Martin Grider - ActionChess
• Justin Grammens - Recursive Awesome

October 20th, 2009

• Robert Green of Battery Powered Games is presenting on "The business of mobile game development"
• Ryan Evans from Clockwork is presenting on "Taking your brand mobile."
• Gangadhar Sulkunte of hLog will share his open sourced iPhone application.

Septempber 15th, 2009

• Alex Brekken will demonstrate on a high level the Palm WebOS and the technologies involved on getting going with development on the platform.
• Matt Albiniak from Nerdery Interactive Labs - a division of Sierra Bravo will be presenting on "how to make a paycheck as a mobile developer".
• Justin Grammens and Sam Schroeder of Recursive Awesome will show some differences in a very trivial iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Palm Pre application they wrote. Code Sam and Justin wrote for the presentation is on GiHub:
• Android
• Blackberry
• iPhone
• Palm

August 18th, 2009

• Mark Jenkins of Marquis Mobile will be presenting on mobile and voice. Video can be found here
Breon Nagy will show off a new augmented reality twitter app on Android.

July 21st, 2009

• Kyle Cunningham from Mxapp will present on what Nokia has got up their sleeve?
• Lisa Foote of Kwingo will present on 'The three stages of prospect mobile readiness: tools for assessing your potential client's mobile knowledge and educating them about mobile possibilities'
• Open table / Fishbowl formatted discussion on native vs. write once run anywhere applications
• Have an idea for a presentation? Please contact Justin Grammens as the email address above if you are interested in presenting.
• Full agenda for the next meeting posted here.

June 16th, 2009

• Justin Grammens gave a rundown of topics related to mobile at the Google I/O Conference he attended.
• Mark Jenkins pressented on "Identifying your customer". Slides can be found here.
• A recap and notes from the meeting can be found here.

Sponsor:

Drinks sponsored by Ernest Grumbles, IP and startup attorney (and budding mobile entrepreneur).

May 19th, 2009

Meeting notes and post meeting discussion can be found here.

• Apps from an Android power user - Breon Nagy
• And a whole slew of round table discussions on mobile topics.

April 21th, 2009

Meeting notes: here

Excellent discussions and presentations by everyone! Thank you to Nick Bauman for speaking on the symantic web, mobile technologies and how it affects all of us as a society. Justin Grammens also lead a discussion on some of the features coming out on iPhone v3.0 and Android v1.5. Video and slides from the meeting at posted on the google group.

• Video of the meeting! Thanks to Mark Jenkins.
• Nick's slides here
• Justin's slides here

We received lots of new ideas and suggestions for future topics too. Looking forward another excellent meeting on May 19th!

March 17th, 2009

Thank you everyone for your attendance at our first meeting of Mobile Twin Cities. Excellent discussions by everyone! For those who were not able to attend, meeting notes and action items to handle moving forward from this meeting can be found here.

Looking forward to many upcoming meetings and getting a chance to know everyone in the group better. It's obvious from this initial meeting that interest in mobile technology is very high in the Twin Cities area.