LDS Developers Conference

The first LDS Developers Conference is to be held on April 1-2. You'll meet members of the team, see a sneak preview of the new web sites which will be coming this Summer, and get hands-on training in how to design, write and test code for those web sites and for our new mobile device offereings.

  • We need help with our MobileMember and Scriptures apps for Palm Pre, iPhone, Android, WinMobile and iPhone.

  • We need a team to re-write our Interactive Music App for the new web platform. We haven't started this project and would really like to Beta test in May and ship in June.

  • You can help with many other ongoing projects (local unit directory, local unit calendar, YSA web site, etc.)

  • Or you can help us think of new ideas!


If you're interested in helping with our community efforts and you can get here, then get here!

More information on our web site.

Creator of "The Man" Dies in Seattle

A good friend, Gene Porter, died in Seattle this week. If you've been to Dixie's Bar-b-que in Bellevue, WA (underneath 520), then you've met Gene. He met nearly every customer in his garage-turned-restaurant and encouraged us to "meet the man!" The man, of course, was his homemade bar-b-que sauce which was so hot that it rendered your taste-buds nearly incapacitated. I can deal with pretty hot food, and just a toothpick taste was painful.

Just a few months ago, I talked to him in his wheel chair, sitting in the back of the restaurant. Such contrast from the vibrant, loud, in-you-face restaurateur we all willingly paid to torture us.

Goodbye Gene. We'll miss you.

"Yeah baby!"

Tech Talk in Palo Alto

We will be having a "tech talk" in Palo Ato this Thursday night (March 4) at 7pm. These tech talks are intended to gather software developers and designers who are interested in contributing to our community development efforts.

Details here.

Hope to see you!