January 24th Meeting - Preparing for Release to the App Store

[Christopher M. Judd]

Our next CIDUG meeting is January 24th and is a presentation by
Geoff Goetz of Compuware entitled "Preparing for Release to the App
Store".
The presentation will begin at 6:30.
For this event, we will be meeting at the OCLC. The address is

Kilgour Auditorium
6600 Kilgour Place
Dublin, Ohio 43017-3395

Abstract:

This presentation will take on the perspective of the independent
developer and what needs to be considered prior to releasing an App
onto Apple’s App Store. While the information shared will be useful to
larger companies and corporations, the assumed actor will be an
individual one person does it all perspective (as larger companies
would need to involve communications, marketing and legal
representation for many of the steps to a successful launch). The
presentation will include such topics as setting up a relationship
with Apple, preparing for a web presence, and how to handle user
feedback and suggestions. It will also go into device provisioning,
pricing, and the use of promo codes when getting people to use your
App for the first time.

Bio:

Geoffrey Goetz is a Mobile Architect at Compuware Corporation in
Columbus Ohio, as well as a published author for GigaOm's
TheAppleBlog. Geoffrey’s online articles have been picked up in
syndication by popular sites including USA Today, Money, Fortune,
Forbes and The New Your Times. Geoffrey is also a published book
author ("Mastering JBuilder") and veteran international speaker on a
variety of topics ranging from Win32, to Java, to Mobile. He has been
on the development scene in central Ohio since graduating from Ohio
State in 1992. Geoffrey has been a speaker on mobile development at
CodeMash, MobileX and the local CIDUG meetings. You may also recall
several presentations that Geoffrey has delivered Borland Developers
Conference as well as locally at COJUG as far back as the late 90's.
Geoffrey’s involvement on the mobile scene started with J2ME (as
featured in the January 2000 issue of JDJ) and includes such
ubiquitous platforms as Java Ring/Smart Card (when such things
existed). Geoffrey has also recently been involved in cross platform
and native development on both the iOS and Android platforms for
various Fortune 100 and 1000 companies.