@WePay: Great Apps from the Palo Alto App Challenge & you - sponsored by Moxtra

Are you feeling inspired by July's discussion of "good apps" (https://www.meetup.com/sviphone/events/190130552/)? We're going to follow that in August with some great apps created right here.

With gracious support from Palo Alto CIO Jonathan Reichental (https://www.meetup.com/sviphone/events/26158941/), we've invited participants in the 2014 Palo Alto Apps Challenge (http://www.hackpaloalto.org) to present their projects, inspire us, and possibly meet a new team member or two. We'll be meeting at WePay's office (next to Fry's) on Portage with pizza provided by Moxtra (http://www.moxtra.com).

In addition to Jonathan Reichental (City of Palo Alto Apps Challenge) and Cynthia Typaldos (Apps Challenge entry AdoptMeApp), we'll hear about Moxtra's messaging framework and SDK, and hear several quick demos and pitches:

• Journalist Scott Doggett with Traveling Acts of Kindness, a non-profit project to encourage user participation in humanitarian and environmental causes.

• Jack Rogers with Protest, an open-source iOS app that lets protesters communicate anonymously in crowds.

DEVELOPERS: please help us test Protest by getting the code from https://github.com/jackflips/Protest , building it and bringing it on your iPhone to the meetup Monday.

• Offir Gutelzon with Keepy, "the new family album" http://www.keepy.me (http://www.keepy.me/)

• Michelle Nemirovsky with a TBA startup project.

With so much to discuss, we'll start promptly at 7. Please plan to arrive at 6:30 to enjoy pizza sponsored by Moxtra.

Also FYI, AT&T is offering a free Internet of Things workshop this Thursday at UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center with identical sessions in the afternoon and evening. To register, see the description and links below.

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SUBJECT: Aug 21 – San Francisco: Free IoT coding workshops on the AT&T RESTful M2X Data Service APIs

Interested in the Internet of Things (IoT)? Want to collect and retrieve data from Internet-connected sensors? AT&T is teaching two free developer workshops on its RESTful M2X Data Service APIs. Please join us for an afternoon or evening of learning, coding, socializing, and eating!

This workshop will be taught by subject matter experts from AT&T’s Plano Foundry Innovation Center, the hub of AT&T's leading-edge IoT research. It also will provide a great opportunity to network with AT&T and your fellow mobile developers.

Afternoon M2X APIs Workshop

When: Thursday, August 21, 2014, 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM (registration & lunch 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.)

Register: http://devlab-sanfrancisco-afternoon.eventbrite.com/?aff=muiosd

Evening M2X APIs Workshop (same content as afternoon)

When: Thursday, August 21, 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m (registration & dinner 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.)

Register: http://devlab-sanfrancisco-evening.eventbrite.com/?aff=muiosd

Where: Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF, 1675 Owens St., San Francisco, CA 94143
Cost: Free
Tools: Using cURL for the lab exercises. Bring your laptop.

Seating is limited so sign up soon. (Note that the content of both workshops is the same.)