I apologize that I had to leave early. That morning I won tickets to
Early in the meeting we had some conversations about new app ideas. I
recall: TV Guide, IMDb, and Baby Monitor.
That's all for now. See you next month!
breon
> Hello everyone,
> Just wanted to followup with meeting notes from our last meeting on
> April 21st. What an amazing turnout! It's very exciting to see such
> high interest and excitement around mobile technology here in the Twin
> Cities. Here's a quick rundown of some of the discussion and decisions
> that were made at the last meeting.
> ** NEXT MEETING IS MAY 19th. PUT IT ON YOUR CALENDARS! **
> 1. Location & Date - Everyone seemed to agree that Refactr ( A BIG
> THANK YOU to Refactr -http://refactr.comfor allowing us to use your
> office to host our meetings ), was a good location and the third
> Tuesday of the month is a good evening. We will continue to use this
> night and location going forward.
> 2. Mobile Mondays and starting a local chapter - No one had any
> thoughts or heard of the organization, so for now we won't pursue
> becoming a local chapter.
> 3. Justin Grammens brought to attention a job post posted by MobileTC
> member Damon Allison about a position for a smartphone developer at
> UHG. Good to see companies looking to specifically hire smartphone
> developer talent locally. Details on the position at:http://is.gd/u4zH
> 4. Video. Mark Jenkins used his phone to record the meeting. Thank you
> Mark! Video can be found here:http://www.livecast.com/mjenkinsI am
> interested in keeping the record of meetings going and am open to any
> suggestions that might allow for good quality audio and video. I'm
> open to purchasing some good mics or camera if needed. Please contact
> me if you have suggestions.
> Announcements
> 1. PAGES - As people may or not know, there is a "pages" feature on
> google group that allows people to create pages for the group. General
> pages can be found here -http://groups.google.com/group/mobile-twin-cities/web
> This is where we keep the meeting agenda and presentation ideas.
> ANYONE IN THE GROUP CAN ADD PAGES.
> 2. USEFUL LINKS - Fellow MobileTC member Breon Nagy has posted a page
> with useful links. I welcome anyone to PLEASE CONTRIBUTE to this page
> and add links that might be of use to others in the group. Feel free
> to put your own business/personal website.http://groups.google.com/group/mobile-twin-cities/web/useful-links. I
> have put a link to this from our main website.
> 3. I have added both the Mobile Portland and Mobile Mondays links to
> the bottom right side of our homepage athttp://mobiletwincities.com.
> Please let me know of others that makes sense to be added OR even
> better, add them yourself to the "USEFUL LINKS" page above.
> 4. Archives - There is an archive link on the website if you wish to
> see notes from the meeting. The archive can be found athttp://mobiletwincities.com/archive.html
> Presentations
> 1. Nick Bauman - Nick did an excellent presentation on the Semantic
> Web and the effects on us as a society. I have asked Nick to post his
> slides on the google group and will put a link to them from the
> archive.
> 2. Justin Grammens - Lead a discussion on iphone v3.0 and Android v1.5
> features set to come out later this summer. Links to my meager 3
> slides are on the archive and added to useful links.
> 3. Mobile Application suggestion - Discussed the merits of a t.v.
> schedule / imdb type movie application. I would love to see this be a
> recurring topic. Each month members talk about any mobile specific
> application you would like to to see developed or one that you
> downloaded and found useful. I have added this to the next month's
> agenda.
> 3. Frank Powell and others had a discussion on cross platform
> development tools. I would really like to see more detailed discussion
> and possibly a presentation/debate on the merit of one over the other
> at a future meeting. People seemed interested in learning more about
> options.
> Action Items:
> 1. I'll be in California the week before and attending Google/IO in
> May, so I will nNOT be able to attend the next meeting. Nick and Damon
> have both offered to MC the meeting and lead a discussion on web v.s.
> native applications. I'll be posting more about this in the near
> future, but I do think it would be good to have a presentation lined
> up as well. With that being said..
> 2. Presentation - We are looking for a presenter in May. Please
> contact me or put your name on the presentation page. Here is an
> agenda for the May 19th meeting.http://groups.google.com/group/mobile-twin-cities/web/may-19th---meet...
> FINALLY, a BIG thank you to everyone for taking the time to come out
> and discuss mobile technology. I am very excited about the direction
> and cohesion formed in the group and looking forward to us all
> networking and building connections around mobile technology here in
> the Twin Cities. Maybe someday we'll have local mobile technology (un)
> conference or something... hmmm... that might be something to think
> about later this year... =)
> Talk with you soon and hope you can attend on May 19th!
> Thanks,
> Justin
