The most important people who made the event exciting and success are the Android Developers of the 30+ teams who worked day and night for last weekend. The energy, creativity, passion spread in the camp built the foundation of the event.

The credit also should go to a group of volunteers (Most of the key volunteers did not participate in any team). Android DevCamp couldn’t have been possible without the dedication of the individuals over the recent weeks. They kindly donated their time and expertise to bring this event to fruition. The key volunteer bio are attached bellow.

I am grateful to all the volunteers, especially these folks:

Chief designer - Crystabelle Lopez: she is amazing organizer, and I gave here the the best volunteer award! She designed our logo, website, flyer, and did most of the maintenance work which is a daily job! And she helped many other things, including registration, buying food. And she is open to new UI design opportunities!

Perrine: she is a wonderful person to work with. Extremely professional, polite, at same time, very creative and can drive things to get them done (not easy to have both Also, she is a fantastic MC!

Judge Panel Moderator – Jamie Allen: he is the most solid project driver. Delivered everything promised on the time frame promised.

Chief Food Officer: Perry took a job which was very difficulty to to do, and most volunteers were scared away, and he made it with lots of effort!

Keithen, is a great volunteer, and wonderful attitude and took many simple tasks, including timer, ballot counter, etc.

Venkat: registration at 8AM at morning for two days is not an easy job, especially for many developers.

Roberto, our very persistent sponsorship coordinator. he is very quiet but sent lots of emails to make the sponsorship happen!

Then, of course, the two co-organizers of the SVAndroid, Nelson and Lawrence who never dropped the ball!

We recently co organized and sponsored the largest Android Hack Fest Silicon Valley has ever seen, over 400 attendees, and 200+ developers!

The Winners for the Bay Area Mobile Start Up Camp were:

First Place- A Town Alive

Second Place- Mega Com

Third Place- DrinkOn

Thanks to everyone who attended, and to our sponsors. See you at the next Start Up Camp!

The winners of each city (San Jose, Los Angeles, Miami) will receive a 1 free year of premium Crittercism mobile feedback and support service. Check out Crittercism.com for more info.

Each San Jose team will have a private room to work in with a white board. Come prepared with your ideas, design tools, or development enviroments ready to go. There will be free development servers made available for teams during Startup Camp weekend, just email: garland@semanticseed.com if you need some assistance.

The location will be open to us for 54 hours non stop, so please bring a sleeping bag, pillow, and toothbrush if you plan to camp on site. Please go immediately to the 4th Floor for check in, and you will be shown how to access the 3rd floor where the event is happening.

Here is our suggested checklist:

1) Laptop, Extension Cord or Power Strip
2) Sleeping Bag and ToothBrush (if your a diehard non stopper)
3) Warm sweater or hoodie
4) Sticky Notes and Dry Erase Markers
5) Business Cards to get your networking on
6) California (or some form) of ID to check into Citrix (mandatory)
7) Positve Attitude and Creativity

If you have any questions, please call us Toby at 866-437-1582 Ext 1003, email toby@semanticseed.com

Each city will have specific prizes based on the local sponsors and ecosystem. Some prizes have specific requirements in order to win. Each city will have specific prizes based on the local sponsors and ecosystem. Some prizes have specific requirements in order to win. To qualify to win prizes from Ansca Mobile, Factual, and Tropo, you need to build your products using their products.

San Jose Prizes:
$1500 CoWorking Grant @ Semantic Seed
$100 Amazon Gift Cards and Kindles from Tropo if you have winning app using Tropo API

Factual is offering Up to 5 Amazon Kindles per city for winning teams using Factual API

The Founders Institute will give a free Table Package including the 4-5 tickets to the winner team of the San Jose event (~$650 value). http://www.founderinstitute.com/

Corona is offering any winning team using the Corona SDK get an IPAD + $500 cash + 5 Corona SDK licenses (value of $2800)http://www.anscamobile.com/

Scalr is offering a 1 year membership to Scalr Mission Critical ($5000 value) for the winner, 1 year membership to Scalr ($1200) for the runner up

Our friends @ Tech Stars have agreed to make one of the winners in Start Up Camp an instant finalist for Tech Stars 2011. That’s a sweet deal, you go from over 10k applicants to one of 35 finalists. Tech Stars is also throwing in three copies of the book “Do More Faster” for a few lucky winners!

Jay Elliot

From product development meetings to design labs, through executive boardroom showdowns to the world outside of Silicon Valley, this is the real Steve Jobs: the true story of the “Boy Genius” who forever transformed technology the way we work, play, consume, and communicate.

Told with the insight and perspective of Steve Job’s close colleague at Apple Computer and packed with exclusive interviews from key !gures in Apple Computer’s history, this book reveals the Steve Jobs you won’t see on stage and thoroughly explores his management and leadership principles.

Taking us through Jobs’ remarkable career—from the Apple II to the Macintosh to his stunning fall from grace and on to his rebirth at the helm of Apple, his involvement with Pixar, and the development of the iPod, iPhone, iPad, and much more—The Steve Jobs Way presents real-life examples of Job’s leadership challenges and triumphs, showing readers how to apply these principles to their own lives and careers.

Written in partnership with William L. Simon, co-author of the best-selling Jobs biography iCon, this book is the “how to be like Steve” book that readers have been waiting for.

We’ve teamed up with the Founder Showcase to give the winning team of the Bay Area Start Up Camp an amazing opportunity to get exposure to Silicon Valley investors and media. All members of the winning team will get free tickets to the event on Feb. 1st, and the team as a whole will get a free demo table at the event as well ($600+ total value).

The Founder Showcase, Silicon Valley’s premier startup pitch and networking event, will take place Tuesday, Feb. 1st in Mountain View. This quarterly event brings together over 300 investors, founders, and members of the press for one action-packed night to network, hear talks from leading CEOs, and help launch a startup company to greatness.

This 6th Founder Showcase will feature a keynote speech by George Zachary, General Partner of Charles River Ventures. George is one of Silicon Valley’s brightest investors, having led early investments in Twitter, Yammer, Scribd, Shutterfly, and more. Guests will also see pitches from 10 hot technology startups in the open pitch competition, and network over food and drinks in a demo table area where many other startups showcase their wares. The event is designed to democratize access to Silicon Valley, so tickets are affordable, and the Pitch Competition is free. Tickets start at just $40 – but the last four events have sold out so register today at www.FounderShowcase.com. Use the discount code semantic_seed to get 15% off.

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