I was recently invited to present at the Vodafone devcamp event in Milan on Tuesday as part of the Vodafone Summer Of Widgets campaign we are running (#vfsow and www.betavine.net/summerofwidgets).

After getting up extremely early I arrived in Milan and was second on after Francesco from Vodafone Italy kindly introduced me.  I ran through why Vodafone sees developers as important, how we engage with them (blogs, Facebook, events and so on) and how easy it is to create a widget.  Oh and of course the Summer Of Widgets competition! :o)

There was a good group of developers there, from TA’s through to startups and some had some very cool ideas.  One question I kept getting was about access to device APIs from the Opera widget runtime (and future runtimes from the likes of www.jil.org).  My response was - watch this space!  We hope to have something to announce soon but in the meantime there’s nothing stopping a developer from using the Opera environment and uploading to Betavine and developer.vodafone.com to get REAL users trying out your app.  So, as the banner says, get outside and get coding!

Sanj

Evangelising the joys of widget development

Btw, the Spain developer meet was yesterday and I hope to get some info on how that went shortly.  Keep an eye out for devcamps in the UK and Germany during August and Greece in September….