£5 App Meet April 8, 2008
Hove, England BN3 1EH
A meet-up for programmers, web developers and designers to discuss and showcase their "£5 apps" - lightweight software created by one or two people who take a simple idea and run with it.
The discussion will range from technical (what tools/languages were used during development) to business (building communities, spreading the word, costs and rewards).
Glenn Jones (http://www.glennjones.net/) one of the founders of Madgex (http://www.madgex.com/) will give a history of setting-up the company:
"From coding all hours in a kitchen to building a multi-million pound specialist digital business. The talk will cover the most frequently asked questions and some of the harder lessons learnt along the way."
After a break for some cake we also have some folks from Clearleft talking about a £5app they've been working on...
Official Website: http://fivepoundapp.com/meetup/11/
Added by lilspikey on March 31, 2008
Comments
IanOzsvald
As John says - after a 'year of stories' we're moving on to a period of 'how do I move forward?' sessions which will be more like mini-workshops.
The aim will be to get attendees to move their own project/business/website a good step forward every time.
We'll be putting up a mail list and asking on there and at next week's £5 App for topics that need discussion, then John and I will star to organise those sessions.
IanOzsvald
There are some more notes here on the talks (Glenn Jones @ Madgex, some folk at CleafLeft) and our plans for the workshop sessions:
http://ianozsvald.com/2008/04/01/last-5-app-in-our-year-of-stories/
twhume
Will be there 9ish onwards I hope...
IanOzsvald
I'm sure there'll be some beer still for you Tom :-)
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lilspikey
Just increased the limit on attending to 40 if anyone else wants to come along. Sure we can squeeze in a few more.
james2m
Wish I had been there instead of creating invoices all night.
lilspikey
We've got this mostly organised, but just holding off posting full details yet.
It's also possibly going to be the last "story-led" £5app. We're probably going to move to a slightly different format, but Ian and I will be bringing that up at the next meet.