Developer Camp San Francisco

Developer Camp: The World's Best Hackathon

Who: Developers, designers, entrepreneurs, testers, and storytellers. The elite corps of Developer Camp Counselors — winners of past events, and distinguished members of our community from the Bay Area stand ready to teach and help.

What: 48-Hour hackathon for iOS, bots, and the Web. This collaborative event, featuring superstar hackers and designers to help everyone learn to code, build custom hardware, and generally make ideas come to life. Watch the video.

When: February 24-26 (Friday evening through Sunday). See our schedule and details.

Where: Startup LaunchPad, San Francisco, CA—a brand-new space from Google, open all weekend until 10pm each day.

Why: There is a huge opportunity to bring diversity to the technology industry. Women and girls, men and boys, we all deserve more opportunities to start coding using simple, powerful tools. Watch our Women of iOSDevCamp video.

How: Our sponsor PullString makes creating computer conversation super fun and easy! Using any Mac or PC, a writer can script and publish a chat bot using their service, starting for free. 

If you'd rather learn on any recent-model iPad, Apple's free Swift Playgrounds app will teach you to code joyfully.

Learn more about our upcoming event.

This event has catalyzed the launch of award winning startups (like Getaround and Foodspotting), the formation of founder dream teams (Square), and the building of a talented and collaborative community of developers. 

Out-of-town guests are welcome to join our inclusive event. Though projects will include both solo and team efforts, we encourage attendees to build teams of diverse expertise — business ideas, marketing, design, testing, coding, and back-end development. All attendees should be prepared to participate in the development of a project during the event. Scholarships are available to encourage diversity, and mentors are available.

“It’s one of the most pure and original hackathons.  People come from all around and really just hack on something, meet new people, cherish the relationships that they create here—and go out to create huge companies. The developers we’ve met at Developer Camp are among the best in the world. Some of them have gone on to join our team. We’re excited to be supporting the event again this year... Developer Camp is the best.”

-Zac Bowling, Google engineer
has attended 100+ hackathons

Developer Camp sponsor/participant

The event will feature:

-- Meetup on Friday with Refreshments
-- Catered Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner (Saturday and Sunday)
-- Open Mic for Questions
-- Educational Sessions by Sponsors
-- Participant-led Ad Hoc Sessions
-- Saturday Night Gaming
-- Hackathon Contest with Prizes
-- Everyone Leaves with Something

Schedule

Friday

1700 — Doors Open
1700–1800 — Mixer
1800–1900 — Welcome and Introductions
1830—Healthy Dinner
1900–2100 — Idea / Mentorship Pitches
2200 — Doors Close

Saturday

0900–1000 — Continental Breakfast
1000–1200 — Introductions & Inspiration
1300–1400—Healthy Lunch
1200–2200 — Hacking and Learning with Swift and PullString
1800–1900 — High Quality Pizza Dinner
2200 — Doors Close

Sunday

0900–1000 — Continental Breakfast
1000–1400 — Prepare for Hackathon
1200 — Hackathon Entries due
1300–1400 — Family Style Lunch
1400–1700 — Hackathon Showcase
1700–1730 — Awards
1730–1800 — Pack It Up
1800 — Doors Close

We are currently seeking:

-- Your Registration 
-- Cash Sponsors 
-- Hackathon Prize Donations 

To get involved with the above, please email team@devca.mp.

See you there!

Developer Camp Organizers
Dom Sagolla, Jeremy Johnstone, Dan Zeitman, and Nilay Yener