I realized, as I started writing this, that I never talked about the first iPhone Developer Meetup! It was great! I think there were about 30-40 people who showed up at the Imperial and I had a great time meeting people. It was nice to talk with other local developers and put some faces to Twitter accounts.

James Eberhardt organizes a local mobile developer meetup that happened to coincide with the date I had picked so we teamed up and he brought a long a whole bunch of people that go to his events. We decided that it was silly to have two monthly meetups for developers, so we’re going to roll things into one meetup event. We’re going to keep to a regular schedule and the events will happen the 2nd Wednesday of every month. So, this means the next meetup will happen Wednesday, May 13th, 2009.

James uses a space in Kensington market for his meetups, and we’re going to try it for the meetup next month. The space has projectors and such, so we’re actually going to run a few presentations! Following the presentations we’ll head up the street to a local pub for drinks and socializing.

Because we’re hoping to do some presentations, we’re looking for volunteers. If you’ve got something you want to share with the group (15 minutes or so; it can even be less if you want), then shoot me and James a message and let us know. We only want to do maybe 2 or 3 presentations, as we do want time to enjoy some beers.

Presentations can be about whatever you think other developers might be interested in learning about. Have you written a code library you want to share with other devs? Learned some tricky SDK trick that you want to share with others? Let us know and give a short talk!

So, here are the details:

When: Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 – 7:00pm until whenever
Where: FITC / Rich Media Institute – 156 Augusta Ave, Toronto, ON (MAP)
Who: iPhone and Mobile developers (or people interested in development)
Why: Maybe learn a few things, meet some great people, have a beer!

After the presentation portion of the evening we’ll be heading just North to a bar called The Embassy Bar (223 Augusta Ave).

If you’re on Facebook, join the group that James set up for the Mobile Developers meetup here:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=59283678804

It’s a good way to keep up to date on upcoming events.

If you want to give a presentation at the May 13th meet-up, please let James or I know. You can find us on Twitter (Owen, James) or via the Facebook page above. You can also email me at the company email address.

Hope to see you there!

Owen