As a part of receiving the AUC Inovation Grant, I attended a workshop at the University of NSW… The purpose of this workshop was to allow grant recipients to meet the program mentor Senior Lecturer in Human Interaction Design Daniel Woo, learn how to get support, learn about reporting obligations, establish a project timeline, and network with other grant recipients. Each Grant recipients gave a 10min presentation on their project ideas & goals.

During the workshop Daniel touched on a few of the skills required to successfully develop software applications.. Some of these skills included mind mapping, using sketches to get your ideas on paper, Cocoa (Objective C for OSX), and viewing applications from a users point of view…

For mind this was a great way for each of the Grant Recipients to get to know each other, and to get to better understand what deliverables were required for this years grant..

The class of 2008 inlcudes:

• Kyle Butress :: Griffith University
• Dale Lawson :: University of Queensland
• Volker Kuchelmeister :: University of New South Wales
• Jonathan Manning :: University of Tasmania
• Alistair Campbell :: Edith Cowan University
• Sam Thorogood :: University of Sydney

More information about the AUC Innovation (Seeding) Grants can be found here

A full list of sessions and session times can be found here

WWDC ‘08 starts at 10:00am on Monday 09/06 with the Steve Job’s Keynote speech, and finishes around 3:30pm on Friday 13/06.. In between there will be some amazing sessions and workshops, all located with in the Moscone Centre.. There will also be various other Special Events including a Welcome Reception, Lunchtime Speakers, Design Awards, Stump the Experts. and many more…

A full list of Special Events can be found here.