Mobile Hack Day Boston

The mobile team is coming to Boston the 3rd week of August along with some of our friends from graphics, layout, sync, automation and QA for a work week. As part of the week we’re holding a hack day focusing on mobile games and mobile add-ons on Thursday August 16th on the 7th floor of 281 Summer st. in Boston (aka Space with a Soul).

The day will start out with a couple quick talks to help people get started with technologies they might not be familiar with. Mark Finkle will walk everyone through how to create restartless (aka bootstrapped) add-ons in the new native front end of of Firefox for Android. Vladimir Vukicevic will show off some of Firefox for Android’s capabilities as a gaming platform. Finally Pascal Rettig will talk about tips and tricks for HTML game development.

Following the presentations will be pitch time. If you have an idea, you get 1 minute to pitch it to the group and get people excited. We’ll then break for lunch and let people form teams around those ideas. The rest of the day we’ll spend cranking out code. Finally, to wrap up, the teams will have an opportunity to show off what they’ve created at the end of the day.

If you can join us please register at http://mozhackbos.eventbrite.com and start brewing up some ideas.