WRAP UP

Thank You

We're thrilled at how well Çingleton was received and we're even happier to hear attendees say how much they got out of it. We set out to discuss the changes happening in our industry and we had some terrific participation.

Special thanks to the the speakers -- if it wasn't for their inspiring and insightful talks, Çingleton would not have been nearly the event it was.

Thanks to the staff at the ITHQ -- who really went above and beyond with their catering and service.

Thanks to the volunteers, Anthony, Marc-Etienne, who made sure that people had their swag and knew where and when to be places.

Thanks to the AV crew, Thomas, Israel, and Serenity who made sure that people could hear and see everything well -- The videos are going into post production soon.

Thanks especially to Petra, who made sure that everything ran as smooth as silk, and put out countless fires before and during the event.

And thanks for all attendees who gave us their interest to attend a "first time" conference. It was great to be host to you all.

À Bientôt!

Guy, Luc and Scott

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Photos

Here's a collection of photos taken during Çingleton:

Çingleton on Flickr, John Gruber,  Daniel Jalkut,  Ken Aspeslagh and Serenity Caldwell

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Videos

We're currently working on them. We'll keep you updated about their release.

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Comments

We invite you to send us comments about the event at cingleton@edovia.com

SCHEDULE

Friday, October 14th, 2011

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5:00 PM - 7:00 PM  

Registration and Cocktail
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7:00 PM - 8:00 PM John Gruber

John Gruber

John Gruber writes Daring Fireball.
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8:00 PM - 11:00 PM  

Çingleton Bar
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Saturday, October 15th, 2011

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10:00 AM - 10:40 AM Paul Kafasis

Paul Kafasis

Paul serves as the public face of Rogue Amoeba and handles product management for the company's products, as well as tackling the innumerable tasks no one else wants to do. Paul's experience spans almost 15 years in Mac audio software, since the halcyon days of the first software MP3 players. He co-founded Rogue Amoeba in 2002, and has been avoiding working at a real job ever since. Today, Rogue Amoeba employs 9 people, and has a half-dozen immensely popular products.

Paul likes being on rooftops, taking in water views, and eating sandwiches, though his character defect of vegetarianism limits his choices there. When not working, Paul attempts to give the world a laugh on his site (http://www.onefoottsunami.com) and via Twitter (@PBones). As you're reading this, Paul is watching you, right now. He thinks you look good!
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10:40 AM - 11:10 AM  

Break
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11:10 AM - 11:50 AM Alykan (AJ) Jetha

Alykan (AJ) Jetha

Alykhan Jetha is CEO of Marketcircle Inc., developer of award-winning business applications for Mac OS X and iOS, including its flagship products, Daylite Productivity Suite and Daylite Touch for iPhone.

Marketcircle’s Daylite helps Mac-based businesses of 1-50 people win more business and deliver better on promises. The software provides integrated tools and processes that identify and qualify opportunities while managing projects, calendars and contacts.
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12:00 PM - 12:40 PM Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut owns and operates Red Sweater Software and is the mind behind MarsEdit.
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12:40 PM - 2:00 PM  

Lunch
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2:00 PM - 2:40 PM Brent Simmons

Brent Simmons

Brent was conceived during the Summer of Love and was born on the south side of Chicago just days before Martin Luther King's assassination and a few months before the infamous 1968 Democratic National Convention.

His personality reflects this. You're advised to engage him only with caution, since he might love you, perhaps too much, or he might shoot you, or at least club you on the head. FYI.

He began his programming career on an Apple II Plus in 1980. After learning BASIC and 6502 Assembler, he took a break to learn about alcohol and related technologies in high school and college.

Having mastered those technologies, Brent formed his first indie software company, World Wide Power & Light, in 1995, which became Ranchero Software in 1996. Brent has also worked for UserLand Software and NewsGator Technologies, and is now a founder of Sepia Labs.

The first software Brent ever shipped was called Spotlight, and its customer base was measured in the single digits. It was a search engine for Macs. Totally not kidding. This was 1996. He later went on to create slightly-more-popular apps: TapLynx, MarsEdit, and NetNewsWire.

Brent lives in Seattle, where he answers email for a living. If you can call that living.
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2:50 PM - 3:30 PM Chris Liscio

Chris Liscio

Chris Liscio is SuperMegaUltraGroovy, the development house behind Capo, TapeDeck and FuzzMeasure Pro.
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3:30 PM - 4:00 PM  

Break
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4:00 PM - 4:40 PM Craig Hockenberry

Craig Hockenberry

Craig majored in Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine and minored in Fine Arts. He also studied Italian and Printmaking at Coastline Community College, and Art History at the Power Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Sydney in Australia.

Craig has been working with images and software in various capacities for over 25 years. He officially joined the Iconfactory in 1997 after coordinating the development and successful release of their first software product, IconDropper.

Craig is currently a principal at the Iconfactory and his specialties include software development and manning the secret controls behind the magic of the Iconfactory website. His significant projects include serving as Chief Typist and developing all of the Iconfactory's internal software and shareware products.
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4:50 PM - 5:30 PM Dan Moren

Dan Moren

Dan Moren is a Senior Associate Editor at Macworld, where he covers the heck out of the Mac, iPhone, and iPad. When he's not engaged in writing, thinking, and perchance even dreaming about all things Apple, he blogs at Doombot, plays ultimate frisbee, takes pictures, and attempts to write fiction. Mostly, though, he ends up spending way too much time on Twitter and playing board games..
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5:30 PM - 7:00 PM  

Cocktail
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7:00 PM - 11:00 PM  

Banquet

LOCATION

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Institut de Tourisme et d'Hotellerie

Considered amongst the finest schools for chefs, the Institut de Tourisme et d'Hotellerie du Québec was recently visited by Prince William and Kate who attended one of the classes. If it's good enough for the Royals then it's good enough for you.

Located across the road from a beautiful park and right in the middle of three terrific Montréal neighbourhoods ITHQ is a terrific place to base your exploration of the city from. Through the park is Prince Arthur, a pedestrian street filled with cafés and restaurants, at the end of which is the heart of Montréal's nightlife scene on Saint Laurent boulevard. To the south is the Quartier Latin, itself a hotspot for pubs and restaurants, and past that lies the Old Port of Montréal. To the north is the Plateau Mont-Royal and Mile End both of which are home to many pockets of different cultures, perhaps most notably a large Jewish community which has made Montréal famous for it's smoked meat and bagels.

 

ADDITIONAL DETAILS

About Çingleton

We are at an inflection point in the way people approach personal computing. iOS has clearly been indicative of the way forward for a few years now and Lion serves to cement this trend. Looking at the broader industry we see a trend away from the traditional forms of thinking about our personal devices. Windows Phone, Android, RIM and WebOS are all also clearly moving our industry in a direction beyond files & file systems, applications that are considered «running» or not, and are abandoning the metaphors that originated with the Mac in '84 in favour of a new approach guided by both iOS and the Web. In addition to the technical changes the way we deliver software and our relationship with our customers is being changed by the App Stores.

As a community that has found itself riding the crest of this wave of change we have much to learn from one another. Çingleton aims to provide a forum for us to gather our thoughts on the opportunities and pitfalls ahead of us. Our goals are twofold - an opportunity to discuss, face to face, the issues we have to deal with as a result of this sea change, and second, an opportunity to cement our ties as a community through topical discussion but also through sharing our other, non-technical interests, and how they relate to how we approach our work.

Our desired outcome is that attendees leave with a broader perspective of the issues at hand, a few ideas as to how to best approach the future, and a respect, appreciation and familiarity for other members of our community. Many conferences aim to teach, Çingleton aims to be about learning from each other.