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We?re celebrating all things PhoneGap and want you to join us! Come to our second annual PhoneGap Day on Friday, July 20th in Portland, Oregon.
Part conference, part celebration, expect a fun and informative day packed with people who are using PhoneGap as part of their mobile app development. Meet the PhoneGap team and connect with other PhoneGap developers from IBM, Facebook, and many more. You?ll hear about the latest PhoneGap news and what?s coming next!
At OSCON? Great! Stick around in Portland and join us. PhoneGap Day falls on the last day of OSCON, so come by for more great speakers and socializing with others like you who use and love PhoneGap.
// REGISTRATION + FEES 
Registration for PhoneGap Day is live! For a limited time SAVE 50% off your registration, thanks to our friends at Intel. Hurry because these discounted tickets will sell out! Your $50 registration includes:
- Access to key conversations around PhoneGap, open source and mobile app development
- A special first look at what?s coming in PhoneGap and what?s new for PhoneGap Build
- Catered breakfast, lunch, and beer & snacks throughout the day
- Special PhoneGap Swag!
// SCHEDULE
We'll start the day with breakfast and registration at 9am with breaks for snacks and lunch. We'll end the day around 5:30 for beers and mingling.
// SPEAKERS
Andrew Lunny Lead Engineer, PhoneGap Build | @alunny
Andrew is a computer scientist at Adobe, and author of the comically outdated "PhoneGap: Beginner's Guide", released by Packt Publishing. In his spare time he plays FIFA and drinks coffee/whisky/whiskey.
Brian LeRoux SPACELORD!1!! | @brianleroux
Brian declined to write a bio because talking in the third person weirds me out man.
Dan Silivestru Co-Founder of @tinyhippos acquired by RIM in 2011 | @confusement
Don Coleman Director, Chariot Solutions | @doncoleman
Don leads the mobile practice at Chariot Solutions, where he gives equal love to all things web and native. He's the author behind the PhoneGap NFC plugin and secretly likes Windows Phone 7. Chariot Solutions is a consulting firm based out of Philadelphia with a strong focus on mobile, especially PhoneGap.
James Burke Open source web developer. Mozilla Labs, RequireJS, Dojo | @jrburke
Open source web developer[1] focusing on JavaScript code structure for web projects. Builds RequireJS[2] and volo[3]. Works in Mozilla Labs[4], and previously was a core contributor for Dojo[5].
Fil Maj Master Exploder | @filmaj
Fil's life is best summed up with a song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80DtQD5BQ_A&t=44s.
Gord Tanner Code Poet, RIM | @gordtanner
Gord Tanner was one of the members of the @tinyHippos team that worked on the @RippleEmulator. Ripple has always worked closely with @phonegap to build up a great testing and development experience. When @BlackBerry acquired tinyHippos Gord was able to start working and contributing more to open source. He has since started working on the CordovaJS project and building a unified layer for javascript across all the Cordova supported platforms.
Greg Avola Co-Founder and CTO of @untappd | @gregavola
Living in the craft beer haven of New York City, Greg is the co-founder and lead developer for Untappd, a mobile beer check-in service. While some people enjoy reading books or watching movies, Greg?s passion is to code. Being able to combine his passion for development and craft beer allowed Untappd to be born. Greg is also the creator of When Will I Be Mayor, a popular tool that allows users to track their mayorship process on the web. It has been featured in TechCrunch, Mashable and CNN.
Libby Baldwin Developer, Mobile Developer Solutions | @libbybaldwin
Libby has been writing the popular tutorial series Two-Minute Tutorials (TMTs) at Mobile Developer Solutions since the early days of PhoneGap. She enjoys helping PhoneGap users ramp up their Android app development with instructionalvideos and free demo apps.
Matt Kelly Engineer on Developer Relations at Facebook | @mattwkelly
Matt is an engineer on Developer Relations, where he works with developers to make their products more social. Working on the Facebook Platform since its inception, he has collaborated with more than a hundred companies including Spotify, Yelp, Pandora, CNN, and ESPN. Prior to joining Facebook, he was the lead server engineer at Large Animal Games and launched over a dozen games on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Cyworld, and Twitter. Recently, he won Best Hack at the MTV O Music Awards for Crowdjuke.
Michael Brooks Software Barista | @mwbrooks
Orphaned as a child, Michael Brooks was raised by his elderly Uncle Ben and Aunt May. Academically gifted, he displayed an uncanny affinity for Computer Science with speciality in signal processing and computer vision. While attending a developer meetup at the age of 26, Michael was bitten on the hand by a radioactive Nitobi employee, empowering him with the company's proportional open source belief, community, and ability to ship products. Now disguised as mwbrooks and teamed with Adobe, Michael slings between vim, GitHub, Twitter, and IRC to protect the innocent, confront evil, and make PhoneGap & Apache Cordova a safer framework for the future of application development.
Pamela Fox 100% Organic Free-Range Developer | @pamelafox
Since discovering Java applets as a kid, Pamela has loved using web technologies to make apps and teaching other people how to use them. She went to USC for her BS & MS in computer science, spent five years in Google Developer Relations, and after Google unceremoniously killed Wave, she left to go do her own thing. Now she's spending her time writing her own apps using a mix of Python, JS, and PhoneGap...and catching up on everything she missed while at Google, like trampoline classes and you know, life.
Patrick Mueller IBMer working in Emerging Technologies on Web Stuff? | @pmuellr
Patrick Mueller is a software developer at IBM in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina. He?s been working on web software and mobile software for a long time, in many languages, across many OSes. Patrick is currently working on the weinre mobile web debugger and other Cordova related things.
Paul Beusterien Principal at Mobile Developer Solutions | @paulbeusterien
Paul is a long-time tools developer who founded Mobile Developer Solutions to help web developers create mobile apps. Paul developed the AppLaud Eclipse plug-in to make it easy to create PhoneGap Android projects. Paul createdAppLaud Cloud that enables PhoneGap, Weinre, Ripple apps to be developed inside of a Web browser.
Simon MacDonald Advisory Software Developer, IBM | @macdonst
Simon MacDonald is an Advisory Software Engineer in IBM?s Emerging Internet Technologies Group. Simon has over fifteen years of development experience and has worked on a variety of projects including object oriented databases, police communication systems, speech recognition and unified messaging. His current focus is contributing to the open source PhoneGap project to enable developers to create cross platform mobile applications using Web technologies. Simon?s been building web applications since the days they were written using shell scripts and he still has nightmares about those dark days.
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