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◇ South Florida · Community Conference · Feb 2015

South Florida
Code Camp

An Amazing Technical Experience

The companion app for South Florida's community code camp — where developers gather to learn, network and give back. Browse and select sessions, leave feedback, and build the day you want to attend.

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The brief

A conference, built by its own community

South Florida Code Camp brings the region's technologists together for a day of learning, networking and giving back. The 2015 companion app helped attendees make the most of it — reviewing and selecting sessions, leaving feedback, and building a personal schedule of what they'd attend.

What makes it special is who built it: a team of fellow South Florida Xamarin User Group members, as a community effort — a real-world way for developers to sharpen their skills on something the whole community would use.

My role

Technical Team Lead

I led the technical effort for the Code Camp app — guiding the architecture and the volunteer developer team building it on Xamarin.Forms.

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The signature idea

One codebase. Many community events.

The app was built on Eventarin — a reusable event-app codebase created by our Xamarin User Group, so any community conference could get a first-class app without starting from scratch.

Eventarin
Reusable event engine
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South Florida Code Camp 2015
This app
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Community conferences
Sessions · Speakers · Itinerary · Feedback
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Built by the user group
For the whole community to use
The Eventarin team

Built by the community, for the community

A volunteer team of South Florida Xamarin User Group developers — showing off the latest Xamarin tech and getting real-world experience.

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Technical Team Lead

David Silverlight

Led the technical direction & build.

That's me
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Architecture & Best Practices

Jonas Stawski

Shaped a clean, solid foundation.

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Project Management · Development

Mir Maheed

Kept the effort moving and shipping.

In the app

Everything an attendee needs

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Sessions

Browse every session with presenter, track and time — and pick your favorites.

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Speakers

Meet the speakers, with photos and bios, right in the app.

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Itinerary

Build a personal schedule of the sessions you'll attend that day.

Feedback

Rate sessions and the conference to help make the next one even better.

On the device

Code Camp, in hand

The 2015 companion app on iOS & Android. Click any screen to enlarge.

Splash
Splash
Menu
Menu
Sessions
Sessions
Session details
Session details
Speakers
Speakers
Contributors
Contributors
Under the hood

Cross-platform, community-built

A cross-platform Xamarin.Forms application built on the reusable Eventarin codebase, delivering sessions, speakers, itinerary and feedback to attendees on iOS and Android.

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