Note: Please send this to everyone you can think of that might be interested, and don't forget those that could be sponsors!

We'd like to introduce you to the Utah Mobile Developers Group (UMDG). The website is http://www.utahmobiledev.org.

The mission of the UMDG is provide development-level education and networking around mobile applications. This includes device-specific apps, client-server apps and web-only apps formatted for use on mobile devices. We will cover all mobile devices for which there is interest, including iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, J2ME and more.

We will be meeting monthly and will have two presentations each time. We expect to cover different platforms in each presentation to keep the overall interest as broad as is meaningful. Presentations will be technical in nature, focusing on writing code (code, test, debug) and delivery.

For 2008 our meeting dates are: Wednesday, October 29th and Thursday, December 4th.

The location for the meetings is the 4th floor conference room of the Salt Lake City Main Library. The room will accommodate 120 or so people. Pizza and soft drinks will be provided (see the plea for sponsors below).

Meeting Schedule for Wednesday, October 29, 2008

6:00pm Doors open, pizza, networking
6:30 Opening, recognize sponsors, review agenda, review door prizes
6:40 Presentation 1 - iPhone Development
7:40 Presentation 2 - Android (Google Phone) Development
8:40 Door prizes
9:00 Meeting over
Afterward - trip to someplace local for pie, drinks, fries, whatever

Please rsvp by sending an email to glen@glenlewis.com.

--- Sponsors Needed! ---

Funding for the group will take place through sponsorships. Our sponsorship levels are "Platinum" which is $1000/year and "Gold" which is $500/year. We'll include sponsorship for 2008 and 2009 together. Software Technology Group (STG) is our premier sponsor at the Platinum level. If you would like to be a sponsor, please contact either Glen or Scott (contact info below). It costs about $8k per year to run a group like this (appx costs are: pizza & drinks = $500, facilities=$150) so we really need your help.

We hope to see you there!
Scott Lewis & Glen Lewis (no relation :-)

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About Scott: Scott has developed 7 iPhone apps including some deployed to the iPhone AppStore. He is currently a Software Engineer/Architect at Software Technology Group (http://stgutah.com/). He has over 15 years of Software Architecture and Development experience in a wide variety of industries and technologies including J2ME. He did hardware engineering before that, so we don't count it :-) You can contact Scott at scott.lewis@exemine.com.

About Glen: Glen is developing Android training material and will have at least one application (among the 60+ planned - overachiever :-) ready for sale when the Android Marketplace is open sometime in late October or November. He has over 25 years of Software Architecture and Development experience in a wide variety of industries and languages as well. Glen is also currently employed at STG. Glen co-founded the Utah Java User Group in 1999. You can contact Glen at glen@glenlewis.com.