Upcoming Rev Events
At WWDC 2008 and Barcamp Seattle

by Heather Nagey

It can be tough sometimes, breaking into new markets. It can also be tough, as any Mac owner knows, finding outstanding software that does what you want and runs on your Mac. To solve both these problems, Runtime Revolution have teamed up with Aquafadas to take part in an interesting promotion around the period of WWDC this June. Under the heading of "Give Good Food to your Mac", there will be a wide range of exciting Mac products available, from this website:

www.givegoodfood2yourmac.com

Aquafadas ran this promotion with so much success last year, in association with WWDC 2007, that they are repeating it for WWDC 2008, with even more top brands.

The general idea is that European development companies with something to offer on Mac come together to cross promote their products. This is great for you, the customer, because the more you buy, the bigger your discount. You can mix and match to create your own bundle of special software, from a variety of top names in the Mac scene, and get up to 50% off retail prices, depending on how much you buy.

Revolution Studio is on the menu this year. So if you are thinking of buying a new Studio license, or you know someone who might be interested in getting a swathe of developer oriented products for their Mac at a discounted price, you might want to wander over and take a look at what's on offer, and what other goodies you can get with your Studio purchase.

The countdown has started, the promotion will begin in 3 days time!

Media Stars at BarCamp Seattle 2008

Mirye Software, who publish Revolution in North America and Japan, are sponsoring BarCamp Seattle 2008, along with partner Paradigma Software.

BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences - open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants - often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats. BarCamp events are planned based on an open grid, where participants can suggest and present topics by filling in the communal planning grid. BarCamp is a free, volunteer run event, with venues and meals covered by sponsors.

BarCamp Seattle 2008 is being held June 14-15 at the Adobe Fremont Conference Center at 801 N 34th St, Seattle, WA 98103, from 10 AM - 5 PM Saturday, and 10 AM - 1 PM Sunday.

Participants at BarCamp Seattle 2008 will be able to receive a free copy of Revolution Media. A discussion session is planned called Runtime Revolution: HyperCard Resurrection. Runtime Revolution Media Edition allows people with no previous experience in creating software to create cross-platform applications and multimedia projects, then deploy them on the Windows and Mac OS X platforms. Participants can sign up at the event to get a free license, which is fully upgradable to Revolution Studio. Valentina Community Server, the free, Linux-based database server from Paradigma Software will also be available on media at the event.

Participants can sign up for a BarCamp Seattle 2008 badge in advance of the conference at pathable.com/events/barcampseattle.

BarCamp Seattle 2008 is expected to have a broad audience of the software industry, from developers and managers from leading companies such as Microsoft, Amazon and a Adobe to a broad spectrum of Seattle area start ups to academic site administrators. The recently held BarCamp Portland 2008 had participants from Microsoft, Oracle, Yahoo!, open source Drupal project, Open Source Labs, About Us, Go Life Mobile, and Paradigma Software.