From the team behind Apache Cordova, the Adobe PhoneGap framework is an open source distribution of Cordova — providing the advantage of technology created by a diverse team of pros along with a robust developer community — plus access to the PhoneGap toolset, so you can get to mobile faster. 

Rough Schedule 

6:00 – 6:45pm – Arrival / Networking / Food / Drinks 

6:45 – 7:00pm – Intros / Welcome 

7:00 – 9:00pm – Workshop Proper with a break in between 

You will need to bring a laptop to this meetup.

Installation Instructions
(NOTE: Do this well before the day of the workshop, as there will not be time to sort out installation issues on the day of the event.)

On your laptop install –

PhoneGap Desktop (http://docs.phonegap.com/getting-started/1-install-phonegap/desktop/) and/or PhoneGap CLI (http://docs.phonegap.com/getting-started/1-install-phonegap/cli/)

On your mobile phone install – 

PhoneGap Developer App (http://docs.phonegap.com/getting-started/2-install-mobile-app/)

The workshop will be run by experts from the Adobe PhoneGap Team, led by Anis Kadri and Simon MacDonald. 

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Anis (above left) is a Software Engineer at Adobe. He works on PhoneGap and Cordova full-time and has been contributing to the project since its early inception. Lately, he’s been interested in trying to introduce PhoneGap solutions to the enterprise world. 

Simon (above right) is a Senior Software Engineer at Adobe and has over fifteen years of development experience and has worked on a variety of projects including object oriented databases, police communication systems, speech recognition and unified messaging. His current focus is contributing to the open source PhoneGap project to enable developers to create cross platform mobile applications using Web technologies. Simon’s been building web applications since the days they were written using shell scripts and he still has nightmares about those dark days. 

The event will be held at Ticketmaster UK’s office located at 4 Pentonville Road, Islington, London N1 9HF. The session runs from 6:30 – 9 p.m. on Thursday 8 December. Click here for more information.