We pulled it off, albeit in last-minute fashion, but nonetheless the OpenCamp Mobile app for iPhone was downloaded 296 times by the end of the event.

With about 600 attendees, we call that a great success! Many thanks go out to the OpenCamp team of staff and volunteers for helping us build it. Several folks helped out with the backend development, and many more gave us valuable input on interface design during testing.

At the event, the feedback was overwhelmingly positive, but we are already planning a significant number of refinements and additions. The Schedule will reflect current time by starting the list at upcoming events, and visually indicating which events have concluded. We’re adding more Social feeds such as Flickr, and will allow embedded links to launch a separate mobile browser. We’ll also be adding options for sponsors to advertise within the application. An overall shakedown to fix spacing and color anomalies will also go a long way towards polishing the overall look and feel. We’re not going to stop there, either. Tell us what YOU think, and what features need to be added or improved!

Having a mobile application for your next conference or event is a great way to connect visitors, sponsors, and volunteers. What we learned in designing and developing OpenCamp Mobile has shown not only what we can do, but what can be done next!

Thanks again to all the OCDFW attendees, the sponsors, the hotel, the volunteers, and the committee that made OpenCa.mp 2010 a great success of Hype Anvil.

I have been working on the OpenCamp conference since mid-December 2009. We are trying to combine the Dallas tech community for a better shared experience. When the WordPress, Drupal, Joomla! and podcasting communities merge together as one, amazing things will happen. Please register soon, early bird pricing ends May 31st. The entire Hype Anvil crew will be at the event, please introduce yourself, we would love to talk to you. Here’s a video I made conveying my top ten reasons for registering for OpenCamp.