This weekend I went to an event known as "StartUp." Apparently these events are not uncommon, but it was new to me and was an interesting experience. In a Start-up weekend people present their ideas for an application to developers, artists, and people of other skills. After the presentation of the initial ideas people organize themselves into teams and try to make the application a reality.
The event ran from Friday to Sunday. Of those three days I was only present on Sunday to help some people out and ended up being dedicated to a single team helping them out with their Windows Phone coding. At the end of the event every one does their presentations on what they came up with to a panel of judges. There's also people there that are ready to fund projects. I wish I had known of events like this before. These are perfect opportunities for people that have application ideas but can't make the application by themselves.
Tags: Windows Phone, StartUp