WWDC is almost here! We hope you’re as excited as we are! If you’re going to be in San Francisco, we’ll be hanging out all week at Alt WWDC, drop in and say hi, check out some of the sessions they’ve got lined up!

As we’ve done the last few years (except last year!) we’re announcing the 360|iDev WWDC USB drive Scavenger hunt (#usbhuntWWDC)

If you’re not familiar with the USB Hunt, it’s a fun little scavenger hunt we organize in and around Moscone Center the week of WWDC. We load up 6 USB Drives (One is pictured right there to the right) with promo codes, fliers, helpful tools, and much more. Oh yeah also each drive has a free pass to 360|iDev 2013 and a free ticket to the 360|iDev Night Of Meat on it.

We stash the drives during the week and tweet clues about where we’ve hidden them. It’s always lots of fun to see the tweet from the person who found the drive.

Not only is this the announcement of the game, but also the invitation to participate. if you’ve got a game or app you want on the drive, or a tool or service, etc just let us know (you can use the contact us page) Each drive is 8gb so there’s lots of room for goodies. All are welcome as long as it’s something fun, cool or useful to the iOS community.

Not 1pm. Not End of Day. Not midnight or 11:59. 12 noon, Mountain time.

We’ve already got almost 100 submissions! We’re super stoked so many folks want to present at 360|iDev 2013!

If you haven’t submitted, don’t delay, 360|iDev is all about the community sharing what they know! It’s your turn!

See you in September

360|iDev 2013 is gonna be great! Not only are we expecting to sell out again (and are already on our way to that goal) but we’re really going to try to raise the bar higher than ever. We want really technical talks, really experimental ideas, things no one else is doing or talking about.

360|iDev always has the best content from the best folks, let’s keep that trend going. Whether you want to present on business, development or design, go submit your topic RIGHT NOW. Don’t wait. Don’t send us an email after the CFP closes, don’t tweet about how sad you are you didn’t get to submit. Go submit something awesome, right now.

The Opening of the Call For Papers is always part of the worst part of the conference. Having to choose form hundreds of awesome submissions. If you’ve ever submitted to an event and not heard back, or gotten a form letter email, that’s not what we do. It’s time consuming and makes me really sad, but we email every submitter a person email telling them we couldn’t accept their submission. With as much heart and soul as people put into submissions, it’s the right thing to do, letting them know in a timely manner. So yeah the process begins today! Go submit something! Be Brave!

Oh and if you’re curious how the process works, in the interest of transparency and encouraging as much diversity as possible, we detailed the process here.

Did you wish you could have been in Las Vegas with us at [360|iDev min]? See all the tweets and pics of the sessions, wondering why you didn’t go. Well even if you didn’t, you’re in luck :) We’ve finished the rendering of the session recordings and they’re available for purchase.

Each session recording is $3, and runs between 45 minutes to an hour. We also bundled all the sessions together at a discount for just $20. Ten hours of awesome content for $20 ain’t too shabby. As always the videos are 100% free of DRM, and you’re free to watch them where and whenever you please.

Enjoy

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This time next week, we’ll be in Las Vegas watching awesome speakers present new and exciting topics. We’re really happy to have a mix of new and returning speakers from the 360|iDev world with us.

We’ll start with a Night of Meat after some epic Sportsball watching. Then Monday morning everyone will spend 2 days learning new things, whether it’s business, design or development.

Don’t let the price tag fool you, you’re gonna leave with way more than $200-300 worth of new information, skills, and connections in the community. We just don’t like over charging people, and believe events should be an investment in your future, but shouldn’t require taking out a loan.

Did you see any of David Whatley’s Keynotes at 360|iDevs past? Did ya leave the room with your mind blown, ready to go change how you run your business whether it’s just your or an entire team? Well just imagine what he’s got in store for you this time :)

Did you hear how awesome Danielle Reubenstein’s session was at 360|iDev 2012? Guess what?

Wanna hear how Nick Arnott breaks things? We’re happy to have Nick presenting at [360|iDev min] and look forward to seeing him present more often!

Every speaker at [360|iDev min] was hand picked and invited so that we could provide a line up with a great mix of technical, business, and design.

With the help of Sponsors like Millennial Media, Shinobi Controls, Empirical Development and Omega Ortega and more, we’ve got great stuff lined up for everyone starting Sunday night all the way thru the last session on Tuesday! Make sure you thank the sponsors for being so awesome and supportive of the iOS developer community. They don’t just throw out give aways, they’re buying lunch, shirts, BEER! and more, and most importantly, want to talk to you, not sell to you.

Of course, it’s also Vegas! Come early spend the weekend enjoying all that Vegas has to offer, then spend two days getting 4 days worth of information flooded into your head.

Time’s running out; Vegas is a fun place to be, you’ll learn a ton, get a limited attendee only shirt, and who knows, maybe a special discount on 360|iDev 2013… Just saying, there’s lots of reasons to join us in Las Vegas next week. See you there!

But what you can’t get online are experiences like this:

Sitting down to lunch over a burger, talking to the developer of several hugely successful sports apps.

chatting with the developer of several massively successful iOS games over snacks and beer after a day of mind blowing sessions.

Sitting next to the QA guy that broke the news that Simple and many other banking apps are crazy insecure while you watch one of the guys above present.

Trading design ideas with the gal that had one of the highest rated talks at 360|iDev 2012.

Laughing over breakfast with the guy who’s company gives indie developers the insight they need into how their apps are doing in the app store.

Trading horror stories with the guy who will be reviewing your next blockbuster game for TUAW over lunch at one of dozens of restaurants around the conference.

And more, many many more. Every speaker and attendee is an awesome unique experience waiting to happen while you attend [360|iDev min], and of course, then there’s the 12 sessions of actually great technical content.

There’s a few spots left! See you there!

Why min? That’s easy. 360|iDev is one of the funnest things we do all year. But’s a big deal, we’ve tried doing 2  a year and it almost killed us physically and financially. Moving around a 4 day, 4 track conference is tricky, that’s why we don’t do it anymore. But there’s so many cool places we’d like to see, so many cool places attendees would like to see, and so many people we want to see more than once a year!

SO….

The very first (of more than one, we hope) [360|iDev min] will be in Las Vegas February 4-5.

Why Vegas? Well if we had a buck for every time someone said “Do a conference in vegas” we wouldn’t need to do conferences… so.. there it is. First stop, Las Vegas! Plus we’ve got a really cool venue right above an Apple store, that’s perfect for something this size.

We’ve got 12 incredibly awesome speakers. Some have spoken at past 360|iDev events, some are new to us and we’re happy to have them with us. We’ve got awesome sponsors, who love the iOS community supporting us. Sponsorship is more than just giving raffle prizes, that’s easy and costs next to nothing

Also with min, we want to make the whole thing a no brainer! $90/night hotel, close enough to walk, but also with a shuttle that goes right to the conference, a venue with nearly 20 bars and restaurants around it for all the fun after session stuff :) $199 ticket price for 2 days, 12 sessions, lots of awesome. $279 if want a Night of meat…

A Night of Meat?!?! 

Damn straight! What iOS event doesn’t start with a night of meat! A tradition dating back to the dawn of man, the Night of Meat is a staple of being a part of the iOS Community. The Sunday before [360|iDev min] we’ll meet at the Texas De Brazil in the same complex as the conference to socialize with sponsors and speakers, enjoy a great meal (there’s an AWESOME salad bar for the non meat eaters) before the brain melting sessions begin. Start off on the right foot, with a full tummy!

See you there! Space is limited! Don’t miss out! There’s events about App Makers, then there’re events for App Makers… see you in vegas! Register now!

When we talked last at 360|iDev 2012 I talked about moving the conference to spring time. There were a number if reasons I was thinking of that move.

But as we do, we asked those who cared the most what they thought. After all none of the reasons to move were life and death. Heck one was weather :) SO we asked. And the answer kinda surprised us.

So guess what? 360|iDev 2013 will be in the fall. September 8-11 to be exact. So mark your calendars, save the date, all that good stuff. Early tickets will go on sale in a bit, and the call for papers will open in a few more months as well. For now, just keep the date clear.

Oh and we suggest keeping February 4-5 clear too :) more on that in a few days.

Simply buy one of these awesome shirts between NOW and December 15th and all profits will be donated to the American Red Cross.

Sandy definitely did a number on the east coast, we’re glad those we know came thru relatively ok. It’s great to see people, especially kids, reaching out to help others. Go buy a T-Shirt!

Brandon Trebitowski - http://brandontreb.com/360.zip