C4 (conference)
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C4 is a Macintosh software developers conference held in Chicago, Illinois. The first conference (C4[0]) was held on October 20–October 21, 2006 with an optional event on October 22.[1] The second conference (C4[1]) was held on August 10–August 12, 2007.[2] The conference was created by Jonathan Rentzsch after the demise of MacHack.[3]
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[edit] C4[0]
The first C4 conference was a two-day event held at the University Center in downtown Chicago. It was held on October 20 and October 21, 2006, with an optional trip to Adler Planetarium's TimeSpace show for attendees on October 22.[3] Due to that year's Chicago Marathon, attendees unable to stay downtown were provided free passes to the Chicago 'L' railway system for the weekend (an arrangement referred to as "Plan 'L'").[4]
[edit] Presenters
- Steve Dekorte, software developer
- Drunkenbatman, blogger, organizer of Evening@Adler (held at Adler Planetarium)
- Brian W. Fitzpatrick, developer of Subversion, Fire and Apache Portable Runtime
- John Gruber, coauthor of Markdown and influential blogger (see Daring Fireball)
- Gus Mueller, creator of VoodooPad
- Jonathan Rentzsch, software developer
- Brent Simmons, creator of NetNewsWire
- Aaron Hillegass, software developer and Cocoa instructor at Big Nerd Ranch
- Paul Kafasis, software developer and founder of Rogue Amoeba
[edit] Notable attendees
- James Duncan Davidson, former Sun Microsystems engineer, creator of Tomcat and Ant
[edit] C4[1]
The second C4 conference was held at the Chicago City Centre Hotel on August 10–August 12, 2007.[2] Like the first conference, C4[1] was organized by Jonathan Rentzsch.
[edit] Presenters[5]
- Tim Burks, RubyObjC developer
- Drunkenbatman
- Adam Engst, publisher of TidBITS
- Bob Ippolito, PyObjC developer
- Daniel Jalkut, developer of MarsEdit (acquired from Brent Simmons)[6]
- Jonathan Rentzch
- Cabel Sasser, co-founder of Panic Inc.
- Wil Shipley, creator of Delicious Library
- Shawn Morel, VMware developer working on Fusion
Daniel Lyons, senior editor at Forbes magazine and writer of The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs under the pseudonym "Fake Steve Jobs", was scheduled to speak at C4 but was unable due to an illness.
[edit] C4[2]
On April 23, 2008, it was announced on the C4 Twitter Feed that C4[2] had been pencilled in for September 5–September 7, 2008.[7] It was indicated that the conference would take place at the same hotel as last year.[8] No further information about presenters or events has been announced at this time.
[edit] References
- ^ Jonathan Rentzsch. C4. Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
- ^ a b Jonathan Rentzsch. C4[1]: August 10-12 2007. Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
- ^ a b Jonathan Rentzsch. C4: Chicago Mac Developer Conference. Retrieved on 2007-07-08.
- ^ Jonathan Rentzsch. C4 Hotels: Plan 'L'. Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
- ^ C4[1] Registration Open. Retrieved on 2007-06-14.
- ^ Red Sweater Acquires MarsEdit. Retrieved on 2007-06-14.
- ^ Jonathan Rentzsch. Twitter Update. Retrieved on 2008-04-23.
- ^ Jonathan Rentzsch. Twitter Update. Retrieved on 2008-04-23.
[edit] External links
- C4[0] schedule
- Jonathan Rentzsch's blog posts about C4
- Photos of C4 by attendee James Duncan Davidson at Flickr
- Photos of C4 by presenter John Gruber at Flickr
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![C4[0] schedule](http://rentzsch.com/share/c4-schedule.png){kind=link}